Community POTW #94

[Serebii]

Scrapped the RNG for this week. To celebrate the 13th anniversary of the creation of Serebii.net, the Pokémon of the Week is pretty obvious



It's Celebi, the time-traveling Pokémon.

While its Grass/Psychic-type means it has a fair few weaknesses, it can do some serious damage

http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/251.shtml

Go nuts

[Lucario Fan]

Ability: Natural Cure
Item: White Herb
Moves: Leaf Storm, Psychic, Earth Power, AncientPower

[extremhyper]

Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Modest/ Timed
(252 sp.attack/ 252 speed/6 HP)

Moves:
Nasty Plot
Psychic
Earth Power
Energy Ball

Item: leftovers/ Life orb

[your boss]

It's ashame Celebi didn't get Psyshock to take on the blobs!

Counters: depending on the coverage move, Hydreigon and the Lati's can wall it and either set up on him or kill the pixie thing!

[Sala-imence]

Item: Light Clay
Nature: Jolly
EVs: 252 Spe / 252 HP / 4 Atk
Ability: Natural Cure
Moveset:
- Light Screen
- Reflect
- Recover
- U-Turn

Set up screens, in whatever order fits best. Then recover to get yourself to good health if not strong enough to set up the other screen. And u turn combines well with natural cure.

[Jazz Hands]

This is something you'll hardly ever see, but someone in my clan suggested. PHYSICAL CELEBI!


Celebi @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Seed Bomb
- Sucker Punch
- U-turn

Swords dance for setup, seed bomb for STAB, sucker punch for priority and U-turn for the fact that it works really well with natural cure

[jr0904]

Choice

Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Modest / Timid
(252 Sp Attack / 252 speed /6 HP)

Moves:
Nasty Plot
Psyshock / Psychic
Earth Power
Leaf Storm

Item: Choice Scarf/Choice Specs

Baton Passer

Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Timid
(252 Speed/ 252 Special Attack / 6 HP)

Moves:
Calm mind / Nasty Plot
Recover / Substitute
Earth Power
Baton Pass

Item: leftovers


Wall

Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Bold / Calm
(252 Def / 252 Sp Def / Max HP)

Moves:
Recover
Calm Mind
Earth Power
Shadow Ball / Psyshock / Stored Power

Item: leftovers


Sub Seed

Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Timid
(252 Speed / Max HP)

Moves:
Substitute
Leech Seed
Earth Power
Psychic / Psyshock


Item: leftovers


NOTE: The 1st two sets should be used only if you have the celebi from the 14th movie event

[Sceptile Leaf Blade]

It's ashame Celebi didn't get Psyshock to take on the blobs!

Counters: depending on the coverage move, Hydreigon and the Lati's can wall it and either set up on him or kill the pixie thing!

Chansey can be walled to hell by max HP subseed Celebi. Chansey just won't get through the subs in a single Seismic Toss and Leech seed heals Celebi already more in 2 turns than its substitutes cost, without even counting in Leftovers. I don't know if it is still used much, but Celebi is one of the very few pokémon to get both Leech Seed and a reliable recovery move in Recover.

[Kraleck]

Move Options
-Physical: Seed Bomb, Zen Headbutt, Sucker Punch, U-Turn, Return, Secret Power, Facade, Aerial Ace
-Special: Grass Knot, Psychic, Leaf Storm, Energy Ball, Giga Drain, Ancientpower, Earth Power, Silver Wind, Signal Beam, Water Pulse, Shock Wave, Charge Beam, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power
-Status: Substitute, Calm Mind, Baton Pass, Recover, Leech Seed, Toxic, Rest, Heal Bell, Reflect, Light Screen, Safeguard, Thunder Wave, Swords Dance, Stealth Rock, Skill Swap, Worry Seed

What can we say about Base 100 Stats across the board that isn't obvious. There are 71 Pokemon (all forms included except those belonging to Arceus) that outrun Celebi, but few carry Bug Type Moves (which, STAB or not, will hurt a metric ****-ton with that Quad-Weakness), and 24 tie it in Base Speed.

