Rate of the Week V4: Week 29

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Rate of the Week
This is a project that looks to bring quality individual rates into the spotlight and recognise the hard work of unbadged raters.
  • 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 can be multiple winners every week - ideally 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 they are the main focus of this project.
So what's in it for the winners? 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.
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)
Week #20 - Gross Sweep (SM OU)
Week #21 - Gross Sweep (SM OU)
Week #22 - MFJR King (SM OU)
Week #23 - Tinberz (SM OU)
Week #24 - H.M.N.I.P (SM OU)
Week #25 - MFJr King (SM OU)
Week #26 - Gross Sweep (SM OU)
Week #27 - IronBullet (SM OU)
Week #28 - AnishSomani (SM OU)
Week #29 -
 

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Congrats to this week's winner IronBullet who posted a well formatted rate. He started saying that the the team needs a reliable answer to top threats the likes of Garchomp, Zygarde and Mega Pinsir, in order to solve this problem, he suggested defensive Landorus therian over Mimikyu, which is also very helpful to bring slow momentum in order to get sweepers in safely.

After that, he mentioned that water types the likes of ash greninja, gengar, keldeo and kingdra are very difficult to face, to deal with these aforementioned threats he suggested using Av Magearna over AV Magnezone that also is very solid against wallbreakers like choice specs Tapu lele which Magnezone can't handle very well.

Our esteemed RMT co-leader mentioned that the lacks of a revenge killer could make the team really weaker to naturally fast threats like ash Greninja, Volcarona and DD mega Tyranitar, to solve this problem , he suggested to use choice Scarf Kartana over Focus sash, which is a very good revenge killer able to pick off fast threats like mega alakazam, Scarf tapu lele, adamant mega Swampert in Rain and mega Lopunny.

At last, he suggested using Psychic on Mew over Ice beam because it could be very helpful to hit Toxapex, mega lopunny and Keldeo, he also suggested using Taunt on mega Gyarados to improve the stall match up, preventing also Toxapex , Skarmory and Celesteela to use Haze, Whirlwind and Leech Seed respectively.

Thanks to his rate IronBullet has earned himself a spot in the hall of fame, congratulations! :toast:
 
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