[Overview]
- Celesteela is a very potent wall in AG capable of checking common Pokemon in the metagame such as Arceus-Water, Arceus-Fairy, Arceus-Ground, Arceus-Steel, and non V-Create Mega Rayquaza, among others.
- It's high viability comes from its ability to check almost all Arceus formes and passive Pokemon in general, its ability to easily recover HP with leftovers and leech seed while simultaneously wearing down the opponent's team with toxic and leech seed.
- It has a stellar Steel/Flying typing as well as phenomenal natural bulk to go along with it.
- Unlike other bulky steels, such as ferrothorn and skarmory, it has a decent amount of offensive presence through the use of heavy slam, which is has a base power of 120 vs common taunt users such as mega gengar and yveltal.
- Immunity to toxic makes it far easier to take on the support Pokemon that celesteela beats, as they almost always carry toxic themselves.
- Due to how passive it is, thought, its able to be trapped and removed by gothitelle, leaving the team open to being annoyed by the bulky pokemon that celesteela handles.
- Pokemon such as mega rayquaza, extreme killer arceus, and swords dance arceus-ground almost always carry moves to beat celesteela, such as v-create for rayquaza, or carry substitute in the case of arceus and arceus-ground to setup and take out celesteela 1v1.
- Like other metagames, due to celesteela's bulky nature and method by which it takes out opposing pokemon, it cannot properly utilize beast boost.
[Set]
name: Physically Defensive Wall
move 1: Toxic
move 2: Leech Seed
move 3: Protect/Flamethrower
move 4: Heavy Slam
item: Leftovers
ability: Beast Boost
nature: Impish
evs: 248 HP/252 Def/4 SpD
[Set Comments]
Moves
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- Toxic is used to wear down the opposing team's support pokemon as well as switch ins to celesteela, reducing their overall longevity and pressuring them, making it easier for celesteela's teammates to sweep.
- Leech seed is the primary method by which celesteela maintains it's hp throughout the match. It helps force switches and wear down the opposing team, especially vs threats like mega rayquaza and marshadow which do not have recovery.
- Protect is used to increase the recovery celesteela receives from leech seed + leftovers as well as scout choice-locked pokemon.
- Heavy Slam is used to hit pokemon such as mega gengar which traps celesteela and can taunt it to shut it down otherwise, as well as hitting threats such as xerneas, marshadow, rayquaza-mega, and ultra necrozma for solid damage.
- Flamethrower can be used instead of protect if the team celesteela is in benefits from taking out ferrothorn and skarmory, which otherwise wall this set and set up spikes on celesteela.
Set Details
========
- Max HP and Defense evs are used to help celesteela better handle pokemon such as marshadow, swords dance arceus formes, swords dance ultra necrozma, and switching into mega rayquaza
- Its special defensive is high enough naturally to handle support arceus and other passive pokemon uninvested.
- Alternatively, 44 special defense evs can be used to avoid the 2hko from z-geomancy xerneas's moonblast.
- Leftovers is the only item for celesteela as it allows for celesteela to recover more hp in conjunction with leech seed as well as providing recovery if leech seed misses.
Usage Tips
========
- Celesteela should be used primarily to wear down passive pokemon such as the ubiquitous support arceus formes which can do little to celesteela while it can toxic them or recover hp on them.
- Leech seed is the most spammable move and should be used generously to keep celesteela's hp high throughout the match.
- Celesteela's protect can be used to scout whether or not a choice-locked mega rayquaza is going to v-create the next turn, which allows celesteela to stay in on it and recover more hp or toxic a new pokemon when rayquaza switches out.
- Celesteela can be switched in to mega rayquaza unless it uses v-create, and this move must be scouted for on the opposing rayquaza and played around if they have it.
- Toxic is used to cause a permanent hindrance to all pokemon on the opposing team, both offensive and defensive.
- Heavy slam and flamethrower prevent celesteela from being completely passive and provides a way to break opposing pokemon which have substitute or taunt. Heavy slam allows for extra pressure on opposing pokemon along with toxic and/or leech seed and flamethrower surprises pokemon which traditionally wall celesteela such as skarmory, ferrothorn, and weakened opposing celesteela.
