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The defenition of a hacked object is something in the game that has been influenced by an external force. This can involve hacking a pokemon to have huge stats, illegal movesets, gaining pokemon that are otherwise unavailable and so on. Hacks are sometimes noticable, as they will simply have something thats impossible to get on them like a new move or stats that go over the maximum. Strange OT and ID numbers are also a givaway, just inspect the poke before you trade and you should be fine.
Clauses are the unofficial rules people set down when battling competetively. Almost everybody uses the following set of clauses:
Species Clause: You may not have the same pokemon twice on your team.
Tier Clause: You may not use pokemon from a higher tier than the one specified prior to the battle, in order- Uber/OU/UU/NU, uber being the highest tier and NU being the lowest. *smogon.com link removed* for a list of which pokemon is in which clause.
Evasion Clause: You may not directly reduce your opponent's accuracy or your own evasion stats. Inadvertantly doing so in ways such as sand veil and metronome are exempt from this rule.
Item/Hax Clause: No item with an effect that occurs randomly is allowed to be used. This includes king's rock, quick claw, focus band and any other item where you have no control over its effects. Items that cause breaches in other clauses (For example, bright powder increases your evasion and therefore breaks the evasion clause) and OHKO moves are also banned.
Sleep Clause: You may not deliberately put more than one of your opponent's pokemon to sleep at any one time. Inadvertantly doing so in ways such as metronome are exempt from this rule. Also, it only applies to pokes you put to sleep- your opponent can put 5 of his own pokes to sleep with rest and you are still free to use hypnosis on the 6th.
That's it I think.
EDIT: Kayashi, the freeze clause is not a real clause because the player has no direct control over when freezing comes into play. For example, if I have a choice specs articuno and wipe out their Ice resist, must I forfeit if hax goes my way and by ice-beaming several times in a row I accidentally freeze two pokes? Freezing is a lucky side effect of legal moves, whereas sleep is a move in itself and something which the player directly controls. Likewise the item clause is never used, because it was invented by whiney children who got annoyed by stall teams that abused leftovers.
I forgot about the self-destruct clause though, that one is valid.
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