Houndoom

How to use Houndoom in Champions

Houndoom fills a special attacker niche on Champions ranked teams. With a 66-stat-point budget (max 32 per stat), most builds pour 32 into Sp. Attack and its best defensive stat, then fine-tune Speed in steps of 2 to sit just above or below the metagame's common numbers.

Defensively it is hurt hardest by Water, Fighting, Ground, Rock, while resisting Fire, Grass, Ice, Ghost. Check the Dark page for the full matchup math behind those numbers.

Movepool highlights

Houndoom can learn 61 moves in Champions. Coverage by type: dark electric fire ghost grass ground normal poison psychic steel water. Pick four that patch your team's coverage gaps — the team builder flags what's missing automatically.

Full move list

Move	Type	Class	Power	Acc
Bite	dark	Physical	60	100
Body Slam	normal	Physical	85	100
Burning Jealousy	fire	Special	70	100
Crunch	dark	Physical	80	100
Dark Pulse	dark