Rate of the Week V4: Week 19

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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)
Week #8 - AnishSomani (SM OU)
Week #9 - FlamingVictini (SM OU)
Week #10 - Vertex (SM OU)
Week #11 - DracoNinja (SM OU)
Week #12 - MFJr King (SM OU)
Week #13 - Ramses (SM OU)
Week #14 - Amoonguss (SM OU)
Week #15 - MFJr King (SM OU)
Week #16 - Gross Sweep (SM OU)
Week #17 - MFJr King (SM OU)
Week #18 - AnishSomani (SM OU)
Week #19 - FlamingVictini (SM OU)
 
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This week's winner is FlamingVictini, with a good rate and a pretty cool format. His rate started with a quick explanation on how psychic terrain works, to then go straight to the first change, being Fire Punch over Superpower, as explained by him, band Tyranitar is pretty good on that team, since it gets strong hits on several Salamence checks, such as Skarmory and Celesteela, that can get 2HKO'ed by Stone Edge, but having Fire Punch allows it to hit Magearna, Ferrothorn and Scizor, often Tyranitar's switch in, while also hitting Celesteela and Skarmory. His second change is Earth Power over Flash Cannon, since opposing Heatran are very annoying to the team in general, and not being able to hit them with his own Heatran was pretty bad, also Lava Plume as fire STAB move, since it has more pps, accurate and has a decent chance to burn. His last change is Amoonguss over Mega Venusaur, since that Pokemon wasnt that good on this team for a few reasons, having no hazard control + sand, made Mega Venusaur pretty easy to wear down, which makes it not as solid as Amoonguss to check offensive threats such as Ash Greninja, but having Regenerator and Spore, makes this Pokemon the best to fit in here. As last thing, he left an optional change if the player wanted to keep Mega Venusaur, which is Excadrill over Heatran with Mold Breaker providing hazard control, Tyranitar to a more support set with Fire Blast and Salamence with Fire Blast over Earthquake, as last thing Shed Shell Tapu Lele, that allows him to have a better matchup vs stall, this all in case the player didn't like the Amoonguss change.

Thanks to his rate, FlamingVictini has earned himself another spot in the hall of fame, Congratulation!
 
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