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 2 to be safe — 2 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Bidoof's top six counters needs 1.48 trainers (round up: 2), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 1.82 (round up: 2). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 6:58. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party. A duo works from level 25.

Bidoof · Shadow Tier 5

normal

Weak to

fighting

Boss CP: 10,914
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 Bidoof 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	2(1.73)	3(2.03)	3(2.51)	9:36	5.9
Level 25	2(1.59)	2(1.82)	3(2.17)	8:36	5.6
Level 30	2(1.40)	2(1.62)	2(1.98)	7:38	5.3
Level 35	2(1.35)	2(1.54)	2(1.88)	7:16	5.2
Level 40	2(1.28)	2(1.48)	2(1.82)	6:58	5.0
Level 45	2(1.23)	2(1.42)	2(1.75)	6:41	4.9
Level 50	2(1.22)	2(1.38)	2(1.68)	6:31	4.7

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

Keldeo1.28

A prepared party

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

2 trainers at level 40

Keldeo1.28
Lucario1.39
Terrakion1.47
Blaziken1.54
Kartana1.54
Pheromosa1.63

A mixed local group

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

2 trainers at level 40

Zacian (Crowned Sword)1.75
Marshadow1.76
Gallade1.78
Mewtwo1.79
Kyurem (Black)1.80
Machamp1.82

The party these numbers assume

1. Keldeo

Low Kick + Secret Sword

2. Lucario

Force Palm + Aura Sphere

3. Terrakion

Double Kick + Sacred Sword

4. Blaziken

Counter + Aura Sphere

5. Kartana

Fury Cutter + Sacred Sword

6. Pheromosa

Low Kick + Focus Blast

See the full ranked counter list for Bidoof · 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.