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 1 to be safe — 1 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Alolan Raticate's top six counters needs 0.35 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.45 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 180 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 1:02. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.

Alolan Raticate · Tier 3

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Weak to

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Boss CP: 11,700
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 Alolan Raticate 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	1(0.41)	1(0.48)	1(0.63)	1:24	2.8
Level 25	1(0.37)	1(0.43)	1(0.55)	1:15	2.0
Level 30	1(0.32)	1(0.38)	1(0.49)	1:07	1.3
Level 35	1(0.32)	1(0.37)	1(0.48)	1:04	1.1
Level 40	1(0.30)	1(0.35)	1(0.45)	1:02	1.0
Level 45	1(0.29)	1(0.34)	1(0.44)	0:59	0.8
Level 50	1(0.28)	1(0.33)	1(0.43)	0:58	0.7

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

Keldeo0.30

A prepared party

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

1 trainer at level 40

Keldeo0.30
Lucario0.34
Terrakion0.35
Kartana0.37
Blaziken0.37
Urshifu (Single Strike)0.39

A mixed local group

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

1 trainer at level 40

Mewtwo0.43
Machamp0.43
Hawlucha0.44
Hariyama0.45
Galarian Zapdos0.45
Buzzwole0.45

The party these numbers assume

1. Keldeo

Low Kick + Secret Sword

2. Lucario

Force Palm + Aura Sphere

3. Terrakion

Double Kick + Sacred Sword

4. Kartana

Fury Cutter + Sacred Sword

5. Blaziken

Counter + Aura Sphere

6. Urshifu (Single Strike)

Counter + Dynamic Punch

See the full ranked counter list for Alolan Raticate · 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.