WAIT I CHANGED MY MIND I really like Drampa but I've loved Togekiss since forever and they're in Alola if you Island Scan.
Species: Togepi! which will evolve sooner rather than later. She'll also pick up a shiny stone, but that will be for later. Catch Style: Regifted! One of the first Trainers Scout encounters has their team just hanging out playing in the open, and when she settles in to observe, this heavy-bodied little chick thing just toddles up and hangs out with her.
Eventually she actually talks to the trainer who explains they were given a mysterious Egg from a more experienced trainer who used Island Scan, hatched it, and trained it for a while but needs a full team of more combat-ready Pokemon and feels bad about just leaving it behind. This trainer conveniently helps explain a lot about the world, Scout befriends them, it takes a while before they offer to give her Togepi and longer before they part ways.
tl:dr Gift, but with enough transition that the friendship rating isn't completely cut to base level and Scout knows what to do with this.
Scout
Species: Togepi! which will evolve sooner rather than later. She'll also pick up a shiny stone, but that will be for later.
Catch Style: Regifted! One of the first Trainers Scout encounters has their team just hanging out playing in the open, and when she settles in to observe, this heavy-bodied little chick thing just toddles up and hangs out with her.
Eventually she actually talks to the trainer who explains they were given a mysterious Egg from a more experienced trainer
who used Island Scan, hatched it, and trained it for a while but needs a full team of more combat-ready Pokemon and feels bad about just leaving it behind. This trainer conveniently helps explain a lot about the world, Scout befriends them, it takes a while before they offer to give her Togepi and longer before they part ways.tl:dr Gift, but with enough transition that the friendship rating isn't completely cut to base level and Scout knows what to do with this.