Most annoying gym leader

[appelpower]

Whoops, double post.

 

[Murder Doll]

O Gosh Tate and Liza where annoying...thanks for reminding me of them ._.

Up until BW I only trained 1 pokemon in my team and the rest remained low level to hell.

That made them very annoying to beat.

 

[Kuvario]

I'd really have to say Wattson, Flannery, and Norman. Wattson is tough when I pick Grovyle because I need to level it up very high to brute force my way through the gym. Flannery is for the same reason as well, I never had a good Water Type by that point. Then Norman's Slaking is so OP by then, luckily my starter always evolves into it's last stage by this point.

 

[Teebu]

O Gosh Tate and Liza where annoying...thanks for reminding me of them ._.

Up until BW I only trained 1 pokemon in my team and the rest remained low level to hell.

That made them very annoying to beat.

Well... That's your fault for a seriously dumb strategy lol

Flannery without doubt, damn that torkoal and overheat. One of the few gym leaders in games I actually struggled against.

 

[Trolgon]

Totally agree, Her ;227; wasn't a big deal do to my ;324;, her pelliper and swellow was a nuicance. But her Altaria with moves such as earthquake was truly a beast.

Winona was such a mean card Game Freak played T.T
That Altaria was the biggest challenge in anyone's childhood.

 

[vespiqueen]

Tate and Liza always gave me a challenge, and Norman's Slaking drove me up the wall.

 

[majormanafemale]

Norman was struggle it just takes patients and potions to beat him Winonas altaria is the worst. Tate and Liza aren't that hard if you have a water type pokémon thats leveled fairly well.

 

[Prakhar]

Wattson for me,
I always choose grass type starters (except chespin, i hate fighting types) so all i did was stock up on super potion and x attacks for my vigoroth. In my earlier playthrough i caught a geodude with magnitude (take that magneton!).

 

[Earth Wolf-Howl]

I'd say Brawly. No matter what, with him, I get utterly destroyed and have to resort to using a Sableye to chip down damage. Norman's pretty bad too, but he's nothing if you get a Lairon by this point. By then, even his Slaking isn't that tough.

 

[C O C O]

Tate and Liza tbh. Light Screen and Sunny Day crushes the Surf Spam.

 

[ilovemyumbreon]

Tate and Liza seriously. When I was younger I could not beat them in Emerald for the life of me. So, I want to the Safari Zone, caught 6 Wobbefet, spammed them with Destiny Bond, won, but then I started a new game anyway.
I can scarcely remember a Gym Leader's team, but I will never forget Claydol, Xatu, Solrock, and Lunatone because I spent so much time facing them over and over.

 

[Dedenne1]

Tate and Liza light screen and sunny day kills my chances with my hydro pump and surf. Also it takes out my Swampert immediately using solar beam

 

[AMV3021]

Braly was pretty tough in my opinion, knowing what pokemon he has doesn't help since they're so darn bulky :/ and you're still near the begining.

 

[Homax]

I used to wipe alot on the flying arena when I was playing ruby originally

 

[SSJ Purg]

Wiona is a huge problem everytime...that Altaria upsets me.

 

[PokemonMegaBeast]

Winona why? Dragon Dance altaria it always every time with me sets up 2-3 then aerial ace earthquakes and the dragon breath us just annoying from paralysis

 

[dresden_88]

i absolutely dread brawly every single time. he would completely obliterate me, no matter how much time i spent trying to prepare. the runner up for me was almost always flannery, until i took the time to raise up a gardevoir with double team and calm mind to pull a mixed spec. waller/sweeper. flannery hasn't given me any trouble since then....but brawly....omg...brawly....

 

[Ib4]

Tate and Liza seriously. When I was younger I could not beat them in Emerald for the life of me. So, I want to the Safari Zone, caught 6 Wobbefet, spammed them with Destiny Bond, won, but then I started a new game anyway.

I love this strategy. Hilarious but effective.

I struggled some with Winona in Emerald, but honestly not many others. Although that may have been because I really only had 2 viable Pokemon for most of Emerald- Blaziken and Breloom.
I beat the Emerald E4 with a Lv 82 Rayquaza, Lv 74 Blaziken, and Lv 52 Breloom. I also had a Lv 18 Makuhita, Lv 28 Azumarill, and a Lv 17 Shiftry.
You might say strategy was not my strong suit 9 years ago.

 

[Retro Mew]

On a recent play-through...

...yep, still Norman!

 

[Edd the Huntsman]

Let's go down a list on what I thought of each Gym Leader.

Roxanne: Her Nosepass DOMINATED me in my first playthrough of Emerald because 90% of the time, my Water Gun kept friggin' missing.
Brawly: Makuhita can bite me.
Wattson: High damaging move that never misses and a startling lack of good places to grind for the Gym.
Flannery: Hot, but her Torkoal can mess you up if you're not prepared. That's why I brought Gyarados.
Norman: One word: TEDIOUS. I took advantage of his Slaking's *Ahem* 'Ability', and the fact that all he ever seemed to use was Counter, I just went in a Heal, Attack, something that doesn't involve attacking, attack, pattern and whittled his health down PAINFULLY slowly.
Flying-Type Lady: No problem. I had Gyarados, and he had Dragon Rage. 10 PP, 40 HP each, bam. No problem.
Tate & Liza: Solrock can bite me, the rest was relatively easy. 'Specially that Lunatone. No attacking moves. Literally.
Juan: ...Not there yet in my current playthrough, and I can't remember for the life of me what he was like in my first playthrough.

... I never actually finished that first playthrough, now that I think about it. I only ever got to that Dragon-Type sailor bloke in the Elite 4.