Celesteela counters

#0797

steel flyingTier 1

Lobby CP

7,954

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

132

Defense

127

Difficulty

0.08

Pokebattler scale

Beating Celesteela should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,694-1,772.

Weak tofire1.6xelectric1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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Weather

★ boosts a type this boss is weak to

No boost Sunny or clear ★Rainy ★Partly cloudy Cloudy Windy Snow Fog

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend

None Good friend (+3%)Great friend (+5%)Ultra friend (+7%)Best friend (+10%)

Mega in the lobby

a Mega boosts every trainer's attacks: 1.3x of its own type, 1.1x of others

Try a Fire Mega — most top counters attack with Fire

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x

Off 2 trainers 3 trainers 4 trainers

Adventure Effects

only these three change a raid

Behemoth Blade (+10% attack)Behemoth Bash (+10% defense)Dynamic Punch+ (+15% attack vs Mega)

Of the game's eleven Adventure Effects only Behemoth Blade (Crowned Sword Zacian), Behemoth Bash (Crowned Shield Zamazenta) and Dynamic Punch+ (Mega Mewtwo X) change a raid; Roar of Time, Spacial Rend, Freeze Shock, Ice Burn, Sunsteel Strike, Moongeist Beam, Future Sight+ and Dynamax Cannon act outside raids. Dynamic Punch+ only counts against a Mega boss, so it changes nothing here. Sources: the full list, Behemoth Blade / Bash, Dynamic Punch+.

Best counters

Mega, Legendary, Shadow · level 40

The best Celesteela counters are Mega Delphox, Shadow Reshiram, Shadow Chandelure, Shadow Darmanitan (Standard), Shadow Blaziken & Shadow Delphox.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Delphox
S. Reshiram
S. Chandelure
S. Darmanitan (Standard)
S. Blaziken
S. Delphox

3 more Megas ranked inside the top six — a party can hold only one Mega, so the best one stays and the next non-Mega takes the slot.

Ranked by Estimator (trainers needed); small print: time to winOrder byEstimatorOverall %

1Mega DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.060:11
2Mega Raichu YMegaVolt Switch / Zap Cannon+0.070:12
3Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Overheat0.080:14
4Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Overheat0.080:15
5Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Overheat0.080:15
6Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyFire Spin / Overheat0.080:15
7Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)ShadowpartyFire Fang / Overheat0.080:15
8Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.090:15
9Shadow DelphoxShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.090:16
10Shadow MoltresShadowLegendaryFire Spin / Overheat0.090:16

More orders under All settings (Sort by). The top 15 in detail.

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Celesteela

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Top 15 Celesteela counters in detail

Click a row for damage per move, breakpoints and the energy cycle. Click a column to sort. All 30 ranked attackers, with every column, are under All settings.

Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Delphoxfirepsychicjoint top pick	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:11	0.06	0.0	3830.4%
2	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricVolt SwitchelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:12	0.07	0.0	3487.8%
3	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireOverheat	4,038	0:14	0.08	0.0	3114.0%
4	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	4,455	0:15	0.08	0.0	2906.4%
5	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	4,161	0:15	0.08	0.0	2906.4%
6	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,268	0:15	0.08	0.0	2900.0%
7	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)fire	fireFire FangfireOverheat	3,105	0:15	0.08	0.0	2900.0%
8	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,848	0:15	0.09	0.0	2830.9%
9	Shadow Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,059	0:16	0.09	0.0	2752.2%
10	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,465	0:16	0.09	0.0	2724.7%
11	Shadow Charizardfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,889	0:16	0.09	0.0	2711.2%
12	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMystical Fire	3,297	0:16	0.09	0.1	2689.1%
13	Shadow Infernapefirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,683	0:16	0.09	0.1	2666.0%
14	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:17	0.09	0.0	2641.8%
15	Mega Charizard Xfiredragon	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,850	0:17	0.09	0.0	2638.9%

Ordered by Estimator alone, fewest trainers needed first. . The place badge names each row's Overall place on hover.

