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 — 3 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Rhyperior's top six counters needs 2.36 trainers (round up: 3), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 2.74 (round up: 3). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 10:51. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party.

Rhyperior · Elite

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Weak to

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Boss CP: 51,836
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 Rhyperior 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	4(3.44)	4(3.57)	5(4.24)	16:27	6.0
Level 25	3(2.92)	3(3.00)	4(3.56)	13:47	6.0
Level 30	3(2.57)	3(2.64)	4(3.06)	12:10	6.0
Level 35	3(2.45)	3(2.48)	3(2.90)	11:24	6.0
Level 40	3(2.28)	3(2.36)	3(2.74)	10:51	6.0
Level 45	3(2.15)	3(2.26)	3(2.64)	10:25	6.0
Level 50	3(2.10)	3(2.18)	3(2.52)	10:03	6.0

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

Shaymin (Sky)2.28

A prepared party

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

3 trainers at level 40

Shaymin (Sky)2.28
Zarude2.34
Kyogre2.35
Kartana2.30
Rillaboom2.41
Inteleon2.46

A mixed local group

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

3 trainers at level 40

Chesnaught2.70
Swampert2.70
Tangrowth2.70
Samurott2.72
Kingler2.67
Sceptile2.72

The party these numbers assume

1. Shaymin (Sky)

Magical Leaf + Grass Knot

2. Zarude

Vine Whip + Power Whip

3. Kyogre

Waterfall + Origin Pulse

4. Kartana

Razor Leaf + Leaf Blade

5. Rillaboom

Razor Leaf + Frenzy Plant

6. Inteleon

Water Gun + Hydro Cannon

See the full ranked counter list for Rhyperior · 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.