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I found this video on youtube which confirmes that you can bring pokemon with illegal abilities to wifi battles in gen 3, you can also change a pokemon's typing however I think that would be more difficult to include in an actual ruleset on showdown.
I think the main reason for the ban is that the economy format makes baton pass a little bit unreasonable because most baton pass pokemon are either unranked or pretty low on vr (mostly due to ag council pretending it doesn't exist imo) hence fullpass or quickpass teams are basically the same as...