Sun/Moon Ubers Metagame Primer

Composition

Ubers is the most inclusive of Smogon's tiers, allowing the use of any Pokémon species. Only abilities and tactics that have been proven to be uncompetitive or excessively strong even among their peers are banned from use. Ubers is not influenced by Pokémon usage in OU, UU, RU, NU, or PU and the usage of Pokémon in Ubers has no influence on the compositions of those tiers.

A list of the current Ubers Pokémon and those with Ubers analyses for the SM era are found on the dex page.

Tiering

While the Ubers tier aims to create a metagame with minimal bans, the community may deem elements present in the metagame to be too strong or uncompetitive. The Ubers Tiering Council is in charge of assessing community view and deciding on suspect testing should it prove necessary.

Play Restrictions

Players must abide by the following clauses:

  • Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same National Pokédex number on a team.
  • Sleep Clause: If a player has already put a Pokémon on his/her opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, another one can't be put to sleep.
  • Evasion Clause: A Pokémon may not have either Double Team or Minimize in its moveset.
  • OHKO Clause: A Pokémon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
  • Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
  • Mega Rayquaza Clause: Rayquaza is not permitted to Mega Evolve.

Players cannot use the following moves:

The Ubers Forum

Learn

The Ubers Forum Rules and General Information explain the subforum rules and give a guide to its numerous projects. Mandatory read for all prospective new users.

The Ubers Simple Questions, Simple Answers thread is a great place to ask any simple questions you might have relating to the Ubers metagame. Do not make new threads for questions that could be answered here.

The Ubers Analyses forum is the place to go for writing analyses. You may reserve an analysis in the Index thread or comment on analyses that are in progress.

Participate

The Ubers Viability Rankings shows how well every Ubers-viable Pokémon fares in the Ubers tier.

The Sample Teams thread offers builds to newcomers and veterans alike that wish to start out with proven teams or see a perspective of the current metagame.

The Ubers Teambuilding Compendium assembles many of the tier's top-notch Pokémon and organizes them according to their roles so you can simply search the thread for a Pokémon that fits in your team!

Those that are interested in Ubers' older generations are welcome to check out our Old Gens Hub to gain information on mechanical changes, viability rankings, and sample teams for our older generations.

The Speed Tiers thread is a helpful resource that provides comparitive information about the speed of threats in the Ubers metagame.