STATUS: Skeleton is complete. QC checks done. Starting to write this, look for something GP-able soon.
[Overview]
- Best Grass-type, and arguably the best Psychic-type in UU
- 100/100/100 defenses, Recover and Natural Cure
- 7 weaknesses is the most of any pokemon besides Abomasnow and Exeggutor, but its made up for with key resistances to Water/Ground/Fighting/Electric/Grass/Psychic, all common attacking types in UU
- Awesome movepool makes it tough to counter
- Useful support options: Stealth Rock, TWave, Perish Song, U-turn
- Almost every meaningful boosting move: NP, SD, CM, combined with Baton Pass
- A special attacker that laughs at Chansey? I'll take it!
[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Psychic
move 3: Earth Power / Baton Pass
move 4: Recover
item: Life Orb / Leftovers
nature: Modest
evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Celebi can get a lot of chances to set up Nasty Plots because not a lot of UU pokemon threaten it enough to force a switch
- Examples: Donphan, Milotic, Hitmontop, Slowbro, Deoxys-D, most Chansey
- You can 2HKO Chansey with Psychic at +4 with Modest and Life Orb, clearing up a lot of room for other special sweepers
- Psychic + Earth Power combine to OHKO almost every threat to +2 Modest LO Celebi as long as it outspeeds. Escavalier is OHKOd by a +2 LO Modest Earth Power after Stealth Rock damage
- Some key things outspeed Modest Celebi, like +Speed Victini, Staraptor, Flygon and Roserade. Plan accordingly
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- HP Fire if you don't think you can get a Nasty Plot before Escavalier comes in
- Timid could help if you're terrified of Staraptor and Victini, but you miss out on a LOT of OHKOs and 2HKOs
- Maybe Giga Drain, but you don't really need a Grass attack since Nasty Plot boosted moves hit so hard
- Baton Pass is an option but that's covered by another set. Use a Timid nature if you want to go that route because the Speed is way more useful
[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Zen Headbutt
move 3: Sucker Punch
move 4: Recover
item: Life Orb
nature: Adamant
evs: 232 HP / 252 Atk / 24 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Celebi has never been thought of as a Physical threat before, but that perception can change now that it's UU where physical Psychic moves are actually good
- This set beats almost everything in UU by itself
- Set up Swords Dances on things like Donphan, Chansey and Milotic that can't hurt you
- +2 LO Sucker Punch OHKOs Victini and Staraptor, as well as doing a surprising amount of damage. Celebi's Sucker Punch is actually one of the strongest priority moves in UU.
- 24 Speed EVs to outpace max Speed Abomasnow while giving you 399 HP instead of the even 400
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Baton Pass is a nice option here but it's covered by another set. This set is designed for longevity and sweeping, so use more speed if you want to BP your Swords Dance.
- Bisharp. It's not common but it walls this set to hell and back
- For some reason Flygon isn't a guaranteed OHKO so you'll have to trick your opponent into bringing it in at 90% instead of 100%. Either that or just Recover off the U-turn since it can't OHKO you without the rare Choice Band
- Fast Substitute users can play mindgames with you, like Staraptor and Mismagius
- Seed Bomb is an option but its only real advantage is hitting Wobbuffet and Empoleon. Water-types can't hurt you even if they have Ice Beam, and +2 LO STAB Zen Headbutt is more than enough to 2hko every water-type.
- Use maximum Speed if you're using Seed Bomb over Sucker Punch
[SET]
name: Tinkerbell
move 1: Leaf Storm
move 2: Psychic / Hidden Power Fire / Earth Power
move 3: Thunder Wave / Stealth Rock
move 4: Recover / Rest
item: Life Orb
nature: Modest
evs: 232 HP / 252 SpA / 24 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Support your team at first and hit things hard later
- Leaf Storm is resisted by a lot of things in OU but in UU that problem doesn't exist.
- Second attack is based on whatever your team needs. Psychic is generally the best but this spot is very flexible
- Rest is great with Natural Cure, since Leaf Storm usually makes you switch out anyways
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Most people don't expect Celebi to hit this hard, especially when they see your support move thrown out there at first
- You can use U-turn to escape Wobbuffet, and put your support move to immediate use by scouting your opponent's team. U-turn has great synergy with Thunder Wave and Stealth Rock
[SET]
name: Support
move 1: Leech Seed
move 2: Recover
move 3: Thunder Wave / Stealth Rock
move 4: Hidden Power Fire / Psychic / Giga Drain
item: Leftovers
nature: Calm
evs: 252 HP / 236 SpD / 20 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- BW version of Celebi's bread and butter set it's used for 4 generations now
- Incredibly durable, capable of walling for entire matches and whittling opponent's HP away
- Combine this with entry hazards to disrupt your opponent's team on the switch
- Thunder Wave is an underrated move and destroys Celebi's main checks, but if you have Toxic Spikes on your team you might want to opt for Stealth Rock for added chip damage (and to prevent status overlapping)
- EV spread is to outpace all non-Scarf Abomasnow, although you can pick and choose what you want to outpace. That's the great thing about 100 base Speed
- EVs let you serve as a great special wall, letting you wall every water-type in the tier (barring Specs Ice Beams) as well as doing very well against Electric-types with Super Effective HP Ices, Zapdos' Heat Wave, and Jolteon and Raikou using Shadow Balls
- Grass Knot and Energy Ball are viable options as the last attack instead of Giga Drain, depending on what you're trying to hit
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Another solid EV option is switching SpDef for Def, and using Bold over Calm.
