We are using the following rules!
The following rules take effect upon receiving your first pokeballs and being released upon the land.
1) Any pokemon that faints must be boxed.
(Upon completing a Gym, One (1) pokemon in the box may be chosen to be revived.)
2) Only the first wild pokemon encountered in a unique area may be caught. Fainting or fleeing voids the encounter.
(if the name changes in the popup, it’s a unique area)
3) All caught pokemon must be nicknamed.
Dupes:
If we’ve already got the pokemon in the area, we can continue until we find a new one.
Shinies:
In the unlikely event of a Shiny, it may be caught even if the areas encounter has been completed.
This does not count toward the encounters for the area, and a regular encounter may still be caught.
Honey Trees:
Each Honey Tree is treated as a unique encounter, and does not count towards the area in which it resides.