- Celesteela needs to keep its hp high so it does not go down and allow a team to be annoyed by other bulky toxic users, so it is very important for celesteela to not stay in vs strong special attackers as it acts as a physical wall and a wall to passive pokemon, as well as not staying in on pokemon with strong super effective hits such as zygarde and groudon-primal.
- Gothitelle is a big annoyance for any passive pokemon, so celesteela is trapped and removed with relative easy by it, which puts a lot of pressure on celesteela's team.
Team Options
========
- Celesteela acts as a fantastic defensive glue to many teams which need to wear down opposing passive walls.
- Entry hazards are great for celesteela teams, as they increase the damage to the opposing pokemon with stealth rock + toxic + leech seed damage.
- Arceus-Rock makes a great partner for celesteela as they can wall most rayquaza sets with their combined typings and arceus-rock can set stealth rock.
- Arceus-Water can check the main pokemon which annoy celesteela such as zygarde-c, kyogre w/o thunder, ho-oh, and groudon-primal, although it must be wary of toxic.
- Ferrothorn makes a good partner for celesteela as they form a leech seed core which wears down the opposing team and ferrothorn can set hazards for celesteela as well as handle primal kyogre.
- Zygarde is another great partner for celesteela as it can handle ho-oh, groudon, and wall other zygardes with either dragon tail or haze. It can also help spread toxic if it opts to run it.
- Offensive pokemon which benefit from bulky support pokemon worn down such as dd mega rayquaza and sd or cm ultra necrozma appreciate celesteela's help.
- Yveltal and arceus-dark are good partners for celesteela as they can take out and pressure gengar-mega and gothitelle .
[Set]
name: Flamethrower
move 1: Flame Charge
move 2: Leech Seed
move 3: Substitute
move 4: Protect/Toxic
item: Leftovers
ability: Beast Boost
nature: Impish
evs: 248 HP/252 Def/4 SpD
[Set Comments]
Moves
========
Set Details
========
Usage Tips
========
Team Options
========
[Strategy Comments]
Other Options
========
Checks and counters
========
- Ho-oh, Zygarde-Complete, and Groudon-Primal
- Celesteela is a very potent wall in AG capable of checking common Pokemon in the metagame such as Arceus-Water, Arceus-Fairy, Arceus-Ground, Arceus-Steel, and non V-Create Mega Rayquaza, among others.
- It's high viability comes from its ability to check almost all Arceus formes and passive Pokemon in general, its ability to easily recover HP with leftovers and leech seed while simultaneously wearing down the opponent's team with toxic and leech seed.
- It has a stellar Steel/Flying typing as well as phenomenal natural bulk to go along with it.
- Unlike other bulky steels, such as ferrothorn and skarmory, it has a decent amount of offensive presence through the use of heavy slam, which is has a base power of 120 vs common taunt users such as mega gengar and yveltal.
- Immunity to toxic makes it far easier to take on the support Pokemon that celesteela beats, as they almost always carry toxic themselves.
- Due to how passive it is, thought, its able to be trapped and removed by gothitelle, leaving the team open to being annoyed by the bulky pokemon that celesteela handles.
- Pokemon such as mega rayquaza, extreme killer arceus, and swords dance arceus-ground almost always carry moves to beat celesteela, such as v-create for rayquaza, or carry substitute in the case of arceus and arceus-ground to setup and take out celesteela 1v1.
- Like other metagames, due to celesteela's bulky nature and method by which it takes out opposing pokemon, it cannot properly utilize beast boost.
[Set]
name: Physically Defensive Wall
move 1: Toxic
move 2: Leech Seed
move 3: Protect/Flamethrower
move 4: Heavy Slam
item: Leftovers
ability: Beast Boost
nature: Impish
evs: 248 HP/252 Def/4 SpD
[Set Comments]
Moves
========
- Toxic is used to wear down the opposing team's support pokemon as well as switch ins to celesteela, reducing their overall longevity and pressuring them, making it easier for celesteela's teammates to sweep.
- Leech seed is the primary method by which celesteela maintains it's hp throughout the match. It helps force switches and wear down the opposing team, especially vs threats like mega rayquaza and marshadow which do not have recovery.