- The reason why the Specially Defensive version is the "main option" is because the physical attacks Celebi will face are much more powerful than the special attacks. No amount of defense EVs will let you take on Victini V-Creates, Staraptor Brave Birds and Heracross Megahorns, but you CAN beat things like Zapdos, Ice Beam Water-types, Roserade and Jolteon 1-on-1 with the SpDef EVs.
- Heal Bell is another great support option on this set and it's a pretty rare move in general so Celebi doesn't face much competition in that regard
- You can opt for Reflect on this too if you feel like it will help your team, but there are probably better users of the move
- Perish Song may be an option on this set as it's Celebi's only pHazing move, and it lets Celebi beat things like Calm Mind Suicune that can set up on you otherwise
[SET]
name: Baton Pass
move 1: Swords Dance / Nasty Plot / Calm Mind
move 2: Baton Pass
move 3: Zen Headbutt / Psychic / Magic Coat
move 4: Recover
item: Leftovers
nature: Jolly / Timid
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Third move is dependent on what stat you want to pass. Go with a STAB move or use Magic Coat to prevent things like Taunt Mew from stopping you.
- Pick a boost and pass it to a compatible pokemon. You'll want something that resists Fire, Bug or Ice since those are the most common types people attack Celebi with.
- Celebi is surprisingly durable for a Baton Pass user
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- This is pretty straightforward
- Change the nature based on what attack you use. Jolly if you're boosting Atk and Timid if you're boosting SpAtk.
- Watch out for Dark-types, since they're immune to your only attack and Celebi doesn't have any "catch all" move to ward them off
- Snorlax would love Swords Dances and resists Ice + Fire
- Victini would be excellent (resists Ice + Fire, and Celebi scares away Water and Ground types that Victini can't switch into)
- You can even continue the chain with Shell Smash passing Gorebyss.
- Cobalion loves SDs and NPs, 4x resists Bug and Dark (gets an Atk boost from Dark too), also resists Ice.
[SET]
name: Calm Mind
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Psychic
move 3: Earth Power / Hidden Power Fire / Giga Drain
move 4: Recover
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 232 HP / 252 Def / 24 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- This set has been standard Celebi fare since it first learned Calm Mind
- After a Calm Mind, basically nothing can counter you except physical Bug or Fire moves. +1 Celebi can laugh off things like Zapdos' Heat Wave and Suicune/Empoleon Ice Beams.
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Baton Pass is an option but that's covered by another set. You may want to use a lot of Speed if you do that though, and drop your second attack.
- Watch out for Heracross and Durant, as well as Escavalier if it's near full health
- Random special attackers might hurt you a bit while you try to set up, like Sheer Force LO Nidoking or an attacking Sludge Bomb Roserade
- If you're feeling really gutsy, drop an attack for Heal Bell so that Toxic Chansey can't force you to switch
[Other Options]
Stealth Rock, Perish Song, Healing Wish, Dual Screens, Safeguard, Trick Room, SubSeed, Choice items, Future Sight, Shadow Ball, Trick, U-turn, Rain Dance or Sunny Day, Magic Coat, lol Heal Block
[Checks and Counters]
- Celebi's counters are moveset dependent, and it has something for all of its potential counters.
- Wobbuffet can get something on your opponent's team in for free, but it can't really do anything to you. Watch out for boosting sets, Thunder Wave and Leech Seed though.
- Chansey with Toxic is probably the best counter to the special sweeping sets. Celebi doesn't care about any Chansey set thanks to Natural Cure, but Toxic can prevent you from sweeping since you need two Nasty Plots to 2hko Chansey
- Victini has great defenses and resists both of your STABs, and can wreak havoc with V-Creates or U-turn
- Staraptor can check you pretty well but it can't really switch into Psychic or Thunder Wave.
- Escavalier is a solid counter to any Celebi that lacks HP Fire or Baton Pass.
