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[OVERVIEW]
- With the introduction of the new dominant Fairy-type Pokemon in Gen 7, Ferrothorn's Grass/Steel typing allows it to be an anti-meta pick that beats common threats like Mega Gyarados, Tapu Lele and Mega Metagross.
- Unlike other Steel-types, Ferrothorn's Grass typing is useful for beating Ground-types like Donphan.
- Additionally, Ferrothorn's defenses are very helpful for taking strong hits like Z-Moves such as Porygon-Z's Breakneck Blitz.
- Offensively, Ferrothorn's passible Attack combined with a low speed stat allow it to use strong Gyro Balls.
- Unfortunately, that speed is often problematic, as Ferrothorn will almost never move first, and can't do much about Pokemon with Super-effective hits.
- Lastly, Ferrothorn's quad weakness to Fire allows it to have tough matchups against Pokemon like both Mega Charizards or Heatran.
[SET]
name: Specially Defensive
move 1: Leech Seed
move 2: Protect
move 3: Power Whip
move 4: Gyro Ball
item: Leftovers / Occa Berry
ability: Iron Barbs
nature: Sassy
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
ivs: 0 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
- Leech Seed is Ferrothorn's best recovery, and also drains opponents health.
- Combined with Protect, it can help beat enemy Pokemon's health by avoiding taking damage every other turn while still recovering with Leech Seed.
- Additionally, Protect can help scout enemy moves, recover HP if Ferrothorn is carrying Leftovers and weaken Z-Move damage.
- Power Whip is Ferrothorn's most consistent STAB Move, and beats the Water and Ground Types other Steels might struggle with, like Donphan and Mega Swampert.
- Finally, Gyro Ball is Ferrothorn's Steel Type move, and has great matchup vs faster Pokemon like Porygon-Z after a Speed boost.
Set Details
========
- Leftovers is a good way for Ferrothorn to passively recover HP, especially with Leech Seed.
- A Specially Defensive EV spread improves Ferothorn's matchup vs boosting special attackers like Porygon-Z and Magearna.
- Those who run Occa Berry for threats like Hidden Power Fire Tapu Lele might want to run 76 Defense EVs with a Relaxed nature to improve the Donphan and Golem matchup, as without Leftovers Ferrothorn can struggle to live an Earthquake into Tectonic Rage.
- Iron Barbs, Ferrothorn's only useful ability, helps Ferrothorn chip down Pokemon like Zeraora who frequently use contact moves.
Usage Tips
========
- Pick Ferrothorn against Fairy, Water and Electric-types that Ferrothorn resists the STAB moves of.
- Ferrothorn should often start off a game with a Leech Seed, which makes sure it can stay alive the whole game while doing damage.
- Simiarly, if you're worried about your opponent being able to do a lot of damage while you can't OHKO back, you should use Leech Seed, and maybe Protect after if you don't think they will use Setup Moves.
- Otherwise, if Ferrothorn is in a very favorable matchup versus a Pokemon like Mega Gyarados, it can just spam Power Whip until Gyarados dies, as Ferrothorn doesn't need to worry about spending time recovering with Leech Seed.
Team Options
========
- Ferrothorn absolutely needs teammates that can handle both forms of Mega Charizard, as it is a very common and problematic Fire Type. Because of this, Pokemon like Heatran and Mega Tyranitar are good teammates because they can handle Mega Charizard X and Y.
- Additionally, Primarina resists Fighting, a type that Ferrothorn often loses to, while Ferrothorn can help vs Water-types like Mega Gyarados and Greninja.
- Mega Metagross, Mew, and Landorus are also good partners because they can patch up Ferrothorn's weakness to Fighting.
- Physically bulky Pokemon like Mew or Zygarde-C can trouble Ferrothorn, so special attackers like Greninja can be good partners.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
- Grassium Z or Steelium Z are also good item slots to have more offensive presence if you don't want to rely on Leech Seed.
- Curse is a neat option to power up Gyro Ball because it raises Ferrothorn's Attack and lowers its Speed, while also raising its Defense.
- Instead of Curse, Iron Defense can raise Ferrothorn's defense faster but without the Speed Drop and Attack raise.
- Chople Berry gives Ferrothorn a better matchup vs Fighting Types like Mega Lopunny and Sawk. Ferrothorn can use Iron Barbs combined with Gyro Ball to have a surprisingly good matchup vs Fighting-types.
- Rest is a usable option to PP Stall out other stall Pokemon like Mega Venusaur and Chansey.
- Magnet Rise can try to beat problematic Ground Types like Groundium-Z Landorus-Therian.
Checks and Counters
===================
**Fire Type Pokemon and coverage**: Pokemon like Mega Charizard are the bane of Ferrothorn's existance, as they can OHKO Ferrothorn. Additionally, Fire type coverage like Hidden Power on Pokemon like Magearna or Fire Punch on Golem will almost always win.
**Fighting Types: Even if it holds a Chople Berry, Ferrothorn will struggle against strong Fighting Types like Sawk, Mega Heracross and Terrakion.
**Substitute Users: Pokemon like Landorus-Therian can use Substitute on Ferrothorn's Leech Seed and use that opportunity to setup with moves like Bulk Up or Swords Dance.
**Physically defensive walls**: Physically defensive Pokemon, especially ones that set up or spread status like burn like Mew or Mega Sableye, can outstall Ferrothorn.
**Setup Attackers**: Ferrothorn sometimes can't do much vs Setup Pokemon like Swords Dance Garchomp and Metal Sound Aegislash, and can faint to a strong Z-move.
