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 Galarian Articuno's top six counters needs 3.54 trainers (round up: 4), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 4.40 (round up: 5). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 16:44. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.

Galarian Articuno · Shadow Tier 5

psychicflying

Weak to

rockghostelectricicedark

Boss CP: 47,256
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 Galarian Articuno 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	6(5.07)	6(5.74)	7(6.73)	27:07	6.0
Level 25	5(4.14)	5(4.65)	6(5.49)	21:58	6.0
Level 30	4(3.44)	5(4.02)	5(4.88)	19:00	6.0
Level 35	4(3.21)	4(3.84)	5(4.61)	18:07	6.0
Level 40	4(3.12)	4(3.54)	5(4.40)	16:44	6.0
Level 45	4(3.02)	4(3.42)	5(4.25)	16:09	6.0
Level 50	3(2.98)	4(3.32)	5(4.09)	15:41	6.0

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.

4 trainers at level 40

Necrozma (Dawn Wings)3.12

A prepared party

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

4 trainers at level 40

Necrozma (Dawn Wings)3.12
Kyurem (Black)3.20
Kyurem (White)3.32
Zekrom3.82
Lunala3.91
Zeraora3.90

A mixed local group

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

5 trainers at level 40

Zacian (Crowned Sword)4.16
Necrozma (Dusk Mane)4.23
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)4.27
Raikou4.32
Eternatus4.32
Gholdengo4.33

The party these numbers assume

1. Necrozma (Dawn Wings)

Shadow Claw + Moongeist Beam

2. Kyurem (Black)

Shadow Claw + Freeze Shock

3. Kyurem (White)

Ice Fang + Ice Burn

4. Zekrom

Charge Beam + Fusion Bolt

5. Lunala

Shadow Claw + Shadow Ball

6. Zeraora

Volt Switch + Plasma Fists

See the full ranked counter list for Galarian Articuno · 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.