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Shift April 7th, 2007 1:22 PM

Hm, Shift doesn't have Emerald, and Shift hasn't played his Ruby in ages. But Shift does recall going up against Watson with his Treecko. Shift didn't have the advantage against Steel and lost. Shift ended up doing a new game with his starter being Mudkip.

Richard Lynch April 7th, 2007 8:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Shift (Post 2437312)
Shift ended up doing a new game with his starter being Mudkip.

Shift did a very wise thing there.

Or Shift could have just picked up an Aron, and trained it up to have Mudslap. Whatever works for Shift.

Now let's shift away from referring to oneself in third person.

TheRedDeerHunter:

Normal leaders have always been difficult for me too... Norman was one of the hardest gym leaders in R/S/E, because of his damn Slaking, who is an utter BEAST. That thing can take a beating even from physical attackers, despite moving only every two turns. I was always curious why it never became more popular.

elric331 April 8th, 2007 5:18 AM

hrmmmm...... Brawly was such a pain.. i hated his bloody makuhita and especially when it used bulk up.
tate and liza isn't rlly hard except for Xatu if u chose mudkip as a starter.

HackinJohn April 8th, 2007 7:54 PM

Winona was a piece of cake until I met her Altaria. I was wondering why thunderbolt wasn't silencing it (I didn't know it was dragon.)
It took out my Pikachu and Gardevoir before I realized it was dragon. Then I sent out Swampert and he beat it with Ice Beam.

Tate and Liza are a pain as well. Both of their Pokémon have extremely high HP and great move sets.

Roxanne is also annoying. Her Geodude's are simple, but her darn high-HP Nosepass bugs me...

Norman is usually a problem because of his Slaking's HP and strength, as well as Flannery. Her Torkoal annoys the poop out of me.

Glacia is bad as well. By the time I get to her, my Fire and Electric Types are pretty much dead so she hoses them down pretty easily.

And the final Wally bugs me a LOT. His Gardevoir used Double Team all 20x and I couldn't hit it!

aaronburnsyou April 9th, 2007 11:42 PM

My hardest experience with a gym leader had to be in Emerald, when I fought Winona with all her super-powered, high 50s pokemon, all against my Lv9X Breloom (all I had at the time). I was just lucky I had way too many Full Restores at the time.

Alexandrian April 15th, 2007 7:50 PM

gosh... i hated the elite fours i always faint battling them.

Soogz April 16th, 2007 5:57 PM

Gotta be Roxanne in my opinion... Its just because her pkmn were at such a high level at the begging of the game, that you kind of had to be up there with her to compete.

Towlie April 16th, 2007 6:11 PM

Tate and Liza. Though, using Imprison on her with a Gardevoir is always fun. I made her Xatu use struggle from that.

Norman is kind of a pain because you get basically no training after Flannery.

Juan's Kindra is annoying though too. Double team/Rest/Hyper potions makes me mad.

Alexandrian April 16th, 2007 8:46 PM

I think I would say wallace is really hard since he likes ice pokemon :D

ThePokemaster999 April 28th, 2007 7:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Hoshiko (Post 2405848)
With the exception of Juan in Emerald, I had no other problem with any gym leader.

Juan however, was a problem with that Milotic. D:

yeah it took my lv 45 Manectric forever two KO Milotic

Rai April 28th, 2007 7:48 AM

I always thought Tate and Liza were the most frustrating =\ And Norman was really annoying to beat -___-

Razer302 April 28th, 2007 7:53 AM

Tate and Liza took me ages to beat. I hated having to do it as a double battle.

beauty. proletariat April 28th, 2007 11:27 PM

I wud say Brawly was pretty hard for me, as i was training Torchic (at that time, lvl 12), Poochyena (lvl 11) and Lotad (lvl 11)...
Couldnt do it, so first delivered letter, then, leveled until evolve, then Kicked his sorry b*tt

Lt. Silver April 30th, 2007 3:00 AM

Norman, I got is all of is pokemon down to red health and every time he would heal them, it was really annoying

ThePokemaster999 May 7th, 2007 1:58 AM

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Originally Posted by SkyAttack (Post 2404969)
I'm curious to know which Gym Leader you found the most frustrating/difficult in Pokemon Emerald.

