Standard Rules

First of all every gym and elite 7, and frontier has rules, so read them first!



All battles will be played by the standart rules

Sleep Clause
You can't use sleep inducing moves in opponent's Pokémon when there's another Pokémon in his/her team asleep. Yawn can't be used to PseudoHaze (make opponent switch) when there's another Pokémon asleep caused by you. When the asleep Pokémon awakes or faints, you're free to make another Pokémon of his/her team asleep. Sleeping being caused by Effect Spore or Rest are disconsidered from Sleep Clause. It's not fun when all 6 pokemon are as sleep while you sword dance and sweep! lol

Species Clause
You can't use two of the same Pokémon in a team.
No one want's to fight six Jirachi in a row. lol

Evasion Clause
You can't use moves that increases your evasion. Avoid the use of Acupressure, it has 1/7 chance to double your evasion.
If you do use Acupressure and it doubles your evesion, you'll be disqualified.

One Hit Knock Out (aka OHKO) clause.
You are strictly prohibited of using OHKO moves. They are Guillotine, Horn Drill, Fissure and Sheer Cold.
The purpose of playing pokemon is to make up strategies and see how they work. Also one of the best part about playing pokemon is countering other trainer's strategy. SO IT'S NOT FUN WATCHING POKEMON DIE ONE BY ONE!

No Hacks
I don't think i need to explain that.
No one likes a Wrumple with 999 stats (owned my team once).

No Ubers
No Ubers in a standard battle.
Uber Pokémon are overpowered Pokémon. Since these are "Standard Rules" you have to use the "Standard Pokémon".
The current uber list:

Arceus
Darkrai
Deoxys
Deoxys Attack form
Deoxys Defence form
Deoxys Speed form
Dialga
Garchomp
Giratina
Giratina-origin form
Groudon
Ho-oh
Kyogre
Latios (the blue one only)
Lugia
Manaphy
Mew
Mewtwo
Palkia
Rayquaza
Shaymin-Skyform
Wobbuffet
Wynaut

***Note: In Standard Uber Battles, these Pokemon are allowed. In UU/NU battles, only Pokemon in the specific tier and below are allowed. This means you can use NU Pokemon on a UU team, but not UU Pokemon on a NU team. All other clauses are the same for a Standard battle that uses a different tier.

Click On The Happy Face To Check The Tiers.

No Hax Items
These are all the items that relies on luck to activate. These items are:
Bright Powder, Focush Band, King's Rock, Lansat Berry, Lucky Punch, Quick Claw, Razor Claw, Razor Fang, Scope Lens, Stick.
(If i missed anything tell me, please).

Additional Rule For The Gyms/Elite 7/and Battle Frontier!

Destiny Bond, Perish Song, Selfdestruct or Explosion are not allowed if both players are left with only one pokemon!
If you use them to force a tie, you WILL NOT RECEIVE THE BADGE/SYMBOL!


No Disconnecting
You can't turn off your DS or move away from signal range to end a battle.
People can have weak routers so don't fight if you get disconnected but there's a difference between routers having problems and disconnecting on purpose!

THOSE ARE ALL THE STANDARD RULES
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Now for some rules people use for fun. (these are not standard rules)

Self KO - NOT STANDARD!
You can't use Destiny Bond, Perish Song, Selfdestruct or Explosion to force a tie. People usually dislike the fact he/she lost the last Pokémon in a battle, the rule exists, but it's rarely added as standard since it's also a strategy.

Item Clause - NOT STANDARD!
Two Pokémon can't hold same items. Using Trick/Switcheroo in a Pokémon and receiving/getting an item that other Pokémon in your team has doesn't break the clause. (This rule was used in the 2009 Pokemon World Championship)! lol

Freeze Clause - NOT STANDARD!
You can't Freeze two Pokémon at once. Moves that cause the freeze status are banned until the foe thaws out!

Note: This clause is standard in battle simulators(shoddy battle,net battle ect.), since if one Pokémon is frost, the program can just ignore the freezing chance the attack has. But it's definitely not standard since we never know if an attack is going to freeze.

No Weather - NOT STANDARD!
It avoids the use of Hippowdon, Tyranitar and Abomasnow. Just because the battles slow down because of Sandstorm/Hail damage and leftovers recovery every turn.

No SkarmBliss - NOT STANDARD!
A dumb rule created by someone unknown that didn't have skills to handle Skarmory and Blissey used in the same team. Definately not standard, but it's there... Also the combination of these aren't as effective as it was in Advance.(It's too easy to beat now)!lol

No Legendaries - NOT STANDARD!
Another rule that avoids the use of Pokémon. The allowed legendaries are as strong as any OverUsed Pokémon, so they're completely fine in the standard play. BUT some people dislike them and decided to block all the legendaries. There's the Uber list to block the unfair legendaries (And Wobbuffet).

No Baton Pass chains - NOT STANDARD!
Baton Pass chains are teams that uses a lot of Baton Pass Pokémon to get multiple boosts in a Pokémon.

No switching - DEFINATELY NOT STANDARD!
People who are weak at predicting or just thinks switching is a waste of time, use this rule. Good luck at finding someone who agrees with this rule.

Confusion Clause - NOT STANDARD!
No attacks that are sure to cause confusion can't be used.

Everything Goes - NOT STANDARD!
Self explanatory - No rules applied. Anarchy owns here!lol

Choice Clause - NOT STANDARD!
User can't use more than one Choice item in their teams (Choice Band, Choice Scarf and Choice Specs).
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Double Battle
Introduced in third generation, battle with four Pokémon in the arena, two from one side, two from opponent's. Very diferent style with a wider range of decisions you have to make in one turn.

IV Battle
While breeding, if you wanna know accurately your Pokémon's IVs, this is what you should do. Set a battle to level 100, write down the stats and calculate until you got the Pokémon you were looking for.

Roulette Battle
A battle that you use all your competitive Pokémon. First of all, you must be honest while doing a Roulette Battle (Actually, you should in all battles, but this gets special care). Before asking/answering to a Roulette Battle you should organize all your competitive Pokémon in your box(es) in a random order, but without spaces, both battlers count how many Pokémon they have and the player randomly chooses six numbers from the total his opponent said. The number corresponds to the position the Pokémon is in the box and the player has to use those Pokémon in the battle, the first number your opponent wrote also corresponds to the first Pokémon you'll send in the battle. Then it's just a standard battle! Meaning you can't bring Uber Pokémon, you can't use hax items, you can't sleep two opponent's Pokémon, all standard rules include, unless your opponent says his own rules.

UU Battle
Again, a simple standard battle, but not only Uber Pokémon are excluded, OU and BL Pokémon also are banned in rule number 6.

Monotype Battle
Another variation from a standard battle. Your entire team must have one type in common among all Pokémon. Double types are allowed, the only thing required is that one of the Pokémon's type has to match with the rest of the team's type.

Everything goes battle
A battle people who are not into the competitive play use. It means that no rules are applied, hence, everything is allowed.

Metronome battle
A battle where the only move you can use is Metronome!
This battle is based on luck.
In this kind of battle people sometimes allow hack, which means you hack Metronome and teach it to pokemon that normally can't learn the move Metronome.


That's all you need to know!

If there are more rules that I forgot, then sorry,just tell me and I'll post them!
If there are any spelling errors or grammer errors just point them out to me. lol
If you have any questions just ask me!