Forretress

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Forretress Bagworm Pokémon フォレトス Foretos #205 Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Bug Steel
Abilities Sturdy Overcoat Hidden Ability
Gender ratio     50% male, 50% female	Catch rate 75 (9.8%)
Breeding Egg Group Bug Hatch time 5397 - 5653 steps
Height 3'11″ 1.2 m	Weight 277.3 lbs. 125.8 kg
Regional numbers Pokédex #094 Johto Browser R-111 Almia R-191/N-031 Oblivia
Base experience yield 118 Gen. II-IV 163 V+	Leveling rate Medium Fast
EV yield Total: 2 0 HP 0 Atk 2 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Body style	Footprint
Pokédex color   Purple	Base friendship 70
External Links Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Forretress (Japanese: フォレトス Foretos) is a dual-type Bug/Steel Pokémon introduced in Generation II.

It evolves from Pineco starting at level 31.

Biology

Forretress is a large, spherical Pokémon with no visible limbs. The upper and lower halves of its body are capped by bumpy steel plates. The outer plates have zigzagging ridges that open along its back and front, revealing its smooth, red inner shell. The inner shell is punctuated by four cylindrical spikes, each tapering to an open point. Between the spikes, the inner shell opens along a straight line to reveal Forretress's eyes, which are round with large pupils. Whatever else lies inside its shell is unknown.

Forretress can defend itself from enemies by shooting out pieces of its outer shell. It opens its shell to capture prey, but does so quickly that its interior body cannot be seen. It lives in forests, attaching itself immovably to tree trunks.

In the anime

 

Forretress in the anime

Major appearances

Brock's Forretress

Brock's Pineco evolved into Forretress in Entei at Your Own Risk in order to save a bunch of Pokémon at a hot spring from Team Rocket. When Brock went to Hoenn, the only Pokémon he brought with him was his Forretress.

Minor appearances

A Forretress appeared in Win, Lose or Drew! as a Pokémon in the Contest.

Another one appeared in Steeling Peace of Mind!. It was one of the many Steel-type Pokémon seen going crazy on Iron Island.

Pokédex entries

In the manga

 

Forretress in Pokémon Adventures

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Forretress first appeared in Forretress of Solitude, where Red had to fight two to pass his aptitude test to be Viridian City's Gym Leader.

Another Forretress was seen in Crossing Crobat, under the ownership of Janine. She used it to escape from the security guards with its Spikesafter she tried to steal a Big Pearl from the Goldenrod Museum as a security test.

In The Last Battle XIII a Forretress was one of the Pokémon sent to help the fight in Ilex Forest.

Carr has many Forretress, with which he often orders an Explosion attack to destroy the surroundings. Near the end of the FireRed & LeafGreen chapter, he has 10 of them nearly detonate the Team Rocket airship after realizing that Giovanni had planned to use the Three Beasts as pawns to reunite with his son.

In the TCG

Main article: Forretress (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Stats

Base stats

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/HM

Generation VII Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM06 Toxic Poison Status — 90% 10 TM09 Venoshock Poison Special 65 100% 10 TM10 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100% 15 TM11 Sunny Day Fire Status — —% 5 TM15 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 90% 5 TM16 Light Screen Psychic Status — —% 30 TM17 Protect Normal Status — —% 10 TM21 Frustration Normal Physical — 100% 20 TM22 Solar Beam Grass Special 120 100% 10 TM26 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100% 10 TM27 Return Normal Physical — 100% 20 TM32 Double Team Normal Status — —% 15 TM33 Reflect Psychic Status — —% 20 TM37 Sandstorm Rock Status — —% 10 TM39 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 60 95% 15 TM42 Facade Normal Physical 70 100% 20 TM44 Rest Psychic Status — —% 10 TM45 Attract Normal Status — 100% 15 TM48 Round Normal Special 60 100% 15 TM64 Explosion Normal Physical 250 100% 5 TM66 Payback Dark Physical 50 100% 10 TM68 Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90% 5 TM69 Rock Polish Rock Status — —% 20 TM72 Volt Switch Electric Special 70 100% 20 TM74 Gyro Ball Steel Physical — 100% 5 TM78 Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100% 20 TM80 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90% 10 TM87 Swagger Normal Status — 85% 15 TM88 Sleep Talk Normal Status — —% 10 TM90 Substitute Normal Status — —% 10 TM91 Flash Cannon Steel Special 80 100% 10 TM100 Confide Normal Status — —% 20

