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 1 to be safe — 1 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Bounsweet's top six counters needs 0.72 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.88 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 3:18. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.

Bounsweet · Tier 5

grass

Weak to

flyingpoisonbugfireice

Boss CP: 7,857
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 Bounsweet 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	1(0.89)	1(0.97)	2(1.19)	4:29	3.9
Level 25	1(0.77)	1(0.86)	2(1.05)	3:57	2.8
Level 30	1(0.70)	1(0.78)	1(0.95)	3:36	2.0
Level 35	1(0.67)	1(0.75)	1(0.91)	3:27	1.8
Level 40	1(0.63)	1(0.72)	1(0.88)	3:18	1.5
Level 45	1(0.62)	1(0.70)	1(0.85)	3:13	1.3
Level 50	1(0.60)	1(0.68)	1(0.83)	3:07	1.2

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.

1 trainer at level 40

Blacephalon0.63

A prepared party

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

1 trainer at level 40

Blacephalon0.63
Kyurem (White)0.69
Rayquaza0.71
Eternatus0.74
Kyurem (Black)0.76
Reshiram0.77

A mixed local group

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

1 trainer at level 40

Chandelure0.85
Volcarona0.86
Cinderace0.86
Darmanitan (Standard)0.87
Naganadel0.87
Staraptor0.88

The party these numbers assume

1. Blacephalon

Incinerate + Mind Blown

2. Kyurem (White)

Ice Fang + Ice Burn

3. Rayquaza

Air Slash + Dragon Ascent

4. Eternatus

Poison Jab + Dynamax Cannon

5. Kyurem (Black)

Dragon Tail + Freeze Shock

6. Reshiram

Fire Fang + Fusion Flare

See the full ranked counter list for Bounsweet · 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.