5th Gen Hardest Unova Gym Leader

[PaxAmericana]

Saw this on Serebii forums, so it migrated to Pokecommunity.

What was your hardest?

I felt that Clay was very hard.

 

[.Wolfie-kun.]

Iris, since I'm never that good against Dragon types >.>

I managed to win first time, but man that one was difficult

 

[SpiderCarnage]

elesa's electric gym i lost 5 times & my pokemon were all high lvls

 

[kirbyking1234]

Elesa, water type+no other strong pokemon=uber hard.

 

[MichaelDj54]

Elesa. I got through the skin of my teeth with her, and even then it was a lucky critical hit with Dweeble.

 

[Lucario-Avantasia]

OH GAWD LENORA.

Seriously, the only times I've won are when her AI went stupid and made her watchog use leer or hypnosis after her herdier fainted... (I have both Jap. and American versions of both black and white...)

TL;DR: Lenora is a boss, and Retaliate = Srs bzns.

 

[Rawrinism]

I would have to say Elesa, her Emoglas were a pain in the butt. >____>

 

[インフェルノの津波]

Lenora. Thank God I had a Drilbur using Dig.

 

[Sydian]

Chili! It's hard to train at the beginning, and without a monkey, you're screwed. And Incinerate burns away your Oran Berry, even if you are using Panpour against his Pansear. :( I didn't have too much trouble with any other leader, so... v_v

 

[Steven]

Lenora is Unova's Whitney.

X_X

 

[Livewire]

I didn't have any trouble with Lenora, to be honest. :x Roggenrola pretty much wiped her out.

 

[Kokuo]

The hardest one for me was Drayden, mainly because I had no pokemon that were good against dragon types.

 

[Dillon_68]

Elesa, I HATE Volt Switch. Didn't expect Emolga to be that good, guess thats the great part of having all new Pokemon, dont know what to expect. Lenora was also the only time I whited out, Crunch + Retaliate=Pain.

 

[JP]

Lenora, her Pokemon knowing Take Down was a huge pain in the ass. Elesa's two Emolga's Volt Switch were also pretty annoying, though I must say very effective. Thirdly, Burgh's bugs were quite a pain for me as I had pretty much nothing that was effective against Bug types.

The rest was pretty much smooth sailing. I did have some problems with Clay's Excadrill, though I suppose I was just not ready. I must say, never had I so many rough patches through winning my badges as I had in this generation. Was definitely fun though.

 

[Kww37]

Elesa was definitely the hardest. Emolga and their dang Double Team really annoyed me. Other than that, I've defeated seven so far, but I am assuming this Dragon leader shall be difficult.

 

[GlitchCity]

Burgh gave me a very, very hard time. My entire team was weak to Bug type. So I had to keep resetting the game and train until I was able to finally beat him.

 

[Nick]

I just beat Iris, so now I can reply to this with experience.

For me, the hardest gym leader to beat was Lenora due to her always using retaliation. I had to battle her multiple times and it was just so frustrating! I only had and only wanted to use my starter to beat her.

After that, the gym leaders became extremely easy, apart from Burgh. I easily 1HKO'd most of them. But Lenora was the only gym leader that I lost against.

 

[X Latios]

Lenora was really difficult for the second Leader I found, Take Down and Retaliate just ripped my team to shreds every time, nothing a bit of grinding couldn't fix though.
The rest of the Leaders I haven't had any problem with at all though I am yet to fight Iris or the Ice Leader.

 

[Elesa~]

Obviously I'm the hardest gym leader to beat! XP Elesa, her Zeburaika was sooo annoying.

 

[Revolver Oshawott]

Elesa is definitely the hardest for me. Her Emolga's plus Double Team drove me insane.