Gym leader horror stories

Oh crap, I'm an idiot. I remembered that fight completely wrong. Actually, now I can't remember HOW I beat him. I'll delete my posts. :/

Edit: NOW I remember what I did. I used Steel Wing to raise my Defense really high, so by the time I reached Slaking, it couldn't do much damage, and I was able to slowly whittle it down.
 
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Deliciousfruit233 said:
Oh crap, I'm an idiot. I remembered that fight completely wrong. Actually, now I can't remember HOW I beat him. I'll delete my posts. :/

Edit: NOW I remember what I did. I used Steel Wing to raise my Defense really high, so by the time I reached Slaking, it couldn't do much damage, and I was able to slowly whittle it down.
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see even once you beat norman he's still a pain in the ass
 
Norman was easy, well if you have Blaziken by then, anyway. xD I one shot all his Pokemon.

My biggest Gym problem has actually been Gardena, cause I had a Piplup starter and no Pokemon that could defeat Grass types.. in this playthrough, I'm almost at her gym, get ready Gardena, this time I have a Piplup with Ice beam and my starter is a Chimchar that has evolved into his second evo. >_<
 
I would say sabrina in pokemon yellow, her whole team is at level 50 and it is sort of hard to get all of your pokemon at that level in such a short time. But I don't really struggle with gym leaders, just the elite four.
 
Drakio said:
I would say sabrina in pokemon yellow, her whole team is at level 50 and it is sort of hard to get all of your pokemon at that level in such a short time.
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That, & the fact that the only Pokémon that has the type-advantage against psychics, also happens to be dual-typed with poison, which defeats Gengar's purpose in the first place. Because of that, the only way to combat Psychic-types is with your own Psychic-type. In other words, you'd have to fight fire with fire.

Anyhow, the only gym leaders that gave me those so-called "horror stories" that you speak of would be Whitney, due to Cute Charm/Attract & her Miltank, & Elesa, for her dual Emolgas being immune to ground attacks. Everyone else is just a stepping stone on my path to the champion.
 
Blade_of_darkness said:
That, & the fact that the only Pokémon that has the type-advantage against psychics, also happens to be dual-typed with poison, which defeats Gengar's purpose in the first place. Because of that, the only way to combat Psychic-types is with your own Psychic-type. In other words, you'd have to fight fire with fire.

Yes you are right but you are also forgetting about bug pokemon, they have a type advantage over psychic type, it's just unlikely for someone to have one at level 50.
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ben cousins said:
see even once you beat norman he's still a pain in the ass
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Meh, I didn't anyway. It was a helluva fun battle. But I just used a Pelipper/Swampert, since they learn Protect naturally, and just used Protect when the Slaking weren't on Truant. Simple. Fun to watch though.

When I was younger, I thought that Wattson and the rival in Slateport were ridiculously hard. Same with Brawly, since his Vital Throw never misses, completely killing my Sand-Attack strategy. Of course, I figured out Magneton didn't have levitate (fail...) and the rival was... I used Sand-Attack again. Brawly wasn't too bad. The Gym Trainers gave me some nifty experience, so I was pretty well-rounded in terms of leveling and beat him easily. And you can skip Brawly, if you can navigate through the cave without Flash, which isn't too bad.
 
ben cousins said:
Arnt we forgeting brawly? without a tailow/torchic he's vvvery hard
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You're joking, right? There's a bunch more that can put him in his place, that Brawly is just a helpless wimp, especially in the face of a Kadabra/Alakazam.
 
ben cousins said:
even a sharked team that inculded mewtwo,salamence and tyranitar still wasn't good enough for tate and liza or as i call them ''the angel's of death''
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They weren't that bad. I used either a water-type with Surf, or a steel-type with Iron Tail. You could also catch an Absol, which I've been doing a lot recently. I remember when I first tried Tate & Liza on Emerald, I went fishing for about an hour to catch a Wailmer, then evolved it to a Wailord, then finally beat them (because my starter was Blaziken).
 
I had a little bit of trouble with Tate & Liza but not as bad as ben cousins, I just used surf like what psyanic
said and have the other pokemon use protect or fly.
 
Champion Blue on Pokemon Red. I had only raised my Charizard, and it worked just fine until I got to him. I remember that it took at least 4 months to beat him.
 
I found Clair really hard in SoulSilver, my Piloswine had a type advantage but fell to her Kingdra then I had to settle on using an underleveled Dewgong and managed to defeat her with it.

Drayden in Black was hard too, I was planning to use Gothitelle's Attract to disable him but she fell to his Druddigon. Samurott beat his Haxorus though.

I just find Dragon-type Gym Leaders really hard.
 
Elesa on Black slaughtered me. After I FINALLY beat her Emolga, she destroyed me with her Zebstrika. I had to train a few more levels before I could beat her.

Also, Morty and his Genger. Genger's Hypnosis would always hit and Genger would be free to use Dream Eater on my Normal Types. In SoulSilver, I trained an Aerodactyl from an egg and it outsped the Genger. Revenge is sweet.
 
I Vaguely remember Norman being hard... and almost everyone hates whitneys miltank but i dont remember that much of it. just ROLLOUT ROLLOUT ROLLOUT ROLLOUT ROLLOUT

Hikari10 said:
I found Clair really hard in SoulSilver, my Piloswine had a type advantage but fell to her Kingdra then I had to settle on using an underleveled Dewgong and managed to defeat her with it.

Drayden in Black was hard too, I was planning to use Gothitelle's Attract to disable him but she fell to his Druddigon. Samurott beat his Haxorus though.

I just find Dragon-type Gym Leaders really hard.
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I Agree. dragon gyms are hard for me too lol
 
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Ssj3 Pikachu said:
I Vaguely remember Norman being hard... and almost everyone hates whitneys miltank but i dont remember that much of it. just ROLLOUT ROLLOUT ROLLOUT ROLLOUT ROLLOUT

I Agree. dragon gyms are hard for me too lol
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I didn't have much trouble with Whitney's Miltank, maybe it was because I did a lot of grinding and I ended up a few levels above her.

LyokoGirl5000 said:
Elesa on Black slaughtered me. After I FINALLY beat her Emolga, she destroyed me with her Zebstrika. I had to train a few more levels before I could beat her.

Also, Morty and his Genger. Genger's Hypnosis would always hit and Genger would be free to use Dream Eater on my Normal Types. In SoulSilver, I trained an Aerodactyl from an egg and it outsped the Genger. Revenge is sweet.
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I didn't have much trouble against Morty either, my Xatu was pretty strong.

As for Elesa, I beat all her Pokemon using only my Zebstrika (she's female and I did a combination of Attract and Flame Charge).
 
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