Celesteela is a large, vaguely humanoidUltra Beast with a bodily construction that resembles a cross between a space shuttle and a bamboo shoot. It has a small, white head with a tiny mouth and a skinny neck with three segments. On top of its head is a gray structure resembling a hat with long, flowing hair underneath. The hair reaches midway down its body and is rimmed with bright blue. The "hat" has two small blue dots and four white spikes arranged in an X-shape. These spikes resemble decorativehair sticks. On the very top of its hat is a long gray horn similar to adrill bit. It has large, disembodied gray arms that resemble bamboo stalks. At the end of each arm is a ring of bright blue, fin-like projections and a collection of eight smaller, black bamboo shoots. Each smaller stalk has a bright blue ring with a small line extending back up the stalk. Its main body is conical and resembles a dress with four overlapping layers. The shortest and outermost layer is the shortest and appears metallic, while the inner layers are each a lighter shade of green, progressively longer, and seem to be cloth or plant material. Underneath all the layers is a white body with a light gray crisscross pattern covering it and a bright blue ring along the base. Below the dress is what appears to be a collection of eight black bamboo stalks. On the bottom of each stalk is a bright blue ring with a small line extending back up the stalk; this causes the stalks to also resemblesolid rocket boosters. Celesteela is one of theheaviest Pokémon, tying withCosmoem.
Celesteela live in another world namedUltra Crater. It appears to grow out of the ground like a plant in its homeworld, before exploding the ground around itself and flying away into space for unknown reasons. According toWicke from theAether Foundation, Celesteela's most distinctive feature is the energy that it stores within itself, a flammable gas that it can shoot from its two huge arms and bottom.This is mostly used to propel itself in flight and for battle, but it has sufficient power and lift to even fly into space. Its bodily construction closely resembles that of a plant, specially bamboo, even being capable of absorbing nutrients from the soil.
Wicke also claims that like all Ultra Beasts, Celesteela storesZ-Power, the same energy possessed byTotem Pokémon, within its body, which takes the form of a red, flaring aura[1]. Celesteela's rocket thrusters are powerful enough to destroy an entire bamboo forest. As seen inRise and Shine, Starship!, Celesteela have a long lifespans, as one was buried inAlola, growing for over 200 years. According to the legend "The Celestial Starship", told in that same episode, a mysterious object fell from the sky and was discovered by an old couple to be a large bamboo shoot, which greatly resembled an infant version of Celesteela, being later named Celeste by the couple. The couple cared for it, but due to it absorbing the nutrients of the plants around itself, the other villagers tried attacking it, but Celeste transformed and flew away into space. According to Wicke, Celesteela was named after the legend of Celeste.
Celesteela debuted inRise and Shine, Starship!, whereSophocles found it buried alive while camping atBamboo Hill and believed it to beThe Celestial Starship (Japanese星舟かぐやStarship Kaguya), a figure from a folktale. He andhis classmates decided to dig it out of the ground, and although theUltra Guardians failed tocatch it due to the fact that it was rooted down, it eventually flew off back into space. Unlike the otherUltra Beasts in theanimated series so far, this Celesteela had been growing inAlola for more than 200 years.
Celesteela is tied withCosmoem for the heaviest of all Pokémon. This may parallel how Celesteela's counterpart,Kartana, is tied for the lightest of all Pokémon.
Celesteela is the only non-Grass-type Pokémon to learnSeed Bomb by leveling up.
Origin
Celesteela may be based on Princess Kaguya fromThe Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, which was said to have been discovered as a baby inside a bamboo stalk, and was revealed to hail from the Moon. This may be referenced with Celesteela's design, which seems to visually combine bamboo shoots and trunks with elements of aspace shuttle, and a depiction of Princess Kaguya as a woman with long hair wearing a multilayeredkimono. It may also be referenced with the fact that Celesteela is exclusive toPokémon Moon andUltra Moon.
Celesteela's body may also incorporate similarities to the spacecraftSELENE (nicknamed "Kaguya" in Japan), which orbited the Moon between 2007 and 2009. The combination of bamboo and spacecraft elements may also referencebamboo rockets.
Name origin
Celesteela may be a combination ofcelestial,steel, andstella (Latin and Italian for "star").
Tekkaguya may be a combination of 鉄tetsu (iron), 鉄火tekka (gunfire), and かぐや姫Kaguya-hime (Princess Kaguya).
In other languages
Language
Title
Meaning
Japanese
テッカグヤTekkaguya
From 鉄tetsu (iron), 鉄火tekka (gunfire), and かぐや姫Kaguya-hime (Princess Kaguya)
↑Wicke,Pokémon Sun and Moon:"When the UBs pass through the Ultra Wormhole, they are bathed in a great deal of this energy and likely store it within their bodies."
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For other sprites and images, please seeCelesteela images on the Bulbagarden Archives.
