Rate of the Week V4: Week 2

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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)
 
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This week winner is tankmonx, with a very well done rate and a pretty clean format. First of all he made a quick analysis of what the team is weak to, mentioning Greninja, Tapu Koko and Mega Metagross, after that quick analysis he moved to the changes. His first change is very solid, with Tapu Fini over Zapdos; Tapu Fini being the best hazard control we have right now and also being such a good check for Greninja and Mega Charizard X like he mentioned. Also providing a secondary option with Nature's Madness over Scald, with a pretty good spread that can handle physical offensive Pokemon too; with Taunt that helps the stall matchup. His second change is a smaller change one, making his Garchomp Lum Berry lead a Choice Scarfer, having a good way to revenge kill some big threats like Tapu Koko and Volcarona that is raising in usage as he mentioned. Suggesting dual dragon stab with Earthquake and also slashing Stone Edge with Poison Jab and Fire Fang, depends on what the player decides to have a better matchup vs or against what threats he strugles more, being Tapu Koko, Volcarona, or more defensive one like Mega Scizor or Ferrothorn.

Another small change is Assault Vest over Choice Specs on Magnezone, allowing him to take better Tapu Koko as he said and I'd say Greninja too. His last change is in Defensive Landorus-T over Alolan Muk, explaining why he did that change, trying to take better Mega Charizard X and Mega Metagross, but at the same time, having Stealth Rocks, that he lost by making Garchomp Choice Scarf. He suggested a pretty specific spread and explained what it does pretty well. He also suggested Hidden Power Ice or Swords Dance over Stone Edge as potential options and Thunder Wave over Will-o-wisp on Rotom-W, lowering Mega Charizard X chance to set up on it.

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