Rate of the Week V3: Week 5

[Enki]

Rate of the Week
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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 not more than once. Unbadged raters can win the award multiple times.

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 their rates will be announced on social media. Also, after gaining 3 places in the Hall of Fame, a rater can be eligible to earn room voice in the RMT room on PS! on the condition that they've shown an interest in getting involved. Winners also earn more consideration for the Ladybug

and Team Rater

badges.

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!

Hall of Fame

Week #1 - Toon Linked (OU)
Week #2 - Nedor (OU), Arifeen (UU)
Week #3 - Fireburn (Ubers), Do A Bibarel (UU)
Week #4 - AM (OU), Raiza (PU), Kiyo (NU)
Week #5 - FlamingVictini (OU)

 

[Enki]

This week's OU winner is FlamingVictini! He made a pretty good rate and a nice format as well. The rate begins suggesting Azumarill as a solution for most of the threat list of the team, failing to cover Bisharp and Poison Jab Weavile. Changing Keldeo for Azumarill, it gives the team another priority beeing able to revenge kill common attackers. The Mega Charizard X weakness is now limited because the ways to set up are only by the switches or on Magnezone's move but Volt Switch. Thanks to this change it's able to have one more dark resistor and a secondary dragon switch. If fairies are a little problematic, he suggested Iron Tail over Knock Off, beeing able to hit them hard, which Magnezone is not able to do without taking hits. He suggested as a "gimmick" option to try Wacan Berry over the Assault Vest, if he finds the team weak to Kyurem-B and not able to manage it. As a second change he suggested Landorus-T over Heatran, because of the Excadrill's weakness, with or without the sand, also a spread with enough speed for adamant 252 Bisharp beeing able to take a +1 Sucker Punch. Another option for this second change is Garchomp, which makes the team less Bisharp weak, having a good answer, but beeing a little weaker to Excadrill and Mega Charizard X.

Then he started suggesting little things, making the team better, Jolly nature on Mega Pinsir, beeing able to outspeed Manaphy, Gardevoir, Charizard Y if Timid and offensive Garchomp, which isn't that common, but have to be aware from. Also he suggested Feint, if the nature won't change, over Quick Attack, which helps against Talonflame's Brave Bird, Weavile's Ice Shard, and more other priorities he mentioned; also it breakes Protect beeing able to stop Toxic stalling as well. He mentioned that it is a power loss if Pinsir runs Jolly nature. As a last small change, he suggested Scarf Magneton, because of the higher speed, beeing able to outspeed Jolly Talonflame, and Weavile, both beeing to kill or weaken Magnezone, which is an original suggest lately in RMT. Thanks to his helpful rate that further improves a solid team, FV has earned himself a spot in the Hall of Fame. Congratulations!