The Limited Progression Challenge

For this challenge you must pick any 6 pokemon you want, and then play through the game like normal. EXCEPT after every 2 gym leaders you must box your highest level pokemon, and release it (Only for the first 8 gyms in the game). By the time you reach the Elite Four you should be down to just 2 Pokemon. I will have some extra challenges you can choose to add on for yourself to make it even more of a challenge or to be added in as an Ultimate Champion =).
1: After you beat every other gym leader you MUST instantly release your strongest Pokemon. Fighting other trainers or wild pokemon is prohibited until after you release your Pokemon.

2: This challenge will be complete after you beat the Elite Four for the first time except in the second generation (where your last objective is to defeat RED) and in the fifth generation (where your final objective is to defeat the Elite Four a second time)

3: NO legendaries.

4: Emulators are most definately allowed, and so is the speed button.

5: You may hack or trade in the Pokemon you wish to use at level 1-5 if they are Pokemon you won't be able to reach before the first gym leader.

6: Your not allowed to recatch one of your previously released pokemon to go through the game with.

7: HM slaves are allowed, but you can't use them in any battles.

The following rules are optional and if you don't want to make your challenge harder then STAY AWAY FROM THIS AREA!!!!!!...

I: If you want to further test your abillity to adapt then only pick 4 Pokemon, and ask the person after you to pick the last two Pokemon for you with http://wyncorporation.com/pokemon/. If you do this then I will allow for you to have one legendary if and only if the person after you has obtained a legendary from this random Pokemon generator. It's like the mystery door at game shows lol.

II: If you are playing a second generation game where your challenge isn't over until you beat RED then for added dificulty you can decide to release your strongest Pokemon after beating the Elite Four meaning you will then have to beat RED with just one Pokemon... If you do this then I will count you as an Ultimate Champion for this Challenge =) (For those of you playing the other games just beat the Elite Four a second time with the weaker of two Pokemon and you will still be added in as an Ultimate Champion)

III: Another additional rule for you to pick is make it so you will not be able to have sacrifices for reviving... In other words if your Pokemon dies you cannot go to a weaker Pokemon just to use a Revive.

Spoiler:

Red:
Blue:
Yellow:
Gold:
Silver:
Crystal:
Ruby:
Saphire:
Emerald:
Diamond:
Pearl:
Platinum:
Fire Red:
Leaf Green:
Heart Gold:
Soul Silver:
White:
Black:

Name:
Game:
Pokemon Choices:
Any Optional Rules?:

Screenshots or videos are not required but greatly appreciated. So have fun, and if you see the Elite Four along the way then kick their butts for me lol xP.

Name: XxTOOLxX
Game: Emerald
Pokemon Choices: Rapidash, Hitmonlee, Magnetric, Bayleaf, Jolteon, and Lairon
Any Optional Rules?: Optional Rule II (Going for Ultimate Champion)

So this is a normal run that overtime turns into a duo-run?
I'm in on this
Game - Fire Red
Pokemon
Burdina - Mawile
Isklo - Sneasle
Urgia - Lanturn
Musictus - Sandslash
Caelilanu - Altaria
Manan - Lunatone

This will be the team I set off with,


Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but its
Misty
Erika
Sabrina
Giovanni

Name: 14Henderson7
Game: SoulSilver
Pokemon Choices: Chikorita, Dratini, Eevee (Dunno about the evolution yet), and Weedle.
Any Optional Rules?: Next poster picks my last 2 Pokemon, either Randomly or just to pick.

Dunsparnce and Gastly (can evolve if you want)

Just to clarify, in the case of sequence breaking, it's the number of badges you have that determines when you have to release the Pokémon. If you fight Erika third, you don't release a Pokémon after her. If you fight Surge fourth, you do release a Pokémon after him. Right?

zzOkay, time to sign up for Leafgreen, Crystal, Ruby, Diamond, Black, for an ultimate challenge!

Sign Up Sheet:
Name: 11wildy
Game: Leafgreen, Crystal, Ruby, Diamond, Black
Pokemon Choices: Differs per game, I'll list them whenever I start a new game :)
Any Optional Rules?: No
Pokemon for leafgreen: Charizard, Pidgeot, Golbat, Gyarados, Butterfree and Dodrio.

QUESTION: What should I do if multiple pokemon are highest level? Since I tend to equally level my pokemon before each gym :x.

