Rate of the Week V4: Week 7

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Rate of the Week
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!
Week #1 - Amoonguss (ORAS OU)
Week #2 - tankmonx (SM OU)
Week #3 - streams (SM OU)
Week #4 - Amoonguss (SM OU)
Week #5 - bludz (SM OU)
Week #6 - tigers jaw (SM OU)
Week #7 - Avidity (SM OU)
 
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This week winner is Avidity, with a good rate and a decent format too. The rate begins with a quick overview of what the team is weak to, being ground types in general looks like the biggest issue, mentioning Scarf Garchomp and Landorus-T, another threats that can be annoying as he mentioned are Greninja and Pheromosa. His first change consists in Roost over Earthquake on Mega Charizard X, having Roost increases its longevity against electric types that can be annoying and also allows you to use Flare Blitz over Fire Punch because the recoil isnt that big of a problem anymore. His second change is a smaller one with Leech Seed over Dragon Pulse, an optimal change that can be pretty annoying against other bad matchups and also Dragon Pulse isn't hitting that hard or many threats. Another minor change is Kyurem-B evs spread, being able to 2HKO Tapu Fini, but also allowing Ice Beam to 2HKO Mega Venusaur too. A major change is Landorus-T over Swampert, having a nice ground immunity, since Serperior isnt too great, very frail and usually easily weakened down, Landorus-T provides also a solid way to check Garchomp, Mega Metagross, Mega Pinsir, Excadrill, etc. as he mentioned. Another minor change is Solar Beam over Iron Head, since it's not a good move on Heatran, but Magma Storm + Bloom Doom is really cool vs Tapu Fini, a very solid Mega Charizard X check. His last change is Tapu Fini over Starmie, being a better Pheromosa and Greninja check, and still able to deal with hazard for Charizard.

Thanks to his rate Avidity has earned himself another spot in the Hall of Fame! Congratulations!
 
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