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 Zoroark's top six counters needs 0.46 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.58 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 180 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 1:21. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.

Zoroark · Tier 3

dark

Weak to

fightingbugfairy

Boss CP: 18,947
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 Zoroark 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(0.57)	1(0.68)	1(0.90)	1:59	5.0
Level 25	1(0.47)	1(0.57)	1(0.74)	1:40	3.9
Level 30	1(0.43)	1(0.52)	1(0.64)	1:30	3.2
Level 35	1(0.43)	1(0.48)	1(0.61)	1:25	2.8
Level 40	1(0.40)	1(0.46)	1(0.58)	1:21	2.4
Level 45	1(0.39)	1(0.45)	1(0.57)	1:18	2.2
Level 50	1(0.39)	1(0.43)	1(0.55)	1:15	1.8

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

Keldeo0.40

A prepared party

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

1 trainer at level 40

Keldeo0.40
Kartana0.46
Lucario0.46
Terrakion0.47
Blaziken0.48
Zacian (Crowned Sword)0.50

A mixed local group

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

1 trainer at level 40

Enamorus (Incarnate)0.56
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)0.56
Marshadow0.57
Machamp0.58
Tapu Koko0.58
Volcarona0.59

The party these numbers assume

1. Keldeo

Low Kick + Secret Sword

2. Kartana

Fury Cutter + Sacred Sword

3. Lucario

Force Palm + Aura Sphere

4. Terrakion

Double Kick + Sacred Sword

5. Blaziken

Counter + Aura Sphere

6. Zacian (Crowned Sword)

Metal Claw + Play Rough

See the full ranked counter list for Zoroark · 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.