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Houndoom

Skyridge / #12/144

Houndoom

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Skyridge
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Kimiya Masago
Source reference
ecard3-12

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The Pokémon’s story

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.

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

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)
Darkness
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Houndour
Pokédex number
229
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fighting x2
Resistance (source)
Psychic -30

Printed card text — English

Quoted source text is retained in the card’s printed language so this exact printing can be identified. The CarDex background above is translated into English.

Attacks

Ambush

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 10+

Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage plus 20 more damage.

Lonely Fang

Cost: Darkness · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 30+

This attack does 30 damage plus 20 damage times the number of your opponent's Benched Pokémon minus the number of your Benched Pokémon. (For example, if your opponent has 3 Benched Pokémon and you have 1, this attack will do 30 damage plus 40 more damage.)

Documented variants

Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.

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

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