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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 5 to be safe — 4 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Latios's top six counters needs 3.25 trainers (round up: 4), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 4.26 (round up: 5). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 14:56. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.
Latios · Elite
dragonpsychic
Weak to
bugghosticedragondarkfairy
Boss CP
60,299
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 Latios at each attacker level
Attacker levelSix of the best counterA prepared partyA mixed local groupPrepared solo timeFaints per timer
Level 205(4.84)6(5.41)8(7.03)24:546.0
Level 254(3.54)5(4.30)6(5.75)19:496.0
Level 304(3.06)4(3.61)5(4.84)16:386.0
Level 353(2.83)4(3.44)5(4.53)15:496.0
Level 403(2.74)4(3.25)5(4.26)14:566.0
Level 453(2.60)4(3.13)5(4.09)14:246.0
Level 503(2.51)3(2.99)4(3.95)13:476.0

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

  • Eternatus2.74

A prepared party

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

4 trainers at level 40

  • Eternatus2.74
  • Kyurem (Black)2.94
  • Necrozma (Dawn Wings)3.26
  • Kyurem (White)3.27
  • Rayquaza3.59
  • Baxcalibur3.68

A mixed local group

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

5 trainers at level 40

  • Lunala4.07
  • Regidrago4.05
  • Kyurem4.14
  • Giratina (Origin)4.21
  • Hydreigon4.24
  • Tapu Lele4.33

The party these numbers assume

1. Eternatus
Dragon Tail + Dynamax Cannon
2. Kyurem (Black)
Dragon Tail + Freeze Shock
3. Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
Psycho Cut + Moongeist Beam
4. Kyurem (White)
Dragon Breath + Ice Burn
5. Rayquaza
Dragon Tail + Breaking Swipe
6. Baxcalibur
Dragon Breath + Glaive Rush

See the full ranked counter list for Latios · 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.