6th Gen Gym Leaders and Elite Four

[blue]

Oh yeah, Tate and Liza two additional Pokemon in Emerald. Hope they decide to use their Emerald team, Lunatone and Solrock alone are challenging but it's more fun with more Pokemon ofc.

 

[Elaitenstile]

Actually, GF could add in some sort of puzzle to reach the Elite Four member. Sidney can have a maze in some sort of dungeon, Phoebe's room can be similar to one in the Ecruteak Gym, Glacia an ice puzzle and Drake... No idea. Haha.

Gyms have puzzles, they could certainly do it with the E4 as well.

Elite Four puzzles may not be so far-fetched either. They wouldn't probably add trainers to it but Sidney could have this annoying maze where if you step through the wrong path you get locked there and you teleport back to the start. Glacia could obviously have a tedious ice-skate puzzle, Phoebe like you said could have this light-and-dark puzzle, maybe drake could have a fall-down dungeon where you have to fall through the right holes. The Champion, well... he doesn't really need one XD

This may also slow down grinding by rebattling the Elite Four postgame.

 

[Atwilko]

i dunno, the only one i'd want to get replaced is the 5th gym but i always found hoenn to have among the hardest of gym's in the series (i always start treecko) so i'd like them to keep it like that.

 

[Rayquaza2016]

Get Glacia a better team and get Steven to be the champion. >:)

 

[Pepperton]

The Elite Four isn't about solving puzzles. Their Pokemon are supposed to be extremely powerful and difficult enough to defeat so as not to merit an extra challenge like a maze. Gyms are still no piece of cake, but I think it's better to keep the best four trainers in the league in simple rooms that display their type specialty.

 

[Salzorrah]

The Elite Four isn't about solving puzzles. Their Pokemon are supposed to be extremely powerful and difficult enough to defeat so as not to merit an extra challenge like a maze. Gyms are still no piece of cake, but I think it's better to keep the best four trainers in the league in simple rooms that display their type specialty.

How about updating the room a little bit, make the room arenas in the air and taking an elevator while progressing further? Maybe add some facades and decorations around the room like they did in XY?

 

[Altius]

The Elite Four isn't about solving puzzles. Their Pokemon are supposed to be extremely powerful and difficult enough to defeat so as not to merit an extra challenge like a maze. Gyms are still no piece of cake, but I think it's better to keep the best four trainers in the league in simple rooms that display their type specialty.

Honestly, I find that the current Elite Four rooms are just plain boring. That could also be because the recent Elite Fours are just really weak...

I actually struggled with the Hoenn league when I first played Ruby. Let's hope they won't make them easier.

 

[praj.pran]

I think Gym leader and Elite members will be same actually i never played ruby or saphire i start playing pokemon from Black and white but i Hope its Same

 

[Salamence™]

All the old ones from pokemon ruby and sapphire. And i also think it would be Them. Because in hgss it was the same gym leaders as gs

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

They could make Drake more difficult by giving his Shellgon Evolite, as well as the moves protect and Toxic. Shellgon already has good defenses, so evolite will increase them greatly. Protect is to wear us out. Even with the introduction of more protect breaking moves all of them happen to be physical, so it's defense stat will be annoying. We'll have to wait until protect to no longer work to take it down. I guess the Fairy type will make it easier since Shellgon doesn't have the best special defense stat. Though if it keeps Dragon Breath it could paralyze us...and use something like Iron Tail to lower our defenses (and to take care of Fairy types).

 

[Pepperton]

They'd probably do that in a Challenge Mode type situation, but not for the regular mode. There's a huge range of skill from people playing Pokemon; complete beginners to seasoned competitive veterans. Fighting Pokemon with held items, set-up move sets, and strategies may be too much for the average gamer to overcome, causing enjoyment to plummet. If they do change the difficulty of the gym leaders and elite four to that extreme, hopefully it's an optional change.

