5th Gen Hardest Unova Gym Leader Page 8

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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Tommy The Cat

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Posted April 5th, 2016
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12.2 Years
I'm not actually certain of their names, but I had the most trouble with the first gym leader simply due to levels. After that, I naturally started to pull way ahead of everyone I faced without even spending any time grinding at all. Especially once the lucky egg was given out for free.
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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. :(
I never use healing items in battle. I managed to beat Cynthia with lvls 45-50 and only one pokemon fainted.

I like to mix and match for at least a challenge and not killing things in one hit. My worst (so far) is Elesa. Half of my pokemon at the time weren't electric friendly, which made them not fit for her volt switch... :/

Luckily, my Emolga's static helped out on one of my tries. :)
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Lenora was my easiest. My Oshawott was a beast against her. :3
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12.6 Years
I was kinda overleveled (though, barely) through most of the Gym battles. I also normally had the first Pokemon in my party as the weakness to whatever type that the Gym Leader was using. So really.. it was fairly easy most of the time. Drayden's gym was a hassle at the time, that was technically the hardest Gym for me, while the hardest Gym Leader was Elesa, if memory serves. That Volt Switch..


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Man, this one has been abandoned.

I see there's more variety in who's the hardest gym leader in Unova than in Johto and the like.
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Elesa is tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hard! Guess what? I trained my Sandile until it evolved into Krokorok! And Ground had no effect for flying!! If Geodude was at the Desert Resort, it would be easier to defeat her! She took me 1 hour to defeat!


I don't agree with Lenora's guys cuz i pwned her only with 1 Sawk without a little losing HP, even with Lenora's Watchog!


Drayden.... Sucks... so.. much.
It took me a Vanillish and it fainted at the 1st try with a little stupid Haxorus!



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Elesa. Static. Sucks. Not so hard except wasting multiple turns using Paralyze Heal, which of course left me open to huge damage :/

Oddly enough, I just Dragon Clawed Iris' Pokemon to death with Archeops. And I had my Liepard use Fake Out as soon as Watchog appeared, rendering Retaliate useless.

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The first time I played the game I would've said Iris but after that first playthrough I learned to be prepared for that gym so it's no longer a problem. There is one leader who always gives me a challenge and that's Lenora. It probably wouldn't be so difficult if Herdier didn't have intimidate.

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Lenora: highest BST for that period of game makes it hard to match those stats unless you had Sawk/Throh who got equally good stats. Roggenrola can take retaliate but Crunch breaks you afterward. Those high BST really makes her Pokemon to be at a higher level than it is as most likely your Pokemon are unevolved at that point (or you are very high level then XD)

The later it gets, the more likely you have evolved Pokemon as well... future gym leaders don't scale in level much so game gets easier and easier after Elesa (her last Pokemon also got the high BST thing going on for her too.)

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i think elasa is the hardest, those bloody volt switches are annoyin & i never have a ground type with me thats worth while -_-"

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Elesa was defiantly a tough gym leader to defeat. Especially with that Zebstrika of hers.



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Clay was the hardest for me. Although, right then I had a lot of bad types to go up against him.

WHOA! I see a lot of people had trouble with Elesa, she wasn't that much trouble for me... (I lied... I hate Emolga...)
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