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PaxAmericana March 9th, 2011 3:26 PM

Hardest Unova Gym Leader
 
Saw this on Serebii forums, so it migrated to Pokecommunity.

What was your hardest?

I felt that Clay was very hard.

.Wolfie-kun. March 9th, 2011 3:36 PM

Iris, since I'm never that good against Dragon types >.>

I managed to win first time, but man that one was difficult

SpiderCarnage March 9th, 2011 3:38 PM

elesa's electric gym i lost 5 times & my pokemon were all high lvls

kirbyking1234 March 9th, 2011 3:38 PM

Elesa, water type+no other strong pokemon=uber hard.

MichaelDj54 March 9th, 2011 3:39 PM

Elesa. I got through the skin of my teeth with her, and even then it was a lucky critical hit with Dweeble.

Lucario-Avantasia March 9th, 2011 4:12 PM

OH GAWD LENORA.

Seriously, the only times I've won are when her AI went stupid and made her watchog use leer or hypnosis after her herdier fainted... (I have both Jap. and American versions of both black and white...)

TL;DR: Lenora is a boss, and Retaliate = Srs bzns.

Rawrinism March 9th, 2011 5:20 PM

I would have to say Elesa, her Emoglas were a pain in the butt. >____>

インフェルノの津波 March 9th, 2011 5:23 PM

Lenora. Thank God I had a Drilbur using Dig.

Sydian March 9th, 2011 5:25 PM

Chili! It's hard to train at the beginning, and without a monkey, you're screwed. And Incinerate burns away your Oran Berry, even if you are using Panpour against his Pansear. :( I didn't have too much trouble with any other leader, so... v_v

Steven March 9th, 2011 5:25 PM

Lenora is Unova's Whitney.

X_X

Livewire March 9th, 2011 5:47 PM

I didn't have any trouble with Lenora, to be honest. :x Roggenrola pretty much wiped her out.

Kokuo March 9th, 2011 5:50 PM

The hardest one for me was Drayden, mainly because I had no pokemon that were good against dragon types.

Dillon_68 March 9th, 2011 6:53 PM

Elesa, I HATE Volt Switch. Didn't expect Emolga to be that good, guess thats the great part of having all new Pokemon, dont know what to expect. Lenora was also the only time I whited out, Crunch + Retaliate=Pain.

JP March 9th, 2011 6:55 PM

Lenora, her Pokemon knowing Take Down was a huge pain in the ass. Elesa's two Emolga's Volt Switch were also pretty annoying, though I must say very effective. Thirdly, Burgh's bugs were quite a pain for me as I had pretty much nothing that was effective against Bug types.

The rest was pretty much smooth sailing. I did have some problems with Clay's Excadrill, though I suppose I was just not ready. I must say, never had I so many rough patches through winning my badges as I had in this generation. Was definitely fun though.

Kww37 March 9th, 2011 7:37 PM

Elesa was definitely the hardest. Emolga and their dang Double Team really annoyed me. Other than that, I've defeated seven so far, but I am assuming this Dragon leader shall be difficult.

GlitchCity March 9th, 2011 8:06 PM

Burgh gave me a very, very hard time. My entire team was weak to Bug type. So I had to keep resetting the game and train until I was able to finally beat him.

Nick March 9th, 2011 11:44 PM

I just beat Iris, so now I can reply to this with experience.

For me, the hardest gym leader to beat was Lenora due to her always using retaliation. I had to battle her multiple times and it was just so frustrating! I only had and only wanted to use my starter to beat her.

After that, the gym leaders became extremely easy, apart from Burgh. I easily 1HKO'd most of them. But Lenora was the only gym leader that I lost against.

X Latios March 10th, 2011 12:15 AM

Lenora was really difficult for the second Leader I found, Take Down and Retaliate just ripped my team to shreds every time, nothing a bit of grinding couldn't fix though.
The rest of the Leaders I haven't had any problem with at all though I am yet to fight Iris or the Ice Leader.

Elesa~ March 10th, 2011 12:17 AM

Obviously I'm the hardest gym leader to beat! XP Elesa, her Zeburaika was sooo annoying.

Revolver Oshawott March 10th, 2011 12:26 AM

Elesa is definitely the hardest for me. Her Emolga's plus Double Team drove me insane.

Phototoxin March 10th, 2011 12:38 AM

Lenora as the level is quite high for that stage of the game and you need to grind and/or get fighting pokemon or use rocksmash.

lamby101 March 10th, 2011 1:33 AM

So far I've got 6 badges and the hardest gym leader I've come across was Lenora, her Watchog just basically annihilated me. So since then I've been more prepared for the gyms which is why I think I havent found a real challenge yet.

Signomi March 10th, 2011 2:39 AM

Because I overlevelled before all gym challenges, I didn't find any of them ridiculously hard. I didn't need to reset my DS just in case I lost, or even saved before the battle (like I usually do and everybody really should do always.)

I guess I was just confident, so I didn't find any of them any difficult than the other. But on another note, Skyla was definitely the easiest gym leader I faced, with Elesa coming a pretty close second.

Shadow March 10th, 2011 3:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phototoxin (Post 6501607)
Lenora as the level is quite high for that stage of the game and you need to grind and/or get fighting pokemon or use rocksmash.

I will further the Lenora votes.

Her Pokemon are quite high compared to everything around her. It almost seems like she's balanced for doing after the Pinwheel Forest bit with Team Plasma.

Not to mention, she pretty much has a guaranteed KO on any non-Roggenrola Pokemon at that point with Retaliate after you take out Herdier.

Alternative March 10th, 2011 3:39 AM

I've only three badges in so far, and I found Lenora to be quite hard. I mean that Herdier of hers is a Take Down spammer, and a strong one at that, and Watchog is just ew Retaliation. I had to copy her strategy and pretty much kill my Cut Slave Purrloin and Retaliate back with Minccino.


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