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3rd Gen Hardest Hoenn Gym Leader?

Who is the hardest Hoenn Gym Leader?

  • Roxanne

    Votes: 5 1.7%

  • Brawly

    Votes: 25 8.7%

  • Wattson

    Votes: 26 9.1%

  • Flannery

    Votes: 7 2.4%

  • Norman

    Votes: 53 18.5%

  • Winona

    Votes: 22 7.7%

  • Tate & Liza

    Votes: 129 45.1%

  • Wallace/Juan

    Votes: 19 6.6%
  • Total voters
    286
Definetly Wattson, not because of the electricity type, but because of the steel typing. If you treecko you didn't really stand a chance. I mostly chose mudkip which made it a breeze but on my bug monotype I was stuck on Wattson for three dyas straight. I had to grind 5 levels to beat him.
 
Wattson! That dang manectric wiped out my whole team several times with shock wave! Norman and Tate and Liza were difficult too but I beat them both on my first try... I probably lost to Wattson like 10 times before I finally got that badge!
 
How is Liza and tate hard???. They use Psychics. Only formidable ones are Solrock and Lunatone. Because they are rocks. Over whalm them with brute force and they crumble. You cant do that with water/ice types
 
Having just recently defeated all 8, I'd have to say the one I had the most trouble with was Norman! That Slaking was just too annoying!

Winona would probably take second place, 'cause of that damn Altaria! And in third place I'd put Juan (never battled Wallace 'cause I've only played Emerald), just 'cause I had to do a fair bit of grinding to be properly ready for him. That Whiscash had more HP than I thought!
 
the hardest for me was wallace and brawley. wallaces milotic was ice beaming me to death. and brawley was just really hard no matter what pokemon i had
 
I';d have to say Brawly. I only had Mudkip, Poochyena and Taillow (I think Taillow was very low leveled) and Wurmples. Was very hard to beat him, had to train everything about 16 levels, and fight him 16 different times. =p
 
Norman's Slaking Family must've beaten me 1000 times:disappoin
 
Norman was hard, but Tate/Lisa were a pain. I don't remember exactly why they were so hard, since it's been a long time since I last played them, but it was probably because I didn't have any Pokémon that were particularly effective against their Solrock/Lunatone combo. I'll have a play through of the games again and see who annoys me now. XD
 
I've played Sapphire version many times and I have to say both Wattson and Norman were hard to beat. I mean, Wattson's Magneton using Shock Wave was annoying and unless you started with Mudkip (or you had high-leveled Pokémon), it turned out to be irritating. And Norman, I remember his Slaking to be very annoying with the combo Yawn+Facade.
I really miss how difficult they used to be, now you can beat them with your eyes closed.
 
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In a recent playthrough of Emerald, I dumped my Torchic at level 12, so Flannery tore through my Breloom, Swellow and weak basic Pokemon. In my most recent runthrough, the only Gym Leader that has defeated me once is Norman.
 
Unless I pick Swampert as my starter than Liza & Tate will always tear me apart at least 3 times before I think of an effective strategy or grind enough levels in order to take them down in Emerald.
 
Definitely Wattson. Ugh, that Magneton. D: As a kid that was always the gym I got stuck on, and I still have a pretty hard time beating it. I never have any Pokemon that can do much damage to Magneton.
 
They were all kinda difficult. The ones I had the least trouble with was Tate and Liza, probably because I always pick Treecko which meant Xatu was the only problem. But Treecko also gave me hell against Wattson's Magneton, Flannery's Torkoal, Norman's Slaking (Treecko has a piddly defence), Juan's Kingdra (especially after Double Team)...

Most difficult would be Winona - her Pokemon, particularly Skarmory, JUST DON'T DIE
 
I always had issues with Brawly, but never with any of the other Gym Leaders. Maybe I was just unlucky/lucky, but always had troubles with that darn 2nd gym.
 
I always found myself being under-levelled when I reached Brawly and had to grind for xp in the nearby cave, his pokemons' moves are pretty devastating for that stage in the game, I suppose I never found Tate & Liza difficult as my instinct to spam surf usually resulted in a fairly easy win
 
Yeah, as I've heard from most people here some Gym Leaders can be really easy while others can be a nightmare based entirely on your starter choice.

I've heard Treecko and Torchic players struggle against more Gym Leaders than players who went with Mudkip like me.

But yeah, Norman was the hardest for me due to that Slaking. Brawly came a close second since I didn't have any Psychic-types with me at the time.
 
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