Drought (Ability)

Drought (Japanese: ひでり Drought) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature Ability of Groudon.

Effect

In battle

Generations III to V

Drought summons harsh sunlight in battle as soon as a Pokémon with Drought enters the battle. Its effects are the same as the move Sunny Day, but instead of lasting for a limited amount of turns, it lasts for the whole battle (unless it is replaced by another weather condition). If a Pokémon with Drought is sent out in the same turn as another Pokémon whose Ability affects the weather, the slower Pokémon's Ability will override the faster Pokémon's Ability.

Generation VI onward

The sunlight now lasts only for five turns. This can be extended to eight turns if the Pokémon is holding a Heat Rock.

Drought will not activate if the Pokémon with the Ability is a Groudon about to undergo Primal Reversion; in that case, the Primal Reversion will happen instead, causing its Ability to be replaced by Desolate Land, and only that Ability will activate. Drought will also fail to activate if heavy rain, extremely harsh sunlight, or strong winds are already in effect.

Outside of battle

Drought has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Drought

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0006		Charizard Mega Charizard Y	Fire	Flying	Drought	None	None
0037		Vulpix	Fire		Fire	Flash Fire	None	Drought
0038		Ninetales	Fire		Fire	Flash Fire	None	Drought
0324		Torkoal	Fire		Fire	White Smoke	DroughtGen VII+	Shell Armor
0383		Groudon	Ground		Ground	Drought	None	None
Please note that abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, and Explorers of Time, Darkness, Drought changes the weather to Sunny upon entering a floor, and then every subsequent 36 turns.

In Super Mystery Dungeon, Drought changes the weather to sunny upon entering a floor. The sunny weather condition lasts a certain number of turns (in multiples of 66) before clearing. After the weather has cleared, Drought will again activate after waiting a certain number of turns (in multiples of 66).

Description

In the anime

Groudon Effect activating Mega Charizard Y
The Pokémon makes the sky clear and sunny.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Groudon's body glows white and it fires a pillar of white light into the sky. The sky then becomes sunny and clear, and no clouds can be seen.
Groudon (Ruby and Sapphire series)	The Scuffle of Legends		Debut
	When Mega Charizard Y enters the battle, the sunlight intensifies, powering up Fire-type moves.
Trevor's Charizard	A League of His Own!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Groudon
The Pokémon releases an extremely hot temperature off its body, causing a large heat wave to appear where ever it is.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Groudon releases an extremely hot temperature off its body while it is conscious, causing a large heat wave to appear wherever it is.
Groudon (Adventures)	The Beginning of the End with Kyogre & Groudon III		Debut

In the TCG

Drought debuted as an attack in the Pokémon Trading Card Game with Groudon from the Legends Awakened expansion. When used, the attack allows the player to attach up to 2 Fighting Energy cards from their hand to 1 of their Pokémon.

The following is a list of Pokémon cards with the Drought attack.

Pokémon cards with Drought Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	Mark	English Expansion		Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion		Rarity	#
Groudon			Legends Awakened			29/146	Cry from the Mysterious
Groudon			Cosmic Eclipse			113/236	Remix Bout			032/064
							V Starter Decks			049/127

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 日照 Yahtjiu * 旱災 Hóhnjōi * Mandarin 日照 Rìzhào * 旱災 Hànzāi * Danish Torke Dutch Droogte Finnish Paiste French Sécheresse German Dürre Italian Siccità Korean 가뭄 Gamum Norwegian Tørke Polish Susza Portuguese Brazil Seca (early anime, TCG, manga) Calor Desértico (Pokémon the Series: XY-present) Portugal Seca Spanish Sequía Swedish Torka Vietnamese Hạn hán

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