Rate of the Week V4: Week 36

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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 #35 - pokemon sparrow (SM UU)
Week #36 -
 

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This week winner is Manipulative , he made a really good rate. he started mentioning that Scizor, mega Sharpedo and Latias are threats for the team, at first he replaced Slowbro with Mantine, which is a very solid answer to Scizor, this also means that Mantine will be the team's defogger. After that, he replaced Amoonguss with Swords dance + Rock Polish Cobalion, this change not only helps mantine to take Scizor better, it also improve the Weavile and mega Sharpedo match up being a better win condition than Slowbro.

Since the team has a new defogger, he suggested Choice scarf on Latias, that is a very good revenge killer for stuff like scarf Hydreigon, opposite no scarf Latias variants, and +1 mega Sharpedo, he also mentioned that healing Wish is very important to give a Cobalion a second chance to sweep in lategame. at 4th slot he suggested ice beam which is cool to hit hard Gliscors.

The team was weak to stuff like mega Gardevoir and mega Altaria, in order to handle these threats, Manipulative suggested turning Scizor into a Choice band variant, which increase its odds to stop mega Altaria from sweep, with Pursuit it can trap or weaken stuff like Latias and mega Gardevoir, at last, he mentioned that bulky scizor is better for that team to take more hits as possible while gaining slow momentum thanks to u-turn. since Scizor is the pursuitter now, he replaced pursuit with hone claws on mega aerodactyl, making it more scary as it was before for a lot of bulky cores around. Lastly, he changed whirlwind with Toxic on Hippowdon, which could be helpful to cripple bulky waters like slowbro or rotom-w.

thanks to his rate, Manipulative has earned himself a spot in the hall of fame, congratulations! :toast:
 
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