#036 - Clefable

CLEFABLE

IN SHOW

Clefable, like its evolutionary counterpart Clefairy, are only ever seen when people happen around Mt. Moon. These guys are so reclusive that they’re not even around when it’s time to build spaceships. Clefable are so rare in the show, that they’ve only ever made two major appearances. Both of these times it was when they were trying to help their pre-evolutions from screwing things up too much, either by being lost or by simply leading Team Rocket straight to the Moon Stone that they worship.

WHY YOU WANT A CLEFABLE

Clefable is only weak to one thing, fighting, and despite the fact that there’s a lot of battling in the pokemon world, there aren’t a lot of fighting type pokemon, so Clefable has an advantage there. The picture of Clefable is...well it is definitely a Clefable but...there’s just something off putting about it and I can’t quite put my finger on it...

WHY YOU DO NOT WANT A CLEFABLE

That smile! What is with that smile? Is it supposed to be charming? Because it’s not! It’s terrifying in a sort of ‘I-want-to-kill-you’ kind of way. It doesn’t put me at ease at all. I wouldn’t want to be carrying a pokemon around knowing that when I tried to use it for a battle it might smile at me like that! Not that I ever would use it for a battle because it knows only two aggressive moves and learns nothing else once it has evolved from Clefairy.

IN SUMMARY
Clefable has two problems, I think, and one is that it happens to be a pokemon that evolves from a stone. This means it will never learn anything useful, unless you use TM’s, again. This would be okay if you weren’t going to find the stone that would evolve it in the exact same area that you catch Clefairy and will probably use on Clefairy unless you have caught a better pokemon, because if you use it on Clefairy immediately you will have to use TM’s for the rest of its lifetime. The second problem with Clefable is that smile. I just cannot get over it. I know I’m spending too much time on the art for this pokemon, and some people may think I’m blowing it way out of proportion but I don’t think I ever actually evolved any Clefairy I ever got because I didn’t want to see that Clefable looking at me for any length of time. Maybe it’s so rare in the show because it’s embarrassed that its game art looked like that? Maybe that’s the way you smile when you’re an alien? I don’t know, but I don’t like it.