Forretress #0205

BugSteel

Max CP	L402282L502580L51 · Best Buddy2611
Buddy Distance	5 km per Candy
Released	Feb 16, 2017Aug 20, 2018

Type Effectiveness

Forretress takes 256% from Fire moves.

Weak ×2.6

Fire

Resists ×0.6

NormalIcePsychicBugDragonSteelFairy

Resists ×0.4

GrassPoison

Forretress is a Bug/Steel-type Pokémon in Pokémon GO, doubly weak to Fire.

It reaches 2580 CP at level 50, or 2611 as a Best Buddy.

Its best raid moveset is Bug Bite with Heavy Slam.

Base Stats

Attack161

Defense205

Stamina181

Not main-series base stats. Bars scale to 450 / 450 / 500.

Best Movesets

#	Fast Move	Charged Move	DPS	TDO
	BugBug Bite	SteelHeavy Slam	9.6	192
2	BugBug Bite	GroundEarthquake	8.7	174
3	ElectricVolt Switch	SteelHeavy Slam	8.5	170
4	BugBug Bite	NormalReturn	8.4	167
5	BugStruggle Bug	SteelHeavy Slam	8.2	165
6	BugBug Bite	SteelMirror Shot	7.9	158
7	ElectricVolt Switch	GroundEarthquake	7.3	145
8	BugBug Bite	RockRock Tomb	7.2	144

10 More Pairings

#	Fast Move	Charged Move	DPS	TDO
9	BugStruggle Bug	GroundEarthquake	7.2	144
10	BugStruggle Bug	SteelMirror Shot	7.0	140
11	ElectricVolt Switch	SteelMirror Shot	7.0	140
12	BugStruggle Bug	NormalReturn	6.9	137
13	ElectricVolt Switch	NormalReturn	6.9	137
14	BugStruggle Bug	RockRock Tomb	6.3	125
15	ElectricVolt Switch	RockRock Tomb	6.1	123
16	BugBug Bite	GroundSand TombDon’t Use	6.0	120
17	BugStruggle Bug	GroundSand Tomb	5.5	109
18	ElectricVolt Switch	GroundSand Tomb	5.3	106

Raid damage at level 40, 15/15/15 IVs, no weather boost.

DPS is damage per second, TDO total damage before fainting. For one boss, see the raid counters.

Don’t Use means repeating the fast move does at least as much damage as using this charged move, either because the move is weak or because this Pokémon faints before it pays off.

Moves

Fast Moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	Time	DPS	EPS
Bug Bite	Bug	5	6	0.5s	10.0	12.0
Struggle Bug	Bug	15	15	1.5s	10.0	10.0
Volt Switch	Electric	13	20	1.5s	8.7	13.3

Charged Moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	Time	DPS	DPE
ReturnP	Normal	25	33	0.5s	50.0	0.76
Earthquake	Ground	140	100	3.5s	40.0	1.40
Heavy Slam	Steel	70	50	2.0s	35.0	1.40
Rock Tomb	Rock	65	50	3.0s	21.7	1.30
Mirror Shot	Steel	50	33	2.5s	20.0	1.52
Sand Tomb	Ground	60	33	4.0s	15.0	1.82

Fast Moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	Turns	DPT	EPT
Bug Bite	Bug	4	3	1	4.0	3.0
Volt Switch	Electric	14	16	4	3.5	4.0
Struggle Bug	Bug	9	8	3	3.0	2.7

Charged Moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	DPE
ReturnP	Normal	130	70	1.86
Earthquake	Ground	120	65	1.85
Sand Tomb	Ground	55	45	1.22
Rock Tomb	Rock	75	50	1.50
Heavy Slam	Steel	70	50	1.40
Mirror Shot	Steel	35	35	1.00

DPS damage per second · EPS energy per second · DPE damage per energy.

Purified: Return is learned by purifying a Shadow.

Evolution Family

Pineco

#0204

Bug

45 purified

Forretress

#0205

BugSteel

Top Counters

Full Rankings

As a Tier 5 raid boss. Level 40, 15/15/15, no weather boost.