- Durant outspeeds you and has STAB X-Scissor
- Scarf Heracross is a threat
- Arcanine can be a pest but it's easily worn down. It's slower than you and can't deal with boosted Earth Power
- Bisharp sets up on you unless you use Earth Power
[Overview]
- Best Grass-type, and arguably the best Psychic-type in UU
- 100/100/100 defenses, Recover and Natural Cure
- 7 weaknesses is the most of any pokemon besides Abomasnow and Exeggutor, but its made up for with key resistances to Water/Ground/Fighting/Electric/Grass/Psychic, all common attacking types in UU
- Awesome movepool makes it tough to counter
- Useful support options: Stealth Rock, TWave, Perish Song, U-turn
- Almost every meaningful boosting move: NP, SD, CM, combined with Baton Pass
- A special attacker that laughs at Chansey? I'll take it!
[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Psychic
move 3: Earth Power / Baton Pass
move 4: Recover
item: Life Orb / Leftovers
nature: Modest
evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Celebi can get a lot of chances to set up Nasty Plots because not a lot of UU pokemon threaten it enough to force a switch
- Examples: Donphan, Milotic, Hitmontop, Slowbro, Deoxys-D, most Chansey
- You can 2HKO Chansey with Psychic at +4 with Modest and Life Orb, clearing up a lot of room for other special sweepers
- Psychic + Earth Power combine to OHKO almost every threat to +2 Modest LO Celebi as long as it outspeeds. Escavalier is OHKOd by a +2 LO Modest Earth Power after Stealth Rock damage
- Some key things outspeed Modest Celebi, like +Speed Victini, Staraptor, Flygon and Roserade. Plan accordingly
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- HP Fire if you don't think you can get a Nasty Plot before Escavalier comes in
- Timid could help if you're terrified of Staraptor and Victini, but you miss out on a LOT of OHKOs and 2HKOs
- Maybe Giga Drain, but you don't really need a Grass attack since Nasty Plot boosted moves hit so hard
- Baton Pass is an option but that's covered by another set. Use a Timid nature if you want to go that route because the Speed is way more useful
[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Zen Headbutt
move 3: Sucker Punch
move 4: Recover
item: Life Orb
nature: Adamant
evs: 232 HP / 252 Atk / 24 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Celebi has never been thought of as a Physical threat before, but that perception can change now that it's UU where physical Psychic moves are actually good
- This set beats almost everything in UU by itself
- Set up Swords Dances on things like Donphan, Chansey and Milotic that can't hurt you
- +2 LO Sucker Punch OHKOs Victini and Staraptor, as well as doing a surprising amount of damage. Celebi's Sucker Punch is actually one of the strongest priority moves in UU.
- 24 Speed EVs to outpace max Speed Abomasnow while giving you 399 HP instead of the even 400
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Baton Pass is a nice option here but it's covered by another set. This set is designed for longevity and sweeping, so use more speed if you want to BP your Swords Dance.
- Bisharp. It's not common but it walls this set to hell and back
- For some reason Flygon isn't a guaranteed OHKO so you'll have to trick your opponent into bringing it in at 90% instead of 100%. Either that or just Recover off the U-turn since it can't OHKO you without the rare Choice Band
- Fast Substitute users can play mindgames with you, like Staraptor and Mismagius
- Seed Bomb is an option but its only real advantage is hitting Wobbuffet and Empoleon. Water-types can't hurt you even if they have Ice Beam, and +2 LO STAB Zen Headbutt is more than enough to 2hko every water-type.
- Use maximum Speed if you're using Seed Bomb over Sucker Punch
[SET]
name: Tinkerbell
move 1: Leaf Storm
move 2: Psychic / Hidden Power Fire / Earth Power
move 3: Thunder Wave / Stealth Rock
move 4: Recover / Rest
item: Life Orb
nature: Modest
evs: 232 HP / 252 SpA / 24 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Support your team at first and hit things hard later
- Leaf Storm is resisted by a lot of things in OU but in UU that problem doesn't exist.
- Second attack is based on whatever your team needs. Psychic is generally the best but this spot is very flexible
- Rest is great with Natural Cure, since Leaf Storm usually makes you switch out anyways
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Most people don't expect Celebi to hit this hard, especially when they see your support move thrown out there at first
- You can use U-turn to escape Wobbuffet, and put your support move to immediate use by scouting your opponent's team. U-turn has great synergy with Thunder Wave and Stealth Rock
[SET]
name: Support
move 1: Leech Seed
move 2: Recover
move 3: Thunder Wave / Stealth Rock
move 4: Hidden Power Fire / Psychic / Giga Drain
item: Leftovers
nature: Calm
evs: 252 HP / 236 SpD / 20 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- BW version of Celebi's bread and butter set it's used for 4 generations now
- Incredibly durable, capable of walling for entire matches and whittling opponent's HP away
- Combine this with entry hazards to disrupt your opponent's team on the switch
- Thunder Wave is an underrated move and destroys Celebi's main checks, but if you have Toxic Spikes on your team you might want to opt for Stealth Rock for added chip damage (and to prevent status overlapping)
- EV spread is to outpace all non-Scarf Abomasnow, although you can pick and choose what you want to outpace. That's the great thing about 100 base Speed
- EVs let you serve as a great special wall, letting you wall every water-type in the tier (barring Specs Ice Beams) as well as doing very well against Electric-types with Super Effective HP Ices, Zapdos' Heat Wave, and Jolteon and Raikou using Shadow Balls
- Grass Knot and Energy Ball are viable options as the last attack instead of Giga Drain, depending on what you're trying to hit
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Another solid EV option is switching SpDef for Def, and using Bold over Calm.
