Rate of the Week V4: Week 35

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Rate of the Week
This is a project that looks to bring quality individual rates into the spotlight and recognise the hard work of unbadged raters.
  • 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 can be multiple winners every week - ideally 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 they are the main focus of this project.
So what's in it for the winners? 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.
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)
Week #21 - Gross Sweep (SM OU)
Week #22 - MFJR King (SM OU)
Week #23 - Tinberz (SM OU)
Week #24 - H.M.N.I.P (SM OU)
Week #25 - MFJr King (SM OU)
Week #26 - Gross Sweep (SM OU)
Week #27 - IronBullet (SM OU)
Week #28 - AnishSomani (SM OU)
Week #29 - IronBullet (SM OU)
Week #30 - AnishSomani (SM OU)
Week #32 - AnishSomani (SM OU)
Week #33 - 3017 (SM Ubers)
Week #34 -
 

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This week winner is pokemon sparrow, he made a really good and well formatted rate. He started replacing Nihilego with Scarf Hydreigon, which is an eccellent breaker for volt-turn teams and provides a really spammable Stab in Dark Pulse, he also mentioned that Hydreigon is really better fire type switch ins than nihilego due to its better physical bulk. Being Scarfed, Hydreigon is able to outpseed many threats of the current UU metagame like mega Manectric, Latias, mega Aerodactyl, mega Sceptile, mega Sharpedo and mega Beedrill.

After that, he made some Evs adjustments. He started with Gliscor's ev spread, making it faster than many threats like Nidoking, Entei and Rotom-w, finally, he mentioned that the restant Evs could be very useful to KO infernape with Earthquake also Entei and Nidoking are closed to being OHKO'd as well after rocks. Secondly, he changed Washtom's Ev spread, making it faster than hitters the likes of SD Crawdaunt, Primarina and CB Scizor, allowing rotom to get off a burn before going down. After that, he changed scizor's spread, he made it very bulky in order to take better attackers like Weavile, DD mega Altaria taking with ease +2 eq, also he mentioned that ev spread allows scizor to take 2 rotom-w's hydro pump after rocks the majority of the time. At last, he changed the jirachi ev spread, making it able to always 2HKO Alomomola and OHKO Quagsire after Z-happy hour boost with Energy ball.

Thanks to his rate pokemon sparrow has earned himself a spot in the hall of fame, congratulations! :toast:

 
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