@Jade Kitsune
Sucks to be you. Surprise trade is good in games like this. And you could get some pokemon like Finizen that is just hard to evolve and even more you can’t get the three starters like I did.
You can easily make eggs of a pokemon that you already have and trade them on surprise trade. And there are in game trades too. So you can get Quagsire, Frostmoth, and Gengar.