Ho-Oh

used Sacred Fire!

Age 31
Female
QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
You're in a brand new world, you know nobody. The battles are tough, everything you do seems complicated and your friends are stronger than you. Which is the most challenging? Is it something else, such as understanding the actual storyline? Have you actually paused for a second and had to really think hard about something?

And no, just saying understanding Japanese doesn't count. :(

Nick

Seen 4 Weeks Ago
Posted July 28th, 2021
17,572 posts
18.6 Years
Understanding Japanese!

So far the hardest thing I've had to do was choose a name, lmao. :(

I spent 30 minutes on the name screen trying to figure out what name name was in Japanese with romanji and traditional and all that. To no avail, I gave up and picked a bunch of random characters that I thought looked cool.

インフェルノの津波

Seriously?

Male
Seattle
Seen March 28th, 2020
Posted June 8th, 2014
3,899 posts
13.4 Years
Lol at Pat.

Um....I only got 10 minutes of experience, but I'll say choosing your Pokemon. Isshu's like Kanto, except better. All the Pokemon look awesome to at least someone.

And the second hardest part is not laughing at Bel.

solarowl

I'll always be an Outsider.

Age 27
Female
Hoenn
Seen September 25th, 2012
Posted October 7th, 2011
910 posts
12.8 Years
I can't level up!??
Leveling up and the first pokemon gym maze. ( I borrowed my friends white for a bit.)
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Sabi96

Rank Star 5th-Gen Trainer

Age 26
Male
We all live in a Pokemon World!
Seen July 20th, 2013
Posted October 9th, 2011
48 posts
13.4 Years
The most difficult was ordering the game

Just Joking. I really didn't understand Aloe's gym. I had to defeat all the trainers , or just ask oround, or read the books. I still don;t know, but i'm at the fourth gym now
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Age 36
Seen 16 Hours Ago
Posted 16 Hours Ago
10,149 posts
17.1 Years
And I'm so slow the "understanding Japanese" would only get me a "fail".

So I'm going to say the difficultly of grinding in this game. I love grinding. I really do, but something seems "off" in B/W. Like the experience is lower than what is to be expected from defeating enemies at the level I'm fighting. It just makes leveling up and grinding more like work to me, and that in turn makes the game itself challenging because I can't match my opponents' levels.

Avatar credit: Fairy
Age 26
Male
Seen June 6th, 2017
Posted October 9th, 2016
1,162 posts
13.2 Years
barring japanese, I'd have to say the continous "Nuzlocke BS" I was weakening a Shimama-CRITICAL, I was looking for Dangoro in a cave-DERP BAT. Unless I can find a good Pokemon soon, I might go all the way through the game up to where Kojofuu lives with just Dez the Yanappu and Romo the Pokabu.

paired to kaori & vrai

JP

wut?

Age 32
Male
USA
Seen December 13th, 2019
Posted February 27th, 2019
2,163 posts
14.8 Years
Japanese D:

Probably figuring out what moves I got, what they do, and items.
If not understanding Japanese, it'd be this as well haha.

Sydian

fake your death.

Age 30
they/them
Georgia
Seen May 22nd, 2022
Posted November 29th, 2021
33,354 posts
15.2 Years
Japanese. Not knowing what's around the corner, where to go, ANY POKEMON NAMES WHATSOEVER, and not knowing gym leader levels. Oh. My. Gosh. Got my ass kicked.

Spoiler:
So far the Pokemon I've seen, as named by me, are:
Otter, Piggy, Snakey, Puppy, Ecstasy Squirrel, Sexy Cat, Blue Monkey lolol
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yaminokaitou

りゅうのマスター

Female
South Korea
Seen April 23rd, 2011
Posted December 30th, 2010
350 posts
17.2 Years
Probably understanding the moves. I can read Japanese and with a dictionary I can understand the plot to some extent, but I don't know what all the moves are in Japanese. Most of the time I look at the move details and just see if it does damage and what its element is and whatnot.
Age 29
Male
Croatia
Seen March 13th, 2011
Posted November 20th, 2010
539 posts
15.3 Years
>< lvling up my pokes, i never train them so when i arrive to a gym im always 1-3 lvls under :(
And the gym leaders seem to be much stronger then in the previous games, i acctually feel like having to use some strategy. :D it is much more challenging and i luv it
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Youji

Game Designer

Age 31
Male
Germany
Seen June 21st, 2020
Posted July 15th, 2015
599 posts
16 Years
For me the most challenging thing is training atm...somehow it's much harder to train in B/W than in any other generation... The levelings which where missing in G/S/C/HG/SS are now in B/W...I mean in no other generation, the levels of both, wild pokemon and trainers pokemon raised that fast. So you need to train quite a lot to keep on track... I've played around 20h now and have 5 badges and my pokes are around 34 - 38 :D

Also is it just me or are there less trainers on the routes than normal? I mostly train in the darker green grass as there are to less trainers where you can train optimally and in the dark green grass, you'll encouter stronger pokémon and sometimes 2 so you can raise a weaker one with a stronger one in slot 2 :D