How does the mode work?
You can make Pokémon have any sorts of moves and abilities, even if they don’t legally learn the moves/have the abilities. It’s different from Pure Hackmons, because, well, it’s more balanced. Here’s the banlist:
Clause and Ban List: The banlist keeps the"Balanced" in Balanced Hackmons. Here's our interim banlist for the beta BH8 Ladder (this will eventually move to a BH8 Suspects and Bans Thread):
Pokemon Eternatus-Eternamax Shedinja Zacian-Crowned
Moves Chatter OHKO Moves Double Iron Bash Octolock Shell Smash
Abilities Wonder Guard Pure / Huge Power Parental Bond Protean / Libero Shadow Tag/Arena Trap Moody Water Bubble Innards Out Magnet Pull Stakeout Illusion Contrary Neutralizing Gas Gorilla Tactics
Clauses
ComaTalk Clause: Sleep Talk can't be run on a Pokemon with the Comatose ability
Endless Battle Clause: Forcing an endless battle is banned, similar to the rest of PS
Evasion Moves Clause: No moves that can increase Evasion are allowed. This does not include abilities or items that may modify Evasion passively such as Sand Veil or Brightpowder
Sleep Clause: Only one Pokemon on the opponent's team can be put to sleep at a time. This excludes self-inflicted sleep or Comatose
Forme Clause: You may only use one of each forme of a Pokemon on your team. (Example: you can use both Darmanitan-Zen and Darmanitan-Galar-Zen on the same team)
Source
Hope this helps! :)
Balanced Hackmons is essentially a mode with infinite possible combinations for any one Pokémon. You can give any Pokémon essentially any move or ability that is not banned. Example, you can have a Glaceon with Sturdy for example. Also, Pokémon can have 252 EV in EVERY stat. By all these factors, typing, items and base stat total all have a much greater importance that OU for example. Source: https://www.smogon.com/smog/issue21/hackmons https://www.smogon.com/dex/ss/formats/bh/ Here is a ban list.
