>>54335473>and you would still need to catch them as wellYeah, no yoiu don't. The pokémon center nurses in any town or city without a resident pokémon professor are tasked with handing out starter pokémon. There's no upper age limit on accepting a starter and beginning a journey either.
Maybe stop pushing your headcanons as fact for the pokémon universe, the utopian society is shaped to helping people who want to become trainers become trainers.