Gym Leaders or the Pokemon League? (2024)

Ryuutakesh! said:

the league. Oh the league.

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I concur, I had such a hard time with Karen & Lance, my pokémon were a bit underleved :/

Kanto Gym Leaders, it is rather hard to have your team of similar levels to them.

Nevando said:

Strangely enough, I had the most annoying time with Erika

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You're not the only one. That Tangela of hers swept me twice.

Johto Leaders I guess. Bugsy was for some reason a pain in my JP SS, and Whitney and Clair were slight annoyances (though still one-try victories) in my US HG. They all really weren't horribly difficult or annoying besides Bugsy. I'm still not sure why, but whatever.

Iteru said:

Kanto Gym Leaders, it is rather hard to have your team of similar levels to them.

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:/ I fight leaders with pokémon WELL under their levels all the time and have had no problems... Fighting with them around the same levels is NOTHING compared to the amazing challenge that is fighting with rather lower level pokémon.

Hm. Depends. My team is rather unbalanced right now--I have a Dragonite that can sweep through any Kanto leader, but I'm trying to train up the rest of my team (high 30s to mid 40s) and they're struggling. Misty was especially frustrating.

I was pretty underleveled around the board in Johto, so those leaders were frustrating. And Lance swept my team several times when I took the League on.

So the answer to your question is: yes.

Actually, with a fair application of items, the league wasn't that bad.

Now, there were a few Gym leaders that were a pain in HGSS, namely Whitney and Claire (I think that Bugsy put up a good fight, too, if I recall). Now I've beaten the E4 fairly, but Sabrina is giving me quite a bit of trouble. Might be because the only thing I have with a super-effective more is my Furret, but still.

I thought the league has been harder. They overall seem to just simply be on a higher playing level than the gym leaders. Even though I spend the whole game creating a gym that's well type-matched particularly for the league and later for the gym leaders in Kanto, I still found them a little challenging simply because they seem to fight better.

And you can't go to a poke center between each of the fights. Oddly, I didn't need to as much, but I imagine I will later in the second time I face them.

I did find Blue difficult. I didn't have any pokemon that were extremely super effective agaisnt his pokemon except for that Pidgeot and I think one or two others...but overall I felt a little intimidated by him and had to take another trip through the E4 (even though they were in the 40s) to get my pokemon up to a good level.