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celebi
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Celebi

Time Travel Pokémon

PsychicGrass

This Pokémon wanders across time. Grass and trees flourish in the forests in which it has appeared.

Base Stats

HP 100
Attack 100
Defense 100
Sp. Atk 100
Sp. Def 100
Speed 100
Total 600

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Time Travel Pokémon
Height 0.6 m
Weight 5.0 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 100
Gender Genderless
Habitat Forest
Egg Groups No Eggs
Mythical Pokémon

Sprites

celebi Front Front
celebi Back Back
celebi Front Shiny Front Shiny
celebi Back Shiny Back Shiny
celebi Official Art Official Art
celebi Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

uu Usage: 6.4%
Nasty Plot
Item
Leftovers / Life Orb
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Utility
Moves
Giga Drain / Psychic
Thunder Wave / Perish Song / Stealth Rock
U-turn / Perish Song / Stealth Rock
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 240
Def 244
Spe 24
Offensive Stealth Rock
Moves
Leaf Storm / Energy Ball
Earth Power / Hidden Power Fire
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Celebi's well-rounded base stat distribution makes it a solid option for offensive teams, defensive teams, and even balanced teams, and its vast movepool with great coverage options for its offensive sets and fantastic utility options for its supportive sets grants it extreme versatility. Celebi also has a useful ability in Natural Cure, allowing it to heal itself of status upon switching out. Celebi is one of the best checks to bulky Water-types because it is able to set up faster than them and has Natural Cure to heal off burns from Scald. Thanks to its bulk, Celebi often gets multiple opportunities to set up as well. Furthermore, Celebi has a great matchup against most other Stealth Rock setters, as well as entry hazard removers, due to its speed, typing, and coverage. However, despite Celebi's many coverage options, it will always get walled by at least one Pokemon, depending on its moveset. Celebi also struggles to take on many faster Pokemon and Choice Scarf users. It is weak to seven different typings, including some that are offensively dominant in UU such as Fire, Ice, and Dark. It notably takes super effective damage from some of UU's most common priority moves in Ice Shard, Sucker Punch, and Shadow Sneak. The weakness to Dark also makes Celebi more vulnerable to being Pursuit trapped. Lastly, Celebi is extremely weak to Bug, allowing many faster Pokemon with U-turn to easily take advantage of it.

Most Used Moves

Psychic
70.1%
Recover
34.4%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
64.7%
Life Orb
18.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc