Time travel is a tempting subject for fiction to tackle. Many humans have dreamt of seeing the future or changing the past and this draw to altering time has not escaped Pokemon. The mythical psychic/grass-type Pokemon Celebi is the embodiment of the alienability to warp time around one’s self.
About Celebi
| First appearance in anime | In the Pokemon movie ‘Celebi: The Voice of the Forest’ |
| First appearance in game | Gold and Silver |
| Region | Johto |
| Evolution | None |
| Pokedex Entry | This Pokémon has the ability to move through time. Records describing it as a forest deity can be found from many different eras. This Pokémon traveled through time to come from the future. It bolsters grass and trees with its own strength, and it can heal wounds, too. |
Celebi’s Base Stats
| HP | 100 |
| Attack | 100 |
| Defense | 100 |
| Sp. Attack | 100 |
| Sp. Defense | 100 |
| Speed | 100 |
Appearance of Celebi
Celebi has very little apparent inspiration for its design, however, it does seem to invoke the feeling of a forest spirit or a dyad.
Behavior of Celebi
Its dryad theme continues to Celebi’s behavior. It travels through time to forests and natural areas and heals and helps them grow. It gets noticed by humans throughout time doing this and it becomes a legend of certain forests it returns to often.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Celebi is a grass/psychic type, a combination that has many resistances and weaknesses. It is strong against fighting, water, ground, grass, electric, and psychic type moves and takes half damage from them. However, it has even more weaknesses. It takes double damage from flying, poison, ghost, fire, ice, and dark type moves, and quadruple damage from bug type moves.
Shiny Celebi
Shiny Celebi is the rare, recolored form of Celebi. While Celebi may look like a plant, Shiny Celebi looks like it's in bloom, being a bright, summery pink color. Shiny Celebi also appears as an important character in the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series.
Celebi Pokemon Movie
The Celebi Pokemon Movie, also known as ‘Celebi: The Voice of the Forest’ or ‘Pokemon 4 Ever’ is the fourth Pokemon movie released. The plot of the Celebi Pokemon Movie centers around Celebi being hunted throughout time. The rest of the Celebi Pokemon Movie includes Ash trying to free Celebi from being captured and mind-controlled by the evil hunter.
Best Moveset for Celebi
Nasty Plot Boost: Celebi has some very good base stats, and with it learning a large amount of strong special attacking moves, boosting that stat can turn Celebi into a powerful sweeper and no move is better for that than Nasty Plot.
| Nasty Plot | Giga Drain/Leaf Storm |
| Psychic | Dazzling Gleam/Recover |
Recovering Attacker: Even without boosts, Celebi can still do damage, especially if it stays on the field for a long time, and no move in its moveset is better for keeping it healthy than the simple and powerful Recover. Combined with Leech Seed for passive healing and strong special moves like Psychic and Giga Drain will ensure Celebi stays out for as long as possible and chips away at enemy defenses.
| Psychic | Leech Seed |
| Recover | Giga Drain |
How to Catch Celebi in Pokemon Go
Celebi is one of the few legendary and mythical Pokemon which are obtained through research tasks in Pokemon Go. By completing a special string of research missions, the player is given the opportunity to capture a Celebi after it appears.
Video Guide
Trivia
Celebi is genderless in all games however in the story of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, it is referred to with she/her pronouns.
Celebi is the second mythical Pokemon that can be obtained without participating in a special event, right after Deoxys being the first.
Celebi is the first shiny Pokemon to appear in the Mystery Dungeon series, being shiny by default in the main story of the Explorers titles.
FAQs
Q. Is Celebi a legendary?
Celebi can be powerful but due to it being obtained through events, it is considered a mythical Pokemon, not a legendary Pokemon.
Q. Why is Celebi so rare?
It is implied that there is only one Celebi in the entire Pokemon universe. In the games, Celebi is only obtained through events due to being a mythical Pokemon but these events are guaranteed, it’s arguably not very rare as every player can have at least one.
Q. Is Celebi stronger than Mew?
While Celebi and Mew have similar typing and stats, Mew has a larger pool of moves to choose from. Due to Mew being able to learn so many moves, it can learn many moves that Celebi is weak to and can counter easily.
Conclusion
Celebi is such an interesting Pokemon, it has the incredible power of time travel and uses it only to do the simple task of magical gardening. It's such a simple goal but an incredibly noble one, especially in the current year, it's nice to have even just a fictional creature find simple joy in just life in different forms.