- Written by: [[dom, 280380]] - Quality checked by: [[TDA, 276708], [<Chickenpie2>, <305552>], [<username3>, <userid3>]] - Grammar checked by: [[<username1>, <userid1>], [<username2>, <userid2>]]
- With the introduction of the new dominant Fairy-type Pokemon in Gen 7, Ferrothorn's Grass/Steel typing allows it to be an anti-meta pick that beats common threats like Mega Gyarados, Tapu Lele and Mega Metagross.
- Unlike other Steel-types, Ferrothorn's Grass typing is useful for beating Ground-types like Donphan.
- Additionally, Ferrothorn's defenses are very helpful for taking strong hits like Z-Moves such as Porygon-Z's Breakneck Blitz.
- Offensively, Ferrothorn's passible Attack combined with a low speed stat allow it to use strong Gyro Balls.
- Unfortunately, that speed is often problematic, as Ferrothorn will almost never move first, and can't do much about Pokemon with Super-effective hits.
- Lastly, Ferrothorn's quad weakness to Fire allows it to have tough matchups against Pokemon like both Mega Charizards or Heatran.
[SET]
name: Specially Defensive
move 1: Leech Seed
move 2: Protect
move 3: Power Whip
move 4: Gyro Ball
item: Leftovers / Occa Berry
ability: Iron Barbs
nature: Sassy
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
ivs: 0 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
- Leech Seed is Ferrothorn's best recovery, and also drains opponents health.
- Combined with Protect, it can help beat enemy Pokemon's health by avoiding taking damage every other turn while still recovering with Leech Seed.
- Additionally, Protect can help scout enemy moves, recover HP if Ferrothorn is carrying Leftovers and weaken Z-Move damage.
- Power Whip is Ferrothorn's most consistent STAB Move, and beats the Water and Ground Types other Steels might struggle with, like Donphan and Mega Swampert.
- Finally, Gyro Ball is Ferrothorn's Steel Type move, and has great matchup vs faster Pokemon like Porygon-Z after a Speed boost.
Set Details
========
- Leftovers is a good way for Ferrothorn to passively recover HP, especially with Leech Seed.
- A Specially Defensive EV spread improves Ferothorn's matchup vs boosting special attackers like Porygon-Z and Magearna.
- Those who run Occa Berry for threats like Hidden Power Fire Tapu Lele might want to run 76 Defense EVs with a Relaxed nature to improve the Donphan and Golem matchup, as without Leftovers Ferrothorn can struggle to live an Earthquake into Tectonic Rage.
- Iron Barbs, Ferrothorn's only useful ability, helps Ferrothorn chip down Pokemon like Zeraora who frequently use contact moves.
Usage Tips
========
- Pick Ferrothorn against Fairy, Water and Electric-types that Ferrothorn resists the STAB moves of.
- Ferrothorn should often start off a game with a Leech Seed, which makes sure it can stay alive the whole game while doing damage.
- Simiarly, if you're worried about your opponent being able to do a lot of damage while you can't OHKO back, you should use Leech Seed, and maybe Protect after if you don't think they will use Setup Moves.
- Otherwise, if Ferrothorn is in a very favorable matchup versus a Pokemon like Mega Gyarados, it can just spam Power Whip until Gyarados dies, as Ferrothorn doesn't need to worry about spending time recovering with Leech Seed.
Team Options
========
- Ferrothorn absolutely needs teammates that can handle both forms of Mega Charizard, as it is a very common and problematic Fire Type. Because of this, Pokemon like Heatran and Mega Tyranitar are good teammates because they can handle Mega Charizard X and Y.
- Additionally, Primarina resists Fighting, a type that Ferrothorn often loses to, while Ferrothorn can help vs Water-types like Mega Gyarados and Greninja.
- Mega Metagross, Mew, and Landorus are also good partners because they can patch up Ferrothorn's weakness to Fighting.
- Physically bulky Pokemon like Mew or Zygarde-C can trouble Ferrothorn, so special attackers like Greninja can be good partners.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
- Grassium Z or Steelium Z are also good item slots to have more offensive presence if you don't want to rely on Leech Seed.
- Curse is a neat option to power up Gyro Ball because it raises Ferrothorn's Attack and lowers its Speed, while also raising its Defense.
- Instead of Curse, Iron Defense can raise Ferrothorn's defense faster but without the Speed Drop and Attack raise.
- Chople Berry gives Ferrothorn a better matchup vs Fighting Types like Mega Lopunny and Sawk. Ferrothorn can use Iron Barbs combined with Gyro Ball to have a surprisingly good matchup vs Fighting-types.
- Rest is a usable option to PP Stall out other stall Pokemon like Mega Venusaur and Chansey.
- Magnet Rise can try to beat problematic Ground Types like Groundium-Z Landorus-Therian.
Checks and Counters
===================
**Fire Type Pokemon and coverage**: Pokemon like Mega Charizard are the bane of Ferrothorn's existance, as they can OHKO Ferrothorn. Additionally, Fire type coverage like Hidden Power on Pokemon like Magearna or Fire Punch on Golem will almost always win.
**Fighting Types: Even if it holds a Chople Berry, Ferrothorn will struggle against strong Fighting Types like Sawk, Mega Heracross and Terrakion.
**Substitute Users: Pokemon like Landorus-Therian can use Substitute on Ferrothorn's Leech Seed and use that opportunity to setup with moves like Bulk Up or Swords Dance.
**Physically defensive walls**: Physically defensive Pokemon, especially ones that set up or spread status like burn like Mew or Mega Sableye, can outstall Ferrothorn.
**Setup Attackers**: Ferrothorn sometimes can't do much vs Setup Pokemon like Swords Dance Garchomp and Metal Sound Aegislash, and can faint to a strong Z-move.
- Written by: [[dom, 280380]] - Quality checked by: [[TDA, 276708], [<Chickenpie2>, <305552>], [<username3>, <userid3>]] - Grammar checked by: [[<username1>, <userid1>], [<username2>, <userid2>]]
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