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I don't think my story is good enough for its own thread, so I'll stick it here. After calling the store monkeys of Thousand Oaks, CA yesterday to confirm the rules, I was horrified to discover that they were going to run #1-490, since my ubers are just for the dex entries. I quickly pulled...
0731 1263 0028, sorry for breaking sleep clause :)
I won TO for Smogon (and GAF)! Store monkey on Friday told me #1-490 ok and I was all "oh crap" and speed trained a Kyogre, Rayquaza and Deoxys, and today the manager said "no legendaries", bleh.
I think this is it. Sleep is the only status with clause. Confusion and paralysis can be abused as much as you want, and paralysis in particular is great because it doesn't wear off naturally and will pretty much guarantee you go first.
IVs, I find, only really apply in the theoretical "let's stand here and see who can OHKO first" calculations.
That said, it's a simply-obtained, if horribly tedious, advantage.