>>44973269Fpbp.
Unova copers are pathetic. BW wasn't hated just because you couldn't catch Muh Charizard. They were the first games in the series to start the trend of having NPC's stop you every few steps you make, they were the first games in the series to introduce 'friends'.
Many Unova designs were horrible and felt like uninspired Kanto knockoffs. For example no one really remembers Bouffalant over Tauros, or Roggenrola over Geodude, and the monkeys are a horrific attempt at recapturing the appeal of Eeveelutions and the starter typing 'RPS'. Speaking of, the starters are generally agreed to be the worst out of the series. The removal of things like Secret Bases, simplification of the region, Gym Leaders and Elite 4 having limited Pokemon are more problems.
Game Freak ACTUALLY TRIED TO GET AWAY WITH PALETTE SWAP LEGENDARIES in the weather genies. The dex in general is overly legendary-saturated generation with tons of missable events and mons, very few of whom were actually standout. The disgusting poorly tweened pixelated sprites that were an assault on the eyes and a step back from gen 4.
The gameplay was absolute CANCER. Gen 5 started the power creep trend rendering a lot of Pokemon useless while introducing cancer like Landorus T which it took multiple generations to undo. Giving non-Uber Pokemon Drizzle/Drought before the nerf, creating the weather wars that centralized the game and forced everyone to run weather. Gave us cancerous abilities like contrary, prankster, and regenerator. FUCKING BUFFED SLEEP. No real innovations on the combat flow like Phy/Spe split, Fairy or Megas, Dynamax, etc.
Ultimately if we take gen 5 out of existence, nothing of value will be lost. It did almost everything wrong and contributed nothing. To the series. Thankfully GF soon learned from their mistakes and glorious gen 6 added Fairy typing, Mega Evolutions, and undid the abomination of the weather wars.
