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 6 to be safe — 5 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Mega Blastoise's top six counters needs 4.38 trainers (round up: 5), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 5.28 (round up: 6). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 20:10. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.

Mega Blastoise · Super Mega

water

Weak to

grasselectric

Boss CP: 70,028
Boss HP: 25,000
Raid timer: 300s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Mega Blastoise 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	8(7.94)	8(7.71)	9(8.78)	35:28	6.0
Level 25	7(6.37)	7(6.24)	7(6.89)	28:43	6.0
Level 30	5(4.63)	5(4.97)	6(5.84)	22:52	6.0
Level 35	5(4.41)	5(4.66)	6(5.60)	21:28	6.0
Level 40	5(4.21)	5(4.38)	6(5.28)	20:10	6.0
Level 45	5(4.11)	5(4.24)	6(5.11)	19:31	6.0
Level 50	4(3.91)	5(4.09)	5(4.91)	18:48	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.

5 trainers at level 40

Zeraora4.21

A prepared party

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

5 trainers at level 40

Zeraora4.21
Xurkitree4.29
Kartana4.29
Thundurus (Therian)4.34
Zekrom4.57
Eternatus4.59

A mixed local group

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

6 trainers at level 40

Raikou5.10
Meowscarada5.09
Magnezone5.16
Zapdos5.16
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)5.22
Decidueye5.30

The party these numbers assume

1. Zeraora

Volt Switch + Plasma Fists

2. Xurkitree

Thunder Shock + Discharge

3. Kartana

Razor Leaf + Leaf Blade

4. Thundurus (Therian)

Volt Switch + Wildbolt Storm

5. Zekrom

Charge Beam + Fusion Bolt

6. Eternatus

Poison Jab + Dynamax Cannon

See the full ranked counter list for Mega Blastoise · 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.