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 Snubbull's top six counters needs 0.61 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.83 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 180 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 1:48. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.

Snubbull · Shadow Tier 3

fairy

Weak to

poisonsteel

Boss CP: 9,613
Boss HP: 4,000
Raid timer: 180s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Snubbull 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(0.70)	1(0.86)	2(1.16)	2:30	4.1
Level 25	1(0.61)	1(0.74)	2(1.01)	2:10	3.1
Level 30	1(0.57)	1(0.67)	1(0.90)	1:57	2.4
Level 35	1(0.54)	1(0.65)	1(0.87)	1:53	2.3
Level 40	1(0.51)	1(0.61)	1(0.83)	1:48	1.8
Level 45	1(0.49)	1(0.59)	1(0.80)	1:43	1.7
Level 50	1(0.48)	1(0.57)	1(0.78)	1:41	1.5

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

Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)0.51

A prepared party

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

1 trainer at level 40

Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)0.51
Zacian (Crowned Sword)0.51
Necrozma (Dusk Mane)0.52
Eternatus0.68
Metagross0.71
Naganadel0.74

A mixed local group

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

1 trainer at level 40

Dialga0.81
Genesect0.81
Genesect (Burn)0.81
Genesect (Chill)0.81
Genesect (Douse)0.81
Genesect (Shock)0.81

The party these numbers assume

1. Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)

Metal Claw + Behemoth Bash

2. Zacian (Crowned Sword)

Metal Claw + Behemoth Blade

3. Necrozma (Dusk Mane)

Metal Claw + Sunsteel Strike

4. Eternatus

Poison Jab + Sludge Bomb

5. Metagross

Bullet Punch + Meteor Mash

6. Naganadel

Poison Jab + Sludge Bomb

See the full ranked counter list for Snubbull · 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.