Brock's Forretress

Brock's Forretress タケシのフォレトス Takeshi's Foretos

Brock's Forretress

Debuts in Going Apricorn! Caught at Azalea Town Evolves in Entei at Your Own Risk Gender Unknown* Ability Unknown Current location With Brock

→ This Pokémon spent 116 episodes as Pineco.

Voice actor Japanese English As Pineco Unshō Ishizuka Eric Stuart As Forretress Unshō Ishizuka Eric Stuart (EP259-EP273, AG008-AG138) Unshō Ishizuka (AG004, AG156-present)

Brock's Forretress (Japanese: タケシのフォレトス Takeshi's Foretos) was the only Pokémon that Brock caught in the Johto region, and his fifth overall.

In the anime

History

Original series

As a Pineco, in its debut

In Going Apricorn!, Brock caught Forretress as a Pineco near Azalea Town. Having earlier expressed that Pineco's violently unstable temper and tendency to explode was both cool and a true challenge for a Pokémon Breeder, Brock attempted to catch one. However, he tripped on a rock and headbutted the tree, frightening the Pineco so much that they all exploded. Brock got his chance later, when Team Rocket was attempting to steal all of the Apricorns. The giant fan ended up blowing all of the Pineco out instead, and Brock managed to catch one in his arms before it hit the ground. However, the Pineco pried itself free and attacked Team Rocket, tackling the trio off their machine. It engaged in a battle against Jessie's Arbok alone, but could not match the powerful snake and began to flee. Maizie told Brock that he could capture the Pineco in the Fast Ball, which he did just as Arbok tackled, causing Arbok to crash into its Trainer. Once Pikachu drove Team Rocket away, Brock sent out Pineco and promised that they would be good friends. Pineco enthusiastically used Self-Destruct on its new friend.

In Ariados, Amigos, Brock volunteered Pineco and himself as a duo to train under Aya at the Pokémon Jujitsu Academy. However, Pineco was so startled by Brock's enthusiasm that it exploded in Brock's arms. Brock and Pineco later stunned everyone at the Technical class with Pineco's superb Spikes attack. Both were very happy to hear that they were in such perfect sync, and Pineco promptly exploded again.

Pineco and Golbat taking care of Brock

In Sick Daze, Pineco and Golbat watched over Brock when he fell ill. It also helped rescue all of the stolen Pokémon by attacking Arbok and Weezing, again with Golbat.

Pineco evolving and causing an explosion

In Entei at Your Own Risk, Pineco enjoyed a hot spring. However, it was not as quick as Misty's Staryu when Team Rocket tried to suck up all of the wild Pokémon, so it was sucked up in a typhoon of water. Brock jumped after it, and he caught his Pokémon until a wild Ursaring crashed into him and knocked them apart. Upset by this, Pineco evolved into Forretress to save Brock. Its evolution induced a large explosion which nullified Team Rocket's suction and allowed Brock and all of the Pokémon to escape. In the next episode, it prevented Team Rocket from stealing a King's Rock by using its newly-learned Rapid Spin to trip them up and delay them long enough for Pikachu to get rid of them with Thunderbolt.

In Gotta Catch Ya Later!, Forretress defeated the Hitmonlee belonging to Kail of the Invincible Pokémon Brothers with Rapid Spin.

Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

Hoenn

In You Never Can Taillow, Forretress came to the rescue of Ash and his new friends, May and Max, sent out by Brock to use its newly-learned Explosion to drive away a mass of attacking Taillow. He also revealed that Forretress was the only Pokémon he had brought with him to Hoenn, having left his other Pokémon with his brother Forrest.

Forretress was seen quite regularly during the early Hoenn episodes, along with Torchic and Pikachu. However, it was rarely used as Brock's battling Pokémon once he acquired Ludicolo and Marshtomp. He would send it out to use its Rapid Spin or Spikes to drive away hostile Pokémon or Team Rocket. It was used to battle James's Cacnea in Cheer Pressure, but was defeated when the cheer squad, led by Sheridan, cheated by having his Shroomish and Makuhita use Helping Hand on Cacnea.

Forretress and Brock

In Going for a Spinda, Brock used Forretress's Explosion to damage Team Rocket's mecha and save Claire's Spinda.

