What is 'Balanced Hackmons' in Showdown?

How does the mode work?

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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):

PokemonEternatus-EternamaxShedinjaZacian-Crowned

MovesChatterOHKO MovesDouble Iron BashOctolockShell Smash

AbilitiesWonder GuardPure / Huge PowerParental BondProtean / LiberoShadow Tag/Arena TrapMoodyWater BubbleInnards OutMagnet PullStakeoutIllusionContraryNeutralizing GasGorilla 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/hackmonshttps://www.smogon.com/dex/ss/formats/bh/Here is a ban list.