There is no guarantee if those 5 "unpopular" tokens will be rise on this year. Personally i only ever heard about waves, because there were some token which used this as their platform but the result was very dissapointed, those token only worth pennies.
Same as me, when I saw the topic, I was actually expecting to see something better than those coins and if I am to manage any of them, It will be WAVES, that is if I don’t have any choice, but even in my normal clear eyes, I would not go with waves.
These coins he mentioned are nothing compared to lots of good coins that we have out there, although I would not conclude yet, because I don’t just take project again, based on people’s recommendation, but I do that based on my own personal research ad conviction, if I do my research and I am convinced about them, I might give it a little try.