Okay, so I started my challenge and chose Charmander as my partner. I did the beginning stuff and caught myself a Pidgey. I'll be uploading every gym battle, if I will be able to. Then I caught a Caterpie and grinded it up to a Butterfree, which goes surprisingly quick with the emulators speed button. Then I grinded all my pokemon up for the gym battle with Brock! Which will be difficult with a monotype flying team!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Ob6xWEAEc

Turns out it wasn't as difficult as I thought...
I left Pewter city at the east, heading for Mt Moon, where I can get my Zubat and Magikarp! In the meanwhile Charmander and Pidgey evolved! I bought the Magikarp of the salesman and grinded it up to a Gyarados using the switching strategy, good thing I skipped some trainers on the route before! Then I caught a Zubat and grinded it until it learned Bite, then went to tackle Mt Moon. After Mt Moon, I healed up my pokemon for the Rival fight, Zubat died very quickly, but Pidgeotto and Butterfree swept him after that, so no big deal :). then we crossed the Nugget bridge, and the other route with a lot of trainers to find Bill, who was changed into a pokemon. I helped him out and got an SS ticket. then I went to the gym to battle Misty. The battle was easy, like expected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0waaMvUJPJ4

Okay, so I released Gyarados, because it's the strongest pokemon stat-wise and already in it's final evolution. Now I'm off to Vermilion city, where the ss aqua and Lt Surge wait for us! For Lt Surge I think Charmeleon will be very usefull, since it has Dig and no electric weakness yet. Although I'm scared it'll be the strongest team member at that point. But first, the ss aqua! Aboard I battle all the trainers, Zubat evolving somewhere there! On the boat we battled our rival, who still was pathetically weak and we received HM Cut, which I learnt Farfetch'd. Then we battled Lt Surge, and won.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxlRs53V6Q4

Also, how do I add a youtube video to this post?

You should release the highest leveled one after every 2 gyms and you cannot use any other pokemon, but feel free to catch them.

Time to find my way to the Rock Tunnel, and worse, get through it! Eventually I reach lavender town, and I will first beat my sucky rival, for some exp. After that we took the road to cerulean city! After arriving there I went to get my Eevee and evolved it into Vaporeon, so I can use Surf on it later. Then we went to challenge the gym, which is more or less a choice on who I want to release, since any of my pokemon can solo it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo7eyTcf0E

Then we entered the rocket hideout and beat Giovanno there, with the Silph scope as our prize! Then I went back to the ghost tower, to beat the crap out of team rocket, which wasn't too hard. After doing that I received the Pokeflute, who can wake up Snorlax who was blocking the way to Fuchsia city. Then on the bicicle road I caught a Doduo and grinded it up to the levels of the rest of the team and it's now the strongest member! Then Charmeleon and Pidgeotto also evolved, and Golbat tried to evolve, but mysteriously stopped, I think you need national dex for that. So now I have my whole team in final evolution. Then we went into the safari zone to get HM Surf and the Golden Teeth. After getting those I beat Koga.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJd8_gUjMt8

Then I grinded up a bit, Golbat a little bit more, so it'll be the highest level after the 6th gym, so I can get rid of it, since it's too weak to do real damage right now. Then I beat the rockets in Saffron city. And of course my whimpy rival decides to show up as well. Giovanni was easy peasy and we went on to the Saffron city gym! And we beat it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRviw4ML7lE

Then we went to cinnibar city and beat Blaine, this time without Golbat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MDbOECsY9Q

Then we were taken to One island to help Bill yet again. He asks me to get something, so I travel to Two island just to find that Lostelle is missing. Then we went to Three island to help her. Then we returned to Two island, got the needed item and brought that to Bill. Then we could go back to Kanto! Now we are ready to take on the last gym leader!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJqxIyE0Frw

In response to the question 11wildy... I'd say release the pokemon you won the gym battle with... It may not be strongest of your group if they are equal level, but I think that's probably the fairest way to judge it lol.

i have another question before i start the challenge

the pokemons that i cannot get before first gym, i need to hack them, my question is
do i hack the pokemons i choosed? or hack the pre-evolutions?

For the most fun i would suggest you hack your whole team in immediatly, in their first form at level 5.

Update! I beat the Leafgreen part of the challenge!

