Rate of the Week V4: Week 17

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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)
 
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This week's winner is MFJr King, with a solid rate and a very nice format. His rate starts with a quick analysis on what his team is weak to, wallbreakers in particular, like Mega Medicham + Tapu Koko, which is very common and can annoy the team alot, but also Greninja, Zygarde and Mega Metagross. So his two changes and pretty much the only major changes are making Scarf Keldeo over Tapu Fini, which allows the team to revenge kill those threats after they get weakened, and Stallbreaker Mango Berry Tapu Koko over the Choice Scarf set, with these two changes the team has a more offensive pressure on other teams, and it's indeed less passive vs those annoying wallbreakers. His other changes were more of set changes, first of all he started with suggesting Choice Band on Zygarde, being able to break through defensive teams, but at the same time pressuring offensive one. His second change is to make Landorus-T a defensive variant with Yache Berry, improving the matchup vs Mega Metagross, Tapu Koko and Mega Medicham with an EVs spread that allows him to take hits from Life Orb Tapu Koko's Hidden Power Ice, but also Ice Punch from Mega Metagross and Adamant Mega Medicham. As last change, he suggested Hammer Arm over Earthquake, being able to deal with Ferrothorn that can be annoying, but still doing big damage to Heatran and opposing Mega Metagross. As last thing he left another version of the rate, with Mega Metagross being suspected so not usable in ladder, he suggested Magearna over Mega Metagross, and making Greninja Wave Incense + Spikes set, being able to support the team alot, but still pressuring with its offensive power.

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