 

[Salzorrah]

I actually struggled with the Hoenn league when I first played Ruby. Let's hope they won't make them easier.

I actually remember I had to evolve my Torchic just to get past Roxanne haha x3 Good times...

I hope GF wont pull too many punches like they did in XY. It really isnt a challenge anymore tbh.

 

[SuperJanBro]

I kinda want Sydney to be replaced. Tbh, he wasn't that memorable at all. They should try to bring them out more... But that's just me.

 

[Pepperton]

If one of them must be replaced, I would choose Glacia. Looks like a generic middle aged woman with a simple team of Ice type Pokemon. Her design is forgettable and there's nothing special about the concept behind her. If anyone, she deserves the boot. d: I loved Sydney's hairdo, and at least he actually looked like a Dark type specialist.

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

I think Glacia was a pun take on the Ice Princess figure. Instead of being actually cold in personality she used Ice Pokemon...haha...


I hope that they add backstory to the gym leaders. Also I want them to appear outside of their gyms more. Brawly could be seen surfing at certain times of day. Maybe mention he knows this guy who wrestles in Sinnoh but is a water specialist. Roxanne could be seen teaching her students. Winona could get a story. Maybe they'll add in an airport in an open space, or in the outskirts of Fortree where she flies (post game maybe we'll see Skyla go meet Winona from there) a small biplane. Wattson could simply get an expanded New Mauville story. Norman could be a less distant father. Juan could be first met in the contest hall, or maybe Wallace (no matter if he's the champion or gym leader) as we don't see either of them except for during the crisis. Flannery could be seen attending the hotsprings.

 

[Hikamaru]

I actually remember I had to evolve my Torchic just to get past Roxanne haha x3 Good times...

I hope GF wont pull too many punches like they did in XY. It really isnt a challenge anymore tbh.

Yeah I imagine the pain those who chose Torchic in the original games had to go through just to beat Roxanne and those bulky Rock-types of hers. Treecko and Mudkip users had a smoother run though.

But yeah I am hoping that Game Freak can do the balance of making it easy enough for newer players but still hard enough for older fans at the same time. The reason many complained about X and Y was the Exp. Share mechanics making their team overleveled once they like, almost reached the second gym, assuming they didn't rotate team members constantly.

I guess they were catering too much towards the younger, newer players when they changed the mechanics of the Exp. Share.

 

[Altairis]

I hope the Elite Four show up somewhere outside of Ever Grande City, especially because they are considered some of the strongest in the region and they barely do anything to help stop Teams Aqua & Magma.

I hope they aren't changed, though. I thought all the gym leaders & elite four were tough enough just as they were.

 

[ShadowSlashz]

Yeah I hope their not changed but maybe they could look different.

 

[Salzorrah]

I hope the Elite Four show up somewhere outside of Ever Grande City, especially because they are considered some of the strongest in the region and they barely do anything to help stop Teams Aqua & Magma.

I hope they aren't changed, though. I thought all the gym leaders & elite four were tough enough just as they were.

Yeah I agree, they should atleast be seen trying to stop Team Aqua and or Magma and not just sit on their thrones chillin while Hoenn gets destroyed and leaving its fate to a 10 year old who just started his/her journey. :/

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Yeah I agree, they should atleast be seen trying to stop Team Aqua and or Magma and not just sit on their thrones chillin while Hoenn gets destroyed and leaving its fate to a 10 year old who just started his/her journey. :/

Yeah. Sadly the E4 as a whole has a horrible track record of helping out...Let's see...Kanto's didn't help, nor did Johto's, Sinnoh didn't really help either but at least we saw two of them outside of the E4, Unova's didn't help...and a freaking building just jammed through their HQ! How come only Alder helped fight off Plasma?, Kalos's didn't help...heck one of them was on the evil team's side, and even then she didn't play a real role in the villianous team during the story...
In the end the E4 seem like a final line of defense should the Champion and everyone else falls...ironically Alder fell (but that was in a fair battle).