Quality Control [Gen 3] Defensive Calm Mind Celebi [0/2]

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[SET]
Defensive Calm Mind (Celebi) @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 44 Def / 92 SpA / 4 SpD / 116 Spe
Modest Nature
- Psychic / Hidden Power [Fire]
- Giga Drain / Hidden Power [Fire]
- Calm Mind
- Protect / Recover


  • Psychic is a really strong STAB move that hits most of the best mons in the meta for substantial, consistent damage because of the lack of Psychic resists and immunities in the tier, and the ones that do exist are smitten by either Giga Drain or Hidden Power [Fire]. Recover is used on Celebi if you drop Giga Drain or on Screen Teams to provide Celebi with some longevity to maximise its boosts.
  • Leftovers is the best item for Celebi because it provides extra longevity and doesn’t need to run Lum because of Natural Cure, meaning it can just switch into the many Thunder Wave's in the tier for free, and switch out at a later point to remove the status.
  • The Special Attack investment lets Celebi 2HKO 252 HP Zapdos at +1 with Psychic and 2HKO 252 HP 64 SpDef Metagross with Hidden Power [Fire], the Special Bulk invest lets Celebi tank a 32+ SpA Arcanine Overheat, and get 3HKOed by the various non-STAB ice moves in the tier. The speed investment Speed-Creeps max Spe Metagross and 152 Spe Arcanine. The rest of the EV's are dumped into Defence, which conveniently lets it survive a +3, 96+ Atk Snorlax Return. If you are running Hidden Power [Fire] though, drop an EV in Defence to boost your Speed to 120 EVs so you can still outspeed Arcanine. You can use a spread of 252 HP / 112 Def / 144 Spe with a Bold Nature, which provides Celebi with much more Physical Bulk at the cost of some power, meaning it needs 2 Calm Minds before it can get going but neutral Physical hits just bounce off it. The Speed investment on this spread lets it outspeed 252 Spe Kingdra outside of rain.
  • Other notable Speed benchmarks include: 36 EVs (The minimum for Speed investment as it outspeeds 252+ Spe Tyranitar), 112 (For outspeeding every opposing mon after a single Speed Drop), 220 (For outspeeding 252 Spe Arcanine) and 240 (For outspeeding 252+ Spe Heracross)
  • Celebi holds the coveted resistance to both Earthquake and Thunderbolt, so it can switch in, take minimal damage, potentially force out a threat and set up a Calm Mind. Celebi should be preserved until the late game, where it thrives on weakened opposing mons and can easily set up multiple Calm Minds and proceed to sweep. Celebi is also used to threaten the likes of Swampert, Marowak and Suicune with Giga Drain, Metagross, Regice, Sceptile and other Celebi with Hidden Power [Fire], and Gengar with Psychic.
  • Celebi really struggles vs Physical Attacks from the likes of Tauros, Aerodactyl and Metagross; so Intimidate/strong Fire damage support from the likes of Arcanine is greatly appreciated. Swampert is also a great partner because of Celebi's resistance to Grass and Swampert being able to threaten mons that Celebi dislikes facing, like Aerodactyl, Arcanine, Tauros and Metagross. Suicune is used as a partner to benefit from the same as Swampert; but so you can also overwhelm your opponent with Calm Mind boosts from both mons. Metagross is also quite good thanks to it's good matchup into Flying and Ice type moves, and also for general utility for removing the likes of Aerodactyl, opposing Celebi and Regice, it also helps that Celebi matches quite well into the STAB Ground moves Metagross hates.
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This is an amcheck, don't implement until QC gives the green light. In the meantime I'd run your analysis from Grammarly, there's grammar and spelling issues throughout. Thanks for your work so far!

