RE: Team Hurricane - The storm is coming
Personally, after the release of Raikou/Entei, I'm most likely going to stop playing Claydol... unless it is absolutely necessary.
Currently, there are already a whole bunch of Claydol counters (Gengar forces the Unown G, Power lock, Garchomp C Lv.X snipes OHKO, Luxray GL X, also used as deckout lock in Flygon usually) and with the release of another superb Claydol counter, I think it will be less useful. I think that I will most likely be playing heavy trainer decks or just plain speed decks (Donphan is nice).
Decks that DO play Claydol will have to really protect it (Manectric + Unown G), but even then, Luxray GL X can make it come active.
Just IMO.