Droughtfest

Created by Hisuian Snow

Instead of hinging on a very thin thread of having to prevent Stealth Rock at all cost to support Ho-oh, the team centers around accomplishing an Arceus-Normal sweep, something it has shown to do very consistently. The fact that it has the flexibility in the hazard game due to Cloyster's abilities to set spikes, spin or luring in and weakening Ekiller-checks such as Arceus-Ghost makes the game plan much more hyper offensively oriented than the typical "magic sun" teams seen at the time. Ho-oh is of course a beast when Stealth Rock isn't up, but one has to understand that the main goal of the team is ultimately an Ekiller sweep. Found this team on https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/ btw

Groudon
Holding Earth Plate
Ability: Drought
Moves:

Nature: Adamant
Attack EV: 252
Defense EV: 4
Speed EV: 252
Attack IV: 31
Defense IV: 31
Special Attack IV: 31
Special Defense IV: 31
Speed IV: 31
HP IV: 31

Drought Set-up

Cloyster
Holding Focus Sash
Ability: Skill Link
Moves:

Nature: Jolly
Attack EV: 252
Defense EV: 4
Speed EV: 252
Attack IV: 31
Defense IV: 31
Special Attack IV: 31
Special Defense IV: 31
Speed IV: 31
HP IV: 31

Spikes set-up, also stealth rock clearance

Ho-oh
Holding Choice Band
Ability: Regenerator
Moves:

Nature: Adamant
Attack EV: 252
Speed EV: 112
HP EV: 144
Attack IV: 31
Defense IV: 31
Special Attack IV: 31
Special Defense IV: 31
Speed IV: 31
HP IV: 31

Secondary sweeper, in case Ekiller gets knocked out for whatever reason

Ekiller the Arceus
Holding Silk Scarf
Ability: Multitype
Moves:

Nature: Adamant
Attack EV: 252
Speed EV: 56
HP EV: 200
Attack IV: 31
Defense IV: 31
Special Attack IV: 31
Special Defense IV: 31
Speed IV: 31
HP IV: 31

Main sweeper

Genesect
Holding Choice Scarf
Ability: Download
Moves:

Nature: Naive
Attack EV: 248
Special Attack EV: 8
Speed EV: 252
Attack IV: 31
Defense IV: 31
Special Attack IV: 31
Special Defense IV: 31
Speed IV: 31
HP IV: 31

Tertiary sweeper, for if worse comes to worse.

Latias
Holding Soul Dew
Ability: Levitate
Moves:

Nature: Timid
Special Attack EV: 148
Speed EV: 196
HP EV: 164
Attack IV: 0
Defense IV: 31
Special Attack IV: 30
Special Defense IV: 31
Speed IV: 30
HP IV: 31

Last resort, could also work for healing w/ healing wish

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