Houndoom
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About Houndoom — Weaknesses
- Diving Swipe deals 70 damage for 3 energy (23.3 damage/energy) — about 22% below the average for Stage 1 cards, needs extra support to pull its weight.
- Retreat cost is 2 energy — fairly high, easy to get stuck Active under pressure.
- Must evolve from Houndour before it can attack — slower than a Basic but usually stronger.
- Weak to Grass (+20 damage) — avoid facing that type's decks.
Houndoom is a Common card from the Promo A set. Check its attacks, retreat cost and which pack it drops from below.
Attacks
Discard a random card from your opponent's hand.
Pokédex entry
If you are burned by the flames it shoots from its mouth, the pain will never go away.
Which pack does this card drop from?
Want to know exactly how many packs you need to open to get Houndoom?
Same evolution line
Is Houndoom played in any meta deck?
This card is not in any openable pack: Houndoom is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.
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Reading Houndoom's stat block
Houndoom is a Common Stage 1 card from the Promo A set with 110 HP. Every STAT on this page comes straight from the card record; the expected pack count further down is a statistical estimate recomputed from the pull table, not a promise.
Its weakness is Grass, which is the fastest way for an opponent to remove it in a straight trade, and its retreat cost is 2 — that is what you pay in energy to swap it out mid-turn, and it is the number people forget until the card is stranded in the active spot.
Its attacks:
- Diving Swipe — 70 damage · cost Darkness + Darkness + Darkness — Discard a random card from your opponent's hand.
Read the energy costs together, not just the damage. A card with two attacks usually trades a cheap, weak opener for a pricier attack that does the real work, and the question that decides whether it belongs in a deck is whether you can actually pay for the big one on curve.
Which pack actually drops it
This card is not in any openable pack: Houndoom is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.
Evolution line and other printings
Houndoom evolves from Houndour. The full line is: Houndour → Houndoom.
Some Pokémon are also printed more than once — across different sets or promo drops, with different art, different rarity, and sometimes different attacks under the same name. Where other printings of this card exist, they are linked on this page, because the stats can differ even when the name matches.
Where this card stands on the ladder
This card is not in any openable pack: Houndoom is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.
The meta deck table is recomputed from tournament data (play rate plus win/loss/tie record), not from anyone's opinion. A card missing from that table can still be beautiful and still be expensive to trade for, but it will not win games on its own — those are two different questions and this page answers them separately.
Frequently asked questions
Which pack should I open to get Houndoom?
This card is not in any openable pack: Houndoom is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.
Roughly how many packs does it take to pull Houndoom?
For Houndoom the "open packs" route simply DOES NOT EXIST: no openable pack contains it, so any pull rate or expected pack count would be meaningless here.