i don't know how to translate いなくても [I Am Learning Japanese]

I am trying to translate a sentence and i know almost nothing about Japanese.
anyway, the sentence is from a pokemon game, that i chose because i know those dialogues quite good (lol). the complete sentence is ポケモンいなくてもだいじょうぶ
and i feel like the meaning is "even if we don't have any pokemon, we'll be safe", but i can't understand what いなくても is. is it いなく (without) + ても (even if) or いなくて as a verb form from iru. the Internet search didn't really help, that's why I am asking. Also, I wander why after ポケモン there's no particle like ga, for example. is it just informal or is it how the sentence is supposed to be constructed?