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Gym leader horror stories

ben cousins

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    It took me about 20 times to beat ''normean'' in emerald, oh and dont get me started on whitney i dont remember my squad [it owned] but boy she was hard [that cow!]
     
    Me against Whitney:

    Clefairy used Metronome!
    Clefairy used Spacial Rend!
    Critical Hit!

    *Throws DS out window*
     
    I found Clair (SoulSilver) to be a nightmare...
    Kingdra used Hydro Pump!
    Critical Hit!
    Eevee fainted...
    Kingdra used Hyper Beam!
    Critical Hit!
    Jolteon fainted...

    Imagine that throughout the entire battle. Let's just say after I finally did beat her, I had to go to Game Stop to get my DS repaired...
     
    I found Norman in R/S/E a bit hard

    Swampert used Earthquake (Half Damage)
    Slaking used Facade (Deals over a quarter of damage)
    Swampert Used Earthquake (This repeats throughout the battle).
     
    this may sound dumb... but I DESPISED Erika in Blue hahaha. She spammed Bind to no end and it was THE most frustrating battle ever. And of course when i got some hits in she used a heal... that s***k
     
    I never had any trouble with any gym or E4 battles. I always just trained my type advantage pokemon a bit, fought them, if I lost, level up 6 levels, then fight them again, then we're moving on. I didn't think anyone could actually have trouble with Gyms. Or maybe I was just more laid back about the situations you would call nightmares...
     
    I remember getting beaten half to death by Norman's Slaking in RSE. I don't remember exactly how I won but I think I won by luck.
     
    PlatinumDude said:
    I remember getting beaten half to death by Norman's Slaking in RSE. I don't remember exactly how I won but I think I won by luck.
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    Oh golly, Norman and his Slaking's. I always, always managed to lose to them first try, no matter how much I leveled up. Thank God it was made so much easier in Emerald.

    Whitney also took some time to defeat, although sometimes she was quite easy, but she was mainly difficult... I suppose Normal-type gym leaders are inherently difficult :P

    Tate and Liza were definitely the most difficult leaders, which lead to many nightmares :(... Their emerald team was very rage-inducing.
     
    I remember getting defeated by Whitney so many times because of that stupid Miltank. I must have lost about 4 times.
     
    Even a level 35 marshtomp and a team of top class pokemon in their 20s couldn't beat normans slaking i think in terms of hard gym leader pokemon, normans slaking would be at the very top, beating it was like climbing mount everest even fighting pokemon wern't that helpful... either that or i really sucked[' by the way i'm talking about emerald-- in ruby/saphire he was easier. after about literally 20 loses i went to that mount chimney forrest thing and trained so hard yet i still got owned in the ''rematch'' so then i decided to relentlessy pelt him with about 50 mud shot's whenever i got up to he's slaking that i managed to take out he's entire team, now that was an inspiring moment for me and from then on i just got my sister to do it[' and people who say that normans other pokemon where anything other then simple suck i mean they had good movesets but really where only there to make sure all your useless pokemon where outta the way for the ''showdown'' with slaking[sorry for my silvery attitude] if any one beg's to differ about normans erm... hardery THEN COME FOWARD!
     
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    Brock has always been hard for me to beat since I has Pokémon Yellow. Also Misty's Starmie was a pain. Norman and Whitney are also two of the ones I struggled the most with. I couldn't beat Miltank and it was very frustrating. And the only thing that made me win Norman's battle was that ability Truant, which saved my butt in the end.

    That Clay guy in 5th gen was also hard, cause of Excadrill.
     
    Both Brock and Misty were immensely troubling for anyone who chose Charmander in the first generation.
    More recently, Clair in SoulSilver proved difficult with dragon pulse. One thing worth noting is that her dragons are of aquatic nature; I held on with a stockpiled Lanturn and threw out thunders and signal beams when I could. It was an arduous fight that required many lemonades and an ether, but I was quite elated to have won with an anglerfish about ten levels below anything she had.


    To anyone having trouble with Whitney's Miltank, here's how I made it relatively easy: Go into Union Cave, find and capture an Onix, train it to at least level 20 and get the man in Ilex Forest to teach it headbutt. Ground-typing and a huge defence stat makes it practically immune to rollout.
     
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    Cassino said:
    Both Brock and Misty were immensely troubling for anyone who chose Charmander in the first generation.
    More recently, Clair in SoulSilver proved difficult with dragon pulse. One thing worth noting is that her dragons are of aquatic nature; I held on with a stockpiled Lanturn and threw out thunders and signal beams when I could. It was an arduous fight that required many lemonades and an ether, but I was quite elated to have won with an anglerfish about ten levels below anything she had.


    To anyone having trouble with Whitney's Miltank, here's how I made it relatively easy: Go into Union Cave, find and capture an Onix, train it to at least level 20 and get the man in Ilex Forest to teach it headbutt. Ground-typing and a huge defence stat makes it practically immune to rollout.
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    brock was hard but i always found misty to be pretty easy [back when i was like 5 she was hard]
     
    ben cousins said:
    Even a level 35 marshtomp and a team of top class pokemon in their 20s couldn't beat normans slaking i think in terms of hard gym leader pokemon, normans slaking would be at the very top, beating it was like climbing mount everest even fighting pokemon wern't that helpful... either that or i really sucked[' by the way i'm talking about emerald-- in ruby/saphire he was easier. after about literally 20 loses i went to that mount chimney forrest thing and trained so hard yet i still got owned in the ''rematch'' so then i decided to relentlessy pelt him with about 50 mud shot's whenever i got up to he's slaking that i managed to take out he's entire team, now that was an inspiring moment for me and from then on i just got my sister to do it[' and people who say that normans other pokemon where anything other then simple suck i mean they had good movesets but really where only there to make sure all your useless pokemon where outta the way for the ''showdown'' with slaking[sorry for my silvery attitude] if any one beg's to differ about normans erm... hardery THEN COME FOWARD!
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    I actually had a Swampert when I defeated Norman & he still was hard!
     
    Deliciousfruit233 said:
    I actually found Norman's Slaking pretty easy. All I did was spam Fly until it either died, or I was out of PP. Depending on my levels, I can take out a huge chunk of it's HP before it can even do a thing. Truant is so exploitable.

    Whitney, on the other hand... unless I use a Geodude, she's a royal pain in the arse.
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    wel i can only assume the pokemon you had where like in their 40s
     
    Yoshikkko said:
    Brock has always been hard for me to beat since I has Pokémon Yellow. Also Misty's Starmie was a pain. Norman and Whitney are also two of the ones I struggled the most with. I couldn't beat Miltank and it was very frustrating. And the only thing that made me win Norman's battle was that ability Truant, which saved my butt in the end.

    That Clay guy in 5th gen was also hard, cause of Excadrill.
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    Clay isn't really that hard. My Dewott swept his whole team.

    He's really easy with Water and Grass Pokemon.
     
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