What is the preferred EV spread and moveset for a SubPunch Abomasnow?
I have a mixed wallbreaking Abomasnow that has worked very effectively in the past. It has the sub punching combination on it along with some alternative options that may prove more effective than using a sub punching one depending on what exactly you need to counter.
Name: Abomasnow
Item: Leftovers
Nature: Naughty
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 108 Atk/252 Sp. Atk/148 Speed
~ Substitute/Ice Shard
~ Blizzard
~ Giga Drain
~ Focus Punch/Earthquake
Basically, the EV investment gives you the necessary power to hit many walls extremely hard from both the physical or special side while also giving you the speed to outpace every defensive pokemon in the tier up through an uninvested Heatran. If you go with sub, then focus punch should be your last move slot, but if you chose ice shard for the priority, then you will have much more success using earthquake in the last move slot. The main sell of this set is if you can get up a sub, you not only gain the ability to use focus punch, but something on your opponents team is going to have to take a massive hit to get rid of it since you get amazing coverage in the moves that you have. After stealth rocks, a ton of common walls such as any variant of Blissey, Ferrothorn, Jellicent, Skarmory, and Celebi along with some variants of Heatran cannot take a Focus Punch plus a Blizzard or some other combination of your coverage moves in order to get rid of your sub. Also it is important to note that a Ferrothorn that isn't packing Gyro ball will can fail to break your sub with a Power Whip if it is running the Smogon standard variant. Unfortunately, Tentacruel does prove to be a problem to the Focus Punching variant, but making use of the Earthquake option instead will land you an easy two hit KO since the hail will cancel out leftovers. The biggest counter to a set like this is obviously being faster than Abomasnow (which isn't hard for most sweepers to do, but this set still outspeeds the majority of defensive pokemon) and U-turning out to break the sub and switch into an appropriate counter to take whatever attack you may go for, so you should always be on the look out for that.