Times are one trainer with six copies of that attacker, level 40 at 15/15/15, no weather, no friendship, no dodging, Shadow / Mega / Legendary attackers hidden — the same defaults pokebattler.com's own counter pages open with. Open the full counter tool to change any of them. "Details" opens the per-move damage, breakpoints and energy cycle against Celesteela.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Celesteela's HP that six of that attacker remove inside one raid timer, so over 100% means they finish it with time to spare. Faints is how many of the six go down inside that timer.

Hardest movesets to raid against

The same boss is a different fight depending on what it knows. Each row re-simulates the top 6 counters above against one specific moveset; the list is ordered hardest first, and clicking a row filters the whole page to that moveset — the ranking, the estimator and the share link all follow.

Boss moveset	Win % (1)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	493%	3015.6%	0:14	0.08
Air Slash / Iron Head	100%	561%	3007.7%	0:14	0.08
Air Slash / Heavy Slam	100%	540%	3007.7%	0:14	0.08
Smack Down / Iron Head	100%	523%	3007.7%	0:14	0.08
Smack Down / Heavy Slam	100%	505%	3007.7%	0:14	0.08
Smack Down / Bulldoze	100%	431%	3015.6%	0:14	0.08
Air Slash / Body Slam	100%	538%	3019.3%	0:14	0.08
Smack Down / Body Slam	100%	504%	3022.2%	0:14	0.08
Air Slash / Bulldoze	100%	473%	3024.3%	0:14	0.08

Measured over the top 6 attackers on the list above rather than by re-ranking the whole roster once per moveset — the ordering is what the table is for, and a full re-rank per moveset would cost ten times the page's whole simulation budget. Win % is the share of runs 1 trainers of those attackers finish inside the raid timer. Overall is Pokebattler's published blend on its own absolute scale (higher is easier), not a percentage of the best row the way the ranked table's Overall column is — which is why an easy boss reads well above 100% here.

Simulating each boss moveset…

Celesteela weaknesses and resistances

Every one of the 18 attacking types against this boss's typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 2.56x doubly, 0.625x resisted, 0.39x doubly resisted.

fire1.6x electric1.6x fighting1x rock1x ghost1x water1x ice1x dark1x normal0.63x flying0.63x ground0.63x steel0.63x psychic0.63x dragon0.63x fairy0.63x poison0.39x bug0.39x grass0.39x

Weak (2)
Neutral (6)
Resists (10)

It resists poison0.39xbug0.39xgrass0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xground0.625xsteel0.625xpsychic0.625xdragon0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Celesteela throws at you

Its standard movepool, with the damage window a dodge has to beat.

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingAir SlashSTAB	12	+8	1.0s	0.80s
rockSmack Down	13	+7	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
steelHeavy SlamSTAB	70	-50	2.0s	1.40s
steelIron HeadSTAB	60	-50	2.0s	1.40s
normalBody Slam	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s
groundBulldoze	80	-50	3.5s	2.60s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,694	2,117
11/11/11	1,709	2,137
12/12/12	1,725	2,157
13/13/13	1,741	2,176
14/14/14	1,757	2,196
15/15/15hundo	1,772	2,216

Caught CP range 1,694 - 1,772, or 2,117 - 2,216 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 10/10/10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Celesteela is not on the raid schedule right now. The simulation above is still exact for the tier chosen — any boss can be simulated, current or not.

All settings

Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 132 / Defense 127 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

Raid bossAttacker levelAttacker IVsWeatherFriendshipDodgingTrainers in the lobbyMega in the lobbyParty Play trainersBoss fast moveBoss charged moveSort by

Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

Share these exact settings

Every column, and pokebattler.com's own rank

On a phone the list shows estimator, time to win and faints. Overall, Power, win chance, CP, DPS and TDO appear on a wider screen.

