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Clefairy (Japanese: ピッピ Pippi) is a Fairy-type Pokémon introduced in Generation I. Prior to Generation VI, it was a Normal-type Pokémon.

It evolves from Cleffa when leveled up with high friendship and evolves into Clefable when exposed to a Moon Stone.

Biology

Clefairy floating

Clefairy is a bipedal, pink Pokémon with a chubby, vaguely star-shaped body. A small, pointed tooth protrudes from the upper left corner of its mouth. It has wrinkles beside its black, oval eyes, a single dark pink oval marking on each cheek, and large, pointed ears with brown tips. A tuft of fur curls over its forehead, much like its large, upward-curling tail. Each stocky arm has two small claws and a thumb on each hand and both feet have a single toenail. There is a pair of tiny, butterfly-shaped wings on its back. Though incapable of flight, Clefairy's wings can store moonlight and allow it to float.

Clefairy is very shy and rarely shows itself to humans. On the rare occasions it does come down from its mountain home, it can be seen dancing under the light of the full moon. The area surrounding their dance in enveloped in a magnetic field. Once the sun starts to rise, it returns home where it sleeps nestled with other Clefairy. The anime has shown that Clefairy is actually an extraterrestrial Pokémon.



In the anime

In the main series

The recurring Clefairy in the anime

Major appearances

Clefairy (recurring)

A peculiar group of Clefairy debuted in Clefairy Tales. Ash and his friends first encountered them after their spacecraft crash-landed near Viridian City. The Clefairy resorted to stealing items, including Jigglypuff's signature microphone marker and even Pikachu, from a nearby town to rebuild their spaceship.

The group, accompanied by Oswald and Jigglypuff, tracked the Clefairy to an underground cave and stormed the spaceship to recover Jigglypuff's microphone and Pikachu. Though Jigglypuff ended up defeating all of the Clefairy with Pound, the spacecraft still took off because of its preset launch, though Ash, his friends, and Jigglypuff escaped in time. Oswald remained on board until the spaceship crashed again in another village. As a result, the Clefairy once again began stealing the locals' items to return to orbit.

The Clefairy reappeared in Wish Upon a Star Shape, where the group re-encountered them after their spacecraft crashed into a Johto mountainside. Prior to the crash-landing, the Clefairy beamed a Cleffa to safety, and it landed on Ash's Phanpy. Cleffa quickly struck up a friendship with Phanpy. It later led everyone to the crash site while also trying to escape Team Rocket and the Pokémon Mystery Club (PMC).

The Clefairy went on to use the parts from Team Rocket's mecha and the PMC's machine to repair their spacecraft. Pikachu's Thunderbolt ultimately helped the craft lift off. In the process, Cleffa evolved into a Clefairy and reunited with its family.

Its known moves are Light Screen, Double Slap, and Pound.

Lusamine's Clefairy appeared in a fantasy in A Dream Encounter!, where she evolved into a Clefable. She reappeared during flashbacks in Mission: Total Recall!, where she was seen playing with Lillie. She reappeared again in another flashback in Rescuing the Unwilling!.

Other

Multiple Clefairy debuted in Clefairy and the Moon Stone, where some of them evolved into Clefable after touching the Moon Stone.

A Clefairy appeared in A Goldenrod Opportunity, under the ownership of Whitney. Commonly seen outside of its Poké Ball, it was used to send Team Rocket flying, and later in Whitney's Gym battle against Ash. However, the Fairy Pokémon had to be recalled when its Metronome failed against Cyndaquil.

In A Real Cleffa-Hanger, Ash and his friends visited Mt. Moon again and found multiple Clefairy again. They played a major role in the episode.

Minor appearances

In Pikachu's Vacation as one of the Pokémon seen at the Pokémon Theme Park.

In The Power of One, multiple Clefairy sensed the disturbance caused by Lawrence III.

Multiple wild Clefairy appeared in Pikachu's Rescue Adventure.

In Wired for Battle!, a Trainer's Clefairy came up as an image in Shingo's laptop.

A Clefairy appeared in Team Rocket's fantasy in Imitation Confrontation.

Multiple Clefairy appeared in the opening sequence of Destiny Deoxys.

In Lights, Camerupt, Action!, Red's Clefairy appeared in a film that Ash and Gary were watching when they were younger.

A Coordinator's Clefairy appeared in Hi Ho Silver Wind!.

In Once More With Reeling!, a Coordinator's Clefairy participated in the Terracotta Contest.

A Coordinator's Clefairy appeared in Getting the Pre-Contest Titters!.

In Beating the Bustle and Hustle!, a Trainer's Clefairy participated in the fake Sinnoh Pokémon Hustle that Team Rocket had set up.

Three Trainers' Clefairy appeared in The Power of Us.

A Trainer's Clefairy appeared in Battling on the Wing!.

A Trainer's Clefairy appeared in Z-Move Showdown!.

A Trainer's Clefairy appeared in Settling the Scorbunny!.

A Clefairy appeared in a fantasy in JN032.

