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 — 2 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Mega Salamence's top six counters needs 1.16 trainers (round up: 2), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 1.58 (round up: 2). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 5:23. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party. A duo works from level 20.

Mega Salamence · Mega

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Weak to

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Boss CP: 50,285
Boss HP: 9,000
Raid timer: 300s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Mega Salamence 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(1.30)	2(1.75)	3(2.41)	8:08	6.0
Level 25	2(1.08)	2(1.50)	3(2.03)	6:57	6.0
Level 30	1(0.96)	2(1.28)	2(1.77)	5:58	6.0
Level 35	1(0.92)	2(1.21)	2(1.68)	5:38	6.0
Level 40	1(0.88)	2(1.16)	2(1.58)	5:23	6.0
Level 45	1(0.84)	2(1.11)	2(1.52)	5:09	6.0
Level 50	1(0.80)	2(1.06)	2(1.45)	4:57	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.

1 trainer at level 40

Kyurem (White)0.88

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)0.88
Kyurem (Black)0.97
Eternatus1.16
Baxcalibur1.25
Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)1.35
Kyurem1.34

A mixed local group

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

2 trainers at level 40

Articuno1.54
Avalugg1.54
Palkia (Origin)1.48
Rayquaza1.51
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)1.56
Mewtwo1.56

The party these numbers assume

1. Kyurem (White)

Ice Fang + Ice Burn

2. Kyurem (Black)

Dragon Tail + Freeze Shock

3. Eternatus

Dragon Tail + Dynamax Cannon

4. Baxcalibur

Ice Fang + Avalanche

5. Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)

Ice Fang + Avalanche

6. Kyurem

Dragon Breath + Glaciate

See the full ranked counter list for Mega Salamence · 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.