Is it worth covering a Fire-weakness with Ferrothorn?

With Ferrothorn being a defensive wall, this means that 1) it’s special defense is it’s biggest weakness, and 2) covering a weakness seems pointless due to low speed and average (at best) attack. Moreover, it doesn’t seem to have many attacks that could even cover a fire weakness, bulldoze and rollout being its only options. Not only that but most fire-type moves are special attacks anyway. In which case, should I even bother? What should I do if I’m up against a fire-type?

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you can make it hold an occa berry to protect it from a fire move, give it sandstorm or bulldoze (learned by TM) and you might as well teach it rollout. thats to protect it from fire moves at least. to pretect is normally teach it harden by level up (learns at lvl 1) and iron defense. (lvl 26) since ferrothorn has bad speed teach it gyro ball since you said fire TYPE it won’t be very effective but it has a power depending on the speed compared to the opponent so.. do that. anyways hope I helped! :D

The best thing to do if you face a fire type move would probably be to have your Ferrothorn hold an Occa berry. It halves a fire type moves damage, and you can’t get surprised if a fire type move does come your way. Of course, the downside is that it’s one-time-only, but hopefully youre able to switch out to a Pokemon better suited to take on fire types.

Hope I helped!