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 2 to be safe — 1 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Ninjask's top six counters needs 0.93 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 1.17 (round up: 2). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 4:17. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 35. A duo works from level 20.

Ninjask · Tier 5

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Weak to

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Boss CP: 29,536
Boss HP: 15,000
Raid timer: 300s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Ninjask 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	2(1.34)	2(1.37)	2(1.73)	6:20	6.0
Level 25	2(1.10)	2(1.17)	2(1.49)	5:22	6.0
Level 30	2(1.00)	2(1.03)	2(1.34)	4:45	6.0
Level 35	1(0.97)	1(0.98)	2(1.23)	4:32	5.8
Level 40	1(0.89)	1(0.93)	2(1.17)	4:17	5.7
Level 45	1(0.87)	1(0.90)	2(1.12)	4:08	5.6
Level 50	1(0.79)	1(0.86)	2(1.08)	3:57	5.5

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

Rampardos0.89

A prepared party

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

1 trainer at level 40

Rampardos0.89
Glimmora0.89
Rhyperior0.91
Tyrantrum0.96
Terrakion0.95
Gigalith0.98

A mixed local group

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

2 trainers at level 40

Aerodactyl1.12
Archeops1.14
Landorus (Incarnate)1.13
Blacephalon1.13
Kyurem (Black)1.15
Lycanroc (Dusk)1.16

The party these numbers assume

1. Rampardos

Smack Down + Rock Slide

2. Glimmora

Rock Throw + Meteor Beam

3. Rhyperior

Smack Down + Rock Wrecker

4. Tyrantrum

Rock Throw + Meteor Beam

5. Terrakion

Smack Down + Rock Slide

6. Gigalith

Lock-On + Meteor Beam

See the full ranked counter list for Ninjask · 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.