Thread: The Gym Leader battles that surprised you the most upon your first challenge

I am going to repeat what a lot here have said.
Whitney and her Miltank...

I really had no problem with beating down Whitney, mainly because the Monferno I had traded round ended up a female. All my hate goes to a certain annoying psychic duo... It took me at least five tries to get past them, even with two dark types. Juan's Kingdra was also pretty unfair.

Chuck in Gold was surprisingly difficult. That Poliwrath. ~.<

BUGSY. So very much. I thought since he was using Bug-types, he was going to be easy. Apparently not! I cannot even BEGIN to count how many times I died to that Scyther.

I had no trouble with Clay in B/W. None at all.

BLACK 2 ON THE OTHER HAND...

Elesa in BW easily. Although I knew of Emolga's existence, the sheer fact that they pulled the rug from under your feet and gave you a levitating electric Pokemon is amazing. So wait, I need a rock type Pokemon or move? Uh...........

NORMAN, I had a Lv. 37 Blaziken and I still barely got out of there alive (yeah I suck T_T)
Tate and Liza in Emerald, they really fought like competitive players.
Saturn (he's the one who had the Gyarados right?).
Whitney, but that goes without saying.
Bugsy in HG, he killed everyone T___T

Whitney embaressed me.. twice.

Candice i was so comterbale in the battle i was already thinking about what to do after the match or weather to get a spot tea, then she sent in froslass and blizzed 4 of my pokemon. She had hail going and every blizzard it i had no answer.. altohugh i stil would of won had Octillerys flamethrower not missed, Rageee !!!

The twins, cuz I saw that the 2 they sent out were their only 2, and didn't think it would be so bad. Never have I been so wrong.

Also, Elesa, cuz she seemed to be the first gym leader with a strategy she was able to pull off well. Even when I tried countering it with my blitzle, to use motor drive to suck up volt switches. She then bested me with her zebstrika /:^

I remembered playing Sapphire and reaching the Petalburg Gym. Some of you may think that Norman (player's dad) being the Gym Leader would be the surprising part, but that's not the case. Actually, the part that surprised me the most was his Slaking. It has an ability that prevents it from moving every second turn, yet he is very tough because Slaking is just a really hard hitter. Tate and Liza in Emerald was a surprise for me because they rely on Earthquakes to do damage, and as you know, Earthquake is a devastating move.

For White, I am surprised with Clay. Not because he is hard (he is not the hardest), but because of his choice of the final Pokemon. You see, if you have a Grass-type by the time you made your first KO (Krokorok), then he will bring out Excadrill next, which was supposed to be his ultimate Pokemon. Now, the surprising part is hearing the final Pokemon music while Palpitoad was sent out, since Clay refused to put it against a Grass-type (I used Servine). Iris is the other Leader I was surprised, because she used Dragon Dance Pokemon, which I am honestly terrified to see. Fortunately it wasn't too bad, since I used a Serperior with Leech Seed and Coil.

Thanks for reading.

When I first played Silver and Crystal, Whitney was easy. I had zero problems with her and whipped her easily. When I played SS, however, things changed.

It took me three tries to finally nail down a win and if I hadn't set up an entry hazard with my Beedrill, I may not have been able to pull it off. I owe the win to my Sting and if he hadn't been over-leveled, I might not have made it.

Elesa absolutely stunned me on Black. I was swearing, cursing and very close to pitching my DS against a wall thanks to her Emolga. Even though I had what I thought was a counter, it didn't work; that Drilbur was leveled by her Zebstrika. My Boldore could hurt her but Ironhide couldn't do much against the two flying rats from Hades. I don't know how I managed to pull it off, but I still managed to beat her and get the Badge.

My run-through on White was a different story and it's the reason why I say that as soon as I possibly can, I will have a Golett on my team. Little guy is a lifesaver.

With pokemon Red I had plenty of trouble with Misty. Poor Charmeleon. He is still traumatized today. And he doesn't even exist anymore. Go figure! Brock also surprised me, but that was more that his onix fainted after a tackle from caterpy. The little green monster took the last chip of HP from the rock snake. That was so awesome!

My poor easily irritated child self, why did Miltank have to torture you so? Whitney, Whitney, Whitney...

Whitney. I had a pinsir with brick break but her clefairy ruined my plans with magma storm(from metrenome).second time i copped her 3 turn power rollout
third time my pinsir was male so her miltanks attract stopped me from attacking .FOURTH time i used different strategy i send out female zubat to get a hit from rollout then switch to geodude so it cant use attract but it KO's my zubat with stomp and the fifth time i FINALLY beat her.

Well, aside from Whitney and her Bovine of Divine Punishment, there was Elesa, lady of endless volt switches.