Okay I've spent the better part of the day debating on who the hell I'm voting for, so might as well voice my thoughts.
I've never been a big fan of weather. I ran it in gen five only to counteract the damn rain teams that were going bonkers, and felt that it was just a little much back then, leaving me with a sour taste. I see them now nerfed, but really, it doesn't change the fact they are still not my cup of tea. So I go looking at this slate, trying to not be bias, and am examining what each of these guys offer.
We got one the closest thing to a Water inducer Char-Y this side of ubers in Blastoise then proceeding to Mega-Evolve. It may still be bonked by Azumarill in the coverage department, and frankly may wish it could constantly use its rain, but its still a fun spammer. The issue it has is that you really get one shot for the spamming, so its not as ideal as Char Y in that sense so it becomes a one off (albeit a one off that can nuke the shit out of you with a hydro pump in rain + coverage so a very good one). Then you look to how it affects regular toise, and see that is almost a similar Politoed. They both lack reliable recovery, and Poli has better special bulk while Blast has more physical. So it comes down to what threats you want them to do, and then how much support they bring. Blast gets a step up in the fact it can also spin while bringing in rain yet hits for less than Poli (Poli has like base 90 to Blast's 85 so it is arguably not that significant). I give the edge to Blast cause frankly it would be nice to have a Weather bringer that isn't dead weight, and potentially later bring about a destruction if it needs to via a mega.
Then you get Virizion, which is, as I have stated, similar to a theorymon we had done in the last thread of Drought Torterra. The effect Tor had was great, and it really excelled at being a fantastic mon that took on the rival weather inducers and Virizion is a great step up from it just I can see it working very well and I have an idea of how it would, thus bringing weather battles back into the mix. Not something I really care to see, but Virizion would be one of the ideal inducers with Solarbeam spam, Synthesis, that speed tier, and the ability to beat Tar and Char-Y. Its great but I don't know if I want to see the Weatherness of it all.
Cradily is Cradily. If you haven't fought it, you haven't fought it before under sand which is something I've done way too much in monotype sometimes. It gets slightly less special bulk than TTar (due to Tar having that 100 HP stat) yet it becomes a much better sand inducer due to getting more benefits and countering more. Its like the rock variant of Hippowdon, just without the beautiful physical bulk and instead beautiful Special Bulk. He counters a lot of stuff in sand, and I would love to try him with Steelix (him or Hippowdon) on the server when ORAS is released but part of me hates giving sand ANOTHER damn tool. This is really unfair to Cradily itself, but friggin Sand and Rain get so much damn airtime that it drives me insane. When one controls the meta, the other doesn't, and then vice versa and Cradily would easily be beneficial in providing a key stop to rain just cause of it being able to absorb their numerous attacks as its not like TTar in wear and tear. If it wasn't for the fact sand is usually everywhere I might have gone straight to voting Cradily but frankly the fact that Sand is Sand makes me hold myself back.
Then you get the customary Black SHeep of the vote. Glaceon would like a nice buff, but instead we give it Snow Warning. While this was more us giving something hail to make it weather themed, it gave Glaceon a chance to spam Blizzards off its 130 special attack but really not much else. If there was some other benefit to using Snow Warning, then it would be an easy vote, but it does nothing else. Hurts all your teammates unless you are an ice type, makes this really unattractive to pick.
So who the hell do I pick? A great pick that makes Sun viable? A water nuke that just brings one of the most hated playstyles a new toy that doesn't suck like Poli did (and can potentially fire Water Spouts)? A sand inducer that deserves a buff, but does so with an annoying playstyle? Or just throwaway the vote with Snow Warning Glaceon?
In the spirit of Theorymon, i'll vote for the mon that needs the buff the most, even if I despise it. So basically I'm voting Cradily + Sand Stream just cause of all the mons, I think it is the one with the buff that will help it the best (cause as stated, this buff isn't what I believe will be the asset that helps Glaceon at all).
So anyway, that's my vote and junk. Happy voting to the rest of yall :D