1Mega DelphoxFireFire SpinFireMystical Fire+55.2 eDPS
2Mega BlazikenFireFire SpinFireBlast BurnE51.3 eDPS
3Shadow ReshiramFireFire FangFireFusion FlareE50.9 eDPS
4Mega Charizard YFireFire SpinFireBlast BurnE50.0 eDPS
5BlacephalonFireIncinerateFireMind BlownE49.7 eDPS
6Shadow ChandelureFireFire SpinFireOverheat44.7 eDPS

See Full Rankings

Worth Powering Up?

Not stronger than the everyday pick against any Tier 5 or Mega boss.

The everyday pick is the best attacker that isn’t a Mega, Shadow or Legendary. Each number is how much more of the boss’s health this Pokémon takes off than that pick would. Level 40, 15/15/15, no weather boost.

CP by Level

Encounter	Level	Guaranteed CP	Max CP
Research	15	92710/10/10	97815/15/15
Raids & Eggs	20	123610/10/10	130415/15/15
Weather-Boosted Raids	25	154510/10/10	163015/15/15
L40	40	19360/0/0	228215/15/15
L50	50	21890/0/0	258015/15/15
L51 · Best Buddy	51	22150/0/0	261115/15/15

All Power-Up Levels (L15–L51)

Level	15/15/15	0/0/0
Level 15	978	830
Level 20	1304	1106
Level 25	1630	1383
Level 30	1956	1660
Level 35	2119	1798
Level 40	2282	1936
Level 45	2429	2061
Level 50	2580	2189
Level 51	2611	2215

Research, raid and egg catches have at least 10/10/10 IVs. A wild catch can be as low as 0/0/0.

L40 is the cap without XL Candy, L50 with it. L51 is Best Buddy only.

Dex Details

Second Charged Move	75 Candy · 75,000 Stardust
Height / Weight	1.19 m · 125.8 kg
Gender Ratio	50.0%50.0%
Trading	TradableTransferable

Abilities, EVs, breeding and learnsets: Forretress in the RotomLabs Pokédex

PvP IV Spreads

Great League

1500 CP Cap

Best IVs0/9/151500 CP at level 25.5

Rank	IVs	CP	Level	% of Best
#1	0/9/15	1500	25.5	100.00%
#2	1/15/14	1496	25	99.87%
#3	1/15/15	1500	25	99.87%
#4	0/12/12	1499	25.5	99.86%
#5	0/10/14	1500	25.5	99.70%
#6	0/15/9	1497	25.5	99.68%
#7	2/13/14	1499	25	99.57%
#8	0/13/11	1498	25.5	99.55%
#9	0/8/15	1496	25.5	99.53%
#10	1/14/14	1493	25	99.42%

A 15/15/15 ranks #1223 of 4,096, with 95.98% of the best stat product.

Great League Rankings on PvPoke

Ultra League

2500 CP Cap

Best IVs8/15/152492 CP at level 50.5

Rank	IVs	CP	Level	% of Best
#1	8/15/15	2492	50.5	100.00%
#2	7/15/15	2492	51	99.99%
#3	8/13/15	2496	51	99.67%
#4	9/13/15	2496	50.5	99.67%
#5	8/14/15	2487	50.5	99.54%
#6	7/14/15	2487	51	99.54%
#7	8/14/14	2495	51	99.53%
#8	9/14/14	2495	50.5	99.52%
#9	9/14/12	2497	51	99.50%
#10	6/15/15	2477	51	99.40%

A 15/15/15 ranks #376 of 4,096, with 97.44% of the best stat product.

Ultra League Rankings on PvPoke

Ranked by stat product at the highest level under the CP cap.

Trades and research have at least 10 in each IV, lucky trades 12. Check your own. This ranks IVs only. For the meta, see PvPoke.

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Forretress #0205

Type Effectiveness

Base Stats

Best Movesets

Moves

Fast Moves

Charged Moves

Fast Moves

Charged Moves

Evolution Family

Top Counters

Worth Powering Up?

CP by Level

Dex Details

PvP IV Spreads

Great League

Ultra League