Quick Question

[quilava1]

What are common competitive battling rules (Like the Pokemon World Championship Rules)

 

[mattj]

Well, I wouldn't exactly call the VGC Rules "common competitive battling rules" at least when it comes to the online community, but you can find them here, and OU standard rules here (the more common online battling format).

 

[Suicune3000]

These are general rules:

1: Only pokemon of the designated tier or below the designated tier may be used. This is so you can't unleash a Mewtwo on your friend's team in an NU battle. Cheating in competitive battling is practically pointless. We play to win and not to cheat. It is to give ourselves a challenge, not to gain a reputation. You'll get a bad reputation by cheating anyway.

2: No duplicate pokemon-You can't use two of the same species of pokemon in the same battle. And no, you can't use a Spiking Skarmory AND a Thiefing Skarmory to get around this rule.

3: No One-Hit-Knock-Out (OHKO) moves. These make the battle base itsself on luck rather than skill. Don't use them.

4: Evasiveness moves are banned for the same reasons as OHKO moves. No Minimise/Double Team.

5: Sleep/Freeze Clause. Only 1 pokemon on your opponents team can be asleep at one time. Same applies to freeze. If your opponent activates Rest this does not breach this clause.

I think there are a couple more but I can't remember them.

 

[quilava1]

oh, for some reason I thought there would be more than the basic clauses (i still can't understand how you can't freeze 2 pokemon when its a totally random thing)

 

[d0nut]

Generally Freeze Clause isn't enforced outside of simulator battles, though even now since it is impossible to control it is becoming less standard since it was mainly made for way back in RBY (where it was near impossible to become unfrozen.) In Wifi battles though, there really is no way to fairly apply a Freeze Clause so it isn't something to worry about.