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 Volcarona's top six counters needs 0.54 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.68 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 180 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 1:35. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.

Volcarona · Tier 3

bugfire

Weak to

rockflyingwater

Boss CP: 23,909
Boss HP: 3,600
Raid timer: 180s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Volcarona 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(0.79)	1(0.81)	2(1.04)	2:22	5.6
Level 25	1(0.64)	1(0.70)	1(0.88)	2:02	4.9
Level 30	1(0.54)	1(0.60)	1(0.77)	1:46	4.1
Level 35	1(0.51)	1(0.56)	1(0.73)	1:38	3.6
Level 40	1(0.50)	1(0.54)	1(0.68)	1:35	3.4
Level 45	1(0.49)	1(0.52)	1(0.66)	1:31	3.1
Level 50	1(0.46)	1(0.50)	1(0.64)	1:27	2.9

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.

1 trainer at level 40

Glimmora0.50

A prepared party

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

1 trainer at level 40

Glimmora0.50
Tyrantrum0.52
Rampardos0.52
Rhyperior0.55
Terrakion0.57
Tyranitar0.58

A mixed local group

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

1 trainer at level 40

Stakataka0.65
Archeops0.67
Aurorus0.64
Lycanroc (Midday)0.67
Lycanroc (Dusk)0.67
Crustle0.69

The party these numbers assume

1. Glimmora

Rock Throw + Meteor Beam

2. Tyrantrum

Rock Throw + Meteor Beam

3. Rampardos

Smack Down + Rock Slide

4. Rhyperior

Smack Down + Rock Wrecker

5. Terrakion

Smack Down + Rock Slide

6. Tyranitar

Smack Down + Stone Edge

See the full ranked counter list for Volcarona · 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.