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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

Primordial Sea
Moves
Scald / Beak Blast
Topsy-Turvy / Spectral Thief
Defog / Anchor Shot / U-turn
Item
Leftovers
Ability
Primordial Sea / Flash Fire
Nature
Sassy
EVs
HP 252
Atk 252
Def 252
SpA 252
SpD 252

Strategy Overview

Celesteela has an excellent defensive typing, letting it wall Pokemon such as Xerneas, Mega Diancie, and Primal Groudon when using a Primordial Sea set. An immunity to Ground means it can function as an excellent entry hazard remover due to it only being damaged by Stealth Rock. In addition, in conjunction with Primordial Sea, Celesteela can sport simultaneous immunities to Fire- and Ground-type attacks, which are the most common coverage moves used to defeat Steel-types. It has competition from other Steel-types, such as Registeel and Ferrothorn, but has the niche of not requiring an ability to be immune to Ground. Its typing also allows it to check Kartana as well as Mega Garchomp, two Pokemon that may be difficult to defensively check otherwise.

However, while Celesteela's bulk is decent, it is not spectacular for a wall, so it finds difficulty in taking strong neutral attacks such as from Primal Kyogre and Mega Gyarados. In addition, it even struggles to take some resisted attacks such as Steelworker Kartana's Sunsteel Strike. A weakness to Electric means it does not like switching in on most specially-oriented wallbreakers, as they tend to use Volt Switch. The lack of a Rock-type resistance also means that Celesteela faces difficulty taking on Pokemon such as Mega Tyranitar and Magic Guard Mega Diancie. Celesteela is very reliant on using Primordial Sea to carve a good niche in the metagame, meaning it does not have much freedom in what it runs, as other sets are done better by the previously mentioned Steel-types. Due to its reliance on Primordial Sea, it finds difficulty in checking offensive Water-types in the tier such as Primal Kyogre, Palkia, and Ash-Greninja. While it can run Flash Fire to somewhat remedy this weakness to Water-types, Celesteela is not made to check the listed Water-types anyways, so there isn't much benefit.

Most Used Moves

Tail Glow
39.5%
Toxic
27.6%
Shore Up
26.7%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
51.1%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc