Group size estimator

How many trainers do I need to invite?

The Estimator is already "trainers of this attacker needed to finish inside the timer", so this page does not invent a number: it reads it off the boss's own ranked counter list for three realistic parties and re-simulates each of them at every level from 20 to 50.

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Invite 1 to be safe — 1 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Abra's top six counters needs 0.05 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.06 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 180 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 0:09. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.

Abra · Tier 1

psychic

Weak to

bugghostdark

Boss CP: 5,066
Boss HP: 600
Raid timer: 180s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Abra at each attacker level
Attacker level	Six of the best counter	A prepared party	A mixed local group	Prepared solo time	Faints per timer
Level 20	1(0.08)	1(0.08)	1(0.08)	0:14	0.5
Level 25	1(0.07)	1(0.07)	1(0.08)	0:12	0.1
Level 30	1(0.05)	1(0.06)	1(0.06)	0:10	0.0
Level 35	1(0.05)	1(0.05)	1(0.06)	0:10	0.0
Level 40	1(0.05)	1(0.05)	1(0.06)	0:09	0.0
Level 45	1(0.04)	1(0.05)	1(0.06)	0:08	0.0
Level 50	1(0.04)	1(0.05)	1(0.06)	0:08	0.0

Whole trainers in bold, the raw estimator in brackets — 2.04 means two trainers is right on the line and three is comfortable.

Six of the best counter

Every trainer brings six copies of the single best counter — the theoretical floor.

1 trainer at level 40

Pheromosa0.05

A prepared party

Each trainer brings the boss's top six counters, powered up and correctly TM'd.

1 trainer at level 40

Pheromosa0.05
Gengar0.05
Hisuian Zoroark0.05
Absol0.05
Lunala0.05
Blacephalon0.05

A mixed local group

Ranks 13-24: reasonable but unoptimised parties, which is what a public lobby usually is.

1 trainer at level 40

Pinsir0.06
Genesect0.06
Genesect (Burn)0.06
Genesect (Chill)0.06
Genesect (Douse)0.06
Genesect (Shock)0.06

The party these numbers assume

1. Pheromosa

Bug Bite + Bug Buzz

2. Gengar

Shadow Claw + Shadow Ball

3. Hisuian Zoroark

Shadow Claw + Shadow Ball

4. Absol

Snarl + Brutal Swing

5. Lunala

Shadow Claw + Shadow Ball

6. Blacephalon

Astonish + Shadow Ball

See the full ranked counter list for Abra · check a real lobby (win chance, who brings what) · make a share card of the top six

How this is worked out

The boss is ranked once at level 40 with rankCached (the same memoised call /raids makes), then the three bands — rank 1, ranks 1-6, ranks 13-24 — are re-simulated at each attacker level with an 8-run Monte Carlo each. Holding the party fixed and moving only its level is deliberate: it answers "what if my party were level 20" rather than "what would a level-20 player's completely different party be", and it is about ten times cheaper than re-ranking every attacker seven times. The Estimator itself is Pokebattler's definition, time to win including rejoin time divided by the raid timer.