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Only two abilities to abuse: Snow Cloak and Ice Body
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Actually, Snow Cloak is banned, so you really have ice body as the only hail benefiting ability. However, wallrein ice body is more than gimmicky in my opinion, as the ability to stall very effectively. It's speed is very decent for a wall at 65, so a sub protect strategy can work for those slower pokes with no leftovers. Pair that up with toxic spikes and walrein can be a great wall, as with max SpD can take strong neutral and weak supereffective hits while not breaking a sub.
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Rotom-F can be a real pain to deal with it... if it weren't for it's horrible speed, of course, you can patch it's speed with Choice Scarf, but you can just use faster Choice Scarfer than Roton-F to detrone him, or revenge kill him with priority, or just use prediction: it will just Thunderbolt/Volt Turn? Chose to a Ground-Type (you should have one) Pokémon and force the switch, it will use Blizzard? Choose your favorite Special Wall, or just any Fire/Water/Ice/Steel Pokémon and prepare for the switch. Roton-F without Choice-Scarf is really easy to destroy, just beware of Thunder Wave and Trick.
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86 base speed is not horrible at all, especially in NU. It's choice scarfed set, especially in hail, may be one of the best scarfers in nu as it has very good speed with a scarf, can take priority moves because of its alright bulk and outspeeds the nuisance scarfed sawk and ss gorebyss. Its main problem is rocks. But in hail, a life orb pain split set can be just as dangerous. You are firing stronger blizzards, can heal damage thanks to its low hp stat and have the ability to switch moves. Will-o-wisp would be a scarier status to fear from rotom, as a misprediction can lead to a burnt sawk or physical poke-which isnt good at all! And of course, special walls such as regice, snover, ludicolo, probopass, flareon, grumpig, and lickilicky are going to be somewhat safe switches, because it's their job to tank special hits. However, if rotom voltswitches while you switch into your special wall, you'll be screwed by sawk or whatever physical wall will be brought in and your opponent will have all the momentum. Rotom is a now, and deserving, "S" ranked pokemon, so it's not that east to take down.