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 Pidgeotto's top six counters needs 1.80 trainers (round up: 2), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 2.29 (round up: 3). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 8:17. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party. A duo works from level 30.

Pidgeotto · Elite

normalflying

Weak to

rockelectricice

Boss CP: 20,449
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 Pidgeotto 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(2.32)	3(2.52)	4(3.15)	11:36	6.0
Level 25	3(2.00)	3(2.20)	3(2.78)	10:07	6.0
Level 30	2(1.80)	2(1.97)	3(2.49)	9:04	5.9
Level 35	2(1.72)	2(1.88)	3(2.39)	8:38	5.8
Level 40	2(1.65)	2(1.80)	3(2.29)	8:17	5.5
Level 45	2(1.61)	2(1.74)	3(2.22)	8:00	5.4
Level 50	2(1.55)	2(1.68)	3(2.15)	7:44	5.1

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

Kyurem (White)1.65

A prepared party

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

2 trainers at level 40

Kyurem (White)1.65
Regieleki1.72
Kyurem (Black)1.80
Thundurus (Therian)1.86
Zeraora1.87
Xurkitree1.91

A mixed local group

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

3 trainers at level 40

Electivire2.22
Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)2.22
Raikou2.24
Necrozma (Dusk Mane)2.25
Rhyperior2.27
Gigalith2.27

The party these numbers assume

1. Kyurem (White)

Ice Fang + Ice Burn

2. Regieleki

Lock-On + Thunder Cage

3. Kyurem (Black)

Dragon Tail + Freeze Shock

4. Thundurus (Therian)

Volt Switch + Wildbolt Storm

5. Zeraora

Volt Switch + Plasma Fists

6. Xurkitree

Thunder Shock + Discharge

See the full ranked counter list for Pidgeotto · 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.