Best Forretress counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Forretress counters in Pokémon GO with their Fast Attacks, Charged Attacks, DPS (damage per second), TDO (total damage output), faints, TTW (time to win), and score. The list is sorted by the score, which is calculated based on the DPS and TDO.

Simulation settings

Weather

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Raid Difficulty

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

Attacker typing

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Best overall 👑

Mega Y Charizard

Fire Spin Blast Burn *

Best performing move types

• 73.5%
• 4.0%
• 3.0%
• 3.0%
• 3.0%
• 3.0%
• 2.5%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	54.63	2355.51	1	72.0s	117.0
2	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	57.13	1875.65	1	70.7s	115.7
3	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	48.74	1865.82	1	81.6s	101.9
4	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	49.17	1723.11	2	81.6s	100.9
5	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	52.04	1234.92	2	80.8s	98.6
6	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	47.66	1680.52	2	84.1s	97.9
7	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	48.10	1558.14	2	84.1s	97.1
8	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	47.66	1454.00	2	85.4s	95.1
9	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	43.29	2030.14	1	90.2s	94.3
10	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	48.12	1170.22	3	87.1s	91.7
11	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	45.54	1365.47	2	89.6s	90.5
12	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	47.17	1166.53	3	88.7s	90.2
13	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	39.28	2303.40	1	97.9s	89.6
14	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	43.17	1577.33	2	92.5s	89.4
15	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	39.54	2127.55	1	97.8s	88.6
16	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	42.93	1518.21	2	93.3s	88.3
17	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	42.55	1489.78	2	94.3s	87.3
18	Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	40.98	1703.62	2	96.3s	87.1
19	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	44.70	1132.13	3	93.3s	85.9
20	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	44.70	1132.13	3	93.3s	85.9
21	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	44.31	1167.30	3	93.6s	85.8
22	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	44.67	1071.63	3	94.0s	84.8
23	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	43.37	1169.34	3	95.3s	84.4
24	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	42.92	1211.85	2	95.8s	84.3
25	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	40.02	1541.74	2	99.3s	83.7
26	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	40.87	1322.80	2	99.0s	82.5
27	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	39.44	1427.94	2	101.4s	81.5
28	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	36.05	1998.70	1	107.1s	81.3
29	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	40.97	1200.84	2	99.9s	81.1
30	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	44.11	856.13	4	98.4s	80.2
31	Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	39.73	1149.13	3	103.1s	78.4
32	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	39.79	1067.49	3	104.0s	77.3
33	Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	38.93	1144.83	3	105.1s	77.1
34	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	36.18	1423.92	2	109.6s	76.0
35	Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	35.52	1475.83	2	111.1s	75.5
36	Incineroar	Fire Fang	Blaze Kick	36.76	1187.05	3	110.1s	74.2
37	Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	36.70	1150.13	3	110.6s	73.6
38	Pyroar (Female)	Fire Fang	Overheat	37.48	1035.77	3	109.9s	73.3
39	Pyroar	Fire Fang	Overheat	37.48	1035.77	3	109.9s	73.3
40	Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	37.01	1056.11	3	110.9s	72.8
41	Solgaleo	Fire Spin	Flamethrower	33.33	1580.89	2	117.1s	72.8
42	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Flamethrower	36.94	1049.11	3	111.2s	72.6
43	Hisuian Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	38.30	891.33	4	110.1s	72.3
44	Shadow Rapidash	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	37.42	773.56	4	114.8s	69.0
45	Mega Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Fire Punch	35.47	942.72	3	116.8s	68.8
46	Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	36.49	843.72	4	115.7s	68.8
47	Shadow Ninetales	Fire Spin	Weather Ball	35.59	913.05	3	116.9s	68.5
48	Shadow Magmar	Ember	Flamethrower	36.85	728.80	4	117.5s	67.3
49	Skeledirge	Incinerate	Flamethrower	32.12	1233.92	2	123.8s	67.2
50	Heatmor	Fire Spin	Flamethrower	32.99	797.68	4	127.2s	62.8

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Forretress type chart

When fighting Forretress, keep in mind the following that Bug and Steel-type Pokémon are weak to Fire type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Steel, Grass, and Poison type moves.

Weaknesses

Fire	256.0%

Resistances

Grass	39.1%
Poison	39.1%
Bug	62.5%
Dragon	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Ice	62.5%
Normal	62.5%
Psychic	62.5%
Steel	62.5%

Type chart shows the percentage (%) of damage taken from an incoming attack of a particular type.

About the results

Our guide provides detailed information on recommended Pokémon and moves that are most effective against Forretress in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Forretress down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Forretress counter is Mega Y Charizard, followed by Mega Blaziken, Reshiram, and Shadow Moltres. The table also includes Shadow Blaziken, Mega X Charizard, Shadow Entei, and Shadow Charizard, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Forretress are:

About our ranking methodology

When calculating the best counters for any Pokémon, our simulator takes into account various factors, such as the defender's typing and average DPS against each attacker, the weather's influence, energy left over from using charge moves, Shadow Pokémon attack and defense stat changes, and more. During the initial phase of simulations, we calculate DPS and TDO for each attacker that is currently available in the game, and then we continue to rank them.

We use a ranking method developed by a Reddit user named /u/Elastic_Space, which is described in detail in this Reddit post. It is a fairly complicated, but very well thought-out mathematical model for predicting simulation results without actually running the simulations. It also correlates with field data almost too well not to be used.

Our Time to Win (TTW) and Faint numbers are also estimated, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Since we do not account for factors like Friendship and Mega damage boost, they will differ from actual experience in the field.