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People act as if dislike for Unova Pokemon died down after Gen 6 was released and only gained steam again due to Discord raiders or SwShills trying to deflect from Sword and Shield's flaws. Yet Sword and Shield wouldn't be announced until 2019 and it's not hard to find comments like this even from 2018. Threads about Gen 5 being underrated didn't become popular until around 2017 or 2018 and there would be no point in calling BW or BW2 "underrated" if a large section of the fanbase didn't dislike it. I don't think that the hatred for Gen V is justified, but I feel like it never fully died down. The people who disliked it just grew more ambivalent towards it.