Rate of the Week V4: Week 48

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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 - IronBullet (SM OU)
Week #30 - AnishSomani (SM OU)
Week #32 - AnishSomani (SM OU)
Week #33 - 3017 (SM Ubers)
Week #35 - pokemon sparrow (SM UU)
Week #36 - Manipulative (SM UU)
Week #37 - Ramses (SM OU)
Week #38 - Gross Sweep (SM OU)
Week #39 -Gross Sweep (SM OU)
Week #40 - HQuaze (SM OU)
Week #41 - Snowy & Gross Sweep (SM OU)
Week #42 - -Latios- (SM OU)
Week #43 -LittleBigness (SM OU)
Week #44 - esche (SM UU)
Week #45 - -Latios- (SM OU)
Week #46 - Simia (SM OU)
Week #47 - esche (SM UU)
Week #48 - esche (SM UU)
 

IronBullet

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This week's winner is esche once again, for posting a detailed and well-structured rate with solid suggestions. Well done and keep it up!

He starts off by identifying a key threat to the team in Scizor, and proposes replacing Starmie with Moltres in order to deal with it. While this is a major change, Moltres provides crucial support to the team in completely neutering Scizor and also being an effective check to Serperior. Moltres also retains Starmie's ability to clear hazards with its access to Defog.

Given the team's lack of reliable Fighting-type resists, esche then suggests running Sylveon over Blissey, which also gives the team a much-needed resist to Dark and Dragon. Sylveon comfortably sponges hits from threatening special attackers like Mega Sceptile, and provides Suicune and Mega Abomasnow with valuable Heal Bell support. He then recommends replacing Nidoking with Cobalion to provide the team with Stealth Rock support and a switch-in to Mega Beedrill. Cobalion's Steelium Z set allows it to overwhelm Gliscor, which Zygarde appreciates, and acts as a backup check to Mega Altaria and Azumarill in a pinch.

Finally, esche recommends running a Rash nature on Mega Abomasnow to more comfortably sponge physical hits from the likes of BD Azumarill, which is important with Starmie no longer available to check it. The slight loss in Special Defense is not of major consequence with Moltres now available to counter Serperior.
 
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