Trading is only a bit of it, I want to have all 3 starters early on, and both legendaries at the end on one. Also, there are benefits to having multiple 3DS's in general because of streetpass. Naturally I will still be open to trades with this community, but if no one has what I am looking for, I can easily go get it myself. It also makes me a good tool seeing as I will have access to all the pokemon.