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 Seaking's top six counters needs 1.56 trainers (round up: 2), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 1.97 (round up: 2). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 7:11. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party. A duo works from level 25.

Seaking · Tier 5

water

Weak to

grasselectric

Boss CP: 29,618
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 Seaking 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(2.35)	3(2.33)	3(2.84)	10:43	6.0
Level 25	2(1.97)	2(1.98)	3(2.43)	9:07	6.0
Level 30	2(1.75)	2(1.74)	3(2.17)	8:01	6.0
Level 35	2(1.58)	2(1.65)	3(2.07)	7:35	6.0
Level 40	2(1.47)	2(1.56)	2(1.97)	7:11	5.9
Level 45	2(1.46)	2(1.51)	2(1.89)	6:58	5.9
Level 50	2(1.37)	2(1.46)	2(1.83)	6:42	5.9

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

Regieleki1.47

A prepared party

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

2 trainers at level 40

Regieleki1.47
Zeraora1.55
Kartana1.56
Xurkitree1.57
Thundurus (Therian)1.61
Zekrom1.60

A mixed local group

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

2 trainers at level 40

Kyurem (Black)1.86
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)1.84
Magnezone1.93
Zapdos1.93
Roserade1.94
Tapu Bulu1.98

The party these numbers assume

1. Regieleki

Thunder Shock + Thunder Cage

2. Zeraora

Volt Switch + Plasma Fists

3. Kartana

Razor Leaf + Leaf Blade

4. Xurkitree

Thunder Shock + Discharge

5. Thundurus (Therian)

Volt Switch + Wildbolt Storm

6. Zekrom

Charge Beam + Fusion Bolt

See the full ranked counter list for Seaking · 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.