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DeadlockDeadlock Celeste Guide and Overview

In this Deadlock Celeste guide, you’ll learn the fundamentals of their abilities, unique play styles, and fundamental tips.

Celeste's hero tags are: Peformer, Disruptive, and Dazzling

Voice Actor: Unknown

Overview

Celeste is very similar to Mina as she is a hyper-mobile mage that specializes in large forms of burst damage and sustain. As Mina has verticality and invulnerability through her Sanguine Retreat, Celeste gains large forms of air control and a lower gravity instead. The goals of both characters are vastly similar however, as they both want to take over the map and lane with high mobility and high damage.

From the official Steam page:

"It's not every day that Coney Island's biggest star, The Dazzling Celeste, performs on the streets of Manhattan. Her show begins with Light Eater, where a deep breath lit by her blazing baton coats enemies in front of her, and grants increased damage against them. Following that up, she envelops herself in the prismatic shield of her Dazzling Trick, which explodes and silences nearby enemies who break it. Try not to get distracted by her gliding gracefully through the air, or by the dance of her Radiant Daggers, as you'll regret being underneath them when they rain down from above. As for her memorable final act, the Shining Wonder will make her allies go OOH and her foes go AGGHHH! - "You are about to see something rare and wonderful!"

Lore

Even in a world of magic, some things are still rare and unusual. So what is a unicorn to do? Announce her presence to the world and potentially have poachers looking to saw off her horn? Or hide in plain sight at a Coney Island Side Show where most folk would assume her appearance was just part of an act?

Over the years "The Dazzling Celeste" has grown into one of the more popular attractions on Coney, and while the applause from a cheering audience is appreciated; what keeps her waking up in the morning is the found family she's made at work.

Keruba the Mermaid.

Blockhead Lenny.

Chickenwing.

Ted.

These were her people. So when she discovered that one of her own sold part of their soul in order to cover a gambling debt, Celeste knew it was time to step out of the shadows and do whatever it takes to get it back. Is revealing her power to The Patrons a risk? Yes. But that's tomorrow's problem... her family needs help today.

Strengths And Weaknesses Summary

  • High mobility and stamina with fast dashes.
  • High Spirit Damage, as well as a strong secular kit.
  • High skill ceiling with many ways to play out fights.
  • Shining Wonder is great at team fights.
  • Relies on hitting her abilities.
  • Has low HP, making her a high-risk, high-reward pick.
  • Knockups or displacement are her biggest weaknesses and pain points.

Deadlock Celeste Abilities

Celeste has a very unique weapon that has a very small aim-assist when bounced on the floor or ceiling and sometimes walls. Be sure to abuse this interaction by taking off-angles and spamming corridors.

She also has a large benefit from Stamina Mastery and her increased air control, so be sure to abuse “Bunny-Hopping” as well as wall-bouncing in order to maneuver around the map and attacks.

Underlined = Scales with Spirit

Light Eater (1)

Light Eater

Blast enemies in a cone in front of you with a flare of light. Enemies hit take spirit damage when attacked by Celeste and provide her spirit lifesteal.

10m Range

8s Duration

20s Cooldown

+18% Spirit Lifesteal

40 Flare Damage

On Bullet Hit: 15 Damage

Light Eater Upgrades

1 AP

2 AP

5 AP

+15% Spirit Lifesteal

+3m Cast Range and -10s Cooldown

+22 Damage and Increased Spirit Scaling

Tips for Light Eater

  • Light Eater is a very unique spell, it scales heavily both from Spirit and Fire Rate, as such prioritize items like Kinetic Dash and a slowing item such as Slowing Hex or Slowing Bullets, as hitting shots with Celeste's weapon may prove to be difficult as it is very awkward to aim with.

Dazzling Trick (2)

Dazzling Trick

Surround yourself in a protective prism that provides bonus move speed. If the barrier is destroyed, it silences nearby enemies and deals a portion of the barrier as damage.

100 Barrier, 4s buff Duration

38s Cooldown

On Explode: 1.75s Debuff Duration

On Explode: 50% Barrier Damage

14m Explosion Radius

Dazzling Trick Upgrades

1 AP

2 AP

5 AP

+3.5m Move Speed

+70 Barrier and Increased Barrier Spirit Scaling

+1.25 Silence Duration and -20 Cooldown. Allows Shining Wonder Bounce.

Tips for Dazzling Trick

  • Dazzling Trick is a fantastic initiation tool as people will have to choose between attacking Celeste and suffering a silence and a nuke, or to run from the shield itself. Be sure to intentionally take some damage by towers or running into creeps to ensure the explosion.

Radiant Daggers (3)

Radiant Daggers

Call down a beam of light from the sky. After a short duration, the beam will fully form, causing an explosion that deals spirit damage to all targets in the area.

Celeste will receive a stacking buff that increases her spirit damage anytime this hits an enemy hero.

30m Range

30s Cooldown

1 Charges

55 Impact Damage

+7% Spirit Amp per Stack

8m Explosion Radius

1.4s Beam Form Duration

6 Max Stacks

30s Buff Duration

Radiant Daggers Upgrades

1 AP

2 AP

5 AP

2 Charges

-22s Cooldown and +70 Damage

9% Fire Rate per Stack

+4% Spirit Amp per Stack

Tips for Radiant Daggers

  • Radiant Daggers is a difficult spell to hit without some support from Shining Wonder or slowing items such as Slowing Hex. Without these tools however, try to predict where players might back up towards or on top of yourself if being approached.

Shining Wonder (4)

Shining Wonder

Launch a deadly orb of light that deals spirit damage and applies slow and reduces Dash Distance on impact. The orb then bounces to the nearest enemy within range. If no target is found, the orb will linger for a short duration while continuing to look for targets.

Prioritises enemy heroes when picking targets.

140 Damage

-32% Move Speed

8 Bounces

140s Cooldown

-22% Dash Distance

1.5s Slow Duration

15.5m Bounce Range

3.25 Max Linger Duration

Shining Wonder Upgrades

1 AP

2 AP

5 AP

-16% Move Speed and -14% Dash Distance

+90 Damage and Increased Spirit Scaling

+6 Max Bounces and -30s Cooldown

Tips for Shining Wonder

  • Shining Wonder is a fantastic teamfight ult so make sure to be nearby opponents to insure an easier hit, as well as casting near Creep Waves or towards Celeste herself when she has the 5AP Upgrade on Dazzling Trick.
  • Refresher makes her a threat in team fights, as most teams can't withstand a double Shining Wonder cast.
  • Shining Wonder can bounce off of creeps and neutral camps.

Silver Celeste Guide

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Deadlock Celeste Weapon Stats

DPS

47.9

Bullet Damage

18

Ammo

8

Bullets per Second

1.67

Light Melee

50

Heavy Melee

116

Deadlock Celeste Vitality Stats

Max Health

700

Health Regen

1

Bullet Resist

0

Spirit Resist

0%

Move Speed

6.2m/s

Sprint Speed

2 m/s

Stamina

5.3

How to Counter Celeste

  • Slowing Hex makes her an easy target.
  • Light Eater is actually a debuff, so Dispel Magic is fantastic for mitigating her damage and sustain.
  • Counterspell is also a fantastic idea to stop Shining Wonder or Dazzling Trick.
  • Celeste is also very weak so other strong burst characters like Mina or Pocket can focus and kill her swiftly. Similar to this, strong DoT’s like Infernus’s Afterburn or Pocket's Affliction will be fantastic as well.
  • Displacement like Bebop's Hook or Knock-ups like Dynamo's Kinetic Pulse is also very ideal to stop Celeste in her tracks.