peng
hivemind leader
Nobody uses Earthquake Forretress.
IMO Magnezone and Gothitelle can't really be compared. Although there is some overlap between what they trap, Gothitelle's Psychic STAB is far weaker than Magnezone's Thunderbolt and as such is much easier to set-up on after it gets a KO. It will often rely on 4x super effective hits to get a bunch of its KOs too (think HP Ice / HP Fire / Signal Beam etc), which again, are incredibly easy to set-up on. Gothitelle has a much harder time running a non-choiced set since it really needs either the power of Choice Specs or the speed of Choice Scarf to beat most of the Pokemon you want it to without being taken out itself in the process. Gothitelle is also incredibly hard-pressed to beat Ferrothorn in Rain (Scarf just flat-out loses), and is nowhere near as good a check to Scizor as Magnezone is, again, often losing to it in Rain.
People act as if Magnezone has no uses outside of trapping steels too. Even if your opponent's steels are Heatran and Lucario or something, Magnezone still has an insanely powerful Thunderbolt to throw around, and with Specs has very few safe switch-ins outside of Ground-types and Blissey/Chansey. Magnezone can Volt Switch on Skarmory to take it out without being set-up fodder for the next Pokemon that comes in, unlike Gothitelle.
Gothitelle is a better general trapper but if you want a reliable way of dispatching most Scizor / Ferrothorn / Forretress / Jirachi etc then Magnezone is still the way to go. Also probably should mention that Gothitelle has to rely on Hidden Power way too much to get past a bunch of the stuff every claims it traps, for example it often can't beat both Gliscor and Scizor / Forretress. Its still a good mon but relying so much on Hidden Power means its nowhere near the catch-all trapper everyone makes it out to be.
IMO Magnezone and Gothitelle can't really be compared. Although there is some overlap between what they trap, Gothitelle's Psychic STAB is far weaker than Magnezone's Thunderbolt and as such is much easier to set-up on after it gets a KO. It will often rely on 4x super effective hits to get a bunch of its KOs too (think HP Ice / HP Fire / Signal Beam etc), which again, are incredibly easy to set-up on. Gothitelle has a much harder time running a non-choiced set since it really needs either the power of Choice Specs or the speed of Choice Scarf to beat most of the Pokemon you want it to without being taken out itself in the process. Gothitelle is also incredibly hard-pressed to beat Ferrothorn in Rain (Scarf just flat-out loses), and is nowhere near as good a check to Scizor as Magnezone is, again, often losing to it in Rain.
People act as if Magnezone has no uses outside of trapping steels too. Even if your opponent's steels are Heatran and Lucario or something, Magnezone still has an insanely powerful Thunderbolt to throw around, and with Specs has very few safe switch-ins outside of Ground-types and Blissey/Chansey. Magnezone can Volt Switch on Skarmory to take it out without being set-up fodder for the next Pokemon that comes in, unlike Gothitelle.
Gothitelle is a better general trapper but if you want a reliable way of dispatching most Scizor / Ferrothorn / Forretress / Jirachi etc then Magnezone is still the way to go. Also probably should mention that Gothitelle has to rely on Hidden Power way too much to get past a bunch of the stuff every claims it traps, for example it often can't beat both Gliscor and Scizor / Forretress. Its still a good mon but relying so much on Hidden Power means its nowhere near the catch-all trapper everyone makes it out to be.