Lusamine's Clefairy was talked about by
Lillie and her mother
Lusamine in an argument.
Lillie wanted to raise it without evolving it because she preferred it that way as it was cuter than
Lusamine's Clefable.
Lusamine evolved it into a Clefable because it was her Pokémon and not
Lillie's.
Out of all my
Lillie's mother's Pokémon, Clefable was her closest friend. While in the Ultra Deep Sea, it was sent out to battle against
Lillie by the Ultra Beast Nihilego.
Ash's Lycanroc (Dusk Form) stayed back to help battle
Lusamine's Clefairy with
Lillie's Vulpix (Snowy). As
Lillie is not very good at battling, she decided to battle you it her own way by showing it the Clefairy doll the two of them used to play with. This help get it to snap out of Nihilego control.
It has the special Ability
Magic Guard which allowed it to cross the poison river in the Ultra Deep Sea with
Lillie holding on to it.