Rendolf

Ohh tbh I never actually realized that the Growlithe egg trade was one of the encounters determined at the start of the game, although I guess it makes sense. But dang that kind of ruins some of my plans with future runs.

Technically you can get more Exp. Shares by getting extremely lucky at the Lottery Corner, but that's not very likely. I would say to double check your bag and if any of your Pokemon are still holding it, otherwise you might've accidentally thrown it out.

Unless it's your starter, you don't get a Froakie until extremely late in the game, and Torchic is almost as far up there. Beldum isn't available until after you get the 13th badge and Goomy is after the 14th or 15th. You have a pretty low chance to get a Togepi fairly early in the game which you can try to SR for, otherwise you can only get it around the same time as Goomy, and Grubbin is available really earlygame but you have to wait until you get the 7th badge before you can fully evolve it. If you're fine with waiting that long to have your full team then you should definitely have fillers that you're comfortable with, you would be keeping them for a while. If not then you may want to rethink some of them, or just try and get what Pokemon you can as they're available.