Rate of the Week V4: Week 5

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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)
 
This week winner is bludz, with a great rate and a pretty nice looking format. The rate begins with an analysis of what are the main weaknesses of the team, which are lacking of a groud resist, so being weak to threats such as Swords Dance Garchomp, Landorus-T and Excadrill. Other threats that can be really annoying are Mega Metagross and Tapu Lele, lacking or a proper switch in, but also being able to be outsped by them by most of the team. Dragon Dance sweepers are threats too as he mentioned Salamence. His first change, after talking about how his team doesn't abuse the Sticky Webs that well, but also not having a proper way to stop the oppo from using Defog or Rapid Spin, he suggested Timid nature on Ash Greninja, which allows him to tie with other Greninja and outspeed Mega Metagross, which is pretty important.

He also suggested Choice Specs being able to give Greninja more power pre-Bond, so pressuring more the opponent as he mentioned. His second change is Tapu Koko's item, making it a non Choice one, which is really bad on electrics, because they can be stopped by ground types instatly, which is a massive momentum loss. So he suggested a Life Orb or Magnet set, which is able to switch in between the moves and still have enough power to threat everything, but also going for U-Turn over Dazzing Gleam, so not getting trapped by Focus Sash Dugtrio. Another smaller change is Synthesis over Leech Seed, having a better recovery and providing longevity on Mega Venusaur, with the classic double stab in Giga Drain and Sludge Bomb, and the Hidden Power Fire being able to hit annoying steel types such as Scizor and Ferrothorn.

His last changes are pretty much removing Tyranitar and Shuckle, for Skarmory and Scarf Garchomp, first one providing a ground immunity, but also being able to Defog entry hazard, moving Stealth Rock on Heatran over Flamethrower, and his other change in Scarf Garchomp, is mainly for speed control, being able to outspeed some threat that can boost, such as Charizard, Salamence, Volcarona and Gyarados after +1, but also outspeeding threats such as Scarf Tapu Lele but also provides an electric immunity. As last thing he gave an optional change, which is Celesteela or Bronzong over Skarmory, if he finds that hazard aren't too big of a problem.

Thanks to his rate bludz has earned himself another spot in the Hall of Fame! Congratulations!
 
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