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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 Chi-Yu's top six counters needs 2.28 trainers (round up: 3), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 2.71 (round up: 3). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 10:30. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.
Chi-Yu · Tier 5
darkfire
Weak to
fightinggroundrockwater
Boss CP
53,434
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 Chi-Yu at each attacker level
Attacker levelSix of the best counterA prepared partyA mixed local groupPrepared solo timeFaints per timer
Level 203(2.64)4(3.46)4(3.94)15:556.0
Level 253(2.38)3(2.99)4(3.39)13:456.0
Level 303(2.07)3(2.54)4(3.02)11:416.0
Level 352(1.99)3(2.41)3(2.86)11:076.0
Level 402(1.93)3(2.28)3(2.71)10:306.0
Level 452(1.89)3(2.21)3(2.61)10:116.0
Level 502(1.84)3(2.12)3(2.51)9:456.0

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.

2 trainers at level 40

  • Keldeo1.93

A prepared party

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

3 trainers at level 40

  • Keldeo1.93
  • Terrakion2.24
  • Blaziken2.33
  • Lucario2.34
  • Landorus (Therian)2.40
  • Kyogre2.46

A mixed local group

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

3 trainers at level 40

  • Eternatus2.61
  • Gallade2.62
  • Conkeldurr2.62
  • Primarina2.66
  • Greninja2.68
  • Gigalith2.68

The party these numbers assume

1. Keldeo
Low Kick + Secret Sword
2. Terrakion
Double Kick + Sacred Sword
3. Blaziken
Counter + Aura Sphere
4. Lucario
Force Palm + Aura Sphere
5. Landorus (Therian)
Mud Shot + Sandsear Storm
6. Kyogre
Waterfall + Origin Pulse

See the full ranked counter list for Chi-Yu · 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.