Is Cleffa Good in Crystal Playthrough?
One of the best Odd Egg outcomes in Crystal. Cleffa evolves into Clefairy via friendship, then Clefable with a Moon Stone. The end result is a versatile TM user available much earlier than the postgame-only Kanto route in Gold and Silver. If the Odd Egg hatches Cleffa, invest in it.
Falkner's typing presses Cleffa's defenses.
Cleffa trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Clefairy trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Clefable trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Clefable trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Clefable trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Clair's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
Clefable resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Gift
Cleffa is given to you as a gift on Route 34 at Lv 5. Hatch Odd Egg received from Day-Care Man (random). Hatch the Odd Egg received from the Day-Care Man on Route 34. The Egg randomly hatches into one of seven baby Pokemon, with a 14% chance of being Shiny.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TUTORFireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
Evolve Cleffa to Clefairy
Cleffa evolves into Clefairy with high friendship. Friendship is usually high enough before you reach Whitney.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TUTORFireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- TUTORElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
Evolve Clefairy to Clefable
Clefairy evolves into Clefable with a Moon Stone. You can pick up the Moon Stone in Ruins of Alph. 2 other locations are also available.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TUTORFireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
How to Get Cleffa in Crystal
Cleffa is another of the Odd Egg's random hatches from the Day-Care Man. You can't target it, you just take whichever baby that one egg happens to contain.
Wild Cleffa may be holding when caught:
MysteryBerry (23% chance) A self-restore for PP. (HOLD)
Moon Stone (2% chance) Evolves certain kinds of Pokemon.1 location to catch Cleffa
Badge 1How to Obtain Cleffa in C
Cleffa is the chain's first catch. You'll find walking and gift encounters from Lv. 5-12 across 5 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into ClefairyMt. Moon - 1FLv.8-12CaveRate 25%NightRoute 3Lv.6GrassRate 5%NightRoute 4Lv.6GrassRate 5%NightMt. Moon - 1FLv.8CaveRate 5%Morning/dayor evolve from Cleffa (Step 1)
- Step 3Evolve into ClefableBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Cleffa egg.
How to Get Shiny Cleffa in Crystal
Cleffa hatches from the Odd Egg handed out on Route 34, and that egg carries a massive 1 in 7 shiny chance, so collect the free gift before anything else. Compare Shiny Cleffa odds across every game
Shiny Cleffa Evolution
3 Forms
Crystal Shiny Cleffa Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Odd Egg, about 1 in 33 on each try.
Odd Egg: Accept the Odd Egg from the Day-Care Man on Route 34. Each baby has its own shiny chance of 1 to 3 percent, fixed when you take the egg, so save first and reset until it hatches shiny.
Breed w/ Shiny Parent: Eggs inherit stats from a shiny parent, so about 1 in 64 hatch shiny. A shiny Ditto helps every egg, and any other shiny parent (the red Gyarados works) helps only eggs of the opposite gender.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 4-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 10-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 23-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 75-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Crystal shiny odds for Cleffa.
Cleffa Weakness
Fighting moves hit Cleffa for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Cleffa's special bulk (base 55 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
- Special stat split into Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
What is Cleffa Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Cleffa
Cleffa Evolutions
Cleffa starts the chain as a baby form and evolves into Clefairy by leveling up. To get more eggs, breed the evolved versions. The evolved forms gain up to 265 total stats over Cleffa. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
C Cleffa Best Moveset
Baby pre-evolution of Clefairy. No competitive stats whatsoever. Clefable's deep movepool is the eventual destination, three stages of evolution away.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Flamethrower
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball
- Petal Dance
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Cleffa misses out on Amnesia and Belly Drum. That's 6 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Headbutt and Hidden Power, with coverage across 9 types rounding things out.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
23 of 30 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
If the impact site of a meteorite is found, this POKéMON is certain to be within the immediate area.
Cleffa Crystal Guide
In Crystal, for a casual playthrough, Cleffa works as a placeholder. normal coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Clefairy. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Gold & Silver, Cleffa appears in 19 games across 8 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline games, typically found through catching or hatching as a base form.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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