>>562164011. It actually tried to add challenge back into the series despite all of the casualization going on at the same time.
2. Moving away from gym leaders was a good idea in theory even if they just added in gym leaders by another name.
3. Team Skull is the best evil team of the past 11 years. It's better than Flare, Yell, and Star combined.
4. It had the most fappable Pokegirls in the series. If I didn't have thousands of other doujins, animations, and VNs to jack off to, I might actually be invested in the girls.
5. It's a solid 4.5/10 in terms of quality, making it far better than everything that came out after it.
That said, I think Gen 7 introduced the most revolting set of new Pokemon ever. Only one of the Pokemon managed to make it into my top 100, and that's Lurantis.