Clauses and banlist

The following rules governing the SV Overused tier have been established by Smogon.

Clauses

• Species Clause: each Pokémon in the team must have a unique Pokedex number. It is for example impossible to use Rotom-Wash and Rotom-Heat in the same team because they both are 310th in the Paldean Pokedex.
• Sleep Clause: sleep inducing moves are forbidden.
• Evasion Clause: moves (Double Team, Minimize and Acupressure), abilities (Sand Veil and Snow Cloak) and items (Bright Powder and Lax Incense) that boost evasion are forbidden.
• OHKO Clause: Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill and Sheer Cold are forbidden.
• Endless Battle Clause: if players find themselves in an infinite battle situation, the match ends on a tie. An example of this is when Slowbro is played with Leppa Berry and Recycle, Slack Off, Block and Heal Pulse. Thus, one can prevent the target from being switched out thanks to Block, heal it with Heal Pulse while never running out of PP with the combination of Leppa Berry and Recycle.

Banlist

Forbidden Pokémon

• Annihilape
• Archaludon
• Arceus
• Baxcalibur
• Chien-Pao
• Chi-Yu
• Deoxys
• Deoxys Attack
• Dialga
• Dialga Origin
• Espathra
• Eternatus
• Flutter Mane
• Giratina
• Giratina Origin
• Gouging Fire
• Groudon
• Ho-oh
• Ice Rider Calyrex
• Iron Bundle
• Koraidon
• Kyogre
• Kyurem White
• Kyurem Black
• Landorus Incarnate
• Lugia
• Lunala
• Magearna
• Mewtwo
• Miraidon
• Necrozma-Dawn Wings
• Necrozma-Dusk Mane
• Ogerpon Hearthflame Mask
• Palafin
• Palkia
• Palkia Origin
• Rayquaza
• Reshiram
• Roaring Moon
• Shadow Rider Calyrex
• Shaymin Sky
• Sneasler
• Solgaleo
• Spectreval
• Terapagos
• Ursaluna Bloodmoon
• Urshifu Rapid Strike
• Urshifu Single Strike
• Volcarona
• Zacian
• Zacian Crowned
• Zamazenta Crowned
• Zekrom

Forbidden items

• King's Rock

Forbidden abilities

• Arena Trap - prevents opposing Pokémon from being switched out unless it is a Flying-type or Ghost-type Pokémon or has the ability Levitate.
• Moody - randomly boosts a user's stat by 2 stages and lowers another by 1 stage at the end of each turn (included accuracy and evasion).
• Shadow Tag - prevents opposing Pokémon from being switched out unless it is a Ghost-type Pokémon.

Forbidden moves

• Baton Pass - the user switches out, passing all stats changes and potential substitute, confusion and Leech Seed to the Pokémon that replaces it.
• Last Respects - the power is boosted by 50 points for each fainted Pokémon in the team.
• Shed Tail - puts the user behind a substitute by sacrificing 50% of its max HP and immediately switches out the user for another Pokémon that will benefit from the Substitute.
• Tera Blast - if used by a Terastallized Pokémon, the move becomes the same type as the Pokémon's Tera-type and is physical or special according to the Pokémon's highest stat (Attack or Special Attack).

Banlist history

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