As we all are aware, weather only lasts five turns now without the weather rocks, and this changes the effectiveness of these abilities greatly.
Last generation, Sand Veil and Snow Cloak were banned because it was a passive way of having a significant chance of making the opponent get crucial misses. Now, this is no longer true, because in order to receive the benefit of them, you would have to send out Tyranitar, Hippowdon, or Abomasnow within a few turns of sending out your Sand Veil/Snow Cloak pokemon, or use Hail/Sandstorm.
This changes the idea behind the abilities significantly, because instead of making the opponent have passive misses, weather teams have to send in their weather inducer first, in order to have a reasonable chance of making 1 or 2 of their pokemon avoid taking 1 or 2 hits, depending on luck.
Seeing as I believe most of the discussion will be about Garchomp (and Gliscor to a lesser extent), I might as well bring up its SubSalac set now. Will this still be broken? Maybe, because of more priority, and fairies, SubSalac Garchomp won't be used at all. Anyway, although I personally think that sending in a weather inducer just before sending in a Sand Veil/Snow Cloak pokemon is smart play, others might have a different opinion.
Last generation, Sand Veil and Snow Cloak were banned because it was a passive way of having a significant chance of making the opponent get crucial misses. Now, this is no longer true, because in order to receive the benefit of them, you would have to send out Tyranitar, Hippowdon, or Abomasnow within a few turns of sending out your Sand Veil/Snow Cloak pokemon, or use Hail/Sandstorm.
This changes the idea behind the abilities significantly, because instead of making the opponent have passive misses, weather teams have to send in their weather inducer first, in order to have a reasonable chance of making 1 or 2 of their pokemon avoid taking 1 or 2 hits, depending on luck.
Seeing as I believe most of the discussion will be about Garchomp (and Gliscor to a lesser extent), I might as well bring up its SubSalac set now. Will this still be broken? Maybe, because of more priority, and fairies, SubSalac Garchomp won't be used at all. Anyway, although I personally think that sending in a weather inducer just before sending in a Sand Veil/Snow Cloak pokemon is smart play, others might have a different opinion.