The WORST Gym Leaders In Every Pokemon Region

[JPRPokeTrainer]

Happy JPR Friday! Who is your favorite Gym Leader?

[njivwathomassilavwe]

At some point you realize just how much Giovanni sucks as a leader. He has a level 50 Rhyhorn for crying out loud and any semi decent surf user destroys him

[CamKoudo]

The 7th & 8th Gym Leaders: supposed to be the strongest Gym Leaders of all
Also the 7th & 8th Gym Leaders:

[Imamotherfreakingavocado]

Opal is even WORSE because as long as you get the questions right, which is a 50/50 chance if you're just blindly picking, you get super buffed, which you definitely do not need since she kinda sucks to begin with

[Celestia]

Funny how only one ice type leader (Candice) escaped being labeled the worst, and that's because Byron is the weakest gym leader of all time.

[MrKlausbaudelaire]

All things considered about Ice Types... WHY are they always the last gyms?? In fact why are ice Types always left to the later third of the game?? Seriously, we need a Pokemon game where ice is the FIRST gym or somewhere close!

[justinnakaDrPokemon]

The fact Pryce beats out Chuck for being underwhelming is astonishing.

[ianweston]

At least Candice didn't get the boot as an Ice-type gym leader.

[Joshua-pciq]

I love the fact that everyone in the fanbase unanimously loves Larry. He is a gigachad.

[Ryanwizardstaff]

Still to this day, not giving Wulfric Mega Abomasnow, not making Olympia a double battle, and not giving the Kalos Elite Four members Megas have got to be some of the most blatantly missed opportunities in the history of Pokemon by Gamefreak...

[TwoHeadedMeerkat]

That Giovanni battle is the main reason I roll my eyes whenever someone says he's the most terrifying villainous team-leader. Yeah, he's the most realistic and down-to-earth, but at the same time, what's he gonna do to any half-decent Pokemon Trainer? glare menacingly as his entire team sans Dugtrio gets outsped and one-shot?

[haydeniskander]

It's funny that Wattson is so easy in casual play, because he's a totally different beast in Nuzlockes. Borderline run killer in Emerald if you didn't choose Mudkip as your starter, and even Marshtomp can be put in an awkward position with confusion hax from Magneton.

[MegaInferGoku]

Byron is so bad that I once beat him with a Togepi

[castform]

I feel like the Ice type gyms are basically set up to fail. Not picking the bulky, war of attrition option is kinda hard when that's 95% of the usable roster. What we have left is Weavile, Froslass and Darmanitan and Ninetales' regional variants. I for the life of me cannot understand why Game Freak is so allergic to making fast Ice types. The type is tailor made for fast offensive sweepers but NOOOO. Let's make another tank that can't reliably tank hits.

[DigiRangerScott]

The thing about early Gym Leaders, especially Brock, they might be low enough level where they can’t reach their STAB moves yet. There’s all sorts of coulda woulda shouldas about this but as they are programmed, if the thing changed was “bring the STAB moves early” you’d be making fun of the illegal moves like you have been for Lance all these years. So come on

[awesometoadultimate]

Grusha's ace should've been Tera Ice Gengar to reference that the temperature drops when it's in the area. Shadow Ball, Sludge Wave, Tera Blast (Ice), and Dazzling Gleam/TBolt would've been great for it.

[phantomstorm]

Giovanni not having his Rhydon in FireRed/LeafGreen had to have been some kind of goof from the dev team. Like I can't even fathom it being a conscious choice to make his ace another Rhyhorn with the same exact moveset.

[avatardoom]

Ash didn't just sweep Watson, he almost quit being a gym leader after that battle. He is absolutely the worst

[MidnightLugia]

Doesn't Wulfric even straight up say that you'll probably crush his team?

[MarcMagma]

Fun fact:

All you need for Larry is a Flying/Ghost Pokémon that knows at least one non-damage move. Then you can beat his first two Pokémon without taking damage since Komala only knows Sucker Punch as a move that hits ghost types and Dundunsparce has no move to hit a Ghost/Flying type.
And if your Ghost/Flying can survive all the Arial Aces of his Staraptor, you have won, even if Staraptor is on full HP.

That's how I beat him with a freshly evolved (and therefore underleveled) Driftblim and forever wondered why people were saying online that his gym battle would be hard.