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 3 to be safe — 3 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Frillish's top six counters needs 2.30 trainers (round up: 3), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 2.74 (round up: 3). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 10:36. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.

Frillish · Elite

waterghost

Weak to

ghostgrasselectricdark

Boss CP: 22,441
Boss HP: 20,000
Raid timer: 300s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Frillish 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(3.14)	4(3.35)	4(3.89)	15:25	6.0
Level 25	3(2.71)	3(2.89)	4(3.39)	13:18	6.0
Level 30	3(2.30)	3(2.53)	4(3.02)	11:38	6.0
Level 35	3(2.19)	3(2.44)	3(2.88)	11:13	6.0
Level 40	3(2.04)	3(2.30)	3(2.74)	10:36	6.0
Level 45	2(1.99)	3(2.22)	3(2.65)	10:14	6.0
Level 50	2(1.97)	3(2.15)	3(2.56)	9:55	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.

3 trainers at level 40

Necrozma (Dawn Wings)2.04

A prepared party

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

3 trainers at level 40

Necrozma (Dawn Wings)2.04
Regieleki2.23
Zeraora2.37
Xurkitree2.37
Kartana2.39
Thundurus (Therian)2.43

A mixed local group

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

3 trainers at level 40

Blacephalon2.65
Tyranitar2.68
Rillaboom2.72
Eternatus2.73
Zarude2.73
Hisuian Zoroark2.74

The party these numbers assume

1. Necrozma (Dawn Wings)

Shadow Claw + Moongeist Beam

2. Regieleki

Thunder Shock + Thunder Cage

3. Zeraora

Volt Switch + Plasma Fists

4. Xurkitree

Thunder Shock + Discharge

5. Kartana

Razor Leaf + Leaf Blade

6. Thundurus (Therian)

Volt Switch + Wildbolt Storm

See the full ranked counter list for Frillish · 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.