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Raid Hour · YveltalNext · 16h 59m

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 Braixen's top six counters needs 2.52 trainers (round up: 3), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 2.92 (round up: 3). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 11:36. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.
Braixen · Elite
fire
Weak to
groundrockwater
Boss CP
31,674
Boss HP
20,000
Raid timer
300s
Party used
6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Braixen at each attacker level
Attacker levelSix of the best counterA prepared partyA mixed local groupPrepared solo timeFaints per timer
Level 204(3.61)4(3.65)5(4.12)16:486.0
Level 253(2.94)4(3.11)4(3.55)14:186.0
Level 303(2.75)3(2.81)4(3.19)12:565.9
Level 353(2.50)3(2.66)4(3.04)12:145.9
Level 403(2.35)3(2.52)3(2.92)11:365.9
Level 453(2.33)3(2.43)3(2.78)11:125.9
Level 503(2.23)3(2.37)3(2.70)10:555.8

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.

3 trainers at level 40

  • Landorus (Therian)2.35

A prepared party

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

3 trainers at level 40

  • Landorus (Therian)2.35
  • Inteleon2.48
  • Groudon2.51
  • Kyogre2.54
  • Rampardos2.59
  • Eternatus2.65

A mixed local group

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

3 trainers at level 40

  • Gigalith2.75
  • Tyrantrum2.81
  • Necrozma (Dawn Wings)2.85
  • Garchomp2.86
  • Terrakion2.93
  • Volcanion2.95

The party these numbers assume

1. Landorus (Therian)
Mud Shot + Sandsear Storm
2. Inteleon
Water Gun + Hydro Cannon
3. Groudon
Mud Shot + Precipice Blades
4. Kyogre
Waterfall + Origin Pulse
5. Rampardos
Smack Down + Rock Slide
6. Eternatus
Poison Jab + Dynamax Cannon

See the full ranked counter list for Braixen · 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.