5th Gen Hardest Unova Gym Leader

[Bluerang1]

I've finished the game and I conclude that both Lenora and Elesa were nightmares. But especially Elesa because I leveled my Pokemon higher for both of them, but Elesa still proved trouble whereas I beat Lenora straight away after they were slightly leveled up. Those Emolga were nightmare and also the Zebstrika. Those two are part of my most hated Pokemon in Unova.

 

[YouMadBro?]

Lenora D:<

Then my Pignite learned Arm Thrust and it was all good :3

 

[Thougar]

Its tied with lenora and elesa for me, mainly cause that watchhog retaliateing my party away on the former (which I taught 1/2 my party afterwords) and elesa being super effecive against 2 of my 3 main pokemon left it up to Mr. Fluffy alot, hounder, and had to let hm slaves/party fillins die and use retaliate with stab.

How is Lenora and Elesa a challenge? In my first playthrough, I had no trouble whatsoever sweeping her team with a Timburr.

Elesa, I had a Drillbur with Rock Slide.

I think you answered your own question, some people only like to train a few *special* pokemon and dont go catch Super effectives.

Note: this was not ment to be taken in a bad way and i know it sounds like it, sorry.

 

[Jesspke]

1st game: Burgh was REALLY annoying. I had to go catch a fire type and train it up it beat him.

2nd game: Not really anyone, but Lenora was hard, as I under-trained my Pignite (He was fighting, so I had an advantage there)

But on both games, Lenora was a good challenge, so I say her o.e
I think I underestimate normal types...

 

[Cataclysmic]

Lenora was honestly the only gym leader that I had to attempt more than once. Most of them were pretty easy in my opinion.

 

[Neeni]

1st team.. My Osha was useless + didn't want to train that little fire monkeyh
the rest were all too easy cuz I simply trained the right pokes, Lenora was nothing to mention and Elesa was down by my Boldore easily!~

 

[レイジングブラスト]

Lenora gave me a lot of trouble because of Herdier's Take Down and Watchog's Retaliate & Hypnosis. Other than her, I beat all of the other gym leaders fairly easy.

 

[jigglyppuff8]

Cress. Because I was bent on beating the game with the team I planned somewhat in advance (rather, I didn't want to use the beginner Pokemon), his Panpour was a major pain. I had to use the giveaway Pansage to deal with it and even then I almost lost. It was horrifying.

 

[Astinus]

And another vote for Lenora. She was difficult for me a few times because I didn't want to capture a Fighting Pokemon just to defeat her. So when I didn't have Pokemon that could super effectively strike down her Pokemon, the battles against her came rather close to defeat unless I got lucky.

Once I was able to capture more of the Pokemon I wanted to train, or use the ones I traded over, I found the rest of the Gyms disappointingly easy.

 

[s0nido]

OMG LENORA THAT B--
Her Watchog's Retaliate was horrible. I had an awesome Sawk and it destroyed all Normal-types, then that Watchog came out with Retaliate and destroyed Sawk. And for some reason, it managed to destroy my Pignite as well. >.> I think I tried to defeat her a number of times before I managed to defeat her. It wasn't just her, though. I had a tough time with all the gym leaders though. These guys were a tough bunch. XD;

 

[Spirit Albarn♫]

tbh i didnt really find any difficult, iris was annoying though
- i used resources; e.g with lenora i caught a fighting type n used the i got my team in order and the rest was easy peasy.

 

[LouBeatYou]

I didn't have trouble with any of them, It never took more than one try. I guess Iris though, her Haxorus was sort of challenging.

 

[Queen of Darkness]

Cilan was the strongest unova gym leader for me to beat, since all my pokemon weren't all that strong...

 

[ElectricPrincess]

The hardest one for me would have to be Elesa with her Emolga's pull I started with the water starter which didn't help matters much.

 

[Neiko Star]

Drayden. He actually lowered one of my Pokemon's HP to half.

The other Gym Leaders were all taken out with OHKO's. Overleveledness FTW.

 

[Azurina]

Burgh. I kept losing to him for five days, and then realised that every single Pokemon on my team was weak against Bug-type.

 

[Swanna ☆]

Lenora. Her Herdier is so strong. .__."

 

[Vrai]

The only leader I had any trouble with at all was Clay, and that's because I was smart enough to challenge him with no healing items at all. XD The rest of them were astoundingly easy, even Lenora. There are plenty of Fighting-types around, guys. :(

 

[Mato]

Lenora's Watchog is a troll. Of course it spammed Retaliate, Hypnosis and Confuse Ray throughout the entire battle.

I would also say Drayden's/Iris' gym was a hassel. Not so much they were strong, but battling all those trainers before them... Geez, what a hike!

 

[Molts]

Elesa was hard for me, the volt switch spam is very very painful. But once I figured out what she was doing I shut it down hard by tanking her with my Snivy and spam healing him. Only lost to her once.

Brycen was a beast for me to beat. Ice types were kinda difficult in every instant I've seen them, they just usually hit so freakin' hard I can't set up very well. The only reason I was was that my Gigialith got lucky with a crit and then I just ran with it. Plus I was really low on money to heal with at the time...

Iris was also pretty hard for me, though not directly. 4 of her gym trainers defeated me, I was scared as hell for the gym leader, and then preceded to one shot her. Did a happy dance afterwards.