Rate of the Week V4: Week 4

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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)
 
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This week winner is Amoonguss, with a good rate and a nice format. First of all he analyzed the biggest threat to the team, in Double Dance Landorus-T being able to set up on most members of the team and being able to threat the whole team even just after a Swords Dance, other threats that can be an issue are Life Orb Phermosa and Tapu Lele, one having Fighting, Ice, Poison coverage and the other one very strong with terrain boost, since Magnezone lacks of HP investment it cannot be considered a good switch in. His first change consists in Amoonguss over Serperior, having a strong solution against Phermosa, tanking Orb Ice Beam pretty easily. His second change is making Magnezone Assault Vest, so having a more solid solution against Tapu Lele, at the same time still having a good trapper vs Ferrothorn, Celesteela and Skarmory. Another change is in Tapu Fini, more of a specific one, making a more defensive spread, so being able to take better hits from Mega Metagross, but at the same time having a good solution vs Ash Greninja, with extra speed to outspeed defensive Landorus-T; Scald over Hydro Pump because Tapu Fini doesnt need to hit hard, but more to annoy with Nature's Madness and Scald burns. As last change, he put Hidden Power Ice over Knock Off, being able to 2HKO opposing Landorus-T in either defensive or offensive variant, which opens the field to Mega Charizard X to sweep, a pretty good change that makes the Pokemon more synergic.

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