Marriland

Current Team:

Dead pokemon:

Prinplup, Starly, Staravia(2), Bidoof(3), Abra, Zubat, Combee, Buizel

Platinum:

There are only a handfull of Pokemon other then Starters and Legendaries that cannot be caught in this game so I am gonna play through this game first to get alot of Pokemon and start off the series with the ability to use a diverse team. 

Caught:

- Piplup, Prinplup, Starly, Staravia, Bidoof, Kricketot, Abra, Zubat, Machop, Cascoon, Combee, Buizel, Gastly, Ponyta, Gible, Eevee

Challenge: Fresh Team

- Cannot use the same Pokemon against two consecutive gym leaders

- Fainted pokemon are dead (exception: "dead" pokemon may be used for breeding)

- No repels, gonna try my best to fight wild pokemon

- Pokemon teams will be planned with egg moves, a ditto can be traded in for breeding purposes but doesn't count towards Pokedex until one is legitimately caught

- Teams must include the same amount of female and male Pokemon, a maximum of 2 genderless Pokemon may be used per team

- A full team of six Pokemon is not required for the first 3 gyms but will be required after that

- Only found healing items can be used (healing items may be purchased before elite 4)

- The same Pokemon cannot be used against more then 5 gym leaders 

Gym 1: Rock

Piplup

(modest) Torrent

Gym 2: Grass 

(used Staravia and Machop)

Staravia

(adamant) Intimidate

Gym 3: Ghost

Gastly

Gible

Gym 4: Fighting

Golbat

Staravia

Dustox

Machop

Combee/Vespiquen

Elite 4 Team:

Empoleon

(modest) Torrent

- Agility

- Surf

- Ice Beam

- Grass Knot

Garchomp, Jolteon, Vespiquen, Gengar

I am gonna attempt catching every Pokemon in the 4th generation series (excluding mew, celebii, etc.) in an exciting challenging way, possibly with different challenging rules for each game and document my progress here. The games I own and will be using are:

- Diamond

- Pearl

- Platinum 

- Heartgold

-Soulsilver(japan)

I am going to divide the Pokemon into lists that need to be caught in each game based on which game they are the easily found in. I need help with challenges and possibly planning teams so feel free to suggest some. Also I realized I might need to play Soul Silver twice to open all three Johto and Kanto starter pokemon. 

Total Pokemon Caught: 16

Current game: Platinum

0:54 - Caught many(6) Starly's without getting a jolly nature gonna head to the first gym and worry about it later. 

1:04 - Had to sacrifice a Bidoof in rival battle might make a rule for HM slaves regarding fainted pokemon.

1:22 - Piplup evolved against Roark. 1 Badge down. 

1: 31 - Decided to use adamant Starly rather then jolly just to save time and pokeballs having to catch more because I caught one with an adamant nature. 

5:54 - Combee got critical hit while training and died.

9:22 - Defeated the workers in Oreburgh to get enough cash for Pokeballs and managed to catch an adamant Starly with the first ball. I am gonna rechallenge Commander Mars once I get two Machops upto around level 15 and Starly upto level 14.