Bulky Support (Clefairy) @ Eviolite
Ability: Friend Guard
Level: 50
Tera Type: Grass/Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 144 Def / 112 SpD
Relaxed Nature/ Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sing/ After You/ Heal Pulse
- Helping Hand
- Follow Me
- Protect
Clefairy is an excellent support Pokemon that utilizes its combination of Eviolite and Follow Me to allow its frail partners to survive hits and fire back with heavy damage. Its main selling point over other redirectors is its access to the Friend Guard ability, lowering the success rate of common counterplay to Follow Me, by spamming spread moves as Friend Guard lowers the damage of attacks aimed at its partner whilst Clefairy remains on the field. After You is a powerful move on fast teams that struggle under Trick Room teams, as it underspeeds many common threats like Calyrex-Ice and Ursaluna-Bloodmoon, and can then use After You to allow its partner to fire off its powerful attacks without being outsped and KOed first, whereas Sing is better used on slower teams with no need for After You, and although Sing is inaccurate, it can be quite a deadly and surprising tool if played correctly. Steel Tera is the best overall defensive tera for Clefairy, but Grass can prevent sleep from Amoonguss and also wall Urshifu-Rapid-Strike's Surging Strikes. Good partners for this Pokemon include Calyrex-Shadow, who both appreciates its protective powers mitigating its own frailty, as well as After You to deal with Trick Room, even despite its low speed. Terapagos is also a great partner for it, with Follow Me and Friend Guard working in tandem with Terapagos' naturally high bulk, and Heal Pulse to buff the Terapagos' health when it is low. Checks to Clefairy include Taunt users, notably Tornadus-I and Incineroar, who can shut down Clefairy with the move, and powerful mons that can kill Clefairy in one shot, like Tera Fire Koraidon's Flare Blitz.
Ability: Friend Guard
Level: 50
Tera Type: Grass/Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 144 Def / 112 SpD
Relaxed Nature/ Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sing/ After You/ Heal Pulse
- Helping Hand
- Follow Me
- Protect
Clefairy is an excellent support Pokemon that utilizes its combination of Eviolite and Follow Me to allow its frail partners to survive hits and fire back with heavy damage. Its main selling point over other redirectors is its access to the Friend Guard ability, lowering the success rate of common counterplay to Follow Me, by spamming spread moves as Friend Guard lowers the damage of attacks aimed at its partner whilst Clefairy remains on the field. After You is a powerful move on fast teams that struggle under Trick Room teams, as it underspeeds many common threats like Calyrex-Ice and Ursaluna-Bloodmoon, and can then use After You to allow its partner to fire off its powerful attacks without being outsped and KOed first, whereas Sing is better used on slower teams with no need for After You, and although Sing is inaccurate, it can be quite a deadly and surprising tool if played correctly. Steel Tera is the best overall defensive tera for Clefairy, but Grass can prevent sleep from Amoonguss and also wall Urshifu-Rapid-Strike's Surging Strikes. Good partners for this Pokemon include Calyrex-Shadow, who both appreciates its protective powers mitigating its own frailty, as well as After You to deal with Trick Room, even despite its low speed. Terapagos is also a great partner for it, with Follow Me and Friend Guard working in tandem with Terapagos' naturally high bulk, and Heal Pulse to buff the Terapagos' health when it is low. Checks to Clefairy include Taunt users, notably Tornadus-I and Incineroar, who can shut down Clefairy with the move, and powerful mons that can kill Clefairy in one shot, like Tera Fire Koraidon's Flare Blitz.
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