Snow Cloak

Description

If hail is the prevailing weather condition, the wielder gets a 25% evasion increase. In addition, if a non-Ice-type Pokemon has this ability, it will not take damage from hail.

Competitive Use

God, this ability can be annoying. Anyway, on hail teams, you can expect to see Froslass, who will have Snow Cloak. Along with BrightPowder, this can allow Froslass to survive for longer than she ordinarily would, and thus can get up an extra layer of Spikes or another attack off. Other Pokemon such as Mamoswine will have Snow Cloak too, though they won't necessarily be on a hail team, so you may not have to worry about Snow Cloak unless you are running it yourself.

On October 15th 2012, Snow Cloak was voted to be banned from Smogon's OU metagame as well as all tiers below it, so is currently unusable in all Smogon metagames bar Ubers and Little Cup.

Found normally

Pokémon	Type	Tier	Abilities	HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe	BST
Beartic	Ice	NU	Snow Cloak / Swift Swim	95	110	80	70	80	50	485
Cubchoo	Ice	LC	Snow Cloak / Rattled	55	70	40	60	40	40	305
Froslass	Ice / Ghost	UU	Snow Cloak / Cursed Body	70	80	70	80	70	110	480
Glaceon	Ice	NU	Snow Cloak / Ice Body	65	60	110	130	95	65	525
Mamoswine	Ice / Ground	OU	Oblivious / Snow Cloak / Thick Fat	110	130	80	70	60	80	530
Piloswine	Ice / Ground	NU	Oblivious / Snow Cloak / Thick Fat	100	100	80	60	60	50	450
Swinub	Ice / Ground	LC	Oblivious / Snow Cloak / Thick Fat	50	50	40	30	30	50	250

Found in Dream World

Pokémon	Type	Tier	Abilities	HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe	BST
Articuno	Ice / Flying	NU	Pressure / Snow Cloak	90	85	100	95	125	85	580