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Team Magma's Houndoom

Team Magma vs Team Aqua / #34/95

Team Magma's Houndoom

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Team Magma vs Team Aqua
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Ken Ikuji
Source reference
ex4-34

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About the species

Houndoom's howl has long frightened humans, who have mistaken it for the call of the grim reaper. Yet it also lives in an organised pack: its members choose their leader through battle, and the leader's swept-back horns set it apart. Its unsettling image from afar therefore conceals very real relationships among its kind. The voice that seems to announce a bad omen belongs to a Pokémon attentive to each member's place.

This account describes the species in the video games. It does not describe its Trainer’s history or that of this copy, and does not identify the depicted form or sex.

A detail worth noticing

Houndoom can breathe poison-laced flames to finish off its prey, then share it with the other members of its pack. Ultra Sun thus shows a hunter whose fire also helps feed the group. This social dimension can easily be overlooked behind its sinister reputation and impressive attacks.

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Card details

HP
70
Type (source)
Fire
Stage (source)
Stage1
Pokédex number
229
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Water ×2

Printed card text — English

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Attacks

Target Scorch

Cost: Fire · Colorless

Damage: 30

If the Defending Pokémon has Team Aqua in its name, the Defending Pokémon is now Burned.

Damage Burn

Cost: Fire · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 40+

If the Defending Pokémon already has any damage counters on it, this attack does 40 damage plus 20 more damage.

Documented variants

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  • Normal
  • Reverse
  • normal · standard
  • reverse · standard

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