Is Cleffa Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Baby Normal (Gen 4 typing, not Fairy) from breeding or Trophy Garden. Cleffa evolves into Clefairy through friendship. The end goal is Clefable with AbilityMagic Guard, which blocks all indirect damage. Worth the friendship grind.
Roark's typing presses Cleffa's defenses.
Cleffa trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Clefable trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Clefable resists most of Crasher Wake's coverage and hits back hard.
Clefable trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Clefable resists most of Candice's coverage and hits back hard.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Clefable trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Clefable trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Clefable resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Cleffa in Mt. Coronet (walking, Lv 12, common).
Recommended Moves
- From Start
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- After Gardenia
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lake Verity
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TM73ElectricThunder WavePower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Exchange Service Corner building in the Battle Park, entered through the Fight Area gatehouse
Evolve Cleffa to Clefable
Clefairy evolves into Clefable with a Moon Stone. You can usually obtain this item before you reach Maylene.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Lost Tower
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lake Verity
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Cleffa in Diamond & Pearl
Cleffa shows in a couple of spots, with a dual-slot route catch when a Sapphire cart is linked and a rarer Trophy Garden slot after the National Dex. The star baby leans on those conditions to appear at all.
Wild Cleffa may be holding when caught:
Leppa Berry (50% chance) Held: Consumed when a move runs out of PP to restore its PP by 10.
Moon Stone (5% chance) A peculiar stone that makes certain species of Pokemon evolve. It is as black as the night sky.2 locations to catch Cleffa
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 2
Badge 3Where To Catch Cleffa in DP
The line opens with Cleffa at Lv. 12-18 via walking encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into ClefairyMt. Coronet - B1FLv.30-32CaveRate 15%Mt. Coronet - Route 216 EntranceLv.30-32CaveRate 15%Trophy Garden - Daily PokemonLv.16-18GrassRate 5%Post-gameMt. Coronet - 2FLv.36-38CaveRate 15%or evolve from Cleffa (Step 1)
- Step 3Evolve into ClefableBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Cleffa egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Diamond & Pearl for Cleffa.
How to Get Shiny Cleffa in Diamond & Pearl
Cleffa shows up in Mt. Coronet and the Trophy Garden, where a PokeRadar chain brings its shiny to 1 in 200. Compare Shiny Cleffa odds across every game
Shiny Cleffa Evolution
3 Forms
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Cleffa Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is PokeRadar Chain at full boosts, about 1 in 200 on each try. Tune it below.
PokeRadar Chain: Chain shaking-grass patches without breaking the combo. The rate peaks at a chain of 40.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 22-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 58-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 139-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 460-- | -- |
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 Diamond & Pearl 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 |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Cleffa Weak Against
Good
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
DP Cleffa Best Moveset
Normal typing with stats in the 15-55 range. AbilityMagic Guard blocks indirect damage, which matters after evolving but is useless when the moveset can't do anything else. Evolve to Clefairy.
Best Build
Cleffa best EVs are Sp. Def
Support Moveset
- Thunder Wave
- Magic Coat
- Trick
- Aromatherapy
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Need something that threatens multiple types? Cleffa's movepool delivers. Coverage across 10 types plus STAB from Double-Edge and Mega Kick gives it answers for most defensive cores you'll run into.
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. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
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
35 of 37 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
Its silhouette is like a star. It is believed to arrive riding on shooting stars.
Many appear when the night skies are filled with shooting stars. They disappear with sunrise.
Cleffa Diamond & Pearl Guide
Yes. Wild Cleffa in Diamond & Pearl can hold Leppa Berry (50%) or Moon Stone (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Leppa Berry.
In Diamond & Pearl, 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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