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Author:  yaysnivy34 [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Who's the hardest gym leader?
Out of all the gym leaders, Gens I thru 5, which did you have the most trouble with? Post which leader was toughest for you, then explain what about them made them so difficult.

For me the hardest leader was probably Elesa from Unova. Her stupid Emolgas and Zebstrika kept using Volt Switch on my Specially Defensive weak team. I finally beat her when my Boldore got to level 27 and killed them with Smack Down.
Author:  Mektar [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:24 pm ]
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I don't know about the hardest, but Norman is certainly the easiest (based on how highly leveled your team is when you fight him). The Vigoroth dies quickly, and you can just spam protect, detect, dive, or dig to render his two Slaking helpless.
Author:  rex09 [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:27 pm ]
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For me, it was probably Blue in HGSS (never bothered finishing in GSC, so..). His levels are pretty high, and he has a diverse team. It took a little bit more than your average Gym to beat him, in my opinion.
Author:  yaysnivy34 [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:01 pm ]
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Mektar wrote:
I don't know about the hardest, but Norman is certainly the easiest (based on how highly leveled your team is when you fight him). The Vigoroth dies quickly, and you can just spam protect, detect, dive, or dig to render his two Slaking helpless.


Oh come on. There had to be at least one leader where you had some difficulty. There are like 40 of them!
Author:  Mektar [ Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:11 pm ]
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Well, when you restrict yourself, any leader can be hard. On one of my Ruby playthroughs for example, I beat the Elite Four (and all preceeding leaders) with nothing but a Beautifly. In that playthrough, Wattson was a Mother******. You havn't been to hell untill you try killing a Magneton with one.
Author:  ClawsonExperience [ Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:37 pm ]
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I think when I first bought Sapphire, I was really surprised how much tougher the gym leaders were than in G/S/C. Roxanne really took me by surprise. But, once I got used to them, it all became the norm again.
Author:  fifaking [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:17 am ]
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mine was whatever the normal gym in soul silver was. that miltank was from hell
Author:  yaysnivy34 [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:32 pm ]
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fifaking wrote:
mine was whatever the normal gym in soul silver was. that miltank was from hell


That would be Whitney. Miltank was soooo hard the first tme I battled it, but I got a Machop every time after, so it wasn't as hard.
Author:  fifaking [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:33 pm ]
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yea that miltank was killer. i soft reseted 12 times
Author:  sumo12345 [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:15 pm ]
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Blue in HGSS was the only gym I ever lost to. I had nothing to counter that Rhydon O_O
Author:  fifaking [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:16 am ]
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sumo12345 wrote:
Blue in HGSS was the only gym I ever lost to. I had nothing to counter that Rhydon O_O

when i played him i think i might of had some sort of water move on my pokemon
Author:  yaysnivy34 [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:25 am ]
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fifaking wrote:
sumo12345 wrote:
Blue in HGSS was the only gym I ever lost to. I had nothing to counter that Rhydon O_O

when i played him i think i might of had some sort of water move on my pokemon


I think I caught Lugia by then and I Hydro Pumped it to death. His Machamp destroyed me with Fling+Iron Ball though (Aeroblast missed...)
Author:  Mutant_Mewtwo [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:40 am ]
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I'm going to be honest, Roxanne and Brawly in R/S.

No matter how much I leveled beforehand, no matter if I was using Super Effective attacks they always gave me issues, whether it was that surprisingly bulky Nosepass or countless crit Karate Chops.
Author:  sumo12345 [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:20 pm ]
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yaysnivy34 wrote:
I think I caught Lugia by then and I Hydro Pumped it to death. His Machamp destroyed me with Fling+Iron Ball though (Aeroblast missed...)


I acidently left my Lugia in the box :P
Author:  mudkip eez awsome [ Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:56 pm ]
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i hated burgh, really hard. and clair from my hg.

elite four... i could never get past the dark chick from gsc
Author:  Captain theraven2 [ Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:34 pm ]
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Personally I think the psychic twins in emerald are hard {sceptile} + {sableye} vs {lunatone} + {xatu} + {solrock} + {claydol} = :frustrated:
Author:  dry [ Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:32 pm ]
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I'm kinda like Mektar, I've only really found gym leaders hard when I restrict myself. It took me several attempts and lots of grinding to get past Brawly with a team of Mightyena and Linoone (at that time, Poochyena and Zigzagoon). Same with Wake's Gastrodon, when I used a Bibarel and a Luxray (For challenge playthroughs, I always use Pokemon in pairs).

