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celesteela
#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

Moves

Locations

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

celesteela Front Front
celesteela Back Back
celesteela Front Shiny Front Shiny
celesteela Back Shiny Back Shiny
celesteela Official Art Official Art
celesteela Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Physical Wall
Moves
Protect / Toxic
Substitute / Toxic
Flame Charge / Heavy Slam
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4

Strategy Overview

Celesteela is a very potent wall in AG, capable of checking common Pokemon such as Swords Dance Ultra Necrozma, Necrozma-DM, Arceus-Fairy, Arceus-Ground, Arceus-Steel, Extreme Killer Arceus, and non-V-create Mega Rayquaza. Its high viability comes from its ability to check almost all Arceus formes and Pokemon that struggle to deal significant damage to it due to its ability to easily recover HP while simultaneously wearing down the opponent's team with Leftovers, Toxic, and Leech Seed. Furthermore, Celesteela possesses a stellar Steel / Flying typing as well as phenomenal natural bulk to go along with it. Immunity to the omnipresent Toxic makes it far easier for it to take on bulky support Pokemon that rely on poisoning the foe, making Celesteela much more challenging to break. Due to how passive it is, however, it's able to be trapped and removed by Shadow Tag Pokemon such as Gothitelle and Will-O-Wisp Mega Gengar, leaving the team open to being annoyed by the offensive and bulky Pokemon that Celesteela handles. Also, Pokemon such as Mega Rayquaza, Extreme Killer Arceus, and Swords Dance Arceus-Ground commonly carry moves to beat Celesteela, with the former carrying V-create and the latter two carrying Substitute in order to set up and take out Celesteela one-on-one. Lastly, due to Celesteela's passive nature and method of removing opposing Pokemon, it cannot properly take advantage of Beast Boost.

Most Used Moves

Protect
84.0%
Gyro Ball
23.1%
Toxic
23.0%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
82.6%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc