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 5 to be safe — 4 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Mega Clefable's top six counters needs 3.11 trainers (round up: 4), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 4.22 (round up: 5). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 14:19. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.

Mega Clefable · Super Mega

fairyflying

Weak to

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Boss CP: 62,851
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 Clefable 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	4(3.93)	6(5.04)	7(6.48)	23:10	6.0
Level 25	4(3.30)	5(4.10)	6(5.38)	18:51	6.0
Level 30	3(2.91)	4(3.43)	5(4.70)	15:47	6.0
Level 35	3(2.81)	4(3.24)	5(4.39)	14:55	6.0
Level 40	3(2.62)	4(3.11)	5(4.22)	14:19	6.0
Level 45	3(2.53)	3(2.97)	5(4.06)	13:41	5.9
Level 50	3(2.46)	3(2.85)	4(3.93)	13:07	5.9

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

Zacian (Crowned Sword)2.62

A prepared party

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

4 trainers at level 40

Zacian (Crowned Sword)2.62
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)2.75
Necrozma (Dusk Mane)2.76
Kyurem (White)3.23
Regieleki3.59
Eternatus3.71

A mixed local group

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

5 trainers at level 40

Necrozma (Dawn Wings)3.98
Nihilego4.18
Melmetal4.18
Tinkaton4.20
Glimmora4.23
Naganadel4.24

The party these numbers assume

1. Zacian (Crowned Sword)

Metal Claw + Behemoth Blade

2. Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)

Metal Claw + Behemoth Bash

3. Necrozma (Dusk Mane)

Metal Claw + Sunsteel Strike

4. Kyurem (White)

Ice Fang + Ice Burn

5. Regieleki

Lock-On + Thunder Cage

6. Eternatus

Poison Jab + Sludge Bomb

See the full ranked counter list for Mega Clefable · 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.