Rate of the Week V4: Week 16

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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)
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)
 
This week's winner is Gross Sweep, he made a very good rate with a cool format as well. The rate started with an analysis about the team idea and how it works in the current meta, while discussing what the rate will talk about. His first change consists in Excadrill over Mega Steelix, explaining how Excadrill is a better Pokemon, for example being able to outspeed threats such as Keldeo and Greninja without wasting any turn of sand, since Mega Steelix doesn't outspeed them even after a Rock Polish, while wasting a sand turn to set up; this is a good change and also not a drastic one, considering that they have the same type, but it's just Excadrill the better Pokemon there since it does a better job. His second change is Tangrowth over Murkrow; Tangrowth being able to check offensive threats such as Keldeo and Zygarde, but mainly as ground resistor for Landorus-T as well, with Earthquake being able to lure Heatran. His second major change is Mega Charizard Y over Minor, since it wasn't able to deal with all grass types, such as Ferrothorn that was able to pretty much wall, while Charizard Y pressure them pretty well, with Hidden Power Ice being able to catch its main offensive checks such as Garchomp and Zygarde. As last minor changes, he suggested a physical defensive spread, being able to avoid the 2hko from Tapu Koko's HP Ice, but also being a decent Mega Metagross check; Assault Vest over Life Orb on Magearna, checking mainly Greninja and Tapu Lele, with Aura Sphere for Ferrothorn and Magnezone.

Thanks to his rate, Gross Sweep has earned himself a spot in the hall of fame, Congratulation!
 
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