Clefable is a tall, pinkPokémon with a vaguely star-shaped body. It has long, pointed ears with dark brown tips and black, oval eyes with wrinkles on either side. A curled lock of fur hangs over its forehead, much like its long, tightly curled tail. On its back is a pair of dark pink wings; each wing has three points. Its hands have three fingers each, and its feet have two clawed toes and dark pink soles.
Clefable is a timid,nocturnal creature that flees when it senses people approaching and is one of the world's rarest Pokémon. Its sensitive ears can distinctly hear a pin drop fromhalf a mile to 1,100 yards away. Because of its acute hearing, it prefers to live in quiet,mountainous areas of which it is protective. It has also been seen at deserted lakes during a full moon. Using a bouncy gait, it can walk on water and sometimes appears to be flying using its small wings. In thePokémon the Series episodeClefairy Tales, Clefable is depicted as anextraterrestrial Pokémon. According to one tradition, seeing a pair of Clefable ensures a happy marriage. Some scientists believe Clefable stares intently at the moon because it is homesick. There is also a legend to this, which tells of how it listens for the voices of its kind on the moon during clear and quiet nights. As mentioned inPokémon Sleep, Clefable is known to sleep in remote places during quiet, moonlit nights. It is theorized that Clefable is dreaming about its friends and distant homeland during its peaceful slumber.[1]
Mega Clefable's most distinct feature is its transformation into a large, pink creature with butterfly-like wings. The main color of the wings is dark pink, with yellow at the bottom; the wings' colors may change if Mega Clefable performs certain moves. Each wing extends from a three-pronged main structure coming out of Mega Clefable's back. Mega Clefable's ears are longer and droop beside its body; each ear is tube-shaped with a light blue circular opening at each tip. Mega Clefable also has two dark pink cheek marks on its face. Its eyes are half white and half light blue. Additionally, the curled lock of its hair transforms into a round, hat-like shape, with the lower half being pink and the upper half being white, topped with a curled tip.
Despite having wings, Mega Clefable does not actually use them to fly; rather, it harnesses the power of moonlight to control gravity within a radius of over 32 feet (10 meters) around it, allowing it to levitate. Mega Clefable constantly emits sparkles around itself.
With its acute hearing, it can pick up sounds from far away. It usually hides in quiet places.(Pokémon Red, Silver, or Crystal inserted) Its very sensitive ears lets it distinguish distant sounds. As a result, it prefers quiet places.(Pokémon Blue, Gold, or Yellow inserted)
Clefable moves by skipping lightly as if it were flying using its wings. Its bouncy step lets it even walk on water. It is known to take strolls on lakes on quiet, moonlit nights.
AClefable uses its wings to skip lightly as if it were flying. Its bouncy step lets it even walk on water. On quiet, moonlit nights, it strolls on lakes.
Clefable moves by skipping lightly as if it were flying using its wings. Its bouncy step lets it even walk on water. It is known to take strolls on lakes on quiet, moonlit nights.
It is said to sleep in remote places on quiet, moonlit nights. Perhaps it's dreaming about its friends in its distant homeland as it peacefully sleeps.
InClefairy and the Moon Stone, after the large group of Clefairy blastedTeam Rocket away withMetronome, particles of the giant Moon Stone landed on some of them, causing them to evolve into Clefable. This also marked the debut of the species.
Multiple Clefable appeared for another Mt. Moon Festival inA Real Cleffa-Hanger along with a group of Clefairy, where they were trying to find a missingCleffa. They later helped send Team Rocket blasting off.
InInfinite Possibilities!, a Clefable oversaw an Evolution ritual for a group of six Clefairy, who all eventually evolved into Clefable as well. The first Clefable turned out to be the evolved form of a Clefairy thatProfessor Cerise had befriended in his youth.
Ash,Professor Oak, andBill befriended a group ofClefairy living onMt. Moon inClefairy Tale. They witnessed an Evolution ceremony where many of the Clefairy in the group evolved into Clefable using aMoon Stone and then left to explore the world.
Green had a Clefairynicknamed Clefy, which first appeared inA Little Kadabra'll Do It. He later evolved into Clefable inThe Winged Legends whenRed used hisMoon Stone on him. Although he was used only once for distraction againstSabrina prior to evolving, his increased power allowed him to stallThu-Fi-Zer for a short time with hisMetronome. He has since been used as a main member of her team in Green'sbattle againstLorelei. During the battle, heminimized himself to retrieve her miniature ice sculptures, deliberately blowing off the arm part to let the Elite Four's guard down. He has seen no major appearances since, despite always being listed as a team member.
Red's Clefairy can evolve into Clefable, although it has since devolved back to the Clefairy stage, as Pokémon can reverse the Evolution process. Clefairy first evolves into Clefable inClefairy Evolves... At Last?!.
Clefable and its pre-evolved formshare theircategory withSnubbull andGranbull. They are all known as the Fairy Pokémon.
The "Fairy Pokémon" category predates the introduction of theFairy-type inGeneration VI. From this generation onwards, the type and category of these four Pokémon share the same English name. However, this is not true in Japanese, where the type is フェアリータイプFairy-type and the category is ようせいポケモンYōsei Pokémon.
Origin
Clefable seems to be based onfairies andpixies since it is a playful, magical, humanoid creature with wings. It may also be inspired by the concept ofextraterrestrial life due to its rumored celestial origins and vaguelystar-shaped body. It may also reference the mythicalMoon rabbit due to its large ears, various Moon related powers, and the fact that it evolves from Clefairy using aMoon Stone.
Mega Clefable's transformed curl resembles aberet or acrown. Along with the change on the color of its eyes, and its larger, colorful wings, it might allude tomagical girl power-ups or transformations. The sparkles emanating from its wings may draw inspiration from fairy dust, a magical dust thought to be used by fairies. Its resemblance to abutterfly also resembles the typical modern depiction of fairies.
Name origin
Clefable may be a combination ofclef (musical symbol) andfable.
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