On Abilities, you're always using Natural Cure. Natural Cure + Rest is an annoying combo to deal with. The Ability pairs wonderfully with U-Turn to get some chipping in or Baton Pass to transfer your buffs while making an escape.

On the notion of Baton Pass sets, Ancientpower and/or Silver Wind are options to consider, even with the mere 10% chance of buffs, and Charge Beam makes an excellent option as well. However, you'll mostly B.Pass Swords Dance or Calm Mind buffs instead of gambling on the buff chances, so they're low priority choices.

[MatchMaster]

When you first look at Celebi, you may wonder why it has managed to stay in OU or above since its introduction. It has seven weaknesses and its stats sit at 100 each, which is rather average for OU. With the rise of Tornadus-T, it is even more pressed to stay in OU. Here's the answer: It has six resistances, all of which are very common attacking types. It also has a useful ability in Natural Cure, which allows it to acts as a status absorber. It has a decent movepool, which allows it to go offensive, defensive, or even a combination of both.

Ability
Natural Cure: Cures status when switching out. This is great, as it gives you something to absorb Spore, Thunder Wave, and Will-O-Wisp fairly easily which would otherwise cripple teammates.

Nasty Plot
Item: Life Orb / Leftovers
Nature: Timid
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
- Giga Drain / Grass Knot
- Hidden Power Fire
- Psychic / Earth Power / Recover
- Nasty Plot

Nasty Plot was one of the gifts Gamefreak was kind enough to give Celebi. It brings Celebi's power to much high levels in a single turn. Giga Drain serves as Celebi's primary STAB, which also gives it a way of recovering health. Grass Knot is significantly more powerful, and gives it a better chance against Tyranitar. Hidden Power Fire is a need on this set, as it would otherwise have trouble getting passed Scizor, Skarmory, and Genesect. Psychic gives Celebi secondary STAB, and a way to get passed Conkeldurr, OHKOs Virizion even without Stealth Rock, and provides it with a powerful STAB move in general. Earth Power might be a bit more attractive though, as it gets better coverage and prevents Celebi from being setup bait against Heatran. Recove is an option if you are using Grass Knot in the first slot.

[deathelm31]

Its obviously ninjask....ninjask.jpg

[DizzyCobraMew]

Ah celebi still wish you could have been shiny, anyway
Calm
EV's 252hp, 200 sp.defense, 52speed
Leftovers/grass gem
Calm mind
Psychic/HP FIRE/HP rock
leaf storm/giga drain
Charge beam/earth power

Leaf storm if you don't mind that you have to keep setting up or giga drain to get back some HP when you have built up enough offense and sp.defense HP fire or rock to take care of Celebi's major bug weakness and rock also covers against flying
Fire does also cover ice charge beam also covers flying and you could get a sp.atk boost but with calm mind you already get the boost earth power can lower your opponents sp.def and Make Celebi's attacks more powerful and covers fire where as HP fore already covers fire but can't lower your opponents stats

Adamant/jolly
EV's 252 attack, 204 speed, 48 defense/Hp
Choice band/lice orb
Seed bomb
Zen headbutt
Swords dance
Sucker punch (if that's still allowed)/substitute

The basic physical celebi, noting else, choice band if you aren't going to set up life orb if hour not afraid of losing your HP

[Ghosts of the Forums]

Serebii (using jap. name just cause) @Choice Scarf
Hasty
4 Hp 252 Sp.Atk 252 Spe
-U-Turn
-Leaf Storm
-Hidden Power Ice/Fire
-Trick/Psychic

Celebi @Life Orb
Modest
232Hp 240Sp.Atk 36Spe
-Thunder Wave
-Leaf Storm
-Hp Fire/Earth Power/Psychic
-Recover/Leech Seed

[paipr_christian]

pun moveset name; its time to celebirate!!

