What's the difference between Challenge Cup and Random Battle?

Just wondering, cuz Showdown has both.

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Challenge Cup is when you have completely random Pokemon, random moves, random items, random EVs / IVs / Natures and random levels. Random battle is when you have random Pokemon but have competitively acceptable moves.

Challenge Cup moveset for Croconaw: Water Gun, Scratch, Hydro Pump, Leer with Chople Berry.

Random Battle moveset for Croconaw: Dragon Dance, Waterfall, Ice Punch, Crunch with Life Orb and Sheer Force.

Challenge cup gives sets that are HORRIBLE and the pokemon are most likely ev trained bad. The abilities are randomized as are the items for example:Blazekien lv 70 @Steel GemTrait:BlazeEvs: Unown probably 252 SpA 4 Speed 252 HpQuiet Nature~ Protect~ Swagger~ Baton Pass~ Dig

Ranbats give WAY more viable sets that actually make sense. They aren’t perfect, but better than CC. For example:Blazekien lv 70 @ Black BeltTrait: Speed BoostEvs: Probably 4 Hp 252 Atk 252 Spe~ Protect~ Substitute~ Baton pass~ Sky Uppercut

stuff like that. If you’d play both, your experience would probably explain better than me xD