Rate of the Week V2: Week 15

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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 Twitter. 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 - Nedor (OU) and fran17 (LC)

Week #2 - shui3 (OU), YABO (UU), and 49 (RU)

Week #3 - celes (OU), Serapis (VGC)

Week #4 - FlamingVictini (OU)

Week #5 - Albacore (OU), dodmen (UU), 49 (RU), and Corporal Levi (LC)

Week #6 - MrAldo (OU) and Kreme (UU)

Week #7 - Miridy (OU) and Minority Suspect (Ubers)

Week #8 - littlelucario (OU)

Week #9 - Team Pokepals (OU) and Raiza (PU)

Week #10 - Mur (OU) and Rapture. (NU)

Week #11 - Lord Wallace (OU)

Week #12 - Timeless (OU) and DropTheBass (Ubers)

Week #13 - EdwardElric15 (OU)

Week #14 - Bludz (OU)

Week #15 - BreloomMyHoomie (OU)

 

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This week's OU winner is BreloomMyHomie! He has made a pretty cool rate with a good format. The rate begins with a little explanation of the core the OP built around, and the rater talked about the positive and the negative side of that core. Then he started mentioning some threats which are annoying to the team, such as Talonflame, the Swords Dance set in particular, Mega Charizard X, and Sand offense, with Excadrill + Tyranitar. Then he explained pretty well why those threats are annoying to the team, Talonflame with only Excadrill as check, which is not that solid, Zard X having a lot of opportunities to set up against Raikou and Serperior, etc.

His first change is Hippowdon over Raikou, explaining how Hippowdon helps against Talonflame and still able to take hits from Electrics thanks to a spread he suggested, 112 Special Defense preventing the 2HKO from Life Orb Hidden Power Ice Thundurus-i. He also explained how Hippowdon loses momentum but at the same time is a better choice than Tank Chomp, beeing able to take Scarf Landorus and not 2HKOed by Life Orb Excadrill. Then he talked about how weaker is to Keldeo and Tornadus-T, especially the Life Orb variant, beeing able to destroy the entire team, so he suggested Glare over Taunt on Serperior, because Tornadus-T is the most switched Pokemon against Serperior and paralizing it may help the team to deal with it, also Metagross is able to take a Life Orb Heat Wave and KO it, how he said.

As a last change he suggested Scarf Latios over Scarf Excadrill, explaining how in this case it's a pretty good choice, beeing able to stays in against common threat such as Keldeo and Mega Lopunny, and KO them. Also considering PuP Mega Lopunny a huge threat to the team, this set may help to deal with, and Trick is a good choice against defensive walls such as Chansey, Clefable, Ferrothorn and Skarmory, beeing able to lure them pretty well. Thanks to his good rate to improve the team, the nice looking format, BreloomMyHoomie was able to provide a great rate, and earned herself a spot in the Hall of Fame. Congrats!