RMT of the Week V5: Week 40

[TPP]

RMT of the Week
co-hosted by Snowy. and IronBullet​

Want your team noticed by a lot of people? Do you want all the efforts you put into testing your team and writing up your RMT to count? This is where RMT of the Week comes in! The aim of this project is to give people who put effort into making quality RMTs the attention they deserve. There are a lot of teams out there that are well-built and presented, but often left in the dark. Not anymore!

Concept

• Every week, we will nominate a few teams as candidates for the RMT of the Week.
• These teams are put in a poll. Everyone can vote for the team they think is most deserving of the award.
• At the end of the week, the winner will be the team that receives the most votes.

Prizes

So what's in it for the winners? Well, the winning team will be announced on social media. It will also be recorded in the Hall of Fame, which will be posted in the OP for each week, and people are encouraged to rate it. Winning the RMT of the Week also increases the chance of having your RMT added to the Team Showcase, subject to review, since it brings it to the notice of the staff. Finally, the winner will have an opportunity to give a brief interview.

RMT Requirements

• Make sure your team is viable and effective: This one is self-explanatory. If your team doesn't fit into its tier or metagame, or lacks any kind of success, it won't have a high chance of being selected. It doesn't have to be archive worthy though, and it doesn't have to have peaked at #1; a moderately successful team can make it, but it has to work.
• Your team should be well-presented: Wouldn't you enjoy posting in a thread more if it was visually appealing? If you put effort into presenting your team attractively, people will be more willing to rate it. We appreciate it when you take time to improve the quality of your RMTs, as it enhances the quality of the forum.
• Be nice and receptive to people's opinions: No one likes to rate the team of a close-minded person!

For those whose teams are selected, don't ask anyone, be it friends or anyone else, on the forums or on PS! to vote for you. For friends of the people whose teams get selected, the same goes for you as well: please don't post the link in chat rooms to try and get people to vote.

The first time someone is caught cheating, their team will be disqualified and removed from the ongoing week. If someone is caught cheating for a second time, they will be permanently banned from the project.

Hall of Fame

Week 1:

[OU] Tripple Weather Is Stronk - Bluwing
Week 2:

[OU] Fight to the Finish - Team Pokepals

Week 3:

[UU] Rock 'N Roll Suicide - Hogg

Week 4:

[OU] Lord Cobalion and the cute Mew - Costi

Week 5:

[UU] Real Friends - Shiba

Week 6:

[RU] Dance All Night - Feliburn

Week 7:

[Anything Goes] Philophobia - Dream Eater Gengar

Week 8:

[PU] 3005 - Dundies
Week 9:

[OU] Mexican Cena - Darkreaper215
Week 10:

[NU] i still play bp lol - iplaytennislol

Week 11:

[Ubers] Mega Mence is disgusting - Sweep

Week 12:

[PU] Ice Ice Baby - Paraplegic

Week 13:

[RBY] Memento /cpg/ - Bedschibaer

Week 14:

[UU] UU Stall - dodmen & hilarious

Week 15:

[UU] Handwritten - Mazz

Week 16:

[OU] demons - p2

Week 17:

[Ubers] Exceeded Darkness - Lacus Clyne

Week 18:

[RU] 'rco dio mi sculano - fran17

Week 19:

[PU] Athletic - Megazard

Week 20:

[OU] The Jaws of Life Hold the Keys to Success - MattyBrollic

Week 21:

[Battle Spot] Infinity's TactiSand - cant say

Week 22:

[Ubers] A Different Xerneas! - Mysterious M

Week 23:

[OU] End of All - TDK

Week 24:

[RU] RegiMola: The Origination - -Tsunami-

Week 25:

[Ubers] Sahara's Subduers - LucosDICampos

Week 26:

[Ubers] Take It To Reality - Ha In Kang

Week 27:

[BW] Gliding Over All - Smurf.

