5th Gen Hardest Unova Gym Leader Page 7

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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Seen May 30th, 2011
Posted April 28th, 2011
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12.1 Years
The hardest one for me would have to be Elesa with her Emolga's pull I started with the water starter which didn't help matters much.
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The only leader I had any trouble with at all was Clay, and that's because I was smart enough to challenge him with no healing items at all. XD The rest of them were astoundingly easy, even Lenora. There are plenty of Fighting-types around, guys. :(
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Elesa was hard for me, the volt switch spam is very very painful. But once I figured out what she was doing I shut it down hard by tanking her with my Snivy and spam healing him. Only lost to her once.

Brycen was a beast for me to beat. Ice types were kinda difficult in every instant I've seen them, they just usually hit so freakin' hard I can't set up very well. The only reason I was was that my Gigialith got lucky with a crit and then I just ran with it. Plus I was really low on money to heal with at the time...

Iris was also pretty hard for me, though not directly. 4 of her gym trainers defeated me, I was scared as hell for the gym leader, and then preceded to one shot her. Did a happy dance afterwards.

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Elesa was pretty tough because of her Pokemon outsped mine (though I used Sawk's Low Sweep to slow Zebstrika down). Because I had Sandile up front, the Emolga spammed Aerial Ace. Luckily, I managed to land a critical hit on the first Emolga with Sandile's Crunch, KOing it.

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Seen September 20th, 2011
Posted June 28th, 2011
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13.3 Years
Elesa was a right pain in the butt. Stupid Volt-Switching Emolgas almost fainted my Boldore before I could do anything, luckily I had Smack Down and a Krokorok in back waiting for the freedom to strike.

Lenora was annoying too, but not quite so much as Elesa. Everyone else was a breeze...Iris was laughably stupid and constantly used Dragon Dance while my Samurott surfed her Pokemon to death :P.
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Lenora gave me a lot of trouble, even with a decently-leveled Fighting-type in my lineup.


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12.9 Years
Volt Switch was evil, but i got swept by a Hone Claws Excadrill from Clay.

The only leader I had any trouble with at all was Clay, and that's because I was smart enough to challenge him with no healing items at all. XD The rest of them were astoundingly easy, even Lenora. There are plenty of Fighting-types around, guys. :(
the main problem people had was Confuse Ray and Hypnosis.

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None of them were hard... by the time I got to burgh, my pokemon were constantly overleveled by 5-10 levels so even elesa didn't give me the slightest trouble... lenora's watchog was the closest to bringing me down completely, but it wasn't a frustrating battle either.


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OMG LENORA THAT B--
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Lenora was very difficult for the second gym. My pokemon were only around Lvl 15 and hers were at least Lvl 20. I had more trouble with Clay though. For some reason, not even my Dewott could beat his Exudrill!


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Australia
Seen February 11th, 2012
Posted January 15th, 2012
71 posts
12.5 Years
Elesa was really hard for me, as I couldn't be stuffed catching (and training) a Sandile.

Everyone seemed to have trouble with Lenora: I was smart and used Flame Charge with my Pignite on Herdier. Then Watchog wasn't fast enough to get me with Retalliation, and was OHKO'd by Arm Thrust.
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12.1 Years
Elisa! God damn woman with her volt switching emolgas drove me mad. However a noble sacrifice from my Musharna saved me and let me win on my first time, and that was the same result for everything, beat all of them on my first try & I found Leonara & Clay really, really easy :). and then when Elisa gives you the Volt switch TM I was OMG OMG OMG YAAAAAAAY and I used it on my Joltik as soon as I caught (who is now BTW a healthy Garvantula :P)
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Seen May 20th, 2011
Posted May 8th, 2011
42 posts
12.1 Years
Is it bad that i havent found any hard? I've done 7/8 so far and just about to get to Opelucid City

Brycen was mega easy.. i pwned all his ice pokemon with my Emboar.. got a perfect match without a single hit :D

As for the other Gym leaders, just pwned them with my Emboar too.. easy! :D
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Seen December 12th, 2011
Posted October 25th, 2011
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12.1 Years
Hm I'm going to go with Lenora. I had to grind abit, that early in the game so my Pokemon would be at reasonable levels. I had trouble with her Watchog, since it used Hypnosis (it was pretty fast) and then could ko my team with Retaliate or Crunch. At that time in the game, I consider Watchog a "tough" Pokemon, because it evolves and learns stronger techniques earlier.