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5th Gen Hardest Unova Gym Leader

Which Gym Leader gave the hardest challenge for you?

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After reading about how hard Lenora was for most people, I was able to "cheat" her by a) trading for a Pignite over the GTS, and b) bringing out a Lv. 2 Patrat just as her Watchog was about to use Retaliate. If I were a Nuzlocker the battle would have really been hell.
 
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..
 
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.
 
Elesa was definitely the only challemge i had, beating her with 3 pokemon was not an easy task, I didn't struggle with zebstrika but those emolgas made life irritating
 
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!



A NOTE FOR BOTH ELESA OR DRAYDEN!

We don't want Rematches for you! Elite 4 are okay.
 
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.
 
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.
 
For me Lenora was the hardest. Mainly because after that tough battle I decided to train up against Audinos in Pinwheel Forest. Eventually when I did continue, I flew through the gyms. (I don't even remember defeating Burgh, Skyla or Drayden)
 
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.)
 
Elesa for me. Those emolgas were so annoying, especially how they kept dodging my Pokemon's attacks.>_>;
 
i think elasa is the hardest, those bloody volt switches are annoyin & i never have a ground type with me thats worth while -_-"
 
Elesa was kind of easy for me; the only annoying part was the Volt Switch she kept using with her Emolga's. But Drayden was a pain, his Haxorus kept killing me.
 
They were all easy really, I've never had trouble with pokemon games.
But if I was to pick, it would be Burgh
 
Elesa was pretty easy for me. I have trouble with Clay every time I black through Black - I'm always a few levels below his Excadrill whenever I challenge him.
 
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...)
 
Elisa and Lenora were both hard for me. Both are females too coincidentally.
 
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