Clefable Setup Discussion & Battle Tips

Summary

In Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments this announcement discusses a Clefable setup focusing on Follow Me support, Swords Dance win conditions, and options like EQ or Protect. It covers counters such as Rotom, Excadrill, Talonflame and Kommo-o, scarf strategies, matchup notes and why the team performs well in practice.

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Tried to make clefable work and this seems super good, what do we think?

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How

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Switch

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And hit with eq

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Or protect

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Yeah

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Excadrill has mold breaker, no it isnt

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Nothing gets grass coverage though, just break through it

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It is, theres just nothing that can help against it

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You usually bring both, talonflame also helps against it

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Though sometimes we leave one of them behind due to bad mu

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Yep

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Kommo-o ohkos

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And sucker punch does 25% back

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With swords dance up after clefable tanks everything dies

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Not worth cutting eq, just follow me + swords dance

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Against rotom just dont mega until the second turn

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Ofc

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Scarf clefable into follow me

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Which isn’t even that bad

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Clefable dying isn’t bad as long as you’re set up

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Just have to ignore it until lategame

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The team has issues in theory but in practice it plays amazingly

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