Is Celebi Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Crystal's signature legendary. The GS Ball event in the Virtual Console release opens Ilex Forest for a level 30 Celebi encounter. Grass/Psychic typing with balanced stats. The original Crystal cartridge required a Japan-only event, but the Virtual Console version made Celebi accessible worldwide.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Celebi resists most of Morty's coverage and hits back hard.
Celebi resists most of Chuck's coverage and hits back hard.
Celebi trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Clair's team.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Celebi resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
Celebi resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Celebi has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Celebi trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Celebi trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Celebi resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Celebi trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Celebi trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Trade
Celebi cannot be caught in this game. It must be traded in from a compatible game where it appears in the wild. Cross-region trading typically becomes available after defeating the Elite Four.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 5)
- LV 5PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 30PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
How to Get Celebi in Crystal
Celebi was only ever given through the GS Ball event at the Ilex Forest shrine, never released normally. Without that distribution, the only way to one is trading it in.
Wild Celebi may be holding when caught:
1 location to catch Celebi
Badge 1How to Get Celebi in Crystal
How to Get Shiny Celebi in Crystal
Celebi appears at the Ilex Forest shrine at level 30 only after the GS Ball event item unlocks the encounter; with it in hand, save at the shrine and soft reset for the shiny. Compare Shiny Celebi odds across every game
Shiny Celebi Evolution
Does Not EvolveCrystal Shiny Celebi Calculator
1 MethodThe only route here is Soft Reset, about 1 in 8,192 on each try.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Crystal shiny odds for Celebi.
Celebi Weakness
Celebi's Psychic/Grass typing leaves it vulnerable to Bug, Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying, Ghost, and Dark. Bug hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It resists 6 types, so it can switch into a lot of moves safely. Celebi's overall bulk (100/100/100) lets it take a hit or two from most weaknesses before going down.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Bug |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Grass, Fighting, Ground, Psychic |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
- Special stat split into Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
What is Celebi Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Celebi
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Jynx builds →Blizzard 2x91-107%KO Shadow Ball 2x23-28% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x82-96% Smog 2x10-13% | ||
 Flareon Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Flareon builds →Fire Blast 2x79-94% Shadow Ball 2x45-53% Bite 2x28-33% | ||
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter | ||
 Quilava Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Quilava builds →Fire Blast 2x70-83% Fury Cutter 4x9-11% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Scyther builds →Wing Attack 2x47-55% Fury Cutter 4x23-28% Pursuit 2x14-17% | ||
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Fearow builds →Fly 2x47-55% Pursuit 2x14-17% | ||
 Nidoking PoisonGround | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Nidoking builds →Fire Blast 2x48-57% Shadow Ball 2x37-44% Blizzard 2x48-57% Poison Sting 2x14-17% | ||
 Nidoqueen PoisonGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Nidoqueen builds →Fire Blast 2x43-51% Shadow Ball 2x34-40% Blizzard 2x43-51% Fury Cutter 4x12-15% | ||
 Weezing Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Weezing builds →Sludge 2x41-50% Fire Blast 2x48-57% | ||
 Golbat Poison | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Celebi View Golbat builds →Wing Attack 2x37-44% Bite 2x21-26% Leech Life 4x18-22% | ||
Celebi Evolutions
A Psychic/Grass-type mythical at 600 base stats, Celebi can't breed or evolve. Event distribution is the standard way to obtain one. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
C Celebi Best Moveset
100 in every stat with MoveRecover and MoveHeal Bell for personal and team sustain. MovePsychic and MoveGiga Drain provide dual Grass/Psychic TermStab. Held ItemLeftovers stacks with recovery moves. Fills support, offense, and healing roles from the most versatile stat line among non-legendaries. Does everything the team needs.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Psychic
- Future Sight
- Solar Beam
- Baton Pass
Moves List
The level-up pool is slim, so TMs matter here. Celebi's Rock and Normal coverage and more all comes from technical machines, built on top of Future Sight and Solar Beam for same-type damage. Future Sight and Dream Eater are the payoff moves.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
20 of 28 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Revered as a guardian of the forest, CELEBI appears wherever beautiful forests exist.
Celebi Crystal Guide
Celebi is a static encounter at Johto Ilex Forest in Crystal. Celebi appears at level 30. Prerequisite: GS Ball event. Save before the encounter. These one-shot Pokemon don't respawn if you knock them out or run out of Poke Balls.
Game Availability
Introduced in Gold & Silver, Celebi shows up in 16 games across 8 generations. Mythical status keeps it locked behind events or specific story content in most appearances.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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