Forretress' Weaknesses

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Forretress is especially weak against Fire type Pokemon, they will deal 4x damage to it!

The type that is strong against Forretress is Fire type Pokemon.

For the best defense, Fire types have very effective defense against Forretress, and will be resistant to damage from Forretress' STAB attacks:

Weaknesses

Forretress' type is Bug and Steel.

Forretress is especially vulnerable to Fire attacks, it will receive a super effective four times (4x) the amount of damage! Since Fire type Pokemon are especially strong against Forretress, you should attack with this type of Pokemon.

Forretress has a weakness to Fire types. These Pokemon types will be strong against Forretress, causing Forretress to take a super effective quadruple (4x) damage from Fire type attackscausing Forretress to take a super effective double (2x) damage from attacks of those types.

Poison type attacks will have no effect on Forretress, as Forretress is immune to this type of damage! Please avoid these types of attacks.

Please keep in mind that Forretress is resistant to attacks from Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Steel, Grass types, and these attacks are not very effective and cause reduced damage, so they should be avoided.