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Gen 5 is my favorite, but I enjoyed ORAS a lot and fell in love with Super Contests. My 2nd playthrough was laborious because it was a Wonder Trade run so I ended up severely overleveled which killed my interest in the game for a while, but that's my fault more than anything. The game itself was fun, and I feel Hoenn has the biggest sense of adventure of all the games, the leap from Mauville to the route leading up to Fortree was simply phenomenal to play through for the first time.
I'm a dedicated Grassfag, but Swamptert was my starter of choice in Ruby and also my first lv.100.
RIP, Kipp, he died in the line of duty, taken out by a shitty cousin who reset the cartridge without my say-so.
As for X/Y, they're also good, but I only enjoyed them because I denied the 2 starters and 3(?) other gift Pokemon they try to force on you. The huge Pokemon diversity allows for a truly unique run, so getting all those freebie Pokemon kind of hurt my opinion of the game, especially when there were team threads with 'Kalos Starter/Kanto Starter/Lucario'. Some people really missed out on some great Pokemon from Gen 6.
Overall I feel Gen 6 was great but got cut too short, just like Gen 5. ORAS gets too much hate, especially when D/P/Pt are way worse, though I do think not being based on Emerald was a bad call.
