Why not Tentacruel? Sure you take Hail damage, but you're not weak to rock, and Abomasnow resists your Electric and Ground Weaknesses while (Physically Bulky) Tentacruel covers Steel, Bug, Poison, Fire, Fighting.
I'll do that now.
I'll add what you said but remember this is a skeleton and nothing here has to be perfect. It's just to get the general idea of what's going to be the outline of the written portion, so there's is no need to point silly grammatical mistakes until GP Phase. This skeleton is done by the way. Just waiting for QC's check
A trivial change, but Salamence is certainly not a top-tier threat. Garchomp, however, is a great example, so keep it.
Actually, Abomasnow gets 2HKO'd by Starmie's LO Psyshock factoring in Analytic. Specify what these resistances are.
Abomasnow will RARELY be on the battlefield for more than 5 turns, so this point is moot, especially that SubSeed is no longer a set.
This point is a little misleading. Abomasnow certainly does not wall lots of the metagame—in fact, it's really nowhere near doing so. It's not really "good" either—yes, it's good at doing what it does, but this is pretty limited to wallbreaking.
Move this to OO. Ferrothorn takes enough from Blizzard, and Mega Aggron and Forretress are much too trivial to run Focus Blast for.
Move this to OO as well. Substitute really sucks on a Pokemon with a Stealth Rock weakness, a tendency to be forced out by a ton of things, and a lack of reliable recovery (Giga Drain doesn't count, due to the low amount of Pokemon it hits).
Giga Drain is slashed first, so this should be the main spread in the set, with the current one moved down into Set Details.
These should also be in OO.
Be more specific—what are some sweepers that appreciate the lack of the specific walls that Abomasnow takes care of?
Remove Tentacruel, it's a bad Pokemon in OU.
Make sure you specify why.
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Growth is simply unfeasible on such a slow and vulnerable Pokemon, it should be removed altogether.
Lol, this was kind of outdated (Salamence was top-tier until like 2 months ago where ppl learned it was garbage.) No one uses Analytic Starmie this gen imo.
The reason I say that Substitute sucks is that you really don't want to sacrifice any of Abomasnow's moves for it. Blizzard, Earthquake, and a Grass-type STAB are obviously mandatory for wallbreaking, and the revenge-killing utility that Ice Shard provides is priceless. You prevent and check sweeps from Garchomp, Dragonite, Thundurus, and Landorus, some of OU's most efficient sweepers.
Rock Slide is nowhere in this analysis. I would at least mention Rock Slide in OO or remove the Rock Slide statement here.
Mega Abomasnow has two really nice niches that give it viability—together they add up to give Mega Abomasnow an ounce of offensive utility that can go a long way on the right team. Firstly, it breaks down Stall teams really well—nearly every commonly seen Stall Pokemon is either OHKO'd or 2HKO'd by Abomasnow, provided hazards are up, whereas Stall teams can hardly do a thing back. Granted, Heatran can be a nuisance, but with a bit of prediction it can be handled as well since Mega Abomasnow packs Earthquake. Not a lot of other Mega Pokemon can boast the same—Mega Garchomp and Mega Mawile come close, but Mega Garchomp's reliance on Draco Meteor is a little offsetting, and Mega Mawile struggles with Mega Venusaur.
if youre trying to use Abomasnow's hail for a residual damage kill, then you can switch it in before its evolved, and then immediately switch it out meaning htat you can get hail if you absolutely have to without keeping in abomasnow against something that threatens it. Both it and soundproof are very situational applications.