In Where's Armaldo?, Forretress was used in an attempt to talk down a restless Armaldo, but failed.

Kanto Battle Frontier

Brock kept Forretress in his team during the Battle Frontier saga.

In From Cradle to Save, Forretress battled a wild Bonsly. Its Rapid Spin knocked Bonsly out temporarily, but this was not enough to catch Bonsly. However, once Bonsly got up, he ran into the Spikes that Forretress had fired while Bonsly was disoriented, knocking him down again and this time allowing Brock to catch him.

Forretress was last used by Brock in Going for Choke!. It used Rapid Spin to free the group from a Team Rocket pitfall, allowing them to stop Harley from interfering with May's Contest performance.

Forretress was left at the Pewter Gym when Brock headed to Sinnoh.

Personality and characteristics

As a Pineco, it was very temperamental and tended to blow itself up and Brock along with it whenever it got startled, angry, or even happy. It was shown to be caring and helpful when it took care of Brock along with Brock's Crobat in Sick Daze. After it evolved into Forretress, it seemed to like Brock even more, and began to act more loyally, no longer blowing itself up in Brock's face.

Moves used

Using Spikes as a Pineco	Move First Used In Self-Destruct Going Apricorn! Spikes † Ariados, Amigos Rapid Spin † A Crowning Achievement Explosion † You Never Can Taillow Tackle † A Bite to Remember
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Moves improvised

Picture	First Used In	Moves Involved	Partnered With
	Gotta Catch Ya Later!	Thunderbolt, Water Gun, and Rapid Spin	Ash's Pikachu and Misty's Politoed
	Description: Forretress combines its Rapid Spin with Pikachu's Thunderbolt and Politoed's Water Gun, creating a tornado of water and electricity. This was used to send Team Rocket and the Invincible Pokémon Brothers blasting off.

Artwork

Official artwork from Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire	Official artwork from Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

In the games

In the Stadium series

Brock's Forretress only appears during the Pokémon Stadium 2 Round 1 battle against him.

Pokémon Stadium 2
Round 1
Types: Bug Steel Held item: Mint Berry Forretress♀ Lv.50-100 Rollout Rock   --       Take Down Normal   --       Giga Drain Grass   --       Defense Curl Normal   --

In the spin-off games

Pokémon Advanced Generation: Pokémon Number Battle!

Forretress appears in Pokémon Advanced Generation: Pokémon Number Battle!.

Pokémon: Catch the Numbers!

Forretress appears in Pokémon: Catch the Numbers! as one of the Pokémon the player needs to get back from Team Rocket.

In the TCG

Forretress was featured in the TCG as one of Brock's Pokémon. The following is a list of cards named Brock's Forretress.

Brock's Forretress Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Brock's Forretress					Movie Commemoration VS Pack: Aura's Lucario		011/020

Trivia

• At the time, before it was left in Pewter City when he left for Sinnoh, Forretress had been in Brock's party longer than any other main character's Pokémon, except for Pikachu, at 323 episodes. This record was matched and subsequently broken three episodes later by Jessie's Wobbuffet.
  • It does have the record for being in a main character's party longest of all Pokémon that have been known to evolve during the anime.
• Forretress is the first Steel-type Pokémon to be owned by a main character.
• Forretress is Brock's only Pokémon to be kept inside a Poké Ball variant.
  • Forretress is also the first Pokémon belonging to a main character to be permanently kept inside a Poké Ball variant.
• Out of all the Pokémon that were obtained and evolved during the Johto arc of the Original series, Pineco took the longest to evolve, at 116 episodes.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Pineco and Forretress.

Brock's Pokémon
On hand:	Steelix	Forretress	Ludicolo	Marshtomp	Croagunk	Blissey
At Pewter Gym / Home:	Geodude	Crobat	Sudowoodo	Comfey
Returned:	Vulpix
Caught for someone else:	Tauros
Temporary:	Hoothoot	Totodile	Ninetales	Shiftry	Staravia	Torterra
	Aipom	Magnemite	Onix	Feraligatr
Befriended:	Uxie
Ride Pokémon:	Charizard
Adventures only:	Kabutops	Graveler
Electric Tale only:	Golem	Vileplume
Pocket Monsters only:	Pikachu

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