Whether you catch, breed, transfer, trade, RNG, clone, inject, or buy your Pokémon off a website. Whether you feed them rare candies and vitamins, or grind out levels and EVs. Whether you use the Pokémon that are OU or battle with a fun team you devised yourself. Whether that shiny took ten thousand eggs or just 5 minutes.

As long as you treat the Pokémon you call your own with kindness, love and respect, it doesn’t matter where they come from.