JX Valentine
Your aquatic overlord
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I think it's perfectly acceptable, but not everyone does. I recently wrote a oneshot about Bugsy, in which he owns a Ninjask, and I got slammed for it. "Ninjask's not a Johto Pokemon," blah blah blah. Yet in the ten years between GSC and this oneshot, do you think that maybe, just maybe, Bugsy might have taken a holiday?
You don't even really have to stretch it that much, either. With GSDS (I refuse to call it HGSS because I'm lame) coming out, I wouldn't be surprised if Gen III and Gen IV were included in Johto through shiny, post-E4 features. And even then, it's not like newer gen Pokémon haven't ever appeared in older gen regions in the first place. Anyone else remember that time in GSC when Murkrow were found in Kanto? Fun times.
In other words, just because they were introduced in a certain gen doesn't mean they can only live in that gen's main region. I mean, come on, now. Murkrow was only found in Kanto. (Which, uh, doesn't quite make sense, considering Johto's huge-as-eff forest in the west, but whatever.)