Scarim Coral said:
Wait Cheren is the normal gym leader? That's lame since that mean he will be one of the weaker starter gym leaders (I mean I thought he was the better rival compare to the past rivals) unless he is one of the more stronger gym leader later on. Either way I bet we won't see which starter Pokemon he picked from the first game, maybe the excuse is that it's too ill to battle.
I'm sorry, but I've played every gen of Pokemon, and Normal gym leaders are ALWAYS the toughest, barring Dragon of course.
Whitney's Miltank is really, really tough if you don't have a fighting type or a rock type.
Norman's Slaking hits like a freight train.
Lenora's Watchog is one of the most annoyingly difficult fights in that entire game.