Okay, I started this challenge about 5 days ago. I took the poison challenge, as this gave me the chance to use most of the pokemon I liked but didn't deem worthy to be in my main team :P. Sorry I didn't post when or before I started, but my connection was a bit down :(.
Anyway, it went mostly like this, I'll tell the important parts:
Picked Bulbasaur for a starter, and got the first weedle I got my eyes on. I hate bugs, but gotta give it to them, the level up damn fast. He was a full fledged Beedrill by the time I got to Brock and his possy. Anyway, first gym, Bulbasaur one hit them all. Cake walk.
Went into the first cave, and I caught myself a Paras for HM Slave and a Zubat for my third poison poke. He was intended as a backup, but ended as being too strong to let go, so I stuck to him :P.
Misty's Gym fell almost as fast as Brock to my Ivysaur.
Electric Gym posed a bit of a threat, as none of my pokes were very effective against electric pokemon, but fortunately, Ivysaur is equipped with the 2 moves that mostly ensure a kill: Sleep Powder and Leech Seed. So he passed the Electric Gym for me, eventually.
I caught a ghastly in Lavender, and decided to make him part of my mad poison team, as a ghost type is kinda cool. Evolved him into Haunter, decided he's not worth it, dumped him into the computer where he sits till this day.
The Grass Gym was up next, and it was the moment when I realised that my mad poison team had not one single decent poison attack :P. Nevertheless, Beedrill and Golbat cut through the pathetic plants with ease.
Safari Zone, spent a while in there, catching everything that moved for my pokedex, but most importantly, I got my 4th member in there, Nidoran, who was quickly evolved into a Nidoking.
The Poison Gym was a bit annoying, but the recently promoted Venusaur and his Sleep/Leech combo eventually won the day again. The awesome part in this was that finally this gym allowed me the use of surf, and my most awaited member joined the team, Tentacool. Leveling him up was the first priority, since my rival almost took me out the last time we battled, and his Charmeleon, who was currently not such a threat, would evolve into a Charizard on our next fight...yeah, OHKO on everything is not good (which actually happened when I got to him, since Tentacool was 13 levels too low to fight him :P).
With my now almost complete team, I took on Silph CO. I eventually got to my rival, killed his first 3 pokemons, then Charizard came out and nothing I had could take 1 hit from his flamethrower or wing attack, so he wiped me. I evolved Tentacool and went right back, kicked his ass and Giovanny was just food for my Tentacruel.
Sabrina and her gym all fell in one hit from my Beedrill (lol) so I was on my way to the Fire Gym. Caught Articuno for the game's sake on the way :P. Before I got into the fire gym, I eventually caught a Koffing in the poke Mansion and completed my team with him. Tentacruel surfed through the Fire Gym with ease.
Did the Islands next, nothing interesting there, and went straight for my Exp Share. Now my team looks like this:
Venusaur level 43 "Bloomy"
Beedrill level 44 "Sheep"
Golbat level 43 "Batman"
Nidoking level 41
Tentacruel level 41 "Psycho"
Weezking level 35 "Mukball"
Going for the last gym now, and I'll update once more with my final team after I finish the game.
Einstein would roll over in his grave. Not only does God play dice...but the dice are loaded!