- Protect is used to increase the recovery celesteela receives from leech seed + leftovers as well as scout choice-locked pokemon.
- Heavy Slam is used to hit pokemon such as mega gengar which traps celesteela and can taunt it to shut it down otherwise, as well as hitting threats such as xerneas, marshadow, rayquaza-mega, and ultra necrozma for solid damage.
- Flamethrower can be used instead of protect if the team celesteela is in benefits from taking out ferrothorn and skarmory, which otherwise wall this set and set up spikes on celesteela.
Set Details
========
- Max HP and Defense evs are used to help celesteela better handle pokemon such as marshadow, swords dance arceus formes, swords dance ultra necrozma, and switching into mega rayquaza
- Its special defensive is high enough naturally to handle support arceus and other passive pokemon uninvested.
- Alternatively, 44 special defense evs can be used to avoid the 2hko from z-geomancy xerneas's moonblast.
- Leftovers is the only item for celesteela as it allows for celesteela to recover more hp in conjunction with leech seed as well as providing recovery if leech seed misses.
Usage Tips
========
- Celesteela should be used primarily to wear down passive pokemon such as the ubiquitous support arceus formes which can do little to celesteela while it can toxic them or recover hp on them.
- Leech seed is the most spammable move and should be used generously to keep celesteela's hp high throughout the match.
- Celesteela's protect can be used to scout whether or not a choice-locked mega rayquaza is going to v-create the next turn, which allows celesteela to stay in on it and recover more hp or toxic a new pokemon when rayquaza switches out.
- Celesteela can be switched in to mega rayquaza unless it uses v-create, and this move must be scouted for on the opposing rayquaza and played around if they have it.
- Toxic is used to cause a permanent hindrance to all pokemon on the opposing team, both offensive and defensive.
- Heavy slam and flamethrower prevent celesteela from being completely passive and provides a way to break opposing pokemon which have substitute or taunt. Heavy slam allows for extra pressure on opposing pokemon along with toxic and/or leech seed and flamethrower surprises pokemon which traditionally wall celesteela such as skarmory, ferrothorn, and weakened opposing celesteela.
- Celesteela needs to keep its hp high so it does not go down and allow a team to be annoyed by other bulky toxic users, so it is very important for celesteela to not stay in vs strong special attackers as it acts as a physical wall and a wall to passive pokemon, as well as not staying in on pokemon with strong super effective hits such as zygarde and groudon-primal.
- Gothitelle is a big annoyance for any passive pokemon, so celesteela is trapped and removed with relative easy by it, which puts a lot of pressure on celesteela's team.
Team Options
========
- Celesteela acts as a fantastic defensive glue to many teams which need to wear down opposing passive walls.
- Entry hazards are great for celesteela teams, as they increase the damage to the opposing pokemon with stealth rock + toxic + leech seed damage.
- Arceus-Rock makes a great partner for celesteela as they can wall most rayquaza sets with their combined typings and arceus-rock can set stealth rock.
- Arceus-Water can check the main pokemon which annoy celesteela such as zygarde-c, kyogre w/o thunder, ho-oh, and groudon-primal, although it must be wary of toxic.
- Ferrothorn makes a good partner for celesteela as they form a leech seed core which wears down the opposing team and ferrothorn can set hazards for celesteela as well as handle primal kyogre.
- Zygarde is another great partner for celesteela as it can handle ho-oh, groudon, and wall other zygardes with either dragon tail or haze. It can also help spread toxic if it opts to run it.
- Offensive pokemon which benefit from bulky support pokemon worn down such as dd mega rayquaza and sd or cm ultra necrozma appreciate celesteela's help.
- Yveltal and arceus-dark are good partners for celesteela as they can take out and pressure gengar-mega and gothitelle .
[Set]
name: Flamethrower
move 1: Flame Charge
move 2: Leech Seed
move 3: Substitute
move 4: Protect/Toxic
item: Leftovers
ability: Beast Boost
nature: Impish
evs: 248 HP/252 Def/4 SpD
[Set Comments]
Moves
========
Set Details
========
Usage Tips
========
Team Options
========
[Strategy Comments]
Other Options
========
Checks and counters
========
- Ho-oh, Zygarde-Complete, and Groudon-Primal
