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 3 to be safe — 2 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Phione's top six counters needs 1.69 trainers (round up: 2), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 2.07 (round up: 3). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 7:46. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party. A duo works from level 30.

Phione · Tier 5

water

Weak to

grasselectric

Boss CP: 28,840
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 Phione 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	3(2.46)	3(2.44)	3(2.90)	11:14	6.0
Level 25	3(2.04)	3(2.09)	3(2.54)	9:36	6.0
Level 30	2(1.80)	2(1.86)	3(2.26)	8:33	5.9
Level 35	2(1.69)	2(1.76)	3(2.17)	8:06	5.8
Level 40	2(1.62)	2(1.69)	3(2.07)	7:46	5.7
Level 45	2(1.55)	2(1.63)	2(2.00)	7:30	5.7
Level 50	2(1.45)	2(1.56)	2(1.93)	7:12	5.6

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.

2 trainers at level 40

Regieleki1.62

A prepared party

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

2 trainers at level 40

Regieleki1.62
Kartana1.68
Thundurus (Therian)1.67
Zeraora1.71
Xurkitree1.71
Zekrom1.74

A mixed local group

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

3 trainers at level 40

Roserade1.99
Raikou2.00
Electivire1.99
Tapu Bulu2.05
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)2.08
Chesnaught2.07

The party these numbers assume

1. Regieleki

Lock-On + Thunder Cage

2. Kartana

Razor Leaf + Leaf Blade

3. Thundurus (Therian)

Volt Switch + Wildbolt Storm

4. Zeraora

Volt Switch + Plasma Fists

5. Xurkitree

Thunder Shock + Discharge

6. Zekrom

Charge Beam + Fusion Bolt

See the full ranked counter list for Phione · 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.