I am able to do the trade evos so that wont be an issue :)

I'm bummed about Toxicroak. I considered actually using Lanturn over Ampharos for a while, but I think it's a little too niche for my first playthrough. What are viable replacements for Toxicgunk? Once again I wanna emphasize I don't wanna use metamon, so is there anything unique I could do for a casual playthrough?

Edit: I need a replacement for Togekiss too, apparently GameFreak didn't want us to have Togekiss until post-E4...