>games look better than x and y despite being on a previous gen
>had shillmons
>"harder" than all the other games in the series before or since
>try to win over the fangirls with N
>challenge mode
>make more Pokemon than any other generation
>has shitty movies to advertise the games
>had a pretty cool gimmick in Pokestar Studios that is never coming back.
>has voice acting in Roxie's gym
>Invented Golurk. Enough said.

but MUH ICE CREAM CONE AND MUH TRASH BAG mean its a terrible gen guys!

People who don't like gen 5, do you have literally any reason besides "muh ice cream cone and muh kantooo shilling"? I understand if you're tired of the retarded redditors posting these cringey "gen 5 music really hits different" videos. (I actually don't think the music is that impressive desu, its good but its not specifically more notable than the other gens music) in my opinion this is the peak of the franchise and because it didnt sell well, because gen 5 actually took some bold steps and because gamefreak actually gave a shit about it, it didn't succeed, but when the later games played it completely safe, they sold better wtf