Lorelei, Pidgeot for mvp. Who would've ever guessed that, when there's a Charizard on the team?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXx1zv_ESJg

Bruno, wasn't too hard, Onix was annoying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2vaNrIRVx8

Agatha, easy sweeping :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZeCJPN7Su4

Lance, teached TM Dragon Claw to Charizard for this fight, but Pidgeot swept his ass very well already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Jjss_nJQ4

Red, his Rhydon and Alakazam were tricky, but the rest wasn't really, I got a little bit lucky vs his Blastoise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfgASqoIPQM

Crystal team: Skarmory, Mantine, Xatu, Gligar, Togetic, Ledian.
I'll hack the team in

I started the game, hacked the first route to contain Ledyba, natu and Gligar, edited Skarmory te be my starter and changed the Onix trade to a Mantine one. Then I caught every pokemon and a Bellsprout, just to find out my Mantine is called Rocky xD.

Beat Falkner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jatu8tCdWsc

so here is my first update:

started the game and choosed bulbasaur, then fighted my rival and defeated himafter that i started to get my team, hacked mightyena, kingdra, crobat, jolteon and growlithetrainer a little and went to pewter, defeated brock with help of kingdranow im heading to mt moon.

xxFrom now I will add a rule that I have to be perfectly equally leveled before every gym leader ;D

Went through the union cave, nearly got pwnt by the hiker after it, but Skarmory saved the day again! :D
Then we beat the rockets, who apparently returned after I pwnt them in Saffron city last time, well I'll do it again you hear me! I'm having troubles trying to train Ledyba, it's so damn weak! It's Tackle barely does any damage, so no chance it's gonna be highest level after Bugsy >.> Same for gligar, but he is bulky enough to take a lot of hits :D
Okay, so we battle bugsy, and we lost our strongest member of the team :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWNxnWOVWY

Then we went through Ilex Forest, getting TM Headbutt, which might prove usefull! Then we battled the trainers before Goldenrod, Ledyba evolved and I found out Ledyba could learn Ice punch and Thunderpunch, so it went from the worst to the best pokemon in the team (for now). Whitney will be hell with Rollout! Maybe Gligar can take it? ;o
Battle with Whitney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mg2gDpkKa4

Then we went to Ecruteak city, where we will yet again lose a pokemon :( Pwnt my rival, with the newly found Surf from Mantine :D. Xatu evolved while grinding up for Morty :D. Then we battle Morty, where we lose Ledian. Ledian would not be that usefull later on anyway, so I guess it's the best one to lose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRiERGE--0Y

Then we continue and Togepi evolves already! :D. Go Togetic<3 then we reached Olivina city, but my gym battle has to wait, because Ampharos is sick! So we went to Cianwood city to get the potion for Amphy and to battle Chuck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUoGzBxSi4o

Then we flew back to Olivine city using the newly gotten HM, which also proves to be an usefull move! Then we need to do a lot of grinding, since Jasmine has 2 Magnemites which will be dangerous and a very strong Steelix, which Mantine can beat. Lets see how it ends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV0yGPkj_UQ

Togetic saved the day! Quick claw activating and flinching at the same time is awesome! yet now I will have to release it, since same level and most used one :(. Then we flew to Ecruteak city, then surfed to Mahogany town, walked to the lake of rage, where I calmed down the red Gyarados. then back in Mahogany I beat the rockets, who were weak :3 then Pryce was next. Despite the type disadvantage it was pretty easy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjdJ2C50GGw

Then team rocket appears yet again! AGAIN! Don't they understand that I will pwn them anyway? So that's exactly what I did. And my rival came interupting me too, he should've helped me! Anyway, after the rockets got their last beat-up I travelled to blackthorn city, for my last gym battle. I'm predicting Gligar will stay on the team, which I actually think is good, since he will learn TM Earthquake whenever I get it! I teached Gligar Hidden power, turns out it is 70 power, or not much lower. Type: Ghost. EPIC! Now beat the gym trainers, just the last gym leader left. Where we will lose another pokemon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCjYi0VlJOQ

We lost Mantine. Later it turns out my Hidden power was Dark, so it wasn't as good as I hoped, but I guess it'll work vs Will! So we continued, did the dragon test, professor Elm gave me the Master ball and we went off to KANTO! Then we reach the victory road, which has no trainers, only a noob, who also turns out to be my rival. We finally found TM Earthquake and FIND OUT GLIGAR CAN'T LEARN IT!! SO I'VE BEEN TRAINING IT FOR NOTHING!! WHY THE FUDGE DID GAMEFREAK NOT GIVE GLIGAR EARTHQUAKE!!

Ok, so I'm at the league now, will start grinding tomorrow.

Sorry for double post, but I want this thread to be noticed!

I beat the full Elite 4!
Will, wasn't hard at all, Fury Cutter did the job!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD22fw2rzt4

Koga was slightly more difficult, but no big trouble here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3chQecMS4

Bruno was easy, yet again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTEb-4nT2g

Karen was the most difficult of the elite four, since I could not het pokemon very well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uONHydY1nyI

Lance put up a great fight, but we won!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpmMBiL81fE

I will be speeding through Kanto, not putting up vids. I released Gligar for the ultimate challenge! So kanto will be soloed with Xatu! I'll be grinding it up for Red a lot I think, else Pikachu and Blastoise will be pain ;x.

Edit: Grinded Xatu to a point at which it can OHKO Pikachu, then I beat red.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-wPQf5HK-U

Team for Ruby: Swellow, Pellipper, Altaria, Salamence, Tropius and Ninjask
I will hack in Tropius, Swablu and Bagon, since I can catch the other 3 before the first gym. :)

I've started the challenge, grinded up the team and beat Roxanna EASILY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljlHfYzs7M

I needed more grinding to be able to even 3HKO Machop with Swablu's Peck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCHf0mYPL_M

Omg this thread needs more updating! Cmon players, PLAY!

I beat a few gyms, I´ll skip the parts between them, since everybody knows what happens by now..

Wattson was INSANELY difficult, luckily the 13th try worked! Coincidently, on friday the 13th :).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-t1S1gILLI

Flannery wasn't a problem, since I still had Pellipper at that point!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IenG2DGnsww

Norman was, LOL U GOT PWNT, I OHKOd Slaking number 2!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdKS5pPkHm0

Winona was item spam, pretty boring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kElF9B-HY90

Tate & Lisa was a very fun battle! And a lot of strategy involved. 3 turns is FAST for a gym battle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSdxtofYres

Wallace wasn't hugely threatening, although I got very lucky on the 1 HP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDJMhywbb5Q

I'm sorry I've been ignoring this here lately, but I've been preocupied with other things... Any ways I'll continue updating this like normal and continue on with the challenges like normal lol. So happy challenging lol.

Okay, so I beat the Ruby challenge as well, and the OP should be fixed. I have completed Leafgreen and Crystal already and now Ruby as well. I won't do gen 4 and 5, since I can't hack in a team OR I can't record battles. That's on emulator and on cartridge, respectively.

Now for the Elite four, that was mainly Ice beam pp stall, then setup, baton pass, sweep.

Sidney, no stall needed, immediate setup and Brick break killed all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36FUbPOGcvs

Phoebe, Most difficult one, surprisingly. Curse was hell, since it gets Baton Passed over too. Then Dusclops could be Ice Beam pp stalled, then Ninjask setup, Baton past and Hidden power Ghost proved very usefull here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhK6Ogh1Qzg&feature=related

Glacia, second most difficult, Ice beam stall, but Crunch kept lowering special defense during setup, luckily Double team and Brick break did their work!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ODVL_riz98&feature=related

Drake, the only one beaten without baton pass, since Dragon claw murdered him already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1dYKHagf2U

Steven was beaten by constantly switching between Slamence and Ninjask, to make Skarmory's Aerial ace very weak so I could setup 3 Swords Dances. Then I swept, Claydol sets up Reflect, which was broken by the brick Break!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hBrKNsQdPI&feature=related

CHAMPION!

I never used Salamence before, but he's BEAST!

I'll give this a shot before I start my next challenge.

Name: (My player name I assume?) Red
Game: Pokemon Green (In english)
Pokemon Choices: Venusaur, Dragonite, Gyarados, Jolteon, Gengar, Raticate (Last two were randomly chosen haha)
Any Optional Rules?: None

Should be fun! Aiming for Ultimate Champion obviously :D

Update:

Started my challenge, got Bulbasaur from Oak and nicknamed it BULBA:



Got Oak's Parcel and some Pokéballs (10, to be on the safe side)

Hacked in Gastly, Eevee and Dratini to Route 1 (only ones I can't get before Gym 2). Caught Rattata (RATTER), Eevee (EON), Gastly (PHANTOM) and after a very long while of searching, Dratini (DRAGYN)

Would post all the pics, but I screencapped the capture of everyone in my team so far (only need Magikarp (SKULKRAKEN) now), so instead I'll post a link to the album on Flickr (in the spoilers below)



Now I just need to train...

Edit: Trained like mad till everyone was at least level 10, then trained Bulba to level 13 to learn Vine Whip, and owned Brock (OHKO on both his Pokémon). Current levels are: Bulba - L14, Dragyn - L10, Ratter - L10, Phantom - L12, Eon - L12

Edit 2: Made it to Mt. Moon, got Magikarp (SKULKRAKEN)
New Levels: Bulba - L14, Dragyn - L13, Ratter - L11, Phantom - L12, Eon - L12, Skulkraken - L5
Got my full team now, so far its looking like Bulba is gonna be leaving us after Cerulean Gym, but who knows what everyone's levels will be after Mt. Moon?

Edit 3: Ok, so now we are through Mt. Moon, Phantom and Bulba are tied for highest level, both level 15, not gonna challenge the Gym just yet, time for some rival!

Edit 4: Rival was stupidly easy thanks to Phantom and Dragyn, Phantom cos most of Green's (my rival) moves were normal type, and Dragyn cos it has Wrap (spammed it haha)
New Levels: Bulba - L15, Dragyn - L14, Ratter - L12, Phantom - L16, Eon - L13, Skulkraken - L14

Edit 5: Bulba just evolved!
New Levels: Bulba - L16, Dragyn - L14, Ratter - L13, Phantom - L16, Eon - L13, Skulkraken - L16
It is once again looking uncertain as to who will be released, I just hope it isn't Skulkraken, I've starting to like the little guy, plus I want him for later battles :D

Nice to see someone else playing this! And yeah, Bulba should leave, since he will pwn Misty! Also, going to play Platinum, monotype flying again! This time without hacking my team in, since I can't.
Team: Staraptor, Drifblim, Togekiss, Gliscor, Yanmega and (Vespiquen or Mothim, whichever I find first on honey tree)

Will be making vids of gym leaders again, although the first one seems impossible? :(

I was wondering if you were gonna be back for another round :P

Anyway, I just beat Misty, I was a little unorthadox in that i beat nugget bridge, went to Bill's, then off to Vermillion to train before Misty, here is the final levels for after Misty...
Bulba - L18, Dragyn - L16, Ratter - L22, Phantom - L19, Eon - L15, Skulkraken - L17
Yep, I did all of Misty's Gym with Ratter (Hyper Fang is awesome, shame whats gonna happen after I finish typing this). Sadly that means its time to say goodbye to Ratter, gonna save on my DS then resume on the PC so I can screenshot his/her (no way of knowing) final stats.

Edit: Ah...just loaded it in VBA-M and I'm getting this "The save file data is destroyed!" I've never had this problem before, but it looks like my challenge may be over prematurely, unless its just an error in VBA-M...

Edit 2: Ok, that save file is definately corrupted, however I do for some reason still have a save file from before Brock's GYM, so I don't have to stop altogether, but that is a LOT of progress lost...

Edit 3: I've decided to chalk this run down to bad luck and start again, I'll have a new team too, though I'm not sure what yet...may use that random Pokémon generator...for my whole team!

Edit 4: Ok, so this one is gonna be tough, here is my new team: (as decided by the random pokemon generator) Marowak, Farfetch'd, Tentacruel, Venusaur (odd how it chose that), Hitmonchan and Magmar. I'm not liking my odds with this team, so I'm gonna give the generator another shot, and see if its got anything better to offer.

Edit 5: THAT'S MORE LIKE IT! Gengar, Lickitung, Electrode, Dragonite, Arcanine, Starmie. Pretty well balanced powerful team (powerful for gen 1, maybe not in later generations). Also, when I'm put in the list, put me under Pokémon Blue, even though I'm doing Green xD

Edit 6: Ok! And we are away (again). Started with Charmander since I have to start with something, will release it as soon as I catch my first Pokémon. I did record this, but as usual when I record an AVI in VBA, it corrupted or something (grr). Anyone else had this problem? More to the point, anyone know how to fix it!

Edit 7: Caught Voltorb, so that is apparently my new starter! Nicknamed it Volt, and released Charmander. Im tempted to catch one of the level 0 Mew i put in there for the lulz, but I know from experience that it will just level up to 100 after a single battle, which is boring.

Edit 8: Caught the rest of my team! The team is as follows:
Volt (Voltorb)
Tonguetyd (Lickitung)
Phantom (Gastly)
Dragyn (Dratini)
Blaze (Growlithe)
Starried (Staryu)

Uploading pics of everyone as I type! In fact they just finished, so I'll post a link to the album now:

Edit 9: Upon re-reading the rules, I decided I shall catch a Mew after all, to use as an HM slave