You actually can trade them, just not over wonder trade or GTS

Yeah XD
I had to ask my friends if they had a mew because GTS wouldn't let me trade one lol

Could give you a shiny golduck, growlithe, ninetails, shiny snorlax, or get you any starter! I can wait, have we traded friend codes already? I know I gave mine to a few folks but I can't remember who!

I have one, but thank you!!

That's more than fine. Here's my code 1204-0379-7151

Magicarp at the ready :D also added!

I have the DS up and logged in :3

Sorry for the spamming in comments but I can't thank you enough!!!

How the heck did you get a shiny torchic so fast?! O-o
Honestly I don't understand how people get shinies at all... I tried for 10 days straight using every method I could think of (chain fishing, poke radar, breeding foreign pokemon and hatching like 1000 eggs, farming hoards, running around the friend safari for hours, using charms that supposedly increase your shiny rate marginally...) and nada! Zip! Zero shinies... the only way I got a shinie in the new game was through Gamestop giving one away for free

have any you can recommend?
also do people do this for free because they can or something? :/

oh you meant the game, no i dont have x/y but i do have a 16 year old fat pikachu plush that i got as a b-day gift when i was 3. i call him pikachu :P