.....hhhhRRRRRRRRNNNNNNGGGGGHH!!!!!!!
Update #1 of a journey with absolutely pitiful pokemon!!!
Pre-Team:
-Since no starters were on my team, I just decided to pick Mudkip, to use later as a water HM slave
-Used HM slave as little as possible before going straight to Petalburg Woods and catching Shroomish, my first member
Real Start:
-Zipped through most of the beginning trainers (from the woods to Rustboro) with Shroomish
-Beat Roxanne's trainers, along with Roxanne (who was actually pretty difficult for using a grass type)
-Beat the Magma in Rusturf tunnel, fighting very few trainers in between
-Went for Dewford and shot straight for the letter delivery
-Skipped the Dewford gym for some Slateport grindage (aka the beach and the Magmas in the museum)
-Backtracked to Dewford gym to fight through it with my new Headbutt move (blacked out once after not saving for a while)
-Beat Brawly, went to Slateport, and failed to Beat Brendan
-Eventually beat the jerky Brendan and got to Mauville
-Beat up Wally and grinded to Lv28 before fighting Wattson and his Steel types that can do 20 damage a turn, paralyze you, AND confuse you!!! (And his selfdestructing Voltorb)
-Beat Wattson after some amount of tries that I stopped counting after the double digits
-Backtracked to Dewford to FINALLY get my 2nd member, Nosepass
-Fought a lot of previously skipped trainers to level-up Nosepass
-Progressed to That Mt. Chimney area and caught Koffing in that whatever-cave I forget the name of, and also caught Machop right outside the cave
-Progressed to Fallarbor town after everyone but Shroomish (Lv29) failed to keep up
-Grinded Nosepass until it learned Thunder Wave, and did the Same for Koffing and Sludge
-Fought through to Meteor Falls
-Met the Aquas and walked back to Slateport to buy Harbor Mail
-Went to Mauville to get the Coin Case and the Mach Bike (late)
-Spent all my money on coins and gambled for a while before realizing that Ice beam would be learned naturally by Snorunt (in the future), Thunderbolt would be obtained from the New Mauville sidequest, and I wouldn't need Flamethrower until I got Flygon, so I didn't need to gamble at all yet
-Prevented the men in red from dropping down Mt. Chimney (but it took a ton of tries)
-Got to Lavaridge and grinded Nosepass until it learned Rock Slide (and I taught it Strength)
-Beat Flannery, which was somehow the easiest fight yet, with Nosepass and Shroomish's Leech Seed
-Saved and quit the game, because I couldn't take anymore!!!
Here's my current team:
Nosepass Lv28
-Strength
-Harden
-Rock Slide
-Thunder Wave
Machop Lv23
-Karate Chop
-Seismic Toss
-Low Kick
-Focus Energy
Koffing Lv22
-Tackle
-Poison Gas
-Sludge
-Selfdestruct
Shroomish Lv30
-Mega Drain
-Headbutt
-Stun Spore
-Leech Seed
Next time, I get Trapinch, and probably grind it to Vibrava before fighting Norman.