#0228 · Generation 2

Houndour

Houndour has 330 total base stats, with its best attacking stat on the special side (80) and a Speed of 65. Its HP, Defense and Special Defense add up to 125, which makes it a balanced special attacker.

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What Houndour is weak to

Weak to: Water, Fighting, Ground, Rock. Resists: Fire, Grass, Ice, Ghost, Dark, Steel. Immune to: Psychic (×0).

Attacking typeDamage taken
Water×2
Fighting×2
Ground×2
Rock×2
Fire×0.5
Grass×0.5
Ice×0.5
Ghost×0.5
Dark×0.5
Steel×0.5
Psychic×0

Base stats

HP45
Atk60
Def30
SpA80
SpD50
Spe65
Total330

Best teammates for Houndour

Ranked by how much each Pokémon improves a two-Pokémon team with Houndour: covering its weaknesses, adding attack types it lacks, and avoiding shared weaknesses.

  1. Tinkaton FairySteel

    Resists rock, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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  2. Klefki SteelFairy

    Resists rock, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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  3. Mawile SteelFairy

    Resists rock, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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  4. Primarina WaterFairy

    Resists water, fighting, which your team is weak to. Hits fire, fighting, ground super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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  5. Azumarill WaterFairy

    Resists water, fighting, which your team is weak to. Hits fire, fighting, ground super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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  6. Empoleon WaterSteel

    Resists water, rock, which your team is weak to. Hits fire, ground, rock super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to fighting, ground.

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Counters to Houndour

  1. Quaquaval

    Water and Fighting STAB hits Houndour super effectively and it resists everything Houndour can hit it with by type.

  2. Poliwrath

    Water and Fighting STAB hits Houndour super effectively and it resists everything Houndour can hit it with by type.

  3. Great Tusk

    Ground and Fighting STAB hits Houndour super effectively.

  4. Rhyperior

    Ground and Rock STAB hits Houndour super effectively.

  5. Kabutops

    Rock and Water STAB hits Houndour super effectively.

  6. Drednaw

    Water and Rock STAB hits Houndour super effectively.

Where you can use Houndour

Houndour is in the regional Pokédex of 5 games we cover: