Ranking all the Johto Gym Leaders from Easiest to Hardest

[@liverenjoyer]

How many times can Morty’s F#%#% Gengar hit hypnosis?! Gengar: Yes

[@BmanTheChamp]

Yeah, I feel like the NPC's usually bypass the hit/miss ratio, or at least it's more skewed in their favour.

[@VGBrothers]

It's the same with Poliwrath's Hypnosis in Chuck's gym. Especially in the remakes.

[@matttmailinator3859]

Classic weeaboo comment

[@sebbyteh9203]

hypnosis is so op they decided to nerf it in later generations

[@jsn9921]

Bro I battled Blue and his Gyarados kept using Counter and I used almost all my full restores and revives hoping it would stop. I had 60 full restores it was insane. In my second rematch I changed my strategy and used Maggie the magenton who was 12 levels under Gyarados and they pulled through and knocked it out with a single Discharge.

[@oresti9271]

Mystic :morty can be beaten easily Me having flashbacks of mortys pokemon putting my pokemons on sleep and he using dream eater on them

[@Hamanuna]

Morty is more of an annoying gym leader than a hard one

[@oresti9271]

@@Hamanuna that's true but he isn't easier than falkner morty is harder than falkner and bugsy in my opinion

[@TNobody0214]

He is only easy if you have a psychic. Which there are plently to get, I just think it quite a dumb think to put morty as one of the easiest because you can get a counter pokemon, but dont include his move list, but list whitney and claire high on the list with an counter pokemon you can get nearby but listed their move set as reason to say they are harder.

[@lovethedemonwolf2603]

**Vietnam flashbacks**

[@10gaws71]

I swept morty with feraligatr

[@alexvaughan1013]

Here's how you beat Johto like a pro: Choose Cyndaquil --> Only train Cyndaquil --> Rek everything with grossly over-leveled Typhlosion --> Profit

[@thousandyardgavri2785]

Miltank use Rollout

[@alexvaughan1013]

@@thousandyardgavri2785 Miltank: Omae wa mou shindeiru. Quliava: NANI??

[@gavin3415]

Clair would like to know your location.

[@zedmiller7924]

Nah Use feligator alone Surf Dragon claw Crunch Ice punch

[@byckiwi]

Hard when Typhlosion doesnt learn it until lvl 60 tho

[@wordlifeecw]

Actually, the Machop you trade for is female, so Attract isn't an issue.

[@wordlifeecw]

@@carstensimao1934 no, Gamefreak made it female to counteract Miltank's attract.

[@gabrielchua5797]

Ur wrong it is a 1/4 chance to get female machop

[@wordlifeecw]

@@gabrielchua5797 no, it will ALWAYS be female.

[@courtneyfranklin3631]

It’s hard to get a male Machop all the way to Machoke

[@penggao7034]

Don’t you have to trade a female drowzee to get a female machop?

[@calar8]

I agree with Claire, I lost my last Nuzlocke to that friggen Kingdra.

[@PokeBlox21]

Thrash*

[@jaycharleston2570]

Nuzlocke?

[@calar8]

@@jaycharleston2570 bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Nuzlocke_Challenge

[@jaycharleston2570]

@@calar8 would it have been easier to say the definition of the word

[@yoiamhere4737]

My condolences

[@ryanmeneo6301]

Morty is even easier when you realize that noctowl breaks this gym by not be affected by almost all their moves and having confusion at this point in the game

[@shironeko1843]

@Harry Kelly not in Gen 2. And it was psyquic type which was inmune to ghosts back then in Gen 1

[@mastermindcow6210]

@Harry Kelly Dark is immune to Psychic, not Ghost.

[@mcnugget8927]

Guys...noctowl is a normal flying..it could take care of Morty's gym easily

[@mastermindcow6210]

@@mcnugget8927 I know.

[@mcnugget8927]

@@mastermindcow6210 yeah...but almost everyone thinks Noctowl is a psychic type

[@hogusbogus7685]

For Clair’s gym, I just used my Lapras to take out her Dragonairs and used Perish Song to take out her Kingdra Edit: Thanks for the likes, my first comment to reach the triple digits

[@zoeymorris9910]

Hi five bro✋

[@meandeverything9513]

👏👏👏

[@exoticgamer5454]

I used my Quilava for 1st dragonair, heracross for 2nd dragonair, 3rd dragonair by Ampharos and wobuffet for Kingdra.

[@gladandsad2581]

I used vaporeon's aurora beam and scizor with gengar for clair.

[@trent800]

I used my Gyarados with twister to sweep her team

[@pedronovais4130]

6:52 In Johto the seventh gym leader has level 30 Pokémon, In Galar the third gym leader has level 30 Pokémon

[@shenkaizo9324]

Pedro Novais Ye but you are getting badges for two regions

[@BmanTheChamp]

I know it's semantics but actually the third gym leader in Galar's highest leveled Pokemon is 27.

[@Alex55455]

Pyrce is an absolutely bizarre 7th gym leader been the same levels as the 5th gym leader and way lower than the 6th gym leader

[@Randmiers]

I had a level 48 Cinderace

[@muhammadusmanshabaz4527]

It's because Johto is the longest Pokemon game

[@oglyscp6389]

Me: oh ok a miltank.... alright.. pretty weak... Whitney: *YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER*

[@jeffreygao3956]

*slices legs* I warned you not to try that.

[@soulhoney1908]

@@jeffreygao3956her miltank: use rollout

[@milanbeerepoot4260]

Am i the only person who didnt have trouble with miltank?

[@xyndryx4995]

Milatank in gold/silver is a lot harder than in HG/SS

[@sonNyET]

Oh boy, Chuck was far from being the easiest gym leader for me when I was a kid. I remember you needed to push the boulders with strength in a specific order. I was too stupid to figure it out so I saved INSIDE the gym and tried few times and restarted if I failed. On second attempt I thought I figured it out but I was wrong and I accidentally saved with boulders placed in a way that didn't allow the further progression. I was so mad I thought I will need to run the whole game again because my save was corrupted and bugged because I can't move the boulders anymore. Stupid 9-year-old me didn't know that exiting and reentering the gym restarts the boulders' setting. I didn't know about this and gave up on the game for two months...

[@jello_sauce]

F

[@connorbraun6815]

F

[@cmck362]

oof

[@megabladechronicles962]

yeah he was way harder than jasmine, swept her team with just feraligatr

[@nickbalmes6640]

Damn feels bad bruh

[@kokopuff4312]

For me it's: Chuck - honestly Chuck for me was more of just a rival and not a gym leader, I swiped his team with my half dying pokemon Bugdsy-easy as well, same as Chuck Pryce-I don't remember much about this guy other than the fact that he was super easy Frankler-The only thing that was annoying me was gust, which rekt my chikorita Jasmine-She was pretty easy, I don't see why people find her challenging Clair-She can be annoying, and her team is pretty tough Morty-Shadow ball swiped my team Whitney- *_Miltank_*

[@Silver_Absol]

As someone who played Heart Gold again and just defeated Claire today, I can confirm that this list is 100% accurate

[@Randmiers]

@Zero except for Whitney being in number 2

[@slimeplayz164]

Milktank used rollout *VITENAM WAR FLASHBACKS

[@tyrant-den884]

Honestly, I think Attract causes more problems at that gym.

[@carriewarnock1818]

funny

[@dogefan12349]

Miltank **Used Rollout** Me: *Vietnam War Flashbacks*

[@corbinselanne7990]

The Gen. IV remakes of the Johto games actually give Jasmine the strongest level of all Johto leaders in the Fighting Dojo teams, as her Steelix reaches 62; only Blue of Kanto, who's already past there with his Gym team, exceeds that

[@Yng_Saint365]

That moment when you come to see if either clair or whitney will be higher Also, can you do a hgss version of this list?

[@ionkinchan8838]

I thoght whitney was the hardest

[@groudonvert7286]

Mortimer and Chuck are harder on HGSS (and Pryce is a joke in both versions).

[@curehappydx5045]

Milktank: You took everything away from me. Kingdra: I don't even know who you are.

[@mr.druwlu4725]

Number 1: that damn milktank

[@Theoriginalotaku96]

Definitely agree with Clair. I think I lost to bugsy twice. With a quilava. That Fury cutter is no joke. Morty was actually pretty difficult too. I had to battle him twice and I barely won.

[@cultleaderofmonke4758]

I feel like morty would be hard if only he had a variety of different ghost types

[@toypikachutheoctoling6029]

Count Dooku I can thank that could be a case if he came back in a future game he could have some ghost types from direct regions

[@cultleaderofmonke4758]

@@toypikachutheoctoling6029 just wait in the remakes of pokemon diamond and pearl he comes with a lv 90 Giratina

[@toypikachutheoctoling6029]

Count Dooku oh no well actually if you managed to get one of the dragon legendary of diamond and pearl

[@andrewkatz5689]

"I agree. More powerful Morty would be if better variety of ghost type Pokémon existed in Gen 2, I believe." FYI, I'm far a bigger Star Wars fan than I am of Pokémon.

[@cultleaderofmonke4758]

@@andrewkatz5689 me too

[@dorkra7007]

Do you think you'll do one for HeartGold and SoulSilver if/when you get around to it?

[@BoostGlitch357]

he should do a hoenn one first i think

[@dorkra7007]

BoostGlitch 357 Yeah, I assumed he’d be going in game order so hoenn then sinnoh then back to Johto

[@BoostGlitch357]

@@dorkra7007 yeah true. But what about fire red and leaf green?

[@dorkra7007]

BoostGlitch 357 I just forgot about it

[@bisli1235]

He didn't even talk about magmar for Pyce and Jasmine D:

[@Anditeshordo]

For vs Jasmine you can also have a nidoking. He has double kick, for the magnimite, and you can teach him surf vs steelix.

[@haydentraynor2098]

The fact that there are only four gym leader Pokémon that are from the new johto dex is the craziest thing ever. It almost seems like they were trying to avoid the new Pokémon.

[@legendaryquartzgaming4342]

My personal order from easiest to hardest 1. Faulkner 2. Chuck 3. Pryce 4. Bugsy 5. Clair 6. Morty 7. Jasmine 8. Whitney

[@4Tom4lepus4]

Mine (from easiest to hardest) is: 1. Chuck 2. Pryce 3. Faulkner 4. Morty 5. Bugsy 6. Jasmine 7. Clair 8. Whitney Whitney is the only one I still find potentially problematic nowadays. :D Since I'm a Chikorita kind of guy, Bugsy can be tricky af for me, too, but Pryce and Chuck are a joke. :D

[@hockeycrafter6086]

4Tom4lepus4 ikr? How tf was price number 5 on his list Mine would have to go Pryce Falkner Chuck (I swear dynamic punch never misses with this man) Bugsy Morty Jasmine Whitney Clair

[@jongamingjongaming5564]

LegendaryQuartz Gaming u found jasmine hard🤣

[@legendaryquartzgaming4342]

@@jongamingjongaming5564 my Feraligatr doesn't do well against Magnemite

[@xavierhege7186]

For HG and SS, Chuck is still the easiest because he just constantly spams focus punch which, if you attack, is always interrupted. It's pretty funny actually.

[@emblemblade9245]

I had a hard time against Chuck because his Poliwrath kept out speeding and hitting with hypnosis, so focus punch did in fact keep hitting me. A lot. I didn’t really understand how berries worked back then

[@Dj_Gj]

In Soul Silver I had trouble with Whitney, Bugsy, Clair, and Morty. The other gyms I can deal with.

[@angelicwarrior118]

7:19 Mystic, you do know that Seel isn’t even an Ice type.

[@gladandsad2581]

Mans probably played the cyndaquil route and still messed up on an easy gym

[@MagicSpud]

My Feraligatr back in the day was able to sweep Jasmine without being overleveled. Just had to take a heal break when Steelix popped out.

[@joshuab4586]

I wonder who will be number 1 🙄 Edit: okay number 2 lol

[@Randmiers]

I don’t consider Clair to be stronger than Whitney’s disgusting Miltank because you go more prepared for Clair but for Whitney you have less options and even with the Machop she can auto-heal with Milk Drink, immobilize you with atract or flinch you and that thing is out speeding most of the time so your best shot is to try lowering her defense as much as you can resist and then use an powerful physical attack

[@StRodeNL]

Let me just put up that Clair was WAY more difficult in HG/SS thanks to a new addition to her team that made ice types obsolete. Man I still have nightmares from that Gyarados ripping apart my Scyther, Typhlosion and even taking a Thunderbolt from my Jolteon...

[@shironeko1843]

I remember going through Johto with ease with my Bayleef and Kadabra. Kadabra was op because it got Confusion (later Psyquic) and the three elemental punches. It destroyed everything in its path. Then I wanted to do an only Johto pokémon run. Oh my Lord Arceus, what a bad idea that was...

[@TNobody0214]

Best recommend you grab that low chance teddiursa in dark cave. Trust me it dominates playthroughs. Herracross and donphan are good competetive pokemon but not good on a playthrough.

[@skolnation3531]

Like you think it was obvious Whitney would be in top 2

[@davidlarkin1040]

Nah

[@gladandsad2581]

I disliked

[@razoredge8284]

I had to sacrifice a Bellsprout which died to miltanks rollout in a nuzlocke 4 years ago. I still have PTSD flashbacks about that.

[@eggboi3798]

7:15 seel is actually pure water so it's not very effective Edit:also you can pick up a magmar at burned tower I think

[@yehahauuyyyehehahaa]

the only reason i didnt have difficulties with jasmine is quagsire

[@blkbtyluv4775]

I like how mysticumbreon also had guides for the gym leaders

[@jj24james70]

Ok *all johto gym leaders are hard in the remakes* thank you

[@jamie3419]

well no but actually no

[@radexyz-fx8ix]

@@jamie3419 yea Whitney is the hardest Clair is so easy and you can get gyaradose and destroy her whole team

[@alexvaughan1013]

I hear Morty now goes on sci-fi adventures with his grandpa.

[@BoostGlitch357]

lol

[@stevebrewer1679]

I definitely agree with Clair. Her and Whitney were the only gym leaders in Johto to beat me, and Clair got me more than Whitney. Yeah Ice helps with her Dragonairs but her Kingdra always made me utilize most if not all of my team

[@Shinotheblackcat]

I played heartgold and morty was actually pretty hard for me(because grinding was TEDIOUS in generation 4)

[@fabledimensionz8785]

Leaders from easiest to hardest 8.falkner 7.chuck 6.pryce 5.morty 4.bugsy 3.jasmine 2.whitney 1.clair Also wish me luck I’m doing a starter only run, and I’m near where Clair is

[@BabusGameRoom]

UGH. I had a lot of trouble with Chuck as a kid. Hypnosis and Dynamic Punch (which didn't feel like it missed half the time when I was a kid!) were a deadly combination. I remember having to retry against Morty a few times, too. And Falkner was tough for me with Cyndaquil! Mud Slap was super effective against my team that I thought would be great for the birds: Gastly, Cyndaquil, Geodude...so much for coming in with type advantages in mind! lol Bugsy was a good preview for Whitney: Don't let Scyther build up Fury Cutter just like you shouldn't let Milktank build up Rollout. I found Jasmine and Pryce really easy, on the other hand. I think I was using Raticate's Super Fang to cut down the health, and then most of the other Pokemon could usually take out the other half of their health.

[@Theturtleowl]

First thought after reading the title: Ah, the evil one, and my revenge shall be grand every time I stomp it into oblivion! *Milktank trauma*

[@shatteredstoriesasmr1973]

Hey warning this is long but it is a full region worth of gym leaders and there teams. New region idea. Based around music with each gym leader being based on a certain type. Something potentially really cool is to make the gyms music change style based on the gyms style. Gym one Leader:Eric Style: electro music Type: electric Puzzle: a panel path memory puzzle. The proper path is revealed then taken away. Walk the proper path to avoid damage and a battle. All the panels must be done in succession. Team:pikachu Electross( ace) Gym two Leader billy Style: country Puzzle: idk (please leave ideas for a country gym) Team: lilleep Boldore (ace) Gym 3 Leader hoops and hip hop Style: hip hop Type fire Puzzle:changing maze of fire Team: flechinder Magmar Quilava(ace) Gym 4 Leader penny Style folk style Type: ground Puzzle: sneaking around taurous for a mill tank tip (joke on cow tippin) Team: stunfish, bastiodon, mudsdale (ace) Gym five Leader jamie Style rock Type: fighting Puzzle: combo blocker (like hammer bro from Mario party DS) Team: Hipmon lee Hipmon Chan Sawk (ace) Gym 6 Leader Sarah Style symphonic Type steal Puzzle: Layered pipe maze Team: magmaton Magmazone Stealix Bisharp(ace) Gym7 Leader konijave Type bug Style tribal Type insect( could be rock with a team of all fossils) Team: galvantula Araquanid Golisopod Volcorona (ace) Gym 8 Leader Cody(the older brother of the protagonist) Style jazz Type poison Team drapion Nidoking Salazal Gengar (ace) All the leaders can challenge for your champion title randomly with full teams of 6 keeping the same type.

[@Alex55455]

My own personal experience of easiest to hardest I would go: - Pryce (He is way too under levelled for the 7th gym) - Faulkner (Under levelled even for the 1st gym) - Chuck (Just an easy fight) - Bugsy (2 bad Pokémon and Scyther isn’t too difficult) - Jasmine (Higher levels that the 7th gym some reason. Magnemites Thunder Wave is annoying and Steelix goes down to Surf) - Morty (Curse is annoying and Gengar is pretty tough) - Clair (About right as the final gym and probably harder than the first 3 of the Elite Four) - Whitney (Metronome unpredictable and Miltank is a beast)

[@bobi200samatar6]

One time Whitney's clefairy used metronome and incinerated my Heracross. I wasn't even mad anymore.

[@philip8093]

Please continue these, they're great.

[@nickbalmes6640]

Oh no. Visions of the Goldenrod City Gym and that infernal cow beast are invading my mind!

[@fanyfan7466]

One thing to note, Chuck's Poliwrath has mind reader for 100% accurate dynamic punches so if you can't take him out quickly it can really be a pain with that

[@MrDarkness1119]

You should just do this type of list for all the gym leaders in every region. Even though our opinions may be different, I do enjoy watching these lists.

[@wapson2176]

In gen 2 since abilities don’t exist, my sandslash made easy work of the ghost entire gym, just had to go back and forth to the Pokémon center for dig PP

[@drinkinbuddy8264]

Great vid man, subbed 👍

[@couldyounotdude3168]

For Clair's gym I was so scared that I leveled my team to level 45-50. My ampharous ended up one-shoting.

[@karansarin1986]

That Whitney's uddered mofo just doesn't die! 🤬

[@liamheneghan4977]

I struggled with Morty quite a bit actually. His pokemon were always faster than mine and his hypnosis would never miss 🙄 I had to trade some higher leveled mons from another game just to beat him.

[@itsdave92]

I must say, this is a very calculated approach to difficulty. I can appreciate that for what it's worth. I remember when I was a kid, my difficulties from easiest to hardest were: Falkner, Pryce, Chuck, Jasmine, Claire, Bugsy, Morty, and Whitney. I always picked Cyndaquil, too. Whitney needs no introduction, but Morty with his super fast Gengar's Hypnosis/Dream Eater combo (and the rest of his team cursing me), Bugsy's powerful Scyther (even using Quilava was tricky when I was little), and Chuck for some reason being difficult with that powerful Poliwrath hit, made things difficult for me. I also definitely never wanted to use Kadabra because I had no friends and couldn't evolve it, lol. I will also say that there's really no mention of any strategy here besides type advantages and some mild talk of stats. Steelix can go down with any good special attacker. Kingdra can be paralyzed or toxic-ed. Pryce has literally never been an issue using any decent strategy with electric and fire types, and his whole team is wicked slow. I'm getting pretty sick of PokeTubers defaulting to talking solely about type advantages. I mean even when I was a kid I knew how to toxic-stall! There's so much more to Pokemon than just types.

[@MaiderGoku]

I can tell you one thing the one mascot you have, umbreon can sweep through anything, swept whitney and clair easily, and being level 37 took down 46 nidoqueen and kangaskhan of giovanni in celebi event:- Taunt,Curse,Yawn,Payback.

[@keyfred1353]

For the First gymleader you can trade a Bellsprout for a Onix 👍 Onix is also good for the second and the third Gym. With Sand Attack you can easily disturb Miltank ✌️

[@A14-j7g]

Morty in SS is definitely the hardest. Gengar's Shadow Ball one shots everything.

[@L4Tur]

How I had to win against him in ss: use the Togepi the egg from professor elm, drop it off at the day care, and then don’t pick it up until you have cleared all trainers in morty’s gym except for north himself. By this time, it should have extrasensory and metronome. Morty will be stuck doing shadow balls and sucker punches after using hypnosis, and just spam away at metronome or extrasensory.

[@warriorking0694]

He was the only gym leader I lost to

[@nathanpereira33]

MysticUmbreon: Let's find out who is the hardest gym leader in Joh... Me: WHITNEY!

[@BoostGlitch357]

no Morty is. Whitney's not TOO hard if you have a fighting type? I just poisoned, confused, lowered accuracy and slowly took it down. without a fighting type

[@nickdentoom1173]

@@BoostGlitch357 Thats the thing: Everything depends on your own team. Morty was easy for me, while Pryce was the hardest because of how my team was constructed.

[@BoostGlitch357]

@@nickdentoom1173 I know. Sadly that makes it hard to rank the gym leaders

[@nickdentoom1173]

@@BoostGlitch357 Exactly. You cannot rank them, since for everyone its different. Its the same for the Champions. People say Cynthia is the hardest, while for me she was the easiest because i had a good team to counter hers.

[@lennycrew3]

I remember fighting Chuck when I first played Pokemon when I was 8. My Seaking vs. his Poliwrath. Poliwrath was trying to use Hypnosis but it just kept missing. Then he finally used Mind Reader, and I SWEAR he tried using Hypnosis after that and it missed again. And there I was, spamming Horn Attack until I finally took him out lol

[@derrickmehok9465]

Can't argue 1 and 2 tbh. Pretty sure my typhlosion from gen 2 is still waking up in cold sweats from the ptsd that Miltank gave him.

[@bfinnster]

For someone who was a Meganium stan at the time, I had to find a good fire option - you can get Magmar at the Burnt Tower.

[@manporo5865]

I will always say, Eggxecute and poliwhirl are the mvps of Johto, great coverage and are usable in every gym if you know when to use them. Even Eggxecutor can act as a status tank later on and the poliwhirl can be traded for red gyrados. Also, Claire is only hard if you take cyndaquill which makes most of the other gyms easier

[@ssjaqours_punch4071]

With the Ghost types i just got my Meowth to bite them all xD did a well done job :)

[@AcornPlays]

Last night me and my gf steamrolled Whitney when playing Gold/Silver. I think it's one of those things where if you're not ready it destroys new players, but veterans are fine

[@AcornPlays]

Also the strategy was Hypnosis and Curse with Gastly, then switch to Geodude to tank the Rollouts

[@BoostGlitch357]

"me and my gf"... lol

[@AcornPlays]

@@BoostGlitch357 what

[@BoostGlitch357]

@@AcornPlays nevermind

[@thousandyardgavri2785]

The fact that Falkner and Bugsy were pushovers were the reason Whitney is infamous. She destroyed our confidence. And the relief after u beat her. The next gym leaders were easy af except maybe Claire

[@UrbanBeauty166]

It *doesn't* make sense is that Misdreavus, being the only new Johto introduced Ghost Pokemon, isn't on Morty's - a Johto Ghost gym leader's team. Being a Johto Pokemon, it's also only in Kanto...

[@wolfy5523]

I like the list! Mud slap on Pidgeotto was always annoying growing up dealing with early game, if I wanted to stay under leveled. Growing up I also had a lot of trouble with Morty until I broke down and caught a Noctowl; that fast shadow ball with the curse/confuse ray combos on Morty’s team always gave me trouble. I agree with the top pick though for Clair. She’s definitely no joke even if you’re at the same level, and thinking it’ll be an easy fight. Kingdra was such a beast when it debuted in Johto, and for that I will always love it. Now I’m going to rock back and forth and block out the times smokescreen/Hyper Beam made me cringe as a kid. ☠️

[@xaxu1254]

This makes me want to get heart gold to try the game again as an adult because god damn did Chuck give me a hard time. Kinda curious if it was because I sucked at the games or if it was due to my young age when the OG gen 2 games came out

[@GrandeBigdor]

Make from Sinnoh next. Love your videos

[@lucaskroneman9498]

Gyarados resists Kindra’s water moves, very similar speed stats mean you can possibly bite and with flinchs or just use twister or dragon rage if you want dragon. Plus you have to encounter at least one to get here in the story. True heros just use Wobbufett though. Countering a hyper beam is usually an instakill and so satisfying

[@ZeStarGamer]

You can trade a Bellsprout for an Onix for the first gym.

[@leftovers4531]

And get a geodude in dark cave before 1st gym

[@Pokéfan1388]

Geodude is clearly the better choice because it's much stronger.

[@oscarreadmore1073]

Kanto top 3 gym leaders: 1. Sabrina 2.Misty 3. Erika Johto top 3 gymleaders: 1.Clair 2.Whitney 3. Jasmine Girls are just nightmare.

[@jeffreygao3956]

And I love them for it!

[@brycenbohl5657]

For me Bugsy was one of the hardest gym leaders. Mind you this was the earliest memory of Pokémon I have, and I didn’t know the Type Matchups. I had chosen Chikorita, and obviously, I used it the most. And the rest of my team was miscellaneous Pokémon like Spearow and Zubat. But like I said, didn’t know the Type Chart. It took me a solid month or two to beat Bugsy with the help of a friend of mine. Whitney was easier for me. (Which is saying a lot)

[@falinks5988]

Don't forget that you can also find a Horsea before Cianwood City with the rods

[@naeshaunedwards7731]

I always relied on my shiny Gyarados ice fang to deal with those dragonair

[@drakesanger3009]

He is talking about Gold and Silver games in this video. Back then, Ice Fang didn't exist and the best counter against Clair was to train the lvl 20 Lapras you could catch on Fridays at Union Cave until it reached lvl 36 and learned Ice Beam.

[@PokeBlox21]

U can beat Morty with Togetic and extrasensory (in HGSS) but in GSC u can still use Noctowl

[@conansglasses2645]

Dude bayleef , is OBJECTIVELY the best pick for pryce, ALL of his pokemon are weak to grass and also ALL of his pokemon have a move that's super effective against fire

[@JRCody-ds3ec]

In hgss Chuck's Primeape had, if I remember correctly, sand attack and focus punch. He gave me some trouble.

[@ohshedead]

I found it hilarious that you said Chuck was the least threatening because I just recently played Soul Silver and he was the only gym leader in the entire game I had to rematch 😂

[@BoostGlitch357]

I only had to rematch Morty and he's the 2nd easiest (according to this) lol

[@joj8239]

Me: Sees This Video Me: I Know What This Is

[@coreytaylor8151]

There is an easier way for Falkner, just catch Bellsprout and trade it for Onix, that way you won't have to detour for Geodude.

[@Hamanuna]

I really agree with you, Clair is not only strong, but she's also annoying

[@antonioiniguez1615]

Italo Caycho Torres Clair is extremely easy just like every here

[@thespawnofsephiroth]

I just used ice punch on my level 38 feraligatr and destroyed her easg

[@latifaust3302]

Actually, for the Dragonite, you can have it on the Casino of where there is the Champion of normal Pokemon.

[@Aibadenshi]

No mention of the tradeable Onix? Where it can make all 3 starting gym a cake walk.