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Forretress Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Forretress Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations

By breeding

Generation VII Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI

Parent   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  Counter Fighting Physical — 100% 20 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100% 15 Endure Normal Status — —% 10 Flail Normal Physical — 100% 15 Pin Missile Bug Physical 25 95% 20 Power Trick Psychic Status — —% 10 Revenge Fighting Physical 60 100% 10 Sand Tomb Ground Physical 35 85% 15 Stealth Rock Rock Status — —% 20 Swift Normal Special 60 —% 20 Toxic Spikes Poison Status — —% 20

Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Forretress in Generation VII Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation. Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Forretress in that game. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Forretress Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Forretress Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations

By tutoring

By a prior evolution

Side game data

Pokémon Trozei! Rarity: Rare
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team Body size: 1 Recruit rate: Evolve Friend Area: Secretive Forest Phrases 51%-100% HP What goes on inside my shell is a secret! 26%-50% HP Now, this isn't pretty. I'm seeing my health down halfway. 1%-25% HP I'm about done... Haven't got any power left to give... Level up Say, now, I leveled up! My shell's grown thicker, too!
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky Body size: 1 Recruit rate: 0.5% IQ group: E
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia Group: Steel Poké Assist: Steel Field move: (Crush ×2) Browser entry It flings gooey blobs. Beware: it may explode.
Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Group: Steel Poké Assist: (present) Normal Field move: (present) (Tackle ×3) Poké Assist: (past) Normal Field move: (past) (Tackle ×1) Browser entry It causes explosions around itself.
Pokémon Rumble Blast Attack ●●● Defense ●●●● Speed ●●●
Pokémon Conquest HP: ★★★ Move: Gyro Ball Attack: ★★★ Ability 1: Sturdy Ability 2: Jagged Edge Ability 3: Explode Defense: ★★★★ Speed: ★★ Evolves from Pineco when its Defense is 73 or higher Range: 3 Perfect Links: Kame, Ujizane, and Yoshimoto
Pokémon Battle Trozei Bug Attack Power: ★★★★★			Pokémon Shuffle Bug Attack Power: 60 - 80  0 #492 Rock Break+ Sometimes destroys three breakable-rock disruptions.

Evolution

Unevolved Pineco  Bug

Level 31 →

First evolution Forretress  Bug  Steel

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II.
Generation II   Gold   Silver   Crystal         Front Back   Front Back   Front Back
Generation III   Ruby Sapphire   Emerald   FireRed LeafGreen         Front Back   Front Back   Front Back
Generation IV   Diamond Pearl   Platinum   HeartGold SoulSilver         Front Back   Front Back   Front Back
Generation V   Black White   Black 2 White 2     Front Back   Front Back
Generation VI   X Y   Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire     Front Back   Front Back

 For other sprites and images, please see Forretress images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Forretress and its pre-evolution share their category with Burmy and Wormadam. They are all known as the Bagworm Pokémon.
• Forretress is the first original Steel Pokémon in the National Pokédex, as Magnemite and its evolution were not Steel types in Generation I.
• Forretress's Crystal still sprite is different from that of Gold and Silver, making it one of few Pokémon to have three distinctly different sprites in Generation II.
• In Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs, its Poké Assist is shown to be Steel in the capture screen, but turns out to be Normal after the capture.

Origin

Forretress is based on a bagworm, possibly one inhabiting a discarded shell of a horse chestnut or a walnut. Because of its "shell", and the fact its spikes resemble cannons, it may have been based on a giant clam or other mussels and shellfish with functioning nozzles.

Name origin

Forretress and Foretos are a combination of forest and fortress. It may also contain turret, referring to the nozzles on its body that it uses to launch Spikes, and/or ferrous, from the Latin for iron/steel, referring to the steel quality of the shell.

In other languages

Language Title Meaning  Japanese フォレトス Foretos From forest, turret, and fortress  French Foretress Similar to English name  Spanish Forretress Same as English name  German Forstellka From Forst and Kastell  Italian Forretress Same as English name  Korean 쏘콘 Ssokon From 쏘다 ssoda and pine cone. May involve 소나무 sonamoo.  Cantonese Chinese      Mandarin Chinese 佛烈托斯 Fúliètuōsī* 佛烈託斯 Fúliètuōsī* Transliteration of its Japanese name

[hide]More languages  Hindi फोरेट्रेस Forretress Transcription of English name  Russian Форретресс Forretress Transcription of English name

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