(This was reposted from the Wifi forum, sorry, I'm new here!)
I’m not sure if this is the right place for this, so please forgive me as I’m new here!
I got a pair of 3DS and Pokémon X/Y to play with my wife and to introduce our son to the genre. The most I had ever played was on Pokémon Red when it came out when I was just getting past middle school, and only very briefly in Black, so it’d been a while. It’s safe to say we both got the ‘bug’ again (Bug-type is our favorite type :)) and we've been pretty ravenous for the game since its launch.
I’m trying to get all the Pokémon. Between us, we’ve traded all the ones that evolve when they trade, and I’ve become addicted to Bulbapedia looking up all these new evolution methods (Malamar’s is really cool!). I have done a pretty decent job scouring the Global Trade Station to fill out our Dex with the ones only available in previous generations, even getting a bunch of legendaries thanks to my the GTS’s obsession with Scizor (and my wife's tolerance for farming metal coats).
There are a couple we have left that we can’t seem to get and, after doing some research, it looks like they aren’t eligible to trade on the GTS. I am looking for any assistance for how I can attain these Pokémon, short of having to buy all the hardware and previous generation’s titles. Not really asking for trades, since I know they're rare, but there's got to be a way for people to have them if they didn't play the other games, right?
#151 – Mew
#385 – Jirachi
#386 – Deoxys
#490 – Manaphy
#491 – Darkrai
#492 – Shaymin
#493 – Arceus
#647 – Keldeo
#648 – Meloetta
#649 – Genesect
I realize these are all distribution Pokémon, so I’m not really sure what they’re availability is. We are casual players, so we’re not worried about shininess or competitive quality, more so the novelty of actually ‘catchin’ em all.’ If anyone is willing to trade (even if it is a duplicated version from a previous generation), or can explain ways we could attain them, we’d be very appreciative.
Again, if this is the wrong forum for this, I apologize!
Many thanks!