Challenge The Rental Challenge

This is pretty basic, and it's there for you in the game from the get go. You can catch however many pokemon you want and store them in your PC, but the only pokemon that are allowed to battle are those received through trades or as gifts. By this I mean you can only use one game cartridge, and no online trades. Use the pokemon the game devs left for you in the houses and stuff.
For example, in Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal, you can trade for 6 pokemon: Onix, Rhydon, Rapidash, Voltorb, Aerodactyl, and Machop. You also get Togepi and the Starter as gifts. Talking to NPCs lands you a Spearow and a Shuckle, and the game corner offers Ekans, Dratini, Sandshrew, Wobbuffet and Abra depending on the version.You can set restrictions on what is available, like no game corner or starter, but your options are very limited as it is.
I have found through personal experience that this is a really painful challenge for early game before you get any badges, and becomes even more painful if you choose to ban strarters. Since the growth rate on traded pokemon is 1.5 times faster than normal, they grow ridiculously fast, which can elongate this early-game struggle. Once the ball gets rolling, though, the game plays fair aga
The replay-ability is super low, but the challenge is a good time. Have fun playing the game the way it is meant to be played: with other people's garbage.
 

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So I'll do a quick rundown of your First Pokemon in each game and how it goes for the very earlygame. Working under the assumption you can do whatever until you first get the chance to get an ingame trade/gift then you must only use that and no starter because c'mon then you might as well just starter solo and brute force it if you encounter any difficulty at all.

RB: Not all that bad as things go. You just have to struggle grind the Mt. Moon Magikarp gift to level 20 and then basically work off a Gyarados and Nidoqueen run following Misty.

GSC: Togepi egg doesn't count. Oh hey you get Onix. That's not bad at all honestly, although it's going to be ludicrously painful to get all the way to Bugsy and beat him. Expect lots of resets trying, but afterwards you might be ok - Kenya is frankly amazing. You do want a Chikorita starter so that Silver isn't as bad in azalea.

RS: Makuhita is not the worst pokemon to ever exist and can probably take on Roxanne even at level 10, but Brawly will be incredibly annoying. Painful grinding of a disobedient Pokemon in order to brute force it awaits!

E: It's like a Makuhita only it's a Seedot. And your only offense is Bide. Definitely a grind up Ralts to get a moderately high level Seedot one, although going Nuzleaf is a double edged sword for Brawly. Absolutely hellish earlygame, midgame, lategame.

Hoenn in general deserves a special note in RSE since your total options discounting the Wynaut egg and starter are Makuhita (RS), Seedot (E), Castform, Skitty (RS), Plusle (E), Corsola (RS), and Horsea (E after Wallace).

FRLG: Oh hey it's RB again!

DPP: I'm sure this is somehow possible. You just have to immediately trade the Machop you catch since you can do so for a level 8ish Abra and then struggle grind it until it evolves.

Oh and during levels 11-15 it'll be struggle grinding a disobedient mon on top of that. Joy.

HGSS: Oh hey it's GSC again!

BW: At least unlike the other games so far you can at least use the gift monkey and grind it as high as you want. Gym 1 will be a little annoying probably but after that it's as smooth sailing as you can hope for in this kind of thing.

BW2: THANKFULLY your first opportunity for a trade or gift isn't until Route 4 - so before Burgh. You're free to go up to level 30 for him, although unfortunately you do have to deal with the type disadvantage that Cottonee or Petilil has. Zorua is a good pokemon though.

XY: You're free to go all the way up to level 20 with Quacklin the Farfetch'd so fortunately the first gym isn't too much of an issue. Catch a Luvdisc to trade for Steelix before taking on Grant and it'll be ok.

ORAS: oh hey it's rs again only makuhita can go up to level 20 before disobeying making brawly not as stupid! Also your stuff post-Norman is much easier since you're given a mega Lati.

SM: Machop is decent enough I suppose, totems are going to be a bit annoying though later on. Hala you can beat due to outleveling probably.
 

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