RMT of the Week V5: Week 11

[IronBullet]

RMT of the Week
co-hosted by Team Pokepals
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, but often left in the dark. Not anymore!

The concept is fairly simple:

• Every week, we will nominate a few teams as candidates for the RMT of the Week.
• These teams are put in a poll. Everyone can vote for the team they think is 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

badge.

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

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

Week 6:

[RU] Dance All Night - Feliburn

Week 7:

[AG] Philophobia - Dream Eater Gengar

Week 8:

[PU] 3005 - Dundies

Week 9:

[OU] Mexican Cena - Darkreaper215

Week 10:

[NU] i still play bp lol - iplaytennislol

1. [OU] Meteor City - Hello Gardevoir

2. [UU] Shards of Ice - PinkDragonTamer

3. [UU] Thank You - BrandonBeast

4. [UU] Legion - Ununhexium

5. [Ubers] Mega Mence is disgusting - Sweep

6. [STABmons] Carrying The Torch - xJownage & Betathunder

7. [AG] The Impregnable Fort - HunterStorm

8. [AAA] Someone New - imas234

 

[Snowy]

We caught up with last week's winner iplaytennislol to ask him a few questions about his NU RMT, i still play bp lol!

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

Just from the look of my team, you can kind of tell its baton pass. The way I play it, is I usually lead Probopass unless they have a Jynx or Vivillon or some other sleep user in which case I lead Skuntank. Rocks are only important if I see a sturdy pokemon or a pokemon with a potential focus sash on my opponent's team. If rocks aren't a priority, or I already get them up, I usually try to memento with Skuntank to allow Musharna a free turn to set up. Depending on my opponent's team I will either pass to Sceptile or Drifblim. Assuming I don't sweep, I hopefully am able to set up screens with Mr.Mime and healing wish Musharna to give it another chance at passing. The reason behind its success is the move magic coat on Musharna. To my knowledge, no one has ever run that move on Mush before so it catches everyone by surprise. This allows Musharna to pass safely even when facing users with taunt.

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

I did actually receive helpful feedback on my team. I changed Probopass to max speed and gave it taunt + earth power over thunder wave + hp fire because it helped the matchup vs dual dance Rhydon and hazard stacking Ferroseed.

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

When I first started making rmt's, they were too short and not pretty enough haha. So any advice I have is to have a good length to your rmt's so people know your thought process behind the team, however be careful not to make it too long that your readers' get bored half way through. A good way to avoid making a 'boring' rmt is to make it fun, maybe throw some jokes in there, or just make it aesthetically pleasing. That's all I have to say, so thanks for reading this far n_n

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

 

[IronBullet]

Sweep wins with his Ubers RMT Mega Mence is disgusting, congrats man! Scheduled a tweet, give his team a like and rate it if possible :)