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 5 to be safe — 4 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Ampharos's top six counters needs 3.55 trainers (round up: 4), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 4.60 (round up: 5). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 16:46. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.

Ampharos · Shadow Tier 5

electric

Weak to

ground

Boss CP: 37,545
Boss HP: 15,000
Raid timer: 300s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Ampharos 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	5(4.70)	6(5.34)	8(7.01)	25:13	5.9
Level 25	5(4.19)	5(4.54)	6(5.88)	21:27	5.9
Level 30	4(3.43)	5(4.02)	6(5.10)	19:00	5.7
Level 35	4(3.35)	4(3.69)	5(4.85)	17:26	5.6
Level 40	4(3.17)	4(3.55)	5(4.60)	16:46	5.6
Level 45	4(3.06)	4(3.46)	5(4.44)	16:21	5.6
Level 50	4(3.01)	4(3.36)	5(4.32)	15:54	5.5

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.

4 trainers at level 40

Landorus (Therian)3.17

A prepared party

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

4 trainers at level 40

Landorus (Therian)3.17
Groudon3.36
Eternatus3.57
Garchomp3.67
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)3.73
Landorus (Incarnate)3.78

A mixed local group

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

5 trainers at level 40

Dialga (Origin)4.48
Keldeo4.60
Mewtwo4.54
Rhydon4.57
Golurk4.60
Ursaluna4.56

The party these numbers assume

1. Landorus (Therian)

Mud Shot + Sandsear Storm

2. Groudon

Mud Shot + Precipice Blades

3. Eternatus

Dragon Tail + Dynamax Cannon

4. Garchomp

Mud Shot + Earth Power

5. Necrozma (Dawn Wings)

Psycho Cut + Moongeist Beam

6. Landorus (Incarnate)

Mud Shot + Earth Power

See the full ranked counter list for Ampharos · 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.