Drought (Ability)

Drought	ひでり
	Drought
Flavor text Generation III Summons sunlight in battle. Generation IV The Pokémon makes it sunny if it appears in battle. Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Drought (Japanese: ひでり Drought) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Three Pokémon can have this ability.

Effect

In battle

Drought will summon sunlight in battle. Its effects are the same as Sunny Day but, instead of lasting for five turns, it lasts for the whole battle until replaced. 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 ability.

Outside of battle

Drought has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Drought

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0037		Vulpix	Fire		Fire	Flash Fire	None	Drought
0038		Ninetales	Fire		Fire	Flash Fire	None	Drought
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 the anime

Groudon. Groudon's body to glows white and it shoots a pillar of white light into the sky. The sky then becomes clear and no clouds can be seen.

• Activated by a wild Groudon in The Scuffle of Legends. Debut.

In other languages

• Dutch: Droogte
• French: Sécheresse
• German: Dürre
• Italian: Siccità
• Portuguese: Sêca
• Spanish: Sequía

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.