Yeah, I kind of prefer the idea of a mutually beneficial equivalent trade to just giving someone a pokemon for something worthless when possible. It just feels more interesting and fun that way
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As an extra note, I kind of want to get all the megastones, and since some are version exclusive I'll need to trade for them. So if anybody here would be willing to part with mega stones at some point for something (Maybe high level pokemon, maybe version exclusives, maybe even shiny pokemon if I ever manage to get my hands on one of those) I'd really appreciate it