5th Gen Hardest Unova Gym Leader Page 6

Started by PaxAmericana March 9th, 2011 3:26 PM
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Which Gym Leader gave the hardest challenge for you?

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Drayden was easily the hardest for me, as I had no Pokemon with Dragon or Ice moves, so just had to have my beloved Excadrill Earthquake the crap out of all of the stooges and Drayden himself, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't.

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I'd say that only the first Gym was hard. I wasn't trained well and I lost once, but with some strategy, I won the second time. As for Elesa, she WAS hard but i had my Zebstrika that knew Shock Wave to take out the Emolgas (Shock Wave = Neutral effectiveness because of Flying dual type) :). None of the Gym Leaders were very difficult after that although Drayden's Haxorus almost swept my team because of Dragon Dance.
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Lenora was tough with her evil Watchog's retaliate and me only having one pokemon (my panpour didn't count). Elesa was very easy, as I countered her double team with my Snivy's coil. Drayden was very difficult, and I had a lot of fun battling him, as his dragon dance Haxorus was evenly matched with my coiling Servine. At least until he started using dragon tail.
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Elesa was the hardest for me because of her freaking Emolgas and their Double Team. x_x; I seriously had three Pokemon in there that couldn't get a hit for like, 5 turns because of that. And because they're part-Flying, they're immune to Ground, making my poor Krokorok somewhat useless in that battle.

Lenora was kind of tough as well because of her Watchog's Retaliate. It OHKO'd my Pignite and I ended up having to soft reset (I hate losing, lmao) and trying again. XD;
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Have been stuck on Elesa for ages. :(
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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.
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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.

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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
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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.
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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.

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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;