Rate of the Week V4: Week 12

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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)
 
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This week's winner is MFJr King with a good rate and a nice format. First of all he started with a quick analysis with what can be a threat to the team, big offensive threats such as Protean Greninja, but also Keldeo and Pheromosa. Another thing he did was analyzing what playstyle were very annoying, so he noticed that stall teams are very hard to wear down. His first change consists in Tangrowth over Ferrothorn, which is a more offensive and a less passive way to deal with offensive threats such as Greninja, Tapu Koko and Keldeo, but also dealing with Zygarde and Landorus-T with Hidden Power Ice can be very helpful. His other major change was Keldeo with Choice Scarf over Tapu Fini, which is a more offensive way to deal with sweepers such as Volcarona. As minor changes he suggested Shed Shell Modest Tapu Lele, which helps alot against stall teams, being a very good way to break them. Stealth Rock on Landorus-T since Ferrothorn is gone, this is his only way to have them. And as last change he fix'ed his Mega Metagross set, making it a more optimal set for that team.

Thanks to his rate MFJr King has earned himself a spot in the Hall of Fame! Congratulations!
 
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