3rd Gen What was the hardest part of R/S/E when you started playing it?

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

The second time is really difficult, but having more that one Pokemon could help.

 

[wishirulz]

the first time i tryed it it was beating poochyena in the begining ahh i think i lost over 6 times

 

[Kurono]

Well for Ruby and Sapphire I had trouble with Tate and Liza, in Emerald the toughest part for me was probably the Elite Four. I barely beat Wallace since I had Blaziken at the time.

 

[deoxys2000]

well, for ruby and sapphire, since there was new pokemon i have never seen before, i get all excited and try to catch them all and i screw up my levels and stuff, and i started over and i beat it then and for emerald, ummmmm, i really had no much of problems except trying to get around the fire and phychic gyms XD, then i was shocked when it was Wallace as champ except steven, but since i had a lv. 70 rayquaza and a sceptile, i had no probs.

 

[pokejungle]

I'm having trouble finding good pokemon to train x.x;

Right now I'm raising a Ralts and Heracross to dominate the E4...

 

[jc_rcw]

It was really hard to beat wallace,I had to train a lot.

 

[Sithre]

HMMmmm Ruby was pretty easy. But Emerald might prove to be a challenge...I already know im going to fill out all my pokedex sept Lunatone...and i'll never get cydaquil...*cries :disappoin *

 

[Jirachi3]

I have 36 hours on my game and I'm at tate&liza. What does that tell you

 

[Jordan]

Either Liza and Tate, finishing the Pokedex, or capturing Latios or Latias.

 

[Clam]

Not much that I could remember. I don't think I had any much difficulties that came across me in R/S not even finding Feebas, took me like a half hour to find one.
The only real difficult thing was in Emerald. Liza and Tate where hard, I had to rebattle them 3 times until I won.

 

[aqonix]

I think I had trouble with Fortree gym because of pokemon. I can't really think of anything.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Fortree is especially hard if you never trained an electric or rock type.

 

[Entemo]

I found Brawly a right kik in the nads, he just used makuhitas arm thrusts n wiped all ma pokemon out.

 

[The Latios Master]

The hardest part for me was actually Catching a Pelliper and an Absol. Thats pretty much it. I took out Groudon in one shot with My Sceptile and Rayquaza i caught with the Master ball. Luckily, i had a Groudon on Coloseum (traded form previous ruby game) so i traded that over and i had a Rayquaza on Colosseum so i have two of them, HAH!

 

[Random Plushie]

Hrmz.. Well, in Emerald I found Brawly a bit of an annoyance since my only type match-up at the time was my Taillow. XD
The rest of the Gym Leaders I mostly breezed through, though.

My friend actually had so much trouble gettin' to Rayquaza on the Mach Bike that I had to do it for him. XD

 

[Bliksem]

My biggest problem was defeating Champion Wallace in Emerald without any legendaries and with Blaziken only level 49 and two other guys level 48. Milotic was a *****.

That's because that Milotic is a Metagame standard XD. Surf, Ice Beam, Toxic, Recover.

Anyone notice that? A LOT of the Pokemon use the Metagame standards... combined with their near perfect EVs, natures, IVs, etc.... it makes them a pain to take out.

Anyways, the hardest thing for me is Phoebe of the Elite Four? Why? Because of that DARNED FIRST DUSCLOPS!! I don't know of ANYTHING else that can use Protect FOUR TIMES IN A ROW!! As for everything else... I'll never train Poochyena again... I hate that thing. You train FOREVER with it... and all it gets are +0 stat increases... maybe the rare +1 <_< Never a +2, not even in HP. So, all in all, Emerald/Ruby/Sapphire make it A LOT harder to train than in FR/LG where you can just catch a Spearow and pwn things with Peck and later Aerial Ace and finally Drill Peck.

 

[Random Plushie]

^^ Yeah, Spearow ish nice.

All it took for me to pwn Pheobe was my Seviper, or my Banette if I felt like giving her a chance. XD

 

[Bliksem]

I USED Banette <_< The poor thing's Shadow Balls kept getting drained by Protect! By the end of the battle, I'd gone from 15 to 3!!

 

[Random Plushie]

*has experienced the same thing*

I wish Banette had better Defense. Or more Hp. ^^

 

[Alistair]

It took me a while to beat the Elite 4 in Emerald. My best Pok?mon were Sceptile lv. 55, Chimecho lv. 43, Gardevoir lv. 57, Shelgon lv.42, Medicham lv. 40, and Jirachi lv. 62.