Gym Rules
Welcome to the NebulaMC gyms! The gyms here are meant to be an introduction to competitive play have a normal mode and a level 100 advanced difficulty. This page will give you everything you need to know about the gyms, along with some pointers for getting started.
RULES
- Players may re-fight a gym once every hour. Gym Leaders are allowed to accept fights before the cool-down expires however this is up to them. Please do not hound them.
- Borrowed Pokemon will result in an instant disqualification.
- Players' Pokemon must be at the level cap which go in gym order 25,35,45,55,65,75,85,95. the gym leaders pokemon will be 5 levels under excluding their ace which will match the players level cap.
- Players must disable leveling before challenging the gym. To do this go to your Pokemon's summary and above the level button click the L and click "Yes". Do this for each Pokemon.
- Mega Evolution is banned in the Vanha normal gyms.
- Using the bag option is banned.
- Z-Moves are only allowed in advanced Vanha gyms. Kommonium Z is banned.
- Causing an infinite battle is banned.
- Illegally evolved Pokemon are banned (Example: A level 25 Floatzel even though it evolves at 26).
- Legendary Pokemon and Ultra Beasts are banned in all normal Vanha gym fights.
- Players may use 2 legendary/mythical/ultra beast/paradox pokemon on their team for Vanha Advanced Gyms. Please check the banned Pokemon list to see illegal Pokemon.
- Terastalization is only allowed in Advanced Gyms.
CLAUSES AND BANNED MOVES/ABILITIES
- OHKO Moves
- Double Team/Minimize
- F.E.A.R. of any form
- Baton Pass
- Species Clause (Players can't have 2 or more Pokemon of the same dex number. For example, a player can have a Slowbro and a Slowking but can't have multiple Rotoms, regardless of form.)
- Sleep Clause (If a player has already put a Pokemon on his/her opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, another one can't be put to sleep.)
- No Dynamaxing
- Arena Trap, Moody, Power Construct, and Shadow Tag.
- Legends of Arceus special moves, for example, Wave Crash, Victory Dance.
- Shed Tail, Last Respects, Rage Fist, Revival Blessing
BANNED POKEMON
- Arceus
- Blastoise-Mega
- Blaziken-Mega
- Calyrex Shadow and Ice Rider forms
- Chi-Yu
- Chien-Pao
- Darkrai
- Deoxys
- Dialga
- Dracovish
- Dubious Quartz
- Espathra
- Eternatus
- Flutter Mane
- Galarian Darmanitan
- Genesect
- Gengar-Mega
- 'Geode' form Mega Pokemon
- Giratina
- Godoof
- Groudon
- Ho-Oh
- Iron Bundle
- Iron Jet
- Kangaskhan-Mega
- Kartana
- Koraidon
- Kyogre
- Kyurem-Black
- Kyurem-White
- Landorus-Incarnate
- Lucario-Mega
- Lugia
- Lunala
- 'Lovely' form Mega Pokemon
- Machamp-Mega
- Magearna
- Marshadow
- Melmetal
- Metagross-Mega
- Mewtwo
- Miraidon
- Naganadel
- Necrozma Blade/Colossus/Titan
- Necrozma Dawn Wings/Dusk Mane
- Palafin
- Palkia
- Paradox Deoxys (All forms)
- Pheromosa
- Rayquaza (includes Mega)
- Regieleki (Tera)
- Regigigas
- Reshiram
- Roaring Moon (Tera)
- Salamence-Mega
- Shaymin-Sky
- Shedinja (Tera)
- Solgaleo
- Spectrier
- Ursaluna
- Urshifu (Single strike)
- Volcarona (Tera)
- Xerneas
- Yveltal
- Zacian
- Zamazenta-Crowned
- Zekrom
- Zygarde 50% and 100%
Competitive Tips
You can check your EVs by using /evs followed by the slot number. 255 is the maximum number of EVs you can put into a specific stat with every 4EVs raising the stat by 1 point (This assumes the Pokemon is level 100)
Smogon is an amazing site to learn about competitive play. You can use it to search up sets and EV spreads for any Pokemon in the game. Pokemon Showdown is a battling simulator where you can practice battling. You can utilize it to hone your battling skills.