Rate of the Week V4: Week 20

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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)
Week #19 - FlamingVictini (SM OU)
Week #20 - Gross Sweep (SM OU)
 
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This week's winner is Gross Sweep, with a very well done rate and a pretty cool format. His rate starts with a quick overview about what are the problematics of the team, such as stall teams and Volcarona, so his first change consists in Magnezone over Mega Scizor, being able to deal with Celesteela, Skarmory and Ferrothorn, but with the Assault Vest and that EVs spread, it's also able to work as decent check of Tapu Lele and Greninja. His second change is Garchomp over Mamoswine, which mainly works as Choice Scarfer to the team, but also as main check of Volcarona and Mega Charizard Y, while also increasing the speed of the team, not pressuring much Salamence. His last major change is Ferrothorn over Tangrowth, being able to have Stealth Rocks, since he removed Mamoswine and gave Choice Scarf to Garchomp, but also check threats such as Ash Greninja and Manaphy, with Thunder Wave + Chople Berry it's able to handle pretty much every threat of the team. As last minor changes he suggested a different Tapu Lele set with Shed Shell, being able to deal with stall teams better, not getting trapped by Dugtrio, but also being a very big threat to slower teams; and gave Rotom-W a mixed spread with Sitrus Berry being able to check Landorus-T and Mega Pinsir mainly.

Thanks to this rate Gross Sweep has earned himself another spot in the hall of fame, Congrats!
 
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