#0797 · Alola · Generation 7 · ultra-beast

Celesteela

Launch Pokémon · Steel/Flying-type

Celesteela is a Steel/Flying-type Pokémon, the Launch Pokémon, number 797 (#0797) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 7 and comes from the Alola region. It is 9.2 m tall and weighs 999.9 kg.

Celesteela is the Launch Pokémon, an Ultra Beast that looks like a bamboo shoot crossed with a space shuttle and can fly into space on jets of flammable gas. Its design may echo the Moon princess of a famous Japanese folktale.

How to pronounce Celesteela

Celesteela is pronounced sel-es-TEE-luh. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Celesteela said out loud:

In Japanese it is テッカグヤ (Tekkaguya).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Celesteela is 9.2 m tall and weighs 999.9 kg, tied with Cosmoem as the heaviest Pokémon according to Bulbapedia. It has a small white head under a hat-like crown of long hair, huge bamboo-like arms and a layered body like a dress, ending in black bamboo stalks tipped with blue rings that double as rocket boosters. Bulbapedia says it stores a flammable gas that it shoots from its arms and underside.

Behaviour

The Pokédex says witnesses saw it fly across the sky at high speed, and another entry says it burned down a forest by venting gas from its two arms. The Ultra Sun entry lists it among the dangerous Ultra Beasts, with high energy readings coming from both arms.

Habitat

It comes from the Ultra Crater, where Bulbapedia says it sprouts from the soil like a plant before blasting off into space. It is not available in Scarlet, Violet or Legends: Z-A.

Powers

Its Ability is Beast Boost, which raises its best stat when it knocks out a Pokémon. Being part Steel and part Flying, it learns Air Slash, Flash Cannon, Heavy Slam and Skull Bash, and can use Flamethrower and Fire Blast by TM. With base HP 97, Defense 103, Special Defense 101 and Special Attack 107 but only 61 Speed, it is a slow, sturdy attacker.

Name origin

Celesteela may combine 'celestial', 'steel' and 'stella' (Latin and Italian for star). The Japanese name is Tekkaguya (テッカグヤ), which may mix tetsu (iron), tekka (gunfire) and the name of Princess Kaguya.

Design inspiration

Celesteela may draw on Princess Kaguya of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, who is discovered as an infant in a bamboo stalk and turns out to come from the Moon. Its long hair and layered dress echo her, and it is exclusive to Moon and Ultra Moon. These are fan readings.

In the games

Celesteela is a Moon exclusive found at Haina Desert or Malie Garden in Sun and Moon, its first games. Ultra Moon sends you to the Ultra Crater instead, and Sword and Shield's Crown Tundra later added it to the Max Lair.

In the anime

Celesteela debuted in 'Rise and Shine, Starship!', where Sophocles found it buried at Bamboo Hill and took it for 'The Celestial Starship', a figure from a folktale. It had been growing in Alola for over 200 years, and the Ultra Guardians could not catch it before it flew back into space.

Fun facts

• Despite its Steel and Flying types, its moveset is a plant's: Absorb at level 1, Ingrain at 25, Giga Drain at 35 and Leech Seed at 55.
• The International Police file it under the codename UB-04 Blaster.
• Pokémon Masters EX has two Celesteela sync pairs, one with Jasmine in a special costume and one with Liza in a Summer 2023 outfit.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Celesteela (Pokémon) · Serebii: Celesteela (Sword/Shield Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 97
• Attack: 101
• Defense: 103
• Sp. Atk: 107
• Sp. Def: 101
• Speed: 61

Celesteela’s base stat total is 570. Its highest stat is Sp. Atk.

Type matchups

What is Celesteela weak to?

Celesteela takes extra damage from Fire (2×), Electric (2×) moves.

It resists Grass (¼×), Bug (¼×), Normal (½×), Flying (½×), Psychic (½×), Dragon (½×), Steel (½×), Fairy (½×).

It is immune to Poison, Ground moves.

Evolution

Celesteela does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.

Abilities

• Beast Boost: Raises this Pokémon's highest stat by one stage when it faints another Pokémon.

Moves

Moves Celesteela learns by level up in Sword / Shield

TM moves (37)

Celesteela can learn 37 moves from TMs in Sword / Shield: Fly, Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Solar Beam, Self-Destruct, Rest, Rock Slide, Snore, Protect, Giga Drain, Facade, Round, Acrobatics, Bulldoze, Air Slash, Smart Strike, Brutal Swing, Stomping Tantrum, Body Slam, Flamethrower, Earthquake, Fire Blast, Substitute, Endure, Sleep Talk, Megahorn, Superpower, Iron Defense, Gyro Ball, Seed Bomb, Energy Ball, Zen Headbutt, Flash Cannon, Iron Head, Stone Edge, Grass Knot, Heavy Slam.

Move tutor moves (3): Meteor Beam, Steel Beam, Steel Roller.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Undiscovered.
• Egg cycles: 120 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 15,360).
• Catch rate: 45 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 0.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 1 Attack and 1 Defense and 1 Sp. Atk effort values.
• Base experience yield: 257.

Pokédex entries

Although it's alien to this world and a danger here, it's apparently a common organism in the world where it normally lives. (Ultra Moon)

One of the dangerous UBs, high energy readings can be detected coming from both of its huge arms. (Ultra Sun)

One kind of Ultra Beast. Witnesses have seen it burn down a forest by expelling gas from its two arms. (Moon)

It appeared from the Ultra Wormhole. Witnesses observed it flying across the sky at high speed. (Sun)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Heaviest Pokémon: 999.9 kg, shared with 1 other.
• Heaviest Flying type: 999.9 kg.
• Tallest Flying type: 9.2 m.
• Heaviest Steel type: 999.9 kg.
• Tallest Steel type: 9.2 m, shared with 1 other.
• Heaviest Pokémon in Gen 7: 999.9 kg, shared with 1 other.
• Tallest Pokémon in Gen 7: 9.2 m.
• Heaviest Flying type in Gen 7: 999.9 kg.
• Tallest Flying type in Gen 7: 9.2 m.
• Highest HP among Flying types in Gen 7: 97.
• Highest Defense among Flying types in Gen 7: 103.
• Highest Sp. Atk among Flying types in Gen 7: 107.
• Highest Sp. Def among Flying types in Gen 7: 101.
• Highest base stat total among Flying types in Gen 7: 570.
• Heaviest Steel type in Gen 7: 999.9 kg.
• Tallest Steel type in Gen 7: 9.2 m.
• Taller than 100% of all Pokémon (9.2 m).
• Heavier than 100% of all Pokémon (999.9 kg).
• Base stat total 570, ranked #93 of 1,025.
• One of 3 Pokémon that are both Steel and Flying.
• One of 130 green Pokémon.
• Number 76 of 88 Pokémon introduced in Generation 7 (Alola).
• Can learn 52 different moves in Sword / Shield.
• Catch rate 45: about 5.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 4 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Celesteela (Pokémon), Serebii: Celesteela (Sword/Shield Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (sel-es-TEE-luh): no English source says it out loud, so it is our best guess from the parts of the name.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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