I just got back to playing Heartgold. I actually got pretty far today, even though I only beat the mighty Chuck Norris of Cianwood. I was just about to fight Jasmine, but before that, I got Tauros and bred it with ditto so I got a good nature. It was lonely, and I was about to use jolly, but I thought it's speed stat was good enough. I trained it up to level 14 before catching a yanma in platinum, migrating it to Heartgold, and breeding it for a mild yanma. Sadly, I got speed boost yanma when I wanted tinted(?) lens, but I should really count my blessings. I got it to about 18 before switching, so that was pretty nice progress in my opinion. I also got my gengar and gabite just around level 30 and got Baoba to finally open his safari zone. It was mediocre, but I only wanted it to open so I could get staryu on route 47, since starmie was going to be a part of my in-game team, being my surfer, my water type, and my psychic(obviously.) I got about 5 of my pokemon decided, and all of them have to be different types for my diverse team. Tauros, yanmega, gengar, garchomp, starmie, and an unknown pokemon that is yet to be decided. I want to say Tyranitar, but I already have garchomp to destroy everything, so I may get a grass or electric type to make up for it.
I'm clearly keeping sunkern for my E4 team, even though it's novelty out of the pokethlon.