I am trying to summon Hail without using a turn to set it up, and I know Snow Warning was introduced in Gen 4. With it, I can deal with the Sturdy Ability, which leaves Pokemon on one HP if they would usually be OHKOed. You can respond as nicely as possible please
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The only Ability to automatically set Hail is Snow Warning – which, as you said, was introduced in Gen IV. As there’s also no natural hailstorms in the Gen III games, the only way to get hail in-battle is to use Hail manually, unfortunately.
Hailstorms (Bulbapedia)
It should also be noted that prior to Gen V, Sturdy only protected a Pokemon from being OHKOed by the four OHKO moves, rather than acting as a Focus Sash.