sadly, JUST Mew is missing for me which I think can't be traded easily since it would take a billion stardust? I'll def hit you up though, I would love to get through this special research and hate being dissuaded by this one thing.
this special research very much leans into the marathon aspect of the game...it will also probably be another couple years before I hit level 40 but I like the thought of slowly chipping away at it in the meantime. I have been really pleasantly surprised since picking the game back up how much faster it feels to level up. I'm level 38, ~1.2M XP in and 2.7M away from level 39 and I think I only hit level 38 within the past month. It's flying by a lot faster than I thought it would by PoGo standards at least.
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(you need an account to see links) - there's no deadline to finish special research stuff like this. I've been sitting on one for like four years now because I can't catch a Ditto in the wild to save my life. I've got 10 different special research tracks open right now and just slowly grind them out over time.