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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 1 to be safe — 1 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Jynx's top six counters needs 0.45 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.63 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 180 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 1:18. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.
Jynx · Tier 3
icepsychic
Weak to
rockbugghoststeelfiredark
Boss CP
18,398
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 Jynx at each attacker level
Attacker levelSix of the best counterA prepared partyA mixed local groupPrepared solo timeFaints per timer
Level 201(0.61)1(0.66)1(0.93)1:574.3
Level 251(0.49)1(0.56)1(0.80)1:383.2
Level 301(0.46)1(0.50)1(0.71)1:282.4
Level 351(0.45)1(0.49)1(0.67)1:252.1
Level 401(0.40)1(0.45)1(0.63)1:181.7
Level 451(0.39)1(0.44)1(0.62)1:171.5
Level 501(0.38)1(0.43)1(0.59)1:151.4

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

  • Zacian (Crowned Sword)0.40

A prepared party

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

1 trainer at level 40

  • Zacian (Crowned Sword)0.40
  • Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)0.43
  • Necrozma (Dawn Wings)0.43
  • Necrozma (Dusk Mane)0.42
  • Blacephalon0.46
  • Reshiram0.54

A mixed local group

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

1 trainer at level 40

  • Volcarona0.61
  • Heatran0.62
  • Eternatus0.62
  • Darmanitan (Standard)0.63
  • Ho-Oh0.63
  • Hydreigon0.64

The party these numbers assume

1. Zacian (Crowned Sword)
Metal Claw + Behemoth Blade
2. Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)
Metal Claw + Behemoth Bash
3. Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
Metal Claw + Moongeist Beam
4. Necrozma (Dusk Mane)
Metal Claw + Sunsteel Strike
5. Blacephalon
Astonish + Mind Blown
6. Reshiram
Fire Fang + Fusion Flare

See the full ranked counter list for Jynx · 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.