Houndoom

Houndoom

Houndoom appears in the English print of Battle Styles, released on March 19, 2021. Houndoom is a rare holo rarity and 130 HP. The Battle Styles set contains 183 cards.

Artist Info

This card's illustration was created by Ryota Murayama.

Collector Insights

Houndoom is a Darkness-type Pokémon with 130 HP, featuring a retreat cost of two Colorless energy. Its primary attack, Darkness Fang, costs one Darkness and one Colorless energy to deal 50 damage. The card includes an ability called Single Strike Roar, which allows the player to search their deck for a Single Strike Energy card, attach it to one of their Single Strike Pokémon, shuffle their deck, and place two damage counters on that Pokémon. Houndoom has no resistances but is weak to Grass-type attacks multiplied by two. The card’s flavor text describes it as identifiable by eerie howls, once feared as the grim reaper by ancient people. It belongs to the Sword & Shield series, released in the Battle Styles set on March 19, 2021. The artwork is by Ryota Murayama, and the card is classified as a Rare Holo. Its number in the set is 96, with a dex number of 229.

Identifiable by its eerie howls, people a long time ago thought it was the grim reaper and feared it.

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