3rd Gen Hardest Kanto Gym Leader ?

For me the most difficult gym leader was Lt. Surge because I had a water type starter on my team (I think it was a Blastoise by the time I got to him) and because I had a Pidgeotto and both of their weaknesses are Electricity. I wanted to get access to a ground type Pokemon from Digletts cave, but I don't think I was able to go in their because Snorlax was blocking the way and if Snorlax wasn't blocking the cave, then I am stupid.


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Misty is definitely the hardest mainly because of how much of a difficulty spike Starmie is

Lt. Surge when I didn't have Diglett, which was pretty much all the time. I can't even remember if he had more than one Pokemon but I do remember paralysis being an issue.

Erika for me, Because I chose Squirtle and didn't have a fire or flying type, SHE DRAINED THE ENERGY OUT OF HIM! D:

Sabrina, I never had any Dark or Ghost type Pokemon or attacks in general.

Misty, I levelled my charmeleon to lvl 20 and my pikachu to lvl 16. That starmie killed my pikachu and I had to finish it with charmeleon, I failed like 3 times and at the fourth one I finally killed the thing using metal claw because pikachu kept dying.

Koga was always the hardest for me to beat, mostly because his Pokemon would always poison me as early as possible in the battle. I rarely carry Full Heals or any of the other status healing items (I rely on Full Restore later on), so my only option was to beat him with my under-leveled Kadabra. Second place would have to go to Misty, though, even though I chose Bulbasaur as my starter.

I gotta say Misty, since Charmander was my starter. It was a bit hard took about 3-5 tries to beat her.. I think my team had to be 22-25 to beat her, so sad :(.

I'd have to agree with Ozzy; none of them seemed to pose a noteworthy problem, as far as I can remember. And I don't even use starters. =L

None of the were a problem my Bulbasaur soloed pretty much till 3rd gym were it evolved in the ship were you Venusaur and became even more beast I caught a Growlithe and evolved it into Arcanine for the 4th gym, My Alakazam took the 5th gym, Arcanine bited that gym to death together with Gyarados, Gyarados overpowered Blaine and Giovanni was taken out by Venusaur and Gyarados.

Gamefreak knew everyone would have a Charfetish thats why misty was the hardest but not from me, I completed the game weeks before my classmates (rivals) because of the fact that they were stuck at Misty while I was kicking Koga's ass

Koga + Muk + Minimize = Not a happy Consumer!

I think Koga was hard because of his really high levelled Pokemon too. Such a giant gap between Erika's and his.

Misty. You have to grind a while if you don't have the type adventage

Well all the Kanto gym leaders in the game were easy to beat, but I guess that was because I would not challenge them until all of my party Pokemon were at a certain level. In FireRed I didn't battle Misty until all my Pokemon were level 30. It took forever, but the gym battles were easy. :D

Koga by a long shot if we look at the difference in levels from the previous here they are in order (Brock is exlcuded because there is nothing prior to him)

#1 - Koga - 13
#2 - Misty - 7
#3 - Erika - 6
#4 - Blaine - 4
#5/6 - Gioavanni - 3
#5/6 - Lt. Surge - 3
#7 - Sabrina - 0

For me: Fire Red Misty was hard, because I chosed charmander which already evolved into charmeleon lv.26, so I had to train my Pikachu lv. 16 I put in the pc to win Misty, but Misty in Yellow...it was so freakin easy. So the hardest gym leader in Kanto is a tie between Misty and Koga (I had trouble to get past that Muk)

I concur with the majority of the thread. Misty was the most difficult for when I played FireRed, especially because I chose Charmander. 115 BS Speed Starmie + STAB Water Pulse was a nightmare to beat.

For myself, it was Sabrina.

I was simply far too under-leveled by that point in the game.

For me, Koga was the hardest to beat. His Minimize/Toxic combination was a blast! I didn't have Psychic pokemon and my Graveler couldn't hit him.

Even though Lt.Surge is my favorite gym leader of this series, he was a pain to beat. I lacked a Pokemon that would beat him easily. I'd have to go find myself at least a ground-type in order to beat him and his super powered Raichu.