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Cleffa

#173

Fairy
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An image of the Pokemon Cleffa #173 in the Pokedex
When numerous meteors illuminate the night sky, sightings of CLEFFA strangely increase.

Weakness Table

This is a list of Cleffa's weaknesses. These Pokemon types in the green zone will be strong against Cleffa:
2x
Poison
Steel
1x
Electric
Fairy
Fire
Flying
Ghost
Grass
Ground
Ice
Normal
Psychic
Rock
Water
0.5x
Bug
Dark
Fighting
Immune
Dragon
: Types marked with this symbol will receive extra damage from Cleffa's STAB attacks.

Cleffa will receive 54% more damage from a Physical Attack compared to a Special Attack.

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Cleffa's Weaknesses

Best Counters

The types that are strong against Cleffa are Poison and Steel type Pokemon.

Poison
Steel

For the best defense, Steel, Poison, Fire types have very effective defense against Cleffa, and will be resistant to damage from Cleffa's STAB attacks:

Steel
Poison
Fire

Weaknesses

Cleffa's type is Fairy.

Cleffa has a weakness to Poison and Steel types. These Pokemon types will be strong against Cleffa, causing Cleffa to take a super effective double (2x) damage from attacks of those types.

Dragon type attacks will have no effect on Cleffa, as Cleffa is immune to this type of damage! Please avoid these types of attacks.

Please keep in mind that Cleffa is resistant to attacks from Bug, Dark, Fighting types, and these attacks are not very effective and cause reduced damage, so they should be avoided.

Strong against Cleffa:

Pokemon of these types will deal effective damage against Cleffa, without suffering any extra damage:
2x
Poison
Steel
1x
Electric
Fairy
Fire
Flying
Ghost
Grass
Ground
Ice
Normal
Psychic
Rock
Water
0.5x
Bug

Strength Table

Here is what Cleffa is strong against:
2x
Dark
Dragon
Fighting
1x
Bug
Electric
Fairy
Flying
Ghost
Grass
Ground
Ice
Normal
Psychic
Rock
Water
0.5x
Fire
Poison
Steel

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