Even though I've gone through Noel and passed him, Shade definitely made me wanna hit my computer with a shinkou-hadouken. Shade was the reason why i have multiple teams now (thanks shade..) and when i was just straight losing to that entity i made sure that my whole team was mostly dark type, (4-5/6) and the remaining has dark type moves that could SE his pokemon. then after that i became more prepared for my upcoming gyms and i would not say it was easy but its manageable. but shade definetly was the hardest battle for me.