Rules I'm playing with
-Fainted Pokemon are "dead" and are released or stored in a graveyard box
-You cannot catch any Pokemon other than the first one that you see in an area (each route, cave, city, etc. is a different area). You may choose whether you want to ignore duplicates/evolutionary lines or not (I did). If you accidentally kill the first Pokemon you see, too bad. Eggs, fossils, starters, etc. do not count, but legendaries do, meaning you have to go through an entire cave without meeting a single Pokemon other than the legendary if necessary (Hint: Repels). This still applies at the beginning of the game when you have your starter but have no Poke Balls.
-Nickname every Pokemon with a (meaningful) name. The purpose of this whole thing is to have you bond with your Pokemon since they are dead once they faint, and nicknames definitely help strike some cords when a Pokemon dies.
-No using the Day Care Centre. How can you bond with your Pokemon if they are raised by someone else?
Today I got my first Pokemon, a Mudkip. I killed the Poochyena you have to fight easily, despite Mudkip's first tackle missing.
After the dumb cutscene stuff I nicknamed my Mudkip Muddy, after the Swampert I had in Emerald.
That's all I had time for really. Playing more tomorrow.
Current team:
Mudkip "Muddy" lv5