Forretress

Forretress is generally outclassed by the majority of Pokemon in the tier, though it can leverage its great physical bulk and diverse movepool to carve out a niche on certain team structures. It is incredibly flexible as an entry hazard setter, capable of running Spikes, Stealth Rock, and Toxic Spikes as needed for its team, sometimes using several of these on the same set. With access to Volt Switch, Forretress functions nicely as a slow pivot for teams relying on wallbreakers that can struggle to hit the field consistently, providing safe entry points for teammates like Gengar and Breloom. While Forretress is a capable spinner for teams that want reliable hazard removal, it competes with a staple Pokemon, Cyclizar, which is one of the few Pokemon that can offer more utility than it. However, Forretress can compress both the removal and setter roles into one teamslot, freeing up its teammates at the cost of being a generally inferior Pokemon. This role compression has allowed Forretress to find usage on weather teams and offensive structures that want to stack as many hazards as possible to enable their offensive pieces, notably Basculegion-F, to clean games consistently.