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Houndour

Neo Destiny / #43/105

Houndour

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Neo Destiny
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Yukiko Baba
Source reference
neo4-43

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The Pokémon’s story

Houndour hunts with its own kind through precise coordination. Different cries allow the group to communicate and tighten its approach around prey. Each voice contributes to the shared action. This ability to cooperate also sheds light on its attachment to a Trainer: the Pokédex describes a loyal partner capable of extending its trust to an ongoing relationship with a human.

Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.

A detail worth noticing

This Houndour has Corner, which prevents the Defender from retreating on the following turn. Lunge is its 30-damage attack, but tails cancels that hit. One limits movement options, while the other offers a stronger strike that depends on the flip.

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Card details

HP
40
Type (source)
Darkness
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
228
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Resistance (source)
Psychic -30

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

When night falls, the air fills with the eerie cries of this Pokémon as it stakes out its territory.

Attacks

Corner

Cost: Darkness

The Defending Pokémon can't retreat during your opponent's next turn.

Lunge

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 30

Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.

Documented variants

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  • Normal
  • First Edition
  • normal · standard
  • normal · standard · 1st-edition

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