[SET]
Defensive Calm Mind (Celebi) @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 44 Def / 92 SpA / 4 SpD / 116 Spe
Modest Nature
- Psychic / Hidden Power [Fire]
- Giga Drain / Hidden Power [Fire]
- Calm Mind
- Protect / Recover


  • Psychic is a really strong STAB move that hits most of the best mons (which ones?) in the meta for substantial, consistent damage because of the lack of Psychic resists and immunities in the tier, and the ones that do exist are smitten by either Giga Drain or Hidden Power [Fire]. Recover is used on Celebi if you drop Giga Drain or on Screen Teams to provide Celebi with some longevity to maximise its boosts.
  • Add a bullet point on Giga Drain, mention that it provides HP recovery
  • Add a bullet point on Protect and Recover
  • Add a bullet point on alternative moves, such as HP Fire
  • Leftovers is the best item for Celebi because it provides extra longevity and stacks nicely with Giga Drain's healing. and doesn’t need to run Lum because of Natural Cure, meaning it can just switch into the many Thunder Wave's in the tier for free, and switch out at a later point to remove the status. (I would move most of this content about Natural Cure and using Celebi as a status sponge to the 5th bullet point, as it fits better with those usage tips themes)
  • The Special Attack investment lets Celebi 2HKO 252 HP Zapdos at +1 with Psychic and 2HKO 252 HP 64 SpDef Metagross with Hidden Power [Fire], the Special Bulk invest lets Celebi tank a 32+ SpA Arcanine Overheat, and get 3HKOed by the various non-STAB ice moves in the tier. The speed investment Speed-Creeps max Spe Metagross and 152 Spe Arcanine. The rest of the EV's are dumped into Defence, which conveniently lets it survive a +3, 96+ Atk Snorlax Return. If you are running Hidden Power [Fire] though, drop an EV in Defence to boost your Speed to 120 EVs so you can still outspeed Arcanine. You can use a spread of 252 HP / 112 Def / 144 Spe with a Bold Nature, which provides Celebi with much more Physical Bulk at the cost of some power, meaning it needs 2 Calm Minds before it can get going but neutral Physical hits just bounce off it. The Speed investment on this spread lets it outspeed 252 Spe Kingdra outside of rain.
  • Other notable Speed benchmarks include: 36 EVs (The minimum for Speed investment as it outspeeds 252+ Spe Tyranitar), 112 (For outspeeding every opposing mon after a single Speed Drop), 220 (For outspeeding 252 Spe Arcanine) and 240 (For outspeeding 252+ Spe Heracross) (I think the set needs a new EV spread because the benchmarks are arbitrary. I'm not great at make EV spreads though, so I'll leave that to QC. The two previous bullet points on EVs would need to be re-written and condensed to one bullet point in that case.)
  • Celebi holds the coveted resistance to both Earthquake and Thunderbolt, so it can switch in, take minimal damage, potentially force out a threat and set up a Calm Mind. Celebi should be preserved until the late game, where it thrives on weakened opposing mons and can easily set up multiple Calm Minds and proceed to sweep. (Great work here, I like this!) Add content about Natural Cure and switching in to TWave here Celebi is also used to threaten the likes of Swampert, Marowak and Suicune with Giga Drain, Metagross, Regice, Sceptile and other Celebi with Hidden Power [Fire], and Gengar with Psychic. (This is redundant, you can mention these specific matchups under the moveset bullet points if you want.)
  • Celebi really struggles vs Physical Attacks from the likes of Tauros, Aerodactyl and Metagross; so Arcanine's Intimidate/strong Fire damage support from the likes of Arcanine is greatly appreciated. Swampert is also a great partner because of Celebi's resistance to Grass and Swampert being able to threaten mons Pokemon that Celebi dislikes facing, like Aerodactyl, Arcanine, Tauros and Metagross. Suicune is used as a partner to benefit from the same as Swampert; but so you can also overwhelm your opponent with Calm Mind boosts from both mons. (I'm not sure about listing Suicune as partner, their role's overlap with both being Calm Mind sweepers. I would remove this.) Metagross is also quite good thanks to it's good matchup into Flying and Ice type moves, and also for general utility for removing the likes of Aerodactyl, opposing Celebi and Regice, it also helps that Celebi matches quite well into the STAB Ground moves Metagross hates.
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