ADV Uber Metagame Primer

• Composition
• Play Restrictions

Composition

Ubers is the most inclusive of Smogon's tiers, allowing the use of any Pokémon species. Ubers is not influenced by Pokémon usage in OU, UU, or NU, and the usage of Pokémon in Ubers has no influence on the compositions of those tiers.

A list of the current Ubers Pokémon and those with Ubers analyses for the ADV era are found on the dex page.

Play Restrictions

Players must abide by the following clauses and rules:

• Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same National Pokédex number on a team.
• Sleep Clause: If a player has already put a Pokémon on his/her opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, another one can't be put to sleep.
• Evasion Clause: A Pokémon may not have either Double Team or Minimize in its moveset.
• OHKO Clause: A Pokémon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
• Deoxys Camouflage Clause: Players must reveal their Deoxys formes when entering a battle.
• Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
• Wobbuffett and Wynaut are banned from holding Leftovers.