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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.

Invite 4 to be safe — 3 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Mega Garchomp Z's top six counters needs 2.81 trainers (round up: 3), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 3.70 (round up: 4). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 13:03. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.
Mega Garchomp Z · Mega Legendary
dragon
Weak to
icedragonfairy
Boss CP
73,210
Boss HP
22,500
Raid timer
300s
Party used
6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Mega Garchomp Z at each attacker level
Attacker levelSix of the best counterA prepared partyA mixed local groupPrepared solo timeFaints per timer
Level 205(4.37)5(4.93)7(6.04)22:546.0
Level 254(3.87)4(3.90)6(5.07)18:096.0
Level 303(2.71)4(3.33)5(4.20)15:306.0
Level 353(2.47)3(2.99)4(3.98)13:556.0
Level 403(2.37)3(2.81)4(3.70)13:036.0
Level 453(2.20)3(2.68)4(3.51)12:276.0
Level 503(2.14)3(2.56)4(3.35)11:546.0

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

  • Eternatus2.37

A prepared party

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

3 trainers at level 40

  • Eternatus2.37
  • Kyurem (Black)2.54
  • Kyurem (White)2.73
  • Palkia (Origin)2.91
  • Dialga (Origin)3.18
  • Rayquaza3.12

A mixed local group

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

4 trainers at level 40

  • Enamorus (Incarnate)3.51
  • Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)3.54
  • Palkia3.44
  • Dragapult3.45
  • Dragonite3.51
  • Tapu Lele3.76

The party these numbers assume

1. Eternatus
Dragon Tail + Dynamax Cannon
2. Kyurem (Black)
Dragon Tail + Freeze Shock
3. Kyurem (White)
Dragon Breath + Ice Burn
4. Palkia (Origin)
Dragon Tail + Spacial Rend
5. Dialga (Origin)
Dragon Breath + Roar of Time
6. Rayquaza
Dragon Tail + Breaking Swipe

See the full ranked counter list for Mega Garchomp Z · 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.