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I think of Gen V as my favorite generation.
I wouldn't exactly say every generation had an individual flaw that BW/BW2 fixed in it's own right, but it still had a lot of redeeming factors for me that made me appreciate the game despite how much people talk down about it. And that doesn't go without saying that Gen V had "the best of everything".
Certainly didn't have the best champion, from a gameplay standpoint. If you can't appreciate a sense of character over a sense of challenge, it's really hard to like Alder. But I do. And none of the rivals ever compare to Barry. And it obviously didn't have the best playable characters, but at least they were supplied some explanation as to where they went, in the next game, something akin to the treatment Red got, which a lot of PCs never really get. I'm fairly certain as far as the rest of the PCs go, only Red, Hilda, and Hilbert actually get mentioned in different games, and Red is the only one ever seen again. But maybe I'm wrong.
However, the villainous team had deeper intentions than most of the others throughout the entire series. Not to mention N is possibly the single best character in any Pokemon game, both from a gameplay and story standpoint. The games took a step in a different direction, and that's something I wish the series did more often. If you ask me, with how easy and hand-holdey XY was, going from Gen V to VI was a step in the wrong direction. ORAS fixed things a bit, but I'm still hoping we get a game with the same design-based quality as we did with BW again, some day.
Also if you ask me, people who defend Grimer and Muk but say Garbador is one of the worst design pokemon are hypocrites, because for all intents and purposes, their designs are nearly identical. One's a literal pile of garbage, and the other's a literal pile of waste.
