It would be greatly appreciated if GP can provide the short-man guidance soon after a new raid boss is introduced, like recent Togetic and Giratina.
Dont disagree, but theres probably a lot more that goes into making raid guides than we'd think there are. That or because they are hard and easy respectively (like how sharpedo didnt get a solo guide until recently because it was such a joke)
Togetic's basically an ultra friendship and high level MM metagross required duo.
Well, roughly you can use pokebattler to get an estimate:
Time to win
Tier 5 below 870 = don’t time out trioing
Tier 4 below 340 = don’t time out duoing
Pokemons should all try to be below the magic number 870 or 340.
Numbers of deaths:
below 6, 12, 18 deaths = you need 1,2,3 teams.
For example: a rayquaza with 7 deaths means = it will mean you will get closer to fainting out. A tyranitar with 3 deaths means you will get closer to live trough the battle without fainting all 6.
This gives a crude estimation that works pretty good but guides need to consider weather. Different move set and often you need to give an own appraisal of benefit va cost, if you can see via auto select what moves the raid boss has etc, that takes time.
But if you want a quick estimation use the crude pokebattler method
it's not too hard to search for the highest dps option for a particular boss. Bar the obvious exceptions like deoxys, everything else is a good guidance of what you can possibly use, and whether or not one counter is supreme or not requires some basic pokemon knowledge (eg ttar better than houndoom or absol)
You can also use both defense stat to extrapolate the difficulty. Rayquaza was a very easy duo for high levels. Latios pushed them to the limits for a duo. Extrapolating this for giratina we see an equal defense stat with latios but lower attack, inferring you can duo it with some difficulty. Same technique can be used to compare solo difficulties.
