Forretress or Ferrothorn?
Cant Really Pick On Which One I Want For a Tank.
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The other answers were good but I want to go into more detail.
FerrothornFirst off I’m going to say both are not ment to be tanks but walls but with the right movest ferrothorn can tank where as forrtress cant.base 133def and 116spdef isnt bad at all and it can do pretty well with a sassy nature.It has access to a good movepool and entery hazards such as spikes and more commonly used stealth rock.Stealth rock is a good idea to have on both forretress and ferrothorn as it does at least a quatre of nearly all fire types hp.It also has a 2x weakness to fight and ground which can be covered with high powered stab power whip.You may have more problems with fighting types but with its amazing ability iron barbs they can loose a good amount of hp when attacking you seen as nearly all fighting moves involve contact.You can go one step further and give it the rocky helmet with that any Pokemon making contact with him will loose 1/4 of there hp, that paired up with stealth rock and possibly spikes =at least 1/2 there hp gone before youve even attacked.Obviously you dont need to use entery hazards or even give it rocky helmet, leftovers is also a great item to hold.Ferrothorn is by far the most popular but each Pokemon work well in there own tiers.It has a decent atk to add to his good defs as well as decent hp.This goes great with its terrible speed as you can use its base 20speed to its advantage.With no ivs or evs at lv 100 with sassy nature its speed is 40.With that speed the only thing it will be out running is shuckle which it doesnt meet in its tier.Running curse is a great idea seen as its speed cant get much lower but at the same time your raising its atk and def.This makes him even bulkier but also gives it a chance to do a lot of damage with moves like power whip or two moves that go great with its terrible speed, Gyro ball and payback.There are many differant sets you can run for ferrothorn, walling sets ,tanking sets and stalling sets of those forretress can only pull off one.To add to its walling capabilitys it gets leech seed and has avalability to good stalling moves like toxic or thunder wave and protect.But its worth considering putting more evs in its hp and spdef or atk seen as its def is already great and contact moves will backfire with iron barbs.Its also worth considering the move explosion because if your about to die you may as well die in style as well as damage or most defintly kill the oponent in the process.There is a reason that its in smogon ubers as well as ou.I think we have enougth here.hereis a good link to some movests that may have not been mentioned in black empoleons.
So overallIf you want a tank :ferrothornIf you want a good wall :ferrothornIf you want a staller :ferrothornand finally if you want an entery hazard guy :forretress
Walls need high defenses and preferably decent HP so they can survive long.
Ferrothornhas great Sp.Def and Defence and if you train the Ev’s in Hp it can be a very good wall.It has a great movepool but Forretress has bigger with the move Tutors.Hereyou can see movesets which are very good.It has weakness to Fire 4x and in Fighting types.
Forretresshas a great Defence and Hp but very Sp.Def .Forretres has one weakness to fire 4x because it is a Bug Steel type but he can cover it with the power of Earthquake.Hereare the movesets .
Both can survive long in battles and have some great moves to choose.I’ll go with Ferrothorn because it can take hits and has great defences.
On personal experience I would go for Ferrothorn.Here is the moveset mine has:WillFerrel (Ferrothorn) @ Rocky HelmetTrait: Iron BarbsEVs: 252 Atk, 252 Sp.Def, 6 Def.MOVES:Gyro Ball (Slow speed)Power Whip (Powerful)Payback (Super Slow)Swords Dance ( Raise Attack)
Even I would go with ferrothorn
Here is the moveset mine has:
1]Iron defense2]Iron head3]Power whip4]Hone claws
Sorry for my previous answer. As it turns out, 1) Entry Hazards ROCK in wifi, BR, and Colluseum.2) Even an idiot would know to have some thing good against fire (I have Golem) to cover the 4x weakness. And 3) Looking past the 4x weakness, they’re pretty good. If You want a Physical tank, Ferrothorn is PERFECT, due to Its high Def. and Iron Barbs. It’ll also take out pokemon easily with gyro ball(look up its speed) and annoy the opponent with Ingrain. Here’s a tip: EXPLOSION’S HORRIBLE ON ANY POKEMON! Now forretress… Make sure the first attack is a good one. It’s a Tank because of Def. and Sturdy. That’s pretty good, but what if you were facing against Chandelure or Victini or some fire type with a high sp. atk.? For both forretress and ferrothorn: PWN! Forretress is good for toxic spikes, but in wi fi, I’m sure many people know how good. so anyway, it all depends on what you’re specifically looking for (just TANK is not enough). Even I’m torn in this decision. Sorry if this answer is bad, too short, or wrong. I’m so bad, In Platinum, 3 of my pokemon were evolved by a friend (thanks for the weavile, Yanmega, and Togekiss). Hide it if you want.
