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 1 to be safe — 1 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Hisuian Growlithe's top six counters needs 0.25 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.29 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 180 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 0:43. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.

Hisuian Growlithe · Tier 3

firerock

Weak to

groundwaterfightingrock

Boss CP: 9,744
Boss HP: 3,600
Raid timer: 180s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Hisuian Growlithe 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	1(0.35)	1(0.34)	1(0.40)	0:59	1.5
Level 25	1(0.30)	1(0.30)	1(0.36)	0:52	1.1
Level 30	1(0.26)	1(0.26)	1(0.32)	0:46	0.6
Level 35	1(0.24)	1(0.26)	1(0.31)	0:45	0.5
Level 40	1(0.23)	1(0.25)	1(0.29)	0:43	0.4
Level 45	1(0.23)	1(0.24)	1(0.28)	0:42	0.3
Level 50	1(0.23)	1(0.23)	1(0.27)	0:41	0.2

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.

1 trainer at level 40

Kyogre0.23

A prepared party

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

1 trainer at level 40

Kyogre0.23
Inteleon0.24
Landorus (Therian)0.25
Quaquaval0.25
Greninja0.25
Groudon0.26

A mixed local group

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

1 trainer at level 40

Swampert0.28
Rhyperior0.28
Landorus (Incarnate)0.28
Samurott0.29
Clawitzer0.29
Empoleon0.29

The party these numbers assume

1. Kyogre

Waterfall + Origin Pulse

2. Inteleon

Water Gun + Hydro Cannon

3. Landorus (Therian)

Mud Shot + Sandsear Storm

4. Quaquaval

Water Gun + Hydro Cannon

5. Greninja

Water Shuriken + Hydro Cannon

6. Groudon

Mud Shot + Precipice Blades

See the full ranked counter list for Hisuian Growlithe · 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.