Each Pokemon game features Pokedexes to fill, worlds to explore, and quirky NPCs to meet along the way, but we know why we’re playing: to make our monsters fight. Throughout your adventures, you’ll come up against dozens of gym leaders, charged with seeing if you’ve got what it ไtakes to become a Pokemon Master.
But who of these experts is capable of dishing out the most damage? to collect each teams’ individual base attacks and averaging them out, leaders have a wide range of power. Each gym poses its own challenges and leaꦬder levels scale with your progress, but certain ones rise above the rest in terms of their sheer, unfiltered offense.
10 Giovanni Hits Harder In Pokemon: Let's Go
Maybe 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the best-known villain from the series, Giovanni, the man in charge of Team Rocket, is a real thorn in your side. He’s the leader of the Viridian City Gym in five of the ♛main series games, but at no point does he do as much damage as he does in this Kanto remak🍒e.
His Dugtrio has a base attack of 80, while Nidoking and Nidoqueen have an 82 and 92, respectively. The true star of the show, though, is Rhydon, who comes out swinging with a base attack of 130. Altogether, Giovanni and his team of four come at you with our list's only two-digit score: an average base attack of 96.
9 🧸 Kabu Brings The Heat In Pokemon: Sword And Shiel🔜d
Jogging into the top ten is the fiery leader of the Motostoke Stadium, Kabu. He burns through an early battle with ease, beginning with Ninetails at a 76 base attack and Arcanine picking things up at 110, but his Centiskorch is the meanest of the three. Not only is it the first 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gigantamax Pokemon you take on in a gym battle, but it hits with a heavy 115 base attack.
Though not the toughest gym in Galar, Kabu’s team holds their own. His fearsome fire-types heat things up with a hot 100.33 average base attack.
8 Volkner’s Sh𝓰ocking Choice In Pokemon: Diamond And ♐Pearl
Rounding out the gyms in the Sinnoh region, Volkner is sure to stun you with his might. Though only two of the four Pokemon from the electric gym are actually electric-types, all of them pack a punch. Raichu has a base attack of 90, Ambipom sneaks up on you with a 100, and Octillery’s tentacles are swinging at 105. His Luxray, however, is where you’re really in for a fight – it has a number of offensive moves, and a base attack of 120.
Between these four, you’re looking at a hair-raising average base attack of 103.75 in Diamond and Pearl. Though not as high, his ⛦slightly-different team’s average of 99.5 in Platinum proves jolting as well.
7 Crasher Wake And His Smooth-Sailing Team In Pokemon: Diamond, Pearl, And Platinum ꦉ
The fight against these tough water-type Pokemon at the Pastoria City Gym will be anything but a wash. While Crasher Wake glides through the fight using his Quagsire, who brings a base attack of 85, as well as his fast-moving Floatzel at 105. But it’s Gyarados who anchors the team.
The Atrocious Pokemon brings a real deluge of pain to your team with its 125 base attack. Altogether, the team can easily hose yours with its 105 average base attack.
6 ♛ Clay Crushes The Competiti♑on In Pokemon: Black & White 2
Although always a tough fight, it’s Clay’s normal-mode wonder-team in Black & White 2 at the Driftveil City Gym that really mean business. His Krokorok has an 82 base attack, and Sandslash follows with 100. When you get to his Excadrill and its 135, though, is where you’ll have to hunker down. It has immunity to poison and electric and is also resistant to an additional eight types of attack.
Though his team proves tough in the Challenge Mode of the sequels, too, Clay’s team in Normal Mode comes at you with an average 105.67 base attack.
5 ꦉ Raihan’s Burrows Deep, Flies High, and Hits Hard In Pokemon: Sword And Shield
Just as sound offensively as he is on defensive as well, Raihan and his dragons are not to be messed with. Your fight at the focal Hammerlocke Stadium will be one of the toughest of your time in Galar. His Gigalith leads the pack with a heavy-hitting 135 base attack, and Flygon and Sandaconda follow with a 100 and 107 respectively.
His Duraludon is comparatively weaker by default at a 95 base attack, but the challenge comes from its Gigantamax form, which has increased health and a G-Move that decreases the PP of your moves. Altogether, these dragon-types astound with a combined 109.25 base attack.
4 𒅌 Bea Fights Like She Means It In Pokemon: Sw📖ord
If you opted to pursue the Crowned Sword Pokemon when choosing between how you’ll experience the Galar Region, then you already know what a heavy-hitter you encounter in Stow-on-Side. Her fighting-type team will give you trouble all around. Hitmontop starts the fight with a 🐬95 base attack, followed by Pangoro at a powerful 124𝕴.
Her Sirfetch’d – the Galarian Farfetch’d evolution that, like Bea, is only available in Sword – is her star player, hitting with a 135 base attack. Finally, her Gigantamax Machamp finishes the fight with its powerful 130. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:She’s much stronger than her Shield counterpart for Stow-on-Side Stadium, flexing a team with a combined 121 base attack.
3 🐓 Drayden’s Dragons Decisively Dominate In Pokemon: Black & White 2
Accomplished Gym Leader and town mayor, Drayden and his dragons fly into Normal Mode in Black & White 2 ready to deal damage at the Opelucid City Gym. He comes at you with a team that doesn’t see a single monster with a two-digit base attack. Flygon is the weakest of the three at a flat 100, while his Druddigon looms in the middle at 120. His Haxorus, though, commands a 147 base attack.
Together, the trio boasts a combined 122.33 attack stat. And although that’s high, it’s not the best his team does in the Pokemon series. It’s his best in the sequels, sure, but his ඣformer teamꦚ is just a bit higher.
2 Iris Puts Our Team In The Red In Pokemon: White 🍸
While she and Drayden might have the same team in terms of Pokemon in Black and White, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Iris stands out with her all-female dragon-type team, and that girl-power is fierce. Where Iris in the prequels soars higher than Drayden's team later lies in one choice – using Fraxure, whose base attack is 117, instead of Flygon like Drayden, who base attack is slightly but meaningfully 🙈lower at 100.
She’s also got a Druddigon with a base attack of 120 and the same mean-looking Haxorus at 147 as well, so no matter who she sends out, she's not going down without a fight. Between the three, you’d better be prepared to stand firm against her team's walloping 128 combined base attack.
1 🐎 Norman’s Normal Types Are Anything But In Po𒁃kemon: Ruby And Sapphire
Dad…? Sure, Norman might not be who you were expecting in the top spot - normal-types are usually early-game type gyms, and his isn’t even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the infamously difficult one. While his Vigoroth is definitely a threat with an 80 base attack, it’s not his heaviest hitter. Not only does Norman have Slaking, who has a crushing 160 base attack, but you have to chip away at two of them.
He swaps one out for both Spinda and Linoone in Emerald, but even though Slaking’s Truant means it only attacks once every other turn, when it hits, it hits harder than both of them combined. With two Slakings on his team in Ruby, Sapphire, and their remakes, Norman’s team takes our top spot with a surprising average base attack stat of 133.33.