[@stefanjordan4770]

Even with Rocky miltank used attract and rolled up and down its boulder sized backside.

[@RedDragonForce2]

Falkner is weak to Mareep, but since you can’t get it early in at least one of the Gen 2 games, it makes sense why he’s a bit harder than Morty or Chuck.

[@ragingshadows9]

Another way to take on Chuck is using flying types as well

[@X-V1L3]

So, I'd like to point out some things here: 1. Morty is not as easy as you think, no pun intended. All of the starters (besides Croconaw) are gonna have a bad time, and Kadabra is not a reliable option because it is very frail and probably will crumble to a Shadow ball from Gengar, and the other pokemon are a pain to deal with as well, due to 2 moves: Hypnosis and Curse. Gengar doesn't have curse but it's even worse to deal with as it has Hypnosis, Dream Eater, Shadow Ball and Mean Look. You can win if you pick Totodile as your starter, but its rarely worth the effort for just using Croconaw for the gym, because of the aforementioned Hypnosis and Curse techniques. 2. Chikorita DOES Stand a chance against Falkner. Train it up a bit and it learns Reflect, and Pidgey doesn't know Gust. Becuase the AI does not prefer not very effective moves, Pidgey mostly spams Tackle, and when you get to Pidgeotto, you can put up a reflect before the fight and if you have a Geodude at 11, it can 1-2HKO Pidgeotto. 3. Croconaw can just set Rages off on Metapod and Kakuna and beat Bugsy's Scyther quite easily. 4. Seel is pure water type, not Water / Ice. This means, although Quilava can use good potential after Seel faints, Dewgong and Piloswine are still hard hitters somehow. Plus Icy Wind lowers speed. If there was a starter I'd reccomend off Pryce, it's Chikorita. It can spam Razor Leaf and, if you fully evolved it, it 2HKOs his entire team, and Icy Wind does not deal too much damage to Meganium. 5. ONCE AGAIN, Meganium is a good thing to use in Jasmine. Magnemite have low defenses, and Meganium doesn't give a sh*t off Thunderbolt, and Steelix does not resist Razor Leaf. Edit: you can put Magnemite's low defense to good use again by teaching Feraligatr Dynamic Punch, which should be kind of obvious one-shot. 6. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING WHEN YOU SAID THE STARTER HAVE NO USE ON THE CLAIR BATTLE. FERALIGATR KNOWS ICE PUNCH.

[@Surikoazimaet]

I don't recall my Chikorita having any issue breaking Falkner. Scyther's Fury Cutter however..

[@muhammadusmanshabaz4527]

I can't believe I LITERALLY GUESSED THIS LIST

[@BrianJSlacker85]

I took on Whitney with my Haunter, Stan Lee. Hypnosis and Curse were my bread and butter here

[@JazziG59]

Idk why but I just love Jasmine and her Steelix. She is among the most easily recognizable gym leaders to me.

[@mcjohnerton]

Also you can go down from Falkner and get a mareep which helps a lot

[@Swinke]

I remember morty and chuck giving me huge trouble lol. Actually everyone gave me trouble this gen but tbf i was always under leveled as a child

[@L3_MufF1n]

If you think about it in the lore the gym leaders lower their Pokémon power to match you. So some of the gym leaders are weakening themselves more than they need. To add, the last gym leader is most likely still holding back. This also applies to the elite 4 in my opinion. As they are running with non level 100 Pokémon. If you look at the regions the champion is not the strongest trainer. Which means they may be holding back. I like to think these trainers have peaked and reached the limit and are just trying to train the next generation of trainers.

[@axyzsz8162]

7:17 seel is a pure water type so it’ll resist quilavas fire type attacks

[@boogonzalez24]

7:16 this man does know seels pure water right

[@yvltc]

I played Silver back when I was a kid, but I can't really remember what gyms gave me a hard time. In HeartGold though Chuck was a nightmare, his Double Team Focus Punch gave me nightmares

[@BoostGlitch357]

I say just spam attacking moves. And make sure they are moves that can't miss