Pokédex entries

Episode Pokémon Source Entry EP006 Clefairy Ash's Pokédex Clefairy. This impish Pokémon is friendly and peaceful. It is believed to live inside Mt. Moon, although very few have ever been seen by humans.

In Pokémon Origins

In File 1: Red, a Clefairy was one of the Pokémon seen in Professor Oak's introduction.

In the manga

In the Ash & Pikachu manga

Similar to her anime counterpart, Whitney owns a Clefairy. It appeared in The Beginning Of Good Luck?! Pokémon Fortune Telling.

In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga

In Clefairy Tale, Ash discovers a colony of Clefairy with Bill and Professor Oak. The three humans assist with and witness an evolution ceremony.

In Clefairy in Space, a herd of wild Clefairy are causing trouble in Apple City, where rumors are circulating that Clefairy come from outer space. It is also learned that Clefairy have a secretion from the back of their throat that can harden into a crystal-like form.

In Magical Pokémon Journey and Pokémon Chamo-Chamo ☆ Pretty ♪

One of Hazel's main traveling companions in Magical Pokémon Journey is a timid, shy Clefairy. Clefairy tends to be very cowardly, but when he actually does battle, he can use his powerful Metronome attack.

Clefairy also returns as a main character in Pokémon Chamo-Chamo ☆ Pretty ♪.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Green had a Clefairy nicknamed Clefy, which first appeared in A Little Kadabra'll Do It. It later evolved into Clefable in The Winged Legends when Red used his Moon Stone on him. Although he was used only once for distraction against Sabrina prior to evolving, his increased power allowed him to stall Thu-Fi-Zer for a short period of time with his Metronome.

Daisy Oak had a Clefairy used in Contests when she was younger, which first appeared in It All Ends Now III.

Rad Rickshaw owns two Clefairy nicknamed Cliff and Cliffette, as seen in Cautious Clefairy. A third Clefairy appeared in a fantasy in the same chapter.

A Clefairy appeared in a fantasy in Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia IV.

A Clefairy appeared in Weavile Wobbles But It Won't Fall Down, under the ownership of a Lass at the Safari Zone.

Multiple Clefairy appeared in Choir Tournament at the Autumn Choir Tournament.

In the Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys manga

A Clefairy appeared in Falkner The Bird Keeper's Challenge!!.

In the Pokémon Gotta Catch 'Em All manga

A Clefairy appeared in The Terrible Twins, Rin & Ran, under the ownership of Rin.

A Clefairy appeared in GDZ23.

In the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga

Clefairy is one of the main characters in Pokémon Pocket Monsters and is Red's starter Pokémon. Clefairy is often very rude and stupid, gaining him the nickname "Blockhead Clefairy". He is the source of much slapstick humor in the manga.

Blaine has multiple Clefairy, as seen in Fierce Competition at the Pokémon Quiz Battle!!. They were used as a punishment when Red's Clefairy got the final question to the quiz wrong of the Pokémon Quiz Battle.

A Clefairy appeared in Fighting Over Otoshidama!!.

Five Clefairy known as the Clefairy Rangers debuted in The Gym Challenges Begin!!.

Red also owns a Clefairy.

In the Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire manga

Multiple Clefairy appeared in Clefairy Goes Home!.

A Clefairy appeared in Clefairy, Form Teacher Of Class 1P!! as the father of Red's Clefairy.

In the TCG

Other appearances

When released from a Poké Ball, Clefairy will use Metronome to copy another Pokémon's move randomly.

Clefairy also uses Metronome but uses its own series of attacks such as Blizzard, Explosion, or Fire Spin; which will hurt any opponents close to Clefairy.

Trophy information

Clefairy are very cute Pokémon, which makes them popular pets. However, as they're only found in a few areas, it takes a lot of work to find one. Strangely enough, legend has it that Clefairy are more active during the full moon. These Pokémon are known to use Metronome, a move that unleashes a randomly selected technique.

Clefairy appears as a Spirit.

Game data

NPC appearances

Pokémon Stadium: Clefairy stars in the mini-game "Clefairy Says." Players are given a pattern of arrows to repeat back. Each time the player messes up, they will receive a strike. After five strikes, the player is out. The last Clefairy standing wins.

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum: In Veilstone City's Slot Machines, the bonus rounds function with a Clefairy which points to which reel to stop first.

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Held items

Stats

Base stats

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By a prior evolution

Generation VIII Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI - VII Stage Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP This Pokémon has no moves exclusive to prior evolutions. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Clefairy

indicates a move that gets when used by Clefairy Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Clefairy

indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Clefairy Click on the generation numbers at the top to see moves from other generations

Side game data

Evolution

Sprites

Trivia

Origin

Clefairy seems to be based on a fairy, being a magical, somewhat humanoid, winged creature, thus lending credit to its name.

Name origin

Clefairy is a combination of clef (French for [musical] key) and fairy.

Pippi may be a shortening and repetition of pixie.

In other languages





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Notes

↑ Lucard, Alex. "Beckett's Ultimate Guide to Pikachu!" Beckett Pokémon Unofficial Collector July-Aug. 2010: 17. ↑ https://twitter.com/DogasusBackpack/status/991699303851745280







