Rate of the Week V4: Week 18

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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)
Week #17 - MFJr King (SM OU)
Week #18 - AnishSomani (SM OU)
 
This week's winner is AnishSomani, with a very well done rate and a cool format. His rate starts with a quick analysis of what can be threatening to the team, pokemon such as Volcarona, that can set up, but can't be stopped, but also the team lacks of a ground resist, and doesn't have any solid tapu lele switch in. Terrakion is his first major change, being able to check mainly Volcarona and most of fire types, but that still leaves the team with the big non ground resistor, which is indeed his second change, being an interesting one. After he changed Landorus-T for Terrakion, he opted to add it back over Marowak, solving Volcarona's issue, but still having a good ground resistor. As last changes, he suggested Assault Vest over Chople Berry on Magnezone, being able to check threats such as Alakazam, Tapu Lele, Tapu Koko, Gengar and Greninja with enough speed to trap Mega Scizor; Dragon Claw over Outrage, which isn't good to get revenge killed by fairies and Mega Metagross as he mentioned, blocking the sweep, less power for sure, but still very solid.

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