Rate of the Week V4: Week 13

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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 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!

Hall of Fame

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)

 

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This week's winner is Ramses who made a solid rate. His first change was Work Up over U-turn on Mega Pidgeot. This gave the team a better win condition and allowed Mega Pidgeot to break through teams more easily. His second change is running Choice Band over Focus Sash on Dugtrio. Since the team did not have hazard removal, Focus Sash will most likely not come in handy. The Choice Band allowed Dugtrio to hit harder and can help remove threats for other team members on the team. His next change is running Spikes over Ice Beam on Greninja. Spikes can help wear down Mega Pidgeot and Garchomp's switch ins making it easier for them to clean up. His last change was mentioning the option of Scarf Nihilego over Garchomp. This gives the team better pivits into things like Mega Charizard Y while still maintaining speed control. Ramses wraps up his rate by giving advice on how to play the team with his new changes.

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