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 2 to be safe — 2 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Delcatty's top six counters needs 1.37 trainers (round up: 2), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 1.69 (round up: 2). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 6:18. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party. A duo works from level 20.

Delcatty · Tier 5

normal

Weak to

fighting

Boss CP: 21,453
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 Delcatty 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	2(1.67)	2(1.94)	3(2.39)	8:55	6.0
Level 25	2(1.45)	2(1.67)	3(2.07)	7:40	6.0
Level 30	2(1.29)	2(1.50)	2(1.85)	6:54	5.8
Level 35	2(1.24)	2(1.44)	2(1.77)	6:37	5.8
Level 40	2(1.16)	2(1.37)	2(1.69)	6:18	5.7
Level 45	2(1.12)	2(1.32)	2(1.63)	6:05	5.6
Level 50	2(1.09)	2(1.27)	2(1.57)	5:51	5.5

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

Keldeo1.16

A prepared party

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

2 trainers at level 40

Keldeo1.16
Lucario1.31
Terrakion1.36
Blaziken1.39
Kartana1.45
Eternatus1.54

A mixed local group

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

2 trainers at level 40

Necrozma (Dusk Mane)1.63
Mewtwo1.64
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)1.67
Raikou1.68
Hisuian Decidueye1.67
Kyurem (Black)1.68

The party these numbers assume

1. Keldeo

Low Kick + Secret Sword

2. Lucario

Force Palm + Aura Sphere

3. Terrakion

Double Kick + Sacred Sword

4. Blaziken

Counter + Aura Sphere

5. Kartana

Fury Cutter + Sacred Sword

6. Eternatus

Poison Jab + Dynamax Cannon

See the full ranked counter list for Delcatty · 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.