[grantholomew]

Celebi w/ Life Orb
Natural Cure
4 HP/252 SAtk/252 Spd
Modest (+SAtk, -Atk)/Timid (+Spd, -Atk)
-Giga Drain/Leaf Storm
-Psychic
-Earth Power/Hidden Power Ice/Hidden Power Fire
-Nasty Plot/Recover

[GirlKirbyZombie]

It's been some time since I last posted. College kept me as busy as a cele-BEE. *gets hit on the head with a steel dish*

Defensive Cele-hornet
Nature: Bold
EVs: 252 HP, 189 Def, 67 Sp. Def
Item: Leftovers
Moves:
Calm Mind
Giga Drain
Baton Pass
Leech Seed

Not the best of sets, but it will have to do.

[jireh the provider]

Ahh celebi. If only you dated and mrried Grovyle in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, pokemon may have had a love story and be a popular shipping debate other than the human shippings.

Anyways, Guess what, one of my legendary pokemon team members. Celebi! Remember her monstrous form in Movie 4? she got nasty plotted. But from experience using her, She (forgive me for giving legendaries genders) is very suitable for doubles and triples (if you wanted though, Rotation) with any set you could give to her. Whether she's a bag mined girl fighter or a patient status inducer or a team supporter.

Mixed set.
-Giga drain
-Leech seed
-Shadow ball
-U-turn

Aka. Fairy + (Saria + Link) = Celebi the time travelling cute fairy pokemon. Give him the master sword to kill Darkrai and big bad Emboar the Ganon. Please we could go with some Legend of Zelda Puns for Celebi, the LEGENDARY hero of time

[Kiyoshi]

LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!

-Leaf Storm
-Psychic
-Earth Power
-Signal Beam/Shadow Ball
Item: Choice Specs
Ability: Natural Cure
EV's and Nature: 4 HP/252 Special Attack/252 Speed
Modest (+ Special Attack, - Attack)/Timid (+ Speed, - Attack)

Not much to explain about how this set ought to be used. Leaf Storm for a powerful STAB move. 5 PP, less than perfect Accuracy, and lowers your own Special Attack with each hit; not the most ideal of moves, but since you will be switching around a lot, the Special Attack drop can be overlooked (not much to redeem the other problems though). Psychic is another STAB, one that's powerful and can lower the foe's Special Defense sometimes. Psyshock would've been good, however, to deal with Chansey and Blissy. Too bad Celebi can't learn it. Earth Power; last time Celebi was POTW the little fairy had nothing outside of Hidden Power to cover Steel types which tend to walk all over it, but now... Good power, occasionally lowers the foe's Special Defense like Psychic, it's a good attack. Specially Defensive Heatran sets will have to worry about running into a X4 Super Effective move that can, given enough hits, kill that good Special Defensive wall role, and Tyranitar also suffers a similar problem. Assuming, of course, that Celebi isn't destroyed by them but hey, at least now it has something that'll pose (something of) a threat to them! Signal Beam is for other Celebi, Hydreigon, and Latias/Latios, as well as other Psychic types in general. Shadow Ball basically does the same thing, just with slightly more power and also lowers the foe's Special Defense on occasion in exchange for a hit on Hydreigon. I thought about putting it as an option over Psychic due to the number of Dark types it'd give a free switch-in to, but like Venusaur's entry said, there's no such thing as too many Terrakion counters.

[Eliteknight]

Celebi@life orb
modest
220hp/252spa/36spe
Nasty Plot
Earth power
giga drain
hp fire

[firerank9]

The sites mascot this week??? Let's see...

Peaceful Traveler
Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Hasty(+ Speed/- Defence)/Navie(+ Speed/- Sp Defence)
EV's: 252 Speed/252 Sp Attack/4 HP
Items: Life Orb
Moves
Healing Wish
Perish Song
Leaf Storm
Hidden Power

The Advantage of this setup is that if Celebi gets low on HP, you can ether fully heal the next Pokemon or Force your opponent to faint in 3 turns after using Perish Song.