Toughest Gym Leader?

[Allyson]

Which Gym Leader out of all the games was the hardest for you to beat?

For me, it's definitely Whitney and that fat *** cow that flattened my poor Pokemon ):
Norman was hard for me to beat too.

 

[The Pokemon Broadcast]

Which Gym Leader out of all the games was the hardest for you to beat?

For me, it's definitely Whitney and that fat *** cow that flattened my poor Pokemon ):
Norman was hard for me to beat too.

Whitney was hard for me to beat at first too.

Curse you Stomp and Attract!

 

[bippacooleth]

By far Whitney, and coincidentally Norman. Whitney in Silver actually made me cry the fifth time or so I lost (age of 6, btw ) and Norman's Slaking on anything but Torchic runthroughs was pretty suicidal

 

[Kingdomhearts427]

Clair from Gold and Silver.

She was such a pain. 3 Dragonair's that would do nothing but paralyze my entire team. Then a Kingdra that was only weak to dragon moves, which you probably would not have unless you traded...*cough* gameshark.

But in HG/SS they made her easier... in my opinion.

Weirder though, I have never found Whitney to be difficult, I've played Gold, Silver, Crystal, and HG/SS more times then I can remember. Never once did I have difficulty with her. Guess It's luck.

 

[Antiyonder]

I'd say that both Whitney and Norman are really hard to beat when it comes to Miltank and Vigeroth. Even with the type advantage, those Pokemon are tanks. Best I can do is to wear their defense down with Rock Smash and hope that a really powerful attack will send them down.

Claire's pure Dragon Types are easier if you brought in a Pokemon with an Ice Attack, but Kingdra unless you have a Pokemon with a Dragon Type move is simply a monster.

 

[Lorde]

Whitney. I'm not even sure she's an actual Gym Leader; I think she's actually the Devil! I think her Clefairy is fairly easy to defeat, but it takes forever to defeat that Miltank of hers. It's just way too much of a challenge for just the third Gym in the Johto region >:c

 

[Agonist]

Whitney was a *****, and also, Juan, since his kingdra would always spam double team

 

[MugoUrth]

Yeah, I agree. Whitney was a pain to beat. Her Miltank is a beast.

I also had problems with Candice in Platinum, but I guess that's because I didn't have any good Anti-Ice monsters.

 

[heatran_ran]

I believe I agree with everyone who's abusing Whitney over here. Also, although this may seem odd, I actually found Fire red's Misty quite difficult. Meh.

 

[MeowMix]

Whitney....that cow....*shudder* luckily, her Cleffa only metronomed moves like growl and ember....Falkener was a little annoying, as he kept on roost-spamming.

 

[ven?]

Whitney? she was just annoying. The hardest to beat? i've never had a problem's with gym leader's (then again I grind.. alot).

 

[Celest M.]

For me, it was Clair from G/S/C. She's not the final gym leader for nothing. Even when I was overleveled as heck, she still gave me problems back then...

 

[Spacialrend]

Whitney was hard for me to beat at first too.

Curse you Stomp and Attract!

This!

Plus also Clair can be a menace too if you don't have an Ice type on you
(out of all the Pokemon I had at that time, only Feraligatr (Ice Fang) and Gengar were any close to compatible)

 

[benknightprime]

Clair...... and Candice when you have under leveled pokemon and started with torterra

 

[The Fire Starter]

Clair. When I got to her, all of my pokemon were underleveled. Since I didn't want to grind for hours, I had to transfer my HG team over to my Diamond so I could train them more efficiently, then bring them back. It was well worth it to pluck down her dragons one by one.

 

[Katipunero]

Clair (Kingdra was a pain) and Tate & Liza (It was my first time gym leaders through double battle then and their earthquake-levitate combo ripped my team to shreds)

 

[Spacialrend]

Yeah. I forgot how tough Tate/Liza were too. What type did they have again? I thought it was Psychic. I can't believe my Mightyena AND my Absol were crushed by the type theyre meant to me immune too.

 

[SceptileFan]

Whitney. I never played G/S (my 1st game was Ruby), but she was such a pain in HG/SS. Seriously. I did beat her on the 1st try, but I wasted about 35 super potions, and she took out all but one Pokemon with that stupid freaking Miltank.

Also, I found Brawly difficult in Ruby. Makuhita destroyed me the 1st two times I fought, and I got really frustrated (I was 8). But then I literally spent about a solid week training my Grovyle, and unknowingly got him up to level 29. I was still nervous about losing, but then Leaf Blade knocked both Pokemon out in one hit. Yeah, so not really difficult anymore.

 

[NimhShambler]

I grind like a maniac (usually 25-30 levels ahead of the current gym leader. Preperation!), but I occasionally have trouble with a gym leader.

When I was a kid, it was Sabrina.

Now, it's Liza and Tate. I hated those kids. (Double whammy on me, Double battle (which I hate and suck at) and Psychic type GL's.)

Of course, the reason I had/have trouble with those is because of type match ups. I refuse to use any type but fighting, as they are my favorite.

~Nemmeh

 

[iup788]

ntr

I don't think Whitney was hard at all. My Quilava pwnd her pretty easily. The hardest gym leader(s) were Liza & Tate. I trained my pokemon to 20 levels above theirs for that battle, and it was still hard.