#797
Celesteela
Launch Pokémon
SteelFlying
It appeared from the Ultra Wormhole. Witnesses observed it flying across the sky at high speed.
Base Stats
HP 97
Attack 101
Defense 103
Sp. Atk 107
Sp. Def 101
Speed 61
Total 570
Type Effectiveness
Abilities
Evolution Chain
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Details
Category Launch Pokémon
Height 9.2 m
Weight 999.9 kg
Base Exp 257
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 0
Gender Genderless
Habitat —
Egg Groups No Eggs
Sprites
Front
Back
Front Shiny
Back Shiny
Official Art
Official Art (Shiny)Competitive
ubers Usage: 1.4%
Physically Defensive
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 248
Atk 8
Def 252
Strategy Overview
- Celesteela boasts solid bulk and a brilliant defensive typing, meaning that it can act as a decent answer to many common threats in the tier, such as Arceus-Ground, Arceus-Fairy, Mega Salamence, and Dragon Dance Rayquaza.
- It is able to recover HP very easily with Leftovers, Leech Seed, and Protect, which makes it very hard to wear down and very annoying to beat in a one-on-one situation.
- Unlike most common bulky Steel-type Pokemon used in the tier such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Magearna, and support Necrozma-DM, Celesteela also provides its team with an immunity to Ground-type attacks, which is a trait that it only shares with Skarmory. However, unlike Skarmory, Celesteela tends to wear down foes with a combination of Leech Seed and Toxic as well as threaten frailer Pokemon with Heavy Slam.
- Celesteela is relatively passive, and it is therefore quite easily trapped by Shadow Tag users such as Gothitelle and Mega Gengar. That being said, Mega Gengar does have to be careful when dealing with Celesteela, as it is 2HKOed by Heavy Slam.
- Celesteela is shut down relatively easily by Pokemon that utilize Substitute and setup moves, such as Primal Kyogre, Zygarde-C, and Arceus-Ground, as Pokemon behind a Substitute are immune to Leech Seed and Toxic. Furthermore, many of the aforementioned Substitute users can avoid having their Substitute broken by Heavy Slam by resisting Steel-type attacks, having enough natural bulk, or investing enough EVs in Defense. This causes Celesteela to become setup fodder for these Pokemon.
- Unfortunately, due to the passive nature of Celesteela, it struggles to effectively utilize its ability Beast Boost, as it is quite easily revenge killed by an opposing dedicated check.
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Common Teammates
Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc