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 Combee's top six counters needs 0.68 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.85 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 3:07. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.

Combee · Tier 5

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Weak to

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Boss CP: 8,972
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 Combee 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(0.90)	1(0.94)	2(1.17)	4:20	5.0
Level 25	1(0.78)	1(0.82)	2(1.03)	3:48	4.1
Level 30	1(0.70)	1(0.75)	1(0.92)	3:26	3.1
Level 35	1(0.67)	1(0.71)	1(0.89)	3:16	2.7
Level 40	1(0.64)	1(0.68)	1(0.85)	3:07	2.4
Level 45	1(0.61)	1(0.67)	1(0.82)	3:04	2.0
Level 50	1(0.60)	1(0.64)	1(0.80)	2:58	1.8

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.

1 trainer at level 40

Rampardos0.64

A prepared party

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

1 trainer at level 40

Rampardos0.64
Glimmora0.64
Gigalith0.68
Tyrantrum0.69
Rhyperior0.70
Terrakion0.72

A mixed local group

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

1 trainer at level 40

Aerodactyl0.82
Archeops0.82
Aggron0.82
Rayquaza0.84
Aurorus0.83
Landorus (Incarnate)0.84

The party these numbers assume

1. Rampardos

Smack Down + Rock Slide

2. Glimmora

Rock Throw + Meteor Beam

3. Gigalith

Lock-On + Meteor Beam

4. Tyrantrum

Rock Throw + Meteor Beam

5. Rhyperior

Smack Down + Rock Wrecker

6. Terrakion

Smack Down + Rock Slide

See the full ranked counter list for Combee · 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.