HG/SS: Bushido Challenge

Trading
1. If you are playing HeartGold or SoulSilver, you may trade "future"
Pokemon.
2. No trading Pokemon to your game, unless they are under or at level 15.
3. No trading more than 10 times.
No sneaking past trainers. You may avoid them, however, by the time you
face the Gym Leader all trainers in their Gym and in the routes you used to get
there must be defeated.
Exceptions:
1. If you don't notice the trainer (they don't enter your screen)
2. If you never enter the room the given trainer would be in (like never
entering Sprout Tower)
3. If you can't access the trainer at the time (like if they are on an island
and you don't have HM Surf)
4. If the trainer only becomes available to face after beating the first Elite Four and is in the Johto Region, or only becomes available after beating the second Elite Four, they are not mandatory.
If you get three strikes, you lose the game. Strikes can be received in
the following ways:
1. Have a Pokemon faint
2. Using any items to heal your Pokemon in a battle
3. Running away from a Pokemon battle
4. Entering the Mart of any given Town more than once
4. 1) Exception: Picking something up from the delivery man
1 Strike can be taken off ONLY after beating the eigth and sixteenth gym leaders. You can not
get negative strikes and you cannot save strikes.
If you somehow white out without getting three strikes, thats an automatic
loss.
If you are doing this challenge paste your progress into your signature in
the following format:
Current Game: (Your Current Game) (Your version of challenge*)
[Paste the sprites of your team here]**
[List their nicknames here]
[Paste the pictures of your earned badges
here]
[Write your Strikes here**]
Travel Journal***
*RC is regular Challenge and UC is Ultimate Challenge. This can be done in conjunction with other challenges- see Hybrid
(Example: Nuzlocke-BushidoRC Challenge)
**Try to update at least weekly
***Strikes are signified by X
****The link to your journal is optional
*****Yes, the text in orange is the format, thats why I made it orange. No, yours does not have to be orange.
If you are taking the challenge, post your entrance in the following format:
Name: Name in the Game*
Game: Gold/Silver/HeartGold/SoulSilver*
Version: Bushido Regular Challenge/Bushido Ultimate Challenge/Hybrid Challenge**
Travel Journal:
Strikes:
Badges:
Team:

*No, you are not writing what is literally there, you are writing what you would fill in.
**You are not writing Hybrid Challenge- See the Hybrid Challenge Section for more details.

Same as above, with the following exceptions:
1. One Strike ONLY. This means you are off the hook for just one mess up.
2. Strikes are not forgiven under any circumstances.
3. Only 5 Pokemon can be traded to your game.
4. Traded Pokemon must be level 5 or under.
5. Traded Pokemon may not be legendaries. This includes Rotom and Phione.
6. Every trainer must be defeated.
6. a)If you cannot reach them at the time you are excused, BUT you must go back and beat them later.
You win the game upon completing the following criteria:
1. Defeating both sets of the Elite Four
2. Defeating the last trainer.

After choosing Regular or Ultimate Challenge, you may take on an additional challenge if you which, to be completed in conjunction with the Bushido Challenge. This challenge is written as Other Challenge-Bushido Ultimate/Regular Challenge, for example Nuzlocke-Bushido Regular Challenge. The other challenge overrides this challenge in conflicting rules, but in other cases you must simply conform to both rules. If there is a complicated issue, please PM me about it, and I'll set a rule for it and post it into the Cleared Rules section.
Cleared Rules

Badges:
Johto

Kanto
Still Looking
For Pokemon Sprites: Click the Pikachu!

Badges:
Johto

Kanto
Still Looking
For Pokemon Sprites: Click the Pikachu!

-Named myself Michael
-Chose Totodile♂, the AWESOME dragon dancing adorable creature. Named him
Sobek
-Found Shiny Leaf the first time I spoke to him in grass, don't know what it
is but its kewl :P
-Destroyed my rival with lvl.10 Sobek, named him Set
-Beat Sprout Tower with lvl. 15 Sobek, barely got hurt
-Destroyed Falkner with lvl. 16 Sobek, stupid Pidgeotto kept using Roost so I
had 1HP left when I won. Sobek PWNZORS, Zephyr Badge =MINE!
-Traded 3 Hoothoots over to my Diamond in exchane for a lvl. 5 Larvitar,
Horsea and Gible
----Larvitar♂- Cychreides
----Gible♂- Kamui
----Horsea♀- Nephthys
-GRAAAAAAH! I...just...wanted...to...solve...a...Kabuto...puzzle... OW.
-Just remembered, have to receive my mystery egg! WHAT IS IT????
-Togepi is adorable. I hope that Professor Birch has a VERY important
message for me, because he wants me to show him the Togepi and its incredibly
inconvenient to go all the way back to him.
-Oh. An Everstone. Thanks. Time to make my way back through Route 29,
Cherrygrove City, Route 30, Route 31, Violet City, Route 32, Union Cave, and
Route 33 to get back to Azalea Town.
-"Hey, its Joey. Do you remember my super-cool RATTATA? My RATTATA is
different from regular RATTATA. It's like my RATTATA is in the top percentage
of RATTATA. DO you know what I'm saying?" Yes, Joey. Yes I do. As of now
I'm starting a Joey counter for the rest of the game- every time he calls and
mentions "RATTATA".
-Here I am in Azalea Town- OH NO ITS TEAM ROCKET!
-Traded a Level 5 Beldum over, named Talos. Welcome to the team, Talos!
-Talos...you are so...difficult...to train... Soon I'll teach you a move
other than Take Down... OH WAIT I CAN'T!
-Talos fainted- should've trained him to a higher level than 11 before taking on Team Rocket, especially considering he only knows Take Down. Oh well, strike 1 already.