Just a quick update to this post, I'm still playing every day and along with still trying to grasp everything, I'm just about to finish the Elite 4 in Kanto tomorrow! Thank you folks for the warm welcome and useful information haha. I plan on finishing up a living dex (as much as possible within Kanto, as far as I'm aware some legendaries are locked behind events and quests and some things may require me to go to another region to complete) for Kanto and trying to complete the Boss battles around the region soon.
This is my progress so far, only a few more to go for the original 151!
Once I finish the Kanto section of the living dex I'm going to take a nice little break from pokemon and keep myself from burnout by playing Pikmin and maybe Luigi's Mansion as well
I'll post a slideshow of my Kanto living dex once that's finished and then before long I'll move on to Johto!