Rate of the Week V4: Week 3

[Sun]

Rate of the Week
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Welcome to Rate of the Week! This is a project that looks to bring quality individual rates into the spotlight and recognizes the hard work of unbadged raters. Here's how it will work:

• Each week, official Team Raters will be paying close attention to the RMT forum and reading the rates posted in their respective tiers. They will then shortlist a few which will be in contention for the Rate of the Week award.
• From the pool of shortlisted rates, one will be chosen which most exemplifies the qualities of an excellent rate. That rater will be the winner for that particular tier!
• A post will be made by an official TR who specialises in that tier, explaining how and why the particular rate won. This will allow aspiring raters to gain an idea of what constitutes high-quality rates, and hopefully incorporate those aspects into their own rates.
• There will be multiple winners every week, one from OU and a couple from other tiers depending on the quality of the rates posted. We hope that in this way we can expand rating activity in less popular tiers, while maintaining a weekly OU winner.
• Official Team Raters are eligible to win, but unbadged raters will have priority since that is the main focus of this project.

So what's in it for the winners? Well, they will earn a place in the Hall of Fame, which will be kept in the OP of every thread, and will earn more consideration for the Ladybug

and Team Rater

badges. Also, after gaining three places in the Hall of Fame, a rater will be eligible to earn voice status in the RMT room on PS! on the condition that they've shown an interest in getting involved.

We hope that this project will encourage people to put more effort into their rates and become better and more experienced raters, which will consequently increase the quality as well as the quantity of rates in the forum. Good luck to you all!

Hall of Fame

Week #1 - Amoonguss (ORAS OU)
Week #2 - tankmonx (SM OU)

 

[Enki]

This week winner is streams with a pretty solid rate and a nice format. The rate begins with a quick analysis and a short list of what are the main weaknesses and threats to the team, mentioning how some steel types can annoy the team, such as Celesteela and Magnezone. Ferrothorn was the first Pokemon he talked about, supporting the choice, because having Landorus-T over it might be a weaker choice, ice weakness, but then he supported and pointed out all good things that Landorus-T brings to the team, such as ground and electric immunities that the team lacks of. Landorus-T helping the team against Magnezone, stopping the free voltswitch, and at the same time being a good check for Garchomp, a threat mentioned in the RMT. His second change was a smaller one, changing Earthquake for Thunder Punch, to pressure more Celesteela and Mega Charizard Y as he said, but also to pressure more water types, because removing Ferrothorn makes the team struggle more against them. Another smaller change is a specific evs spread that avoids the 2HKO from Charizard Y and to pressure it a little bit with some evs in atk. Another small change is on one of the team's sweepers, in Salamence, removing Outrage for Dragon Claw, a pretty good change because fairy type is a thing in every team and he doesnt need that much of a power having Dragon Dance and Moxie already. Last change is Moon Blast over Scald on Tapu Fini, which pressures Mega Sableye, so stall teams can be less threatening, and at the same time, Tapu Bulu and Heatran are already pressured with Nature's Madness.

Thanks to his rate streams has earned himself a spot in the Hall of Fame! Congratulations!