gen 1 was cool because I did the Mew glitch and got to use it for the whole run. It ended up getting killed by Lance. Otherwise it was a smooth run. 

gen 2 went really smoothly. I didn't play Crystal though, it was SS. I got an extremely lucky Raikou catch with a great ball. It didn't seem right to bring it to Emerald so I retired it. Also Dunsparce is way better than expected. o7

gen 3 in Emerald was the first time I didn't steamroll everything. I saw the loss of some of my OG team go down. RIP Dratini. E4 went smooth.

gen 4 was Platinum and it felt like early and mid game were easy. I love Empoleon so despite having Blastoise from previous games I boxed him and did the run with Empoleon... until Barry nuked my team right before the E4.He killed Empoleon, Crobat, and Rapidash. I don't even understand what happened. I just misplayed a couple turns and it ended up being very costly. It was at this point I had to take a break and think about what I was going to do. 

Ultimately, I decided to fill out the catches I skipped earlier in the run and see if anything good appeared. I grabbed a tropius and girafarig and leveled up Blastoise. Unfortunately Blastoise immediately fell to Heracross in the E4. I skated through on some close wins until Cynthia. Her Garchomp is no joke. It killed my Girafarig and severely weakened the rest of my team. Once her Garchomp was down I was in a position where my own Garchomp, in yellow health, would have to sweep the rest of her team or I'd wipe. I won, but just barely and I lost a lot of strong pokemon along the way. My OG Blastoise is gone now and the only original pokemon I have left is Eevee. I'm allowing Eevee to evolve into anything so we'll see what I end up with in White. 

Progress update - Platinum is hard