RMT of the Week V5: Week 6

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RMT of the Week
co-hosted by Yagura, Team Pokepals and Snowy.
approved by IronBullet and Jirachee​

Ever wanted your team rated and noticed by a lot of people? Do you want all the efforts you put into testing your team, editing it and finalizing it to count? This is where RMT of the Week comes in! This 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 that aren't exactly archive worthy but are extremely well-built and presented, and often left in the dark. Not anymore!

The concept is fairly simple:

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

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 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.

Now you're probably thinking, "Why would people rate this team in particular? After all, it's no different from any other team." Yeah, maybe. But this is the perfect opportunity for all you unbadged raters to draw attention to yourselves. If you post good rates for the RMT of the Week, something that most of the staff is going to look at, you increase your chances of earning the Team Rater

What sort of teams are going to be selected for this award? If you are interested in getting your team shortlisted, here are some things that you can do to increase your chances:

• 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? Yeah, me too. If you put effort into presenting your team attractively, more people will be happy to rate it. We appreciate when you take time to improve the quality of their RMTs, as it enhances the quality of the forum.
• Be nice and receptive to people's opinions: No one likes to rate a close-minded person's team!

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 cute Mew - Costi

Week 5:

[UU] Real Friends - Shiba

 

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1. [OU] Dragon-Water-Steel Heavy Offense - GH[O]ST

2. [OU] Return From the Pork Chop Mountains - pork chop man

3. [OU] ORAS OU Balanced Offense - kanng

4. [RU] LAST DINOSAUR - Arifeen

5. [RU] Dance All Night - Feliburn

6. [Stabmons] Overpowered Metal Bug - Joshz

7. [Monotype] Ladder Tour Winning Squad - Wyn

8. [Monotype] Earthbending - KGBeast

9. [Monotype] Mega Aggron Rock Mono - Bitana

 

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We caught up with last week's winner Shiba to ask him a few questions about his UU RMT, Real Friends.

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

So the team itself is a good example of what balance is in today's meta. As I said in the intro, I wanted to build around Gyarados with the drop of it in January, and Mega Sceptile was the perfect partner with it as part of the offensive part of the balance. For the defensive side, I found a pretty nice blend with Swampert, Doublade, Florges, and Zapdos, all covering eachother's weaknesses and working extremely well together. I think the reason behind the success was the way that the team was built, with no immediate threats except the Nidos and a small niche of Hidden Power Technician Roserade. Granted I haven't played with it in Alakazam meta, but I do believe it is equipped with the elements to effectively beat Alakazam (a faster Pokemon in sceptile and Shadow Sneak w/ Doublade).

2. Have you found the feedback that you've received in the forum to be helpful?

Cyndequil.'s suggestions were the only ones I tested a lot with the Swampert EVs and Zapdos change. I did change the Swampert EVs but decided to hold off on the Zapdos change, anyone that knows me well knows that I'm a huge fan of momentum (I used to build a TON of VoltTurn lmao) so I kept Volt Switch over Tbolt. Though Thunderbolt is better in some situations (like the Gyarados one Cynde mentioned), I think that the blend of Gyro Ball Doublade (hits Gyara harder as it sets up) and Volt Switch Zapdos can handle it quite easily (granted no flinches :[).

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

As others have said in previous interviews, make sure you test a team a TON before posting. I used the final version of this team in ~200 games (ladder + roomtours + friendlies), and as you can see, I thought it was good enough to be posted in the RMT forum :] Also a big thing I like to do is make it look aesthetically pleasing, but no need to go too overboard like I kinda did with this one. As a rater as well, I find it easier to read and rate teams if some sprites are there/if it's presented in a good manner.

Thanks for taking time to do the interview and congrats again :)

 

[IronBullet]

Feliburn wins with his RU RMT Dance All Night, congrats man! Scheduled a tweet, give his team a like and rate it if possible