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 4 to be safe — 3 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Girafarig's top six counters needs 2.70 trainers (round up: 3), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 3.02 (round up: 4). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 12:26. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.

Girafarig · Elite

normalpsychic

Weak to

bugdark

Boss CP: 33,893
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 Girafarig 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(3.57)	4(3.81)	5(4.20)	17:33	6.0
Level 25	4(3.06)	4(3.26)	4(3.72)	15:01	5.8
Level 30	3(2.76)	3(2.98)	4(3.28)	13:43	5.6
Level 35	3(2.62)	3(2.84)	4(3.13)	13:03	5.5
Level 40	3(2.50)	3(2.70)	4(3.02)	12:26	5.4
Level 45	3(2.42)	3(2.62)	3(2.93)	12:02	5.3
Level 50	3(2.30)	3(2.53)	3(2.85)	11:40	5.2

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

Darkrai2.50

A prepared party

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

3 trainers at level 40

Darkrai2.50
Hydreigon2.66
Tyranitar2.70
Eternatus2.76
Absol2.80
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)2.81

A mixed local group

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

4 trainers at level 40

Weavile2.94
Kyurem (Black)2.96
Yveltal2.97
Salamence2.97
Kartana2.99
Genesect3.04

The party these numbers assume

1. Darkrai

Snarl + Foul Play

2. Hydreigon

Bite + Brutal Swing

3. Tyranitar

Bite + Brutal Swing

4. Eternatus

Poison Jab + Dynamax Cannon

5. Absol

Snarl + Brutal Swing

6. Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)

Metal Claw + Behemoth Bash

See the full ranked counter list for Girafarig · 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.