4th Gen Most difficult aspect of DPPt?

[Anime Sucks]

The Marsh and Snow routes made it difficult to just move around. If that's not the worst idk what is. Cynthia was pretty difficult too.

 

[acatfrommars]

Besides White 2 I would say that Diamond is up there as one of the "harder" (I use the term loosely) games in the series. I remember my last playthrough about a year ago that actually Lucian with his psychic types gave me a hard time, and that Cynthia was even harder. Nevertheless the most annoying part of the game, already mentioned in this thread, would have to be Mt. coronet simply because even with flash that thing was a pain to get through....

 

[Caliber70]

Lucian is harder than Cynthia TBH. i had more trouble with Alakazam and needed to restart more with Lucian than with Cynthia. with that alakazam your speed becomes crucial i needed quickclaw to have a chance. i also did things differently than usual:

Spoiler:

i had a four unit team, Infernape Luxray Gyarados Lucario, so the game EXP was divided among my 4 rather than my 6. Infernape has closecombat flamethrower earthquake aerialace, gyarados has waterfall avalanche payback return. Luxray has spark thunderbolt hiddenpower (grass type) and crunch. and Lucario has aurasphere sworddance dragonpulse and shadowclaw. Lux's hiddenpower is for those few times you have to deal with a whiscash. lucario+quickclaw is my main player against Lucian, with sworddance and shadowclaw, with Lux's crunch and Gyarados' payback as backup.

and Gyarados is my main player against garchomp, was going with icefang being my original strategy, & then i found out avalanche from the 7th gym, with avalanche doing 2X if you take a hit, 4X power against garchomp(dragon+flying) that's 60 (8X) = 480 damage power if garchomp hits gyarados first, which is not too much of a question seeing garchomp's speed stat. all i needed was for garchomp to not have any electric attacks and my gyarados to tank just one hit from garchomp and it would drop in 2 turns max.

my Infernape Luxray Lucario and Gyarados are physical attack beasts.

ye. Alakazam is more trouble than garchomp TBH.

 

[EliteC]

It has to be Cynthia. She was by far the most challenging member of any Pokémon League. Her Milotic and Garchomp were too much for my team far too often. The first time I played in Diamond I had;

Toterra - Lv83
Staraptor - Lv38
Gastrodon - Lv 37
Snover - Lv 33
Luxray - Lv35
Flareon - Lv37

 

[Aether★]

I could hardly find any battle difficult in this game. The more difficult aspect for me was just grinding itself and building an ultimate team to make battles easier, because it was tedious and took long enough.