I honestly can't think of a trainer/leader/E4 member that gave me a hard time using psychic types, because along with psychic types I love to have ghost and dark types too.
come to think of it Sabrina can be a challenge when there aren't many ghost or dark types available.
Yes, while that wasn't the hardest Psychic Trainer that I had to face, my Pokemon were severly underlevelled, me playing through LeafGreen the first time and all. Not to mention you didn't get any viable dark types to train and counter, so I ended up beating her via pure grinding. I swear her Pokemon had perfect IVs, either that or my natures and IVs were really crappy. Somehow I think it's the latter.
Welp, am I the only one who thinks that looks exactly like Mega Mewtwo, just more compressed and slightly cuter? I like the idea of having a Mega Mew, I just don't have much of an idea how they'd be able to pull off a design that doesn't seem like a Mega Mewtwo ripoff. Of course, it'd be awesome to see what they could come up with but I think Gamefreak would have some trouble designing it. :p That or they could just go for the same style as Mega Mewtwo with the whole 'we got a badass over here' sort of idea but that would defeat Mew's idea of being all cute and powerful. Anyway, lets hope for something awesome. ^^ (just don't give mew muscles/hair flow, that'd be kinda scary.) :(
What Gym Leader / Elite Four Member / Legendary / Regular Trainer that used Psychic Pokemon gave you the most problems? Why?
It's been a really long time since I've vsed gym leaders/elite four/legendaries etc. that were psychic types. In terms of battle, I had a really good swear at Lucian mainly because my knowledge on pokemon in general was pretty terrible. Being 8 and not knowing how to beat anything that can use super effective moves against Empoleon was pretty fun. (focus blast smh) ;__; But I got through it, somehow. Then I cried at Cynthia's Garchomp. Fun times being a pokemon trainer. :(
I think when it came down to capturing legendaries, I always tried to pull off the 'lets catch it in a pokeball stunt' but with Mespirit, I gave up. Being a roaming legendary, it would always flee and since I didn't have anything to prevent it, I hunted it endlessly across the whole Sinnoh region. Eventually, I just gave up and threw my master ball at it. Without thinking. I don't think I even cared, I just thought "lol k that was easy" and moved on. Don't think I ended up regretting it either. :D Anyway, Mewtwo was a pain to catch but I eventually caught it at half health. (even though I had thrown 20 pokeballs while it was in the red and asleep) pokemon logic op ;__;
Hmm..Lucian. I did remember his team of Pokemon and pretty easily exploitable weaknesses, but I did make the mistake of letting his Mr Mime, if I recall correctly, pull off the double screens. As a result, Bronzor, due to it's decent bulk and steel typing, was a real pain, but strong dark type moves pulled through for me.
Mesprit was the sole reason why I raised a Crobat for Mean Look, and it could've either been my wonderful luck or the fact that it had a high catch rate to make up for it being roaming, but a few Ultra Balls did the trick. I wasted my Master Ball on Palkia. ;_;
And if GameFreak manages to pull of a Mega Mew with a decent ability while at the same time retaining it's "cute" factor which is what sets it apart from it's cloned counterpart, it's definitely going to be a huge hit.
What Gym Leader / Elite Four Member / Legendary / Regular Trainer that used Psychic Pokemon gave you the most problems? Why?
I remember in the early days Will would give me trouble because I was very unprepared. I think I had trouble with Sabrina in Red/Blue as well for a while. Not sure why, probably just being a kid under 10 years old.
I don't recall having a lot of trouble with Will, but it was pretty annoying because his Hypnosis and Confuse Ray kept screwing my team over, and while it wasn't hard persay, it was definitely annoying and did a good job of depleting my supply of Hyper Potions real quick.
I'm such a noob. I haven't answered the question. xD That's besides the point. Anyway...
What Gym Leader / Elite Four Member / Legendary / Regular Trainer that used Psychic Pokemon gave you the most problems? Why?
The Elite Four member that gave me the most problems would have to be Caitlin, by far. Kind of ironic that I'm a fan of her even after losing to her the first time around, but she had quite a few Pokemon that were unusually bulky, and she had a lot of type variation when you're looking at it from a moves perspective. Energy Ball, Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Psychic, Air Slash, Thunderbolt and the like. Focus Blast really caused heaps of problems for me, because she was one of the few E4 members that actually carried a coverage move, not to mention a plethora of moves, which really was able to exploit many vulnerabilities in my in game team and totally wrecked me the first time around.
Despite the fact that it wasn't a roaming Pokemon, Mewtwo was a real pain to catch. Level 70 wasn't messing around, and coming off his SpA I was continually throwing Ultra Balls and Hyper Potions and hoping he wouldn't recover, which was really what amped up the difficulty to a whole new level.