Rate of the Week V4: Week 27

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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 -
 
This week's winner is IronBullet who made an excellent rate. He starts off by mentioning threats to the team. Those being offensive versions of Celesteela and Magearna, Tapu Koko, Volcarona and Dragon Dance Flyinium Z Gyarados. His first suggestion was the change of Choice Scarf Greninja over Keldeo. Greninja can still act like a Scarfer but can also hit threats like Tapu Koko, Gyrados while also providing u-turn for momentum. His 2nd suggestion is to replace Magerna with Spd Heatran. This helps the team deals with threats like Celesteela, Tangrowth, Magerna without a fighting move, Tornadus-therian and Volcarona as well. This change also prevents fire types like Charizard Y from just spamming fire moves thanks to Heatran's ability.
His next recommendation was to change the current tangrowth set to an Assault Vest version. This allows Tangrowth to take on Mons like Ash Greninja, Magerna and Keldeo better. His last suggestion was to put Stealth Rocks on the Heatran and changing Landorus-therian to a Sword Dance variant giving the team more breaking power.

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