#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	100%	3830.4%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	4,783	58.2	661
2	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Volt Switch / Zap Cannon+	Volt Switch / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	85%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	3,780	48.9	611
3	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+9 more movesets	75%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,038	42.9	601
4	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+29 more movesets	70%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,455	40.3	604
5	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+20 more movesets	69%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,161	41.6	624
6	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	66%	2900.0%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,268	41.5	617
7	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	64%	2900.0%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,105	40.1	597
8	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	63%	2830.9%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	2,848	41.5	638
9	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	62%	2752.2%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,059	39.4	623
10	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	62%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,465	37.8	604
11	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	61%	2711.2%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	2,889	38.4	617
12	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mystical Fire	Incinerate / Mystical Fire+7 more movesets	59%	2689.1%	0.09	0:16	0.1	100%	3,297	37.4	582
13	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	58%	2666.0%	0.09	0:16	0.1	100%	2,683	37.3	585
14	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	67%	2641.8%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	6,112	38.2	630
15	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	62%	2638.9%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,850	38.2	631
16	Shadow Electivire electricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	60%	2619.9%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,079	39.5	648
17	Regieleki electric Lock-On / Thunder Cage	Lock-On / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	63%	2613.6%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	2,803	43.8	731
18	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	63%	2607.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,452	38.5	643
19	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt	Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt+11 more movesets	62%	2595.0%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,527	36.2	608
20	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	64%	2591.9%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,754	39.4	662
21	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt	Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt+26 more movesets	64%	2558.4%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	6,428	35.9	611
22	Mega Raichu X electricmega Spark / Volt Tackle+	Spark / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	60%	2551.2%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,510	37.0	634
23	Shadow Typhlosion fireshadow Incinerate / Blast Burn	Incinerate / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	57%	2550.0%	0.10	0:17	0.1	100%	2,889	36.8	609
24	Mega Manectric electricmega Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	60%	2514.1%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,580	35.3	611
25	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Thunderbolt	Volt Switch / Thunderbolt+9 more movesets	59%	2514.1%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,659	41.6	721
26	Shadow Magnezone electricsteelshadow Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+15 more movesets	61%	2491.1%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,205	35.4	619
27	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	60%	2491.1%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,863	35.9	629
28	Shadow Thundurus (Incarnate) electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunder	Thunder Shock / Thunder+7 more movesets	56%	2464.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,345	35.7	630
29	Zekrom dragonelectric Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt	Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt+9 more movesets	61%	2463.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,038	37.3	660
30	Shadow Luxray electricshadow Spark / Wild Charge	Spark / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	56%	2453.3%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	2,888	36.1	641

How accurate is this? Same top pick as pokebattler.com on 26 of 27 lists checked, 90% of its top tens shared; weakest on Mewtwo's default list (7 of 10).

Ranking. Our full ranking against the page pokebattler.com serves for the same boss and settings, on 27 boss and filter combinations read live (2026-10-04): 242 of 270 top-ten places shared, the same #1 on 26. On the six fixed reference bosses (read 2026-10-03): 85% top-ten overlap with its default filters, 83% with Shadow, Mega and Legendary on. A close top three is shown as a tie because the order inside it is below what we can measure.

Time to win. Graded with Pokebattler's own movesets against every boss moveset, average per boss: Tier 1 and 3 +0.1% to +1.2%; Tier 5 −2.9% to +1.3%; Mega −1.1% to +2.6%; Shadow Tier 5 −1.8% to +0.3%. One attacker can be off by more: median 1.6%, worst 15%, RMS per boss moveset 2.05%.

Known weak spots.

Mewtwo (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of Pokebattler's top 10: Absol, Incineroar and Salamence sit just outside ours, Polteageist, Cursola and Hisuian Typhlosion just inside.
Groudon (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of 10; its Grass and Water counters run 2-6% fast here.
Tier 5 times run about 2-3% fast for attackers that faint often, and 2-3% slow on Mega Charizard Y and Mega Beedrill, whose counters resist the boss.
Tier 1 lists are the least checked: Combee (Tier 1) shares only 3 of Pokebattler's top 10, with Gigalith first here where Pokebattler puts Rhyperior.

This boss on pokebattler.com. Boss-by-boss accuracy report.

Ranked 30 attackers in 0.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.