Clauses and banlist

The following rules, that govern the DPP 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 479th in the national Pokedex.
• Sleep Clause : it is impossible to put more than one opposing Pokémon to sleep at a time (Pokémon that used Rest do not count).
• Evasion Clause : moves (Double Team and Minimize), 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.
• Baton Pass Clause : there can be no form of stats boosting in combination with Baton Pass (whether it comes from a move, an item or an ability). Also, Block / Mean Look / Spider Web can't be combined with Baton Pass.

Banlist

Forbidden Pokémon

• Arceus
• Darkrai
• Deoxys
• Deoxys Attack
• Deoxys Defense
• Deoxys Speed
• Dialga
• Garchomp
• Giratina
• Giratina Origin
• Groudon
• Ho-Oh
• Kyogre
• Latios
• Lugia
• Machamp
• Manaphy
• Mew
• Mewtwo
• Palkia
• Rayquaza
• Salamence
• Shaymin Sky
• Wobbuffet
• Wynaut

Forbidden items

• Quick Claw - gives the holder 20% chance to move first (in the same priority bracket).
• Soul Dew - boosts Latios and Latias' Special Attack and Special Defense stats by 50%.

Forbidden abilities

• Arena Trap - prevents opposing Pokémon from being switched out unless it is a Flying-type Pokémon or has the ability Levitate.

Forbidden moves

• Swagger - boosts the target's Attack stat by 2 stages and confuses it.

Banlist history

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