Celeste Guide — Abilities, Builds & Strategy

Celeste Base Stats

• Role: Marksman
• Max Health: 690
• Max Move Speed: 6.2
• Stamina: 4
• Base Health Regen: 1
• Light Melee Damage: 50
• Heavy Melee Damage: 116

Celeste Weapon Stats

• DPS: 31.034
• Sustained DPS: 21.686
• Bullet Damage: 18
• Rounds Per Second: 1.7241
• Clip Size: 8
• Reload Time: 2s
• Bullet Speed: 50
• Can Crit: Yes

Celeste Abilities

• Ability 1: Light Eater
• Ability 2: Dazzling Trick
• Ability 3: Radiant Daggers
• Ability 4: Shining Wonder

Celeste Guide — Strategy & Tips

Quick Answer: Celeste is an aerial spirit caster who wins by marking targets with Light Eater, stacking Radiant Daggers for spirit amp, and peeling for herself with Dazzling Trick. She uses Shining Wonder to slow and pin stragglers while raining damage from above. Stay airborne, keep repositioning, and never let her only defensive cooldown break for free.

Celeste is a Disruptive, Dazzling spirit caster who fights from the air, leaning on her innate low gravity, extra air control, and air acceleration to glide around a fight while chucking abilities from above. She opens with Light Eater to blast a cone in front of her and mark enemies, so any follow-up attack from her lands as spirit damage and feeds her spirit lifesteal. From there she layers Radiant Daggers from the sky, banking a stacking spirit amp each time a beam connects with an enemy hero. Dazzling Trick is her peel and escape: a self prism that, when broken, silences nearby enemies and deals a portion of the barrier as damage. Shining Wonder is the finisher, an orb of light that bounces between targets and cripples their move speed and dash distance. She wants medium range, high ground, and constant repositioning, and she should almost never plant herself on the ground to fight.

Early Game

Her Carny Life projectile arcs and homes into soul orbs, so laning is forgiving if you shoot on the bounce and let it curve onto the last hit. Trade by landing Light Eater first, then firing bullets into the marked enemy so the hits convert into bonus spirit damage while her spirit lifesteal tops her back up. Hold Dazzling Trick for enemy dives instead of poking with it, because its value is the silence and burst that fire when the barrier breaks. She is squishy early, so guard your stamina and use the extra air control to drift out of losing trades rather than stand and trade health.

Mid Game

Mid game is about stacking Radiant Daggers on enemy heroes, since every beam that lands adds spirit amp that makes her whole kit hit harder. Start using Shining Wonder to open ganks, because the slow and the reduced dash distance let your team collapse onto the first target. Rotate with a teammate rather than solo, since Dazzling Trick only keeps her safe for a few seconds. Keep to high ground and hover above the fight so her beam angles reach over cover and terrain instead of getting blocked.

Late Game

In late-game fights, sit behind the frontline and drop Radiant Daggers onto the enemy cluster, using the skybox-high vertical range to hit everyone stacked under a building. Lead with Shining Wonder into a grouped team so the bounces tag several heroes at once and the slows set your carries up. When someone dives you, pop Dazzling Trick and let them break the barrier, so the silence and the barrier damage land on whoever is standing on top of you. Keep gliding between casts and buy into spirit damage and cooldown so her windows stay up.

Combos

Start with Light Eater so the target is marked, then fire bullets into them so the hits cash in as extra spirit damage and return spirit lifesteal to Celeste. Layer Radiant Daggers on that marked target to bank spirit amp while you are already dealing damage. If they turn to fight, hold Dazzling Trick and let the prism break so the silence lands, then finish with Shining Wonder so the slow and reduced dash distance stop the escape. With Dazzling Trick's T3, you can bounce Shining Wonder off your own prism to reset the barrier duration to four seconds.

Strong Against

Celeste thrives against teams that group up, because Shining Wonder bounces across nearby targets and Radiant Daggers can be dropped onto a clump. Her homing Carny Life shots make her strong against slippery targets that try to juke in the open. Against dive-heavy teams, Dazzling Trick's on-break silence turns their commitment into a mistake. She is at her best when enemies have to fight underneath her in open ground, where she can stay airborne and rain beams down.

Weak Against

Celeste is fragile, and once Dazzling Trick breaks she has no second defensive layer, so chained crowd control and burst can delete her. Her barrier can be dispelled, and its disable can be prevented or suppressed, so it will not always save her. She leans on staying airborne, so anything that forces her down or pins her in the open is a problem. Enemies who spread out and kite rob Shining Wonder of its bounces and Radiant Daggers of any clumping to hit.

Synergies

Celeste pairs well with anyone who locks enemies in place, because crowd control that pins a target under Radiant Daggers lets her stack spirit amp for free. Frontliners who hold the enemy in a clump make Shining Wonder's bounces far more efficient. Since Light Eater marks a target so her attacks land as spirit damage, teammates who layer more damage onto the marked hero cash in alongside her. She also wants a partner who can peel for her, because after Dazzling Trick pops she has nothing left to escape a dive.

Common Mistakes

• Standing on the ground to cast instead of using her glide and air control to hover above the fight.
• Burning Dazzling Trick for no reason, then having no barrier or on-break silence left when a dive actually comes.
• Tossing Radiant Daggers only at creeps and never stacking them on enemy heroes to build the spirit amp buff.

Matchup Notes

• vs Kelvin — Shining Wonder bounces off Kelvin's Frozen Shelter before hunting targets inside the dome, so fire it into the wall to reach enemies hiding in the shelter.
• vs Bebop — keep Dazzling Trick charged for the moment he commits, and let the barrier break so the silence lands right as he tries to follow up.
• vs Vindicta — do not hover in open sightlines against a sniper; break line of sight and drop Radiant Daggers from behind cover instead of gliding out in the open.
• vs Haze — stay above and behind your team, and if she dives you, break Dazzling Trick to silence her while she is committed, then glide out.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Celeste's innate do?

It lowers her gravity by 25% and grants +44% air control and +10% air acceleration, letting her glide and reposition in the air.

How does Light Eater work?

It blasts a cone in front of her; blasted enemies take spirit damage whenever Celeste attacks them, and it gives her spirit lifesteal for the duration.

What triggers Dazzling Trick's silence?

The silence only fires if the prism barrier is destroyed — nearby enemies are silenced and take a portion of the barrier as damage.

How does Radiant Daggers buff her?

Each beam that hits an enemy hero grants a stacking buff of +7% spirit amp per stack, up to 6 stacks, lasting 30 seconds.

Can Shining Wonder hit objectives?

No. It bounces off troopers and denizens but phases through objectives.

What is Celeste's weapon?

Carny Life is a bouncy medium-range projectile that arcs and bounces on the first surface it hits, homing into enemies at a narrow angle and into soul orbs.