- The reason why the Specially Defensive version is the "main option" is because the physical attacks Celebi will face are much more powerful than the special attacks. No amount of defense EVs will let you take on Victini V-Creates, Staraptor Brave Birds and Heracross Megahorns, but you CAN beat things like Zapdos, Ice Beam Water-types, Roserade and Jolteon 1-on-1 with the SpDef EVs.
- Heal Bell is another great support option on this set and it's a pretty rare move in general so Celebi doesn't face much competition in that regard
- You can opt for Reflect on this too if you feel like it will help your team, but there are probably better users of the move
- Perish Song may be an option on this set as it's Celebi's only pHazing move, and it lets Celebi beat things like Calm Mind Suicune that can set up on you otherwise
[SET]
name: Baton Pass
move 1: Swords Dance / Nasty Plot / Calm Mind
move 2: Baton Pass
move 3: Zen Headbutt / Psychic / Magic Coat
move 4: Recover
item: Leftovers
nature: Jolly / Timid
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Third move is dependent on what stat you want to pass. Go with a STAB move or use Magic Coat to prevent things like Taunt Mew from stopping you.
- Pick a boost and pass it to a compatible pokemon. You'll want something that resists Fire, Bug or Ice since those are the most common types people attack Celebi with.
- Celebi is surprisingly durable for a Baton Pass user
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- This is pretty straightforward
- Change the nature based on what attack you use. Jolly if you're boosting Atk and Timid if you're boosting SpAtk.
- Watch out for Dark-types, since they're immune to your only attack and Celebi doesn't have any "catch all" move to ward them off
- Snorlax would love Swords Dances and resists Ice + Fire
- Victini would be excellent (resists Ice + Fire, and Celebi scares away Water and Ground types that Victini can't switch into)
- You can even continue the chain with Shell Smash passing Gorebyss.
- Cobalion loves SDs and NPs, 4x resists Bug and Dark (gets an Atk boost from Dark too), also resists Ice.
[SET]
name: Calm Mind
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Psychic
move 3: Earth Power / Hidden Power Fire / Giga Drain
move 4: Recover
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 232 HP / 252 Def / 24 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- This set has been standard Celebi fare since it first learned Calm Mind
- After a Calm Mind, basically nothing can counter you except physical Bug or Fire moves. +1 Celebi can laugh off things like Zapdos' Heat Wave and Suicune/Empoleon Ice Beams.
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Baton Pass is an option but that's covered by another set. You may want to use a lot of Speed if you do that though, and drop your second attack.
- Watch out for Heracross and Durant, as well as Escavalier if it's near full health
- Random special attackers might hurt you a bit while you try to set up, like Sheer Force LO Nidoking or an attacking Sludge Bomb Roserade
- If you're feeling really gutsy, drop an attack for Heal Bell so that Toxic Chansey can't force you to switch
[Other Options]
Stealth Rock, Perish Song, Healing Wish, Dual Screens, Safeguard, Trick Room, SubSeed, Choice items, Future Sight, Shadow Ball, Trick, U-turn, Rain Dance or Sunny Day, Magic Coat, lol Heal Block
[Checks and Counters]
- Celebi's counters are moveset dependent, and it has something for all of its potential counters.
- Wobbuffet can get something on your opponent's team in for free, but it can't really do anything to you. Watch out for boosting sets, Thunder Wave and Leech Seed though.
- Chansey with Toxic is probably the best counter to the special sweeping sets. Celebi doesn't care about any Chansey set thanks to Natural Cure, but Toxic can prevent you from sweeping since you need two Nasty Plots to 2hko Chansey
- Victini has great defenses and resists both of your STABs, and can wreak havoc with V-Creates or U-turn
- Staraptor can check you pretty well but it can't really switch into Psychic or Thunder Wave.
- Escavalier is a solid counter to any Celebi that lacks HP Fire or Baton Pass.
- Durant outspeeds you and has STAB X-Scissor
- Scarf Heracross is a threat
- Arcanine can be a pest but it's easily worn down. It's slower than you and can't deal with boosted Earth Power
- Bisharp sets up on you unless you use Earth Power
