>>25305157>first generation that didn't introduced a new mechanicwhat is triple battles, rotation battles
>Introduced the Powercreep that we have todayarceus was the top of power creep, until megas came
>Hystory got retconed half waywell, in gen 6 history got retconned far more. what's wrong with that? the story was the best pokemon games have to offer
gates to infinity, dream world and purrloin were shit, that much is true. However, you can't really count gates as mainline gen 5, and the pokedex issue was fixed in b2w2.
but still, the positives outweigh the negatives by far, for me at least. TMs being reusable is the best thing, it was the first gen to reduce the number of HMs, etc.