According to their official descriptions:
-"The weight of the ice that covers its body makes these Alolan Sandslash heavier than normal Sandslash, and this causes them to be slower."
Slower. Than. Original. Sandslash.
I've always loved the Sandslash family but now they're no longer immune to electric, are going to be even slower, and gain TWO 4x weaknesses in fire and fighting. Damn you Gamefreak.
ice is just cold white sand
Ice shard
>>27503524
I like them, and they won't be bad in-game probably.
Yeah will be complete shit unless they get gargantuan attack, defense and ice shard
but glalie will be better anyways
Yeah, Ice Shard and bullet punch with high attack could possibly save it with all the new and returning fairy types, but yeah, unless they have huge defensive stats and a different ability they're gonna be trashy sadly