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Raid Hour · YveltalNext · 20h 38m

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 Calyrex's top six counters needs 2.25 trainers (round up: 3), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 2.56 (round up: 3). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 10:21. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.
Calyrex · Elite
psychicgrass
Weak to
bugflyingpoisonghostfireice
Boss CP
33,302
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 Calyrex at each attacker level
Attacker levelSix of the best counterA prepared partyA mixed local groupPrepared solo timeFaints per timer
Level 204(3.10)4(3.13)4(3.88)14:246.0
Level 253(2.73)3(2.73)4(3.23)12:346.0
Level 303(2.43)3(2.47)3(2.86)11:236.0
Level 353(2.29)3(2.32)3(2.69)10:415.9
Level 403(2.20)3(2.25)3(2.56)10:215.8
Level 453(2.08)3(2.16)3(2.46)9:585.8
Level 503(2.01)3(2.11)3(2.38)9:425.7

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.

3 trainers at level 40

  • Volcarona2.20

A prepared party

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

3 trainers at level 40

  • Volcarona2.20
  • Kartana2.24
  • Genesect2.27
  • Genesect (Burn)2.27
  • Genesect (Chill)2.27
  • Genesect (Douse)2.27

A mixed local group

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

3 trainers at level 40

  • Scizor2.46
  • Kyurem (White)2.47
  • Escavalier2.48
  • Yanmega2.49
  • Centiskorch2.53
  • Rayquaza2.54

The party these numbers assume

1. Volcarona
Bug Bite + Bug Buzz
2. Kartana
Fury Cutter + X-Scissor
3. Genesect
Fury Cutter + X-Scissor
4. Genesect (Burn)
Fury Cutter + X-Scissor
5. Genesect (Chill)
Fury Cutter + X-Scissor
6. Genesect (Douse)
Fury Cutter + X-Scissor

See the full ranked counter list for Calyrex · 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.