"Love the respect gen 5 has been getting recently"

This might just be anecdotal, but it seems as if recently on Reddit a lot of people have been praising gen 5. I think a lot of this stems from its major gimmick being just hidden abilities and not something over the top like megas or z moves or dynamaxing. I personally always loved gen 5, the pokemon were unique and creative (Volcarona, Hydreigon, Bisharp, Reuniclus, I could go on). Even if you shit on Vanilluxe there's like 10 gen 1 mons with worse designs (Mr. Mime? what the fuck is a ditto?). The competitive weather wars actually kicked ass, it made so many typically unused pokemon very common place. Vaporeon was awesome in rain. I had a team that regularly destroyed people on showdown with a Victreebell (it had weather ball).The story alone makes it one of the best gens. Is making pokemon fight each other really a good thing? Did N have some points? Is game freak's reason for why it's fine kind of a cop out? Honestly, it was kind of gray and ethically muddled and that's how all good stories are! The antagonist wasn't just "Fuck everyone we want to blow up the universe."The map was incredible. Castelia City alone was gorgeous and jaw dropping when you first come into it, it really felt like a bustling metropolis. The desert area with ruins felt like there was actually a desert part with a purpose, as it was modeled after desert dwelling Native Americans. Made Volcarona just that much cooler too (okay I fucking love Volc).In conclusion, gen 5 whips ass, I'm kind of drunk, this might have been excessive, but I wanted to get this shit off my chest. Vive Unova! via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/2sLNvA7