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 Staraptor's top six counters needs 1.51 trainers (round up: 2), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 1.89 (round up: 2). The raid timer is 300 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 6:56. No level in this range makes it soloable with a prepared party. A duo works from level 25.

Staraptor · Tier 5

normalflying

Weak to

rockelectricice

Boss CP: 37,967
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 Staraptor 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(2.02)	3(2.34)	3(2.91)	10:47	6.0
Level 25	2(1.66)	2(1.89)	3(2.39)	8:42	6.0
Level 30	2(1.47)	2(1.67)	3(2.08)	7:42	6.0
Level 35	2(1.42)	2(1.60)	2(1.99)	7:20	6.0
Level 40	2(1.33)	2(1.51)	2(1.89)	6:56	6.0
Level 45	2(1.30)	2(1.45)	2(1.82)	6:39	6.0
Level 50	2(1.22)	2(1.38)	2(1.75)	6:21	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.

2 trainers at level 40

Kyurem (White)1.33

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)1.33
Regieleki1.52
Zeraora1.54
Thundurus (Therian)1.55
Kyurem (Black)1.54
Xurkitree1.57

A mixed local group

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

2 trainers at level 40

Zacian (Crowned Sword)1.83
Electivire1.82
Rhyperior1.84
Gigalith1.86
Tyrantrum1.87
Zapdos1.89

The party these numbers assume

1. Kyurem (White)

Ice Fang + Ice Burn

2. Regieleki

Thunder Shock + Thunder Cage

3. Zeraora

Volt Switch + Plasma Fists

4. Thundurus (Therian)

Volt Switch + Wildbolt Storm

5. Kyurem (Black)

Dragon Tail + Freeze Shock

6. Xurkitree

Thunder Shock + Discharge

See the full ranked counter list for Staraptor · 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.