Week 28:

[UU] Bonfire - Hairy Toenail

Week 29:

[NU] Discipline - Blast

Week 30:

[OU] The Banned Chronicles Part 5 "Cold Water Is Inconceivable" - Asuya

Week 31:

[Ubers] marquise diamond - Arii Stella

Week 32:

[PU] Taystee: Klang Balanced Team - PTF

Week 33:

[OU] XTRA CHIRP$ - xtra$hine

Week 34:

[RU] Post Tyrantrum Stress Disorder - ClaimingRobin

Week 35:

[NU] Sry, I'm Late - DnB

Week 36:

[Ubers] Phantom Force - James Jimmy

Week 37:

[LC] goons n goblins - rozes
Week 38:

[UU] My Hands Are Wings Again - Pearl

Week 40 nominees:

1. [OU] Hail Hydra - Snowtop

2. [OU] Hitmontop & "Chansey Serene Grace" Hyper Stall - SufficientlyPoised

3. [UU] M.A.A.D. City - PinkDragonTamer

4. [RU] Sucker For Pain - Take Azelfie

5. [PU] Field of Desolation - ShuckleDeath

6. [LC] Far Away - Fiend

7. [LC] fr*ck - trash

8. [Doubles OU] The Song of Death - darksylvion

9. [Doubles OU] Sun & Moon - Test Bot #

10. [Doubles OU] Wrath of the North Wind: A Ladder Hero's Dream Team - Mr.GX

11. [Monotype] AvengeR's Balanced Trick Room Team - TheAveng92R

12. [Anything Goes] Polytheistic Alliance - LordBraixen

13. [Gen 3 OU] Art Is An Explosion - Foggi

 

[TPP]

We caught up with last week's winner Evan. to ask him a few questions about his NU RMT, All My Friends!

1. Can you give a brief description of your team? What do you think is the reason behind its success?

My team is an offensive team that was built around the combination of Scarf Scyther + Specs Mesprit. The idea of the time is to use pivots like Scyther and Lanturn to get strong wall-breakers like Mesprit and Kangaskhan in and do damage so that one of the main hitters can clean. One thing that sticks out is that the team doesn't really have a clear set-up poke or "win condition" like most teams do. That's mainly because the main members of my offensive core have really good offensive synergy which allows them to break through the basic kind of cores that the NU playerbase LOVES to run (seriously, NU is known for being a tier that doesn't branch out much at all), basically stuff like using garbodor + fat ground, xatu + hariyama / lanturn.

I think the main reason that my team has had it's fair share of success (other than what i mentioned earlier), is that the team does a great job of always putting some kind of offensive pressure on the opponent. Everything on the team hits decently hard and as long as you don't lose it early, its pretty easy to keep up offensive momentum for the majority of the match. This lets it absolutely destroy other offensive builds while also having a good chance against the common balance builds in the tier. I also have to shoutout stall not being that popular because it kinda bends this team over haha, luckily i've never actually seen anyone get the matchup in a tour game.

2. Have you received any useful feedback for your team?

I haven't really received any good feedback (other than omfuga's very positive feedback on the song i chose) but i've been toying around with a few variations that I realized might be better (being a former team rater myself oo).

3. Is there any advice you'd like to give to RMT posters?

To the people actually posting the teams: if you want your team to look good and you're not very creative, you should definitely go through the majority of teams in the Team Showcase (as well as the more recent archive ones), try and find a format that you think looks good, and basically just copy it (w/ a few personal touches thrown in. To the actual people rating the teams: situational knowledge is really important in giving a quality rate and is something that a lot of people kind of gloss over (ex: if x mon 2HKOs most of your team, but it doesn't get in on anything safely then it's not a huge problem), also try not to change too much haha.

Thanks for taking the time to do this and congrats again!

 

[IronBullet]

Congrats Foggi for winning with his ADV RMT Explosion Is An Art! Scheduled a tweet, give his team a like and rate it if possible :)