Add March 2026 Randomized Format Spotlight

[livid-washed]

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/randbats-spotlight-cycle-24-gen-9-godly-gift-random-battle.3778133/

The "God" for Godly Gift is always in slot 1 and generated to have a BST of at least 510, excluding HP.

[Slayer95]

This doesn't need to be a mod. Instead, please just add a randomGodlyGiftTeam method to data/random-battles/gen9/teams.ts, and refer to it as team: 'randomGodlyGift'.

[livid-washed]

This doesn't need to be a mod. Instead, please just add a randomGodlyGiftTeam method to data/random-battles/gen9/teams.ts, and refer to it as team: 'randomGodlyGift'.

That's way more convenient, thanks for letting me know!

[KrisXV]

Why is the team generation being done like this? This feels like more often than not you will just be generating suboptimal teams. Surely it'd be easier to generate the god first and then generate the team around it, and then manually slip it into ruleTable?

[livid-washed]

Why is the team generation being done like this? This feels like more often than not you will just be generating suboptimal teams. Surely it'd be easier to generate the god first and then generate the team around it, and then manually slip it into ruleTable?

That's essentially what we're doing. We're generating a god in the first slot (from a pool of high BST minus HP mons), then using regular randbats team generation to fill out the rest of the team. Godly Gift treats the first mon as the god, which is what we want.

[HisuianZoroark]

Is it by design to just choose and push sets?

If I generate a Pecharunt first as a god (plausible due to bst minus HP being 512), could I generate a Rampardos next and halve its attack stat?