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A Water type themed team? (or should I do whatever Groudon's typing is since I'm supporting that one lol? :p)
Blastoise, Vaporeon, Walrein, Greninja,
(gotta have at least 1 Dark type on there lol) Toxapex, and Seismitoad. I didn't build it from battle viability, but rather from Water types that I happen to like.
(and one because it's half Dark lol)
Thing with Mystery Gifts is that they are easily missed.
I missed every Arceus mystery gift myself so for anyone else who missed them you'll either need to trade some other mythical for them (if you can even find a trade for a legit one in the first place) or run through PLA over & over. And I've still not gone and finished PLA. =P (might be a somewhat fast method depending on what the requirements for fighting it are in PLA).
Can also get one in BDSP, but you need to finish both PLA (catch Arceus in PLA that is) and finish BDSP for that.
So yea getting 6 Arceus is easy... If you luck out with the distributions. Otherwise not really, you're gonna have to work for it and I personally don't like it enough to bother getting multiple=P
I'll finish PLA off eventually though.
I know what you mean. I missed the first 4 months of the event, so I had to get Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, and Darkrai (for some reason) via online trades. Thankfully I had a copy of X, Y, and OR going all at once, so I was able to get dupes of all the rest starting with Manaphy in June, but I still can't say with 100% certainty that they weren't genned in.
Fun fact about this. If I hadn't missed the first few months, I wouldn't have had a reason to get into online trading, which means that I may not have missed the feeling of those old days back in late 2022, which means I may never have found this very forum! *Que dramatic music lol*
As for the 6 Arceus(es?), I've played through Scarlet all the way through at least twice just to get spare box Legends for other people, so going through PLA a few times (even though I still have yet to even start my first playthrough of it lol) doesn't seem that much extra to me, I just wouldn't do it personally because I don't really like Arceus's design all that much lol. : p