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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.

Invite 3 to be safe — 3 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Bibarel's top six counters needs 2.26 trainers (round up: 3), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 2.69 (round up: 3). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 10:40. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.
Bibarel · Shadow Tier 5
normalwater
Weak to
fightinggrasselectric
Boss CP
25,094
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 Bibarel at each attacker level
Attacker levelSix of the best counterA prepared partyA mixed local groupPrepared solo timeFaints per timer
Level 203(2.91)4(3.34)5(4.11)15:476.0
Level 253(2.37)3(2.89)4(3.39)13:396.0
Level 303(2.13)3(2.52)3(2.97)11:536.0
Level 353(2.06)3(2.39)3(2.84)11:176.0
Level 402(1.98)3(2.26)3(2.69)10:406.0
Level 452(1.94)3(2.17)3(2.59)10:156.0
Level 502(1.85)3(2.08)3(2.51)9:496.0

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.

2 trainers at level 40

  • Keldeo1.98

A prepared party

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

3 trainers at level 40

  • Keldeo1.98
  • Lucario2.27
  • Kartana2.29
  • Terrakion2.31
  • Xurkitree2.34
  • Regieleki2.37

A mixed local group

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

3 trainers at level 40

  • Raikou2.60
  • Rillaboom2.61
  • Eternatus2.63
  • Hisuian Decidueye2.66
  • Urshifu (Rapid Strike)2.67
  • Conkeldurr2.68

The party these numbers assume

1. Keldeo
Low Kick + Secret Sword
2. Lucario
Force Palm + Aura Sphere
3. Kartana
Razor Leaf + Sacred Sword
4. Terrakion
Double Kick + Sacred Sword
5. Xurkitree
Thunder Shock + Discharge
6. Regieleki
Thunder Shock + Thunder Cage

See the full ranked counter list for Bibarel · 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.