On a first attempt though, Wattson was probably the hardest. For his Magneton, I had to whittle down his special defense with Psychic, then switch to Grovyle to Leaf Blade him down. Managed it on my first go, but only barely, and with a critical hit. I would definitely had found Wake's Gyarados very hard to beat on my first playthrough, but somewhere round Mesprit's Lake I discovered I had TM Rock Tomb, so I taught it to Infernape and it ended up being decently easy.
Author:  yaysnivy34 [ Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:10 pm ]
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Thanks for all the responses! Now you can post both which Elite 4 and Gym leader was hardest.

My toughest Elite 4 was probably Phoebe from Ruby/Sapphire. All her pokemon had insane defense and coverage moves so it took me forever to beat her.
Author:  Gallade Roxas [ Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:36 pm ]
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Juan in Emerald was pretty hard.

I also had a hard time with Marshal in B/W.
Author:  dry [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:47 am ]
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Well Emerald was easy cuz I had Sceptile and Gardevoir, who together can sweep through the entire Elite Four. After that, I learned competitive Pokemon, and elite fours became walkovers.

The toughest time I've had with the elite four was trying to beat it with a Blissey on Diamond. I was doing fine until I got to Cynthia, when she somehow predicted all my moves and ended up cornering my Blissey with her Lucario. She's damn tough.
Author:  thelegendary123 [ Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:26 am ]
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I found Brawly on Emerald really tough, but my personal hardest Gym leader was Jasmine from HG/SS. She swept through my whole squad, and my main point, my Quagsire, was destroyed by Steelix...
Author:  themagicludicolo [ Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:06 am ]
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The hardest elite four for me was Aaron. Damn my only playthrough of platinum being a solo run with a lotad!
Author:  dialgatime [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:55 pm ]
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Lorelei in Firered was a :censored: for me. The only decent pokemon I had was my Charizard, and even at level 92, her level 50-something Dewgong kept killing me. I finally beat her with a Poliwrath and Mewtwo, but that was really, really hard.
Author:  bottomsupfellas [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:02 pm ]
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Clair in GSC/HGSS is the WORST. MOTHEREFFING KINGDRA'S TYPING IS WAY TOO HARD TO TAKE DOWN! Feraligatr's Ice Fang can really help, but once I get to Kingdra I'm screwed...
Author:  DNA [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:41 pm ]
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I'm not sure if I found any specific gym leader immensely hard. I know some gave me a bit of difficulty, but nothing to bang my head against the wall on. Perhaps if I go through the list and name my least favorite from every region I might get inspired.

Kanto - I'd probably have to say Koga in Yellow, or even possibly Sabrina. Their strongest Pokemon are both level 50, and they like spamming Psychic quite a lot, which makes for a very frustrating encounter. Koga's pretty easy in R/B, but in Yellow when all his Pokemon know Psychic and I think Toxic as well, it begins to get very irritating.

Johto - Whitney. I admit it. I picked Quilava and I found that Rollout to be positively evil.

Hoenn - Tate and Liza. Normally I would say Brawly, but after learning a neat little trick (from someone here, no less) that involves a small little Pokemon named "Sableye", you become literally untouchable when you fight Brawly. However, in Emerald when the difficulty of gym leaders escalates significantly, the fact that not only do all their Pokemon float, but all of them except for Xatu spam Earthquake, makes for great frustration.

Sinnoh - Maylene. Accursed Lucario.

Unova - Lenora. Unova actually surprised me immensely - I found every single last one of the gym leaders easy, except for the first two. Granted I was planning to do a 3-starter run in Black and left my Pansear deliberately underleveled because of that fact, but even without that I found access to only Incinerate as an SE move to be very annoying. ...wait, I'm not here to talk about Cilan. I'm here to talk about a Watchog that's most likely faster than anyone you have at this point and that knows Retaliate. I suppose if I'd caught a Sawk, the fight would have been that much easier...but I did.

Overall...Maylene. DPPt has a rather mediocre movepool of Pokemon to pick from, and coupled with the fact that Lucario is a very fast Steel-type (that shouldn't be Steel), it's made me headbang a lot. (And my starter was Piplup, if that makes any difference.)
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