I had never let all(or even most) of my Pokemon team faint in battle until I fought Winona, the flying master of Fortree City. Most of her team wasn't too difficult, but her Altaria kept taking out my team using Earthquake. The Pokemon that I have who aren't vulnerable to Earthquake were vulnerable to Aerial Ace. It was so frustrating, and it took three attempts before I finally won using the right Pkmn in the right matchups. Poseidon, my Marshtomp claimed the victory against Altaria. :)

Who have you had problems battling with? Obviously people like the Elite Four and such are difficult, but I'm curious about all of the other in-game trainers/gym leaders. Anyone else had issues with Winona?

I did- my level 40 Manectric kept KO'd by altaria's EQ right before it ko'd altaria. other than winona i didn't have much trouble with the hoenn gym leaders

jammi567 May 7th, 2007 2:47 AM

For me, it has to be Watson. I Sapphire, i had an Aron at around level 20, and i thought i could pawn him (Electric being ineffective against Ground. It took me close to 20 trys to beat him. After that, i zoomed through the game. Even the bloosy Elite 4 weren't as hard as him, comparictivly speaking.

Lt. Silver May 7th, 2007 2:57 AM

the hardest trainer in the whole game would have to be Emerald's Wallace

Atabas May 7th, 2007 4:19 AM

I hated Juan (guy who replaced walace)
my team was Fire/earth based

Blaziken
Rhydon
Graveler

darkphoenixdude May 7th, 2007 4:50 AM

I hated him too! I had to fight him using my sceptile O.o

Ayusuke May 7th, 2007 3:58 PM

I have to say that Norman or Wattson. Norman is just difficult with his Slaking and Wattson was just hell to take down when I replayed the game and chose Treeko. Uneven training while fighting Wattson didn't help either. ><

Pokemon trainer Seth May 8th, 2007 9:13 AM

Most annoying?

Sapphire: Wallace

Emerald: Tate&Liza( man they've grown Waaay stronger since Sapphire)

That's it

Krobelus May 10th, 2007 10:19 PM

Hmmm... lemme think...

Ruby: Brawly (Only cuz I had full offense, and no Special offense eheh)
Sapphire: Tate and Liza because they, well they just pwned me!
Emerald: Hmmmm... none. Haha I only use three Pokémon when I go through each game (with the exception of two HM slaves), which were Swampert, Alakazam, and Golbat (Golbat is surprisingly strong after it evolves from Zubat), and they all held tough against each Gym.

That's all.

mathrocks12345 May 11th, 2007 3:01 AM

In Emerald:
I had a hard time defeating Juan. I couldn't manage to beat him, because of Kingdra. Therefore, I played "cheap" and captured Rayquaza with a few Ultra Balls in Sky Pillar (It opens once you do the miniquest of going to it and breaking the fighting with Groudon and Kyogre.)
I beat him easily afterward.

Yani May 11th, 2007 6:28 AM

hmmmm....I think I had trouble fighting with Brawly...Since my Marshtomp wasn't that strong yet...>.< but the rest were easy to defeat...^_^

ThePokemaster999 May 11th, 2007 7:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyAttack (Post 2405372)
Tate and Liza? Now I'm curious to see what these people are all about. :D

I think my main problem with Winona was the fact that I was using:

*Tropius
*Swellow
^^Both weak against Aerial Ace

*Trapinch
*Magnemite
*Aron
*Marshtomp
^^All weak against Earthquake

All were between level 26-35. I've changed out Tropius to try out Kecleon for awhile. I love my team, but they all had a major weakness to one of her two best moves. Oh well, it adds a challenge I suppose. :)

Swellow's a flying type how's it weak against Aerial Ace?


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