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 6 to be safe — 5 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Dialga's top six counters needs 4.06 trainers (round up: 5), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 5.38 (round up: 6). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 19:10. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.

Dialga · Shadow Tier 5

steeldragon

Weak to

fightingground

Boss CP: 53,394
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 Dialga 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	6(5.52)	7(6.73)	9(8.42)	31:48	6.0
Level 25	6(5.12)	6(5.91)	8(7.10)	27:55	6.0
Level 30	5(4.57)	6(5.12)	7(6.20)	24:12	6.0
Level 35	4(3.73)	5(4.56)	6(5.83)	21:32	6.0
Level 40	4(3.26)	5(4.06)	6(5.38)	19:10	6.0
Level 45	4(3.14)	4(3.88)	6(5.10)	18:20	6.0
Level 50	4(3.03)	4(3.75)	5(4.82)	17:42	6.0

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.

4 trainers at level 40

Keldeo3.26

A prepared party

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

5 trainers at level 40

Keldeo3.26
Lucario3.95
Terrakion3.99
Kartana4.27
Groudon4.35
Urshifu (Rapid Strike)4.52

A mixed local group

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

6 trainers at level 40

Virizion5.07
Marshadow5.11
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)5.12
Landorus (Incarnate)5.22
Galarian Zapdos5.23
Rhyperior5.48

The party these numbers assume

1. Keldeo

Low Kick + Secret Sword

2. Lucario

Force Palm + Aura Sphere

3. Terrakion

Double Kick + Sacred Sword

4. Kartana

Fury Cutter + Sacred Sword

5. Groudon

Mud Shot + Precipice Blades

6. Urshifu (Rapid Strike)

Counter + Dynamic Punch

See the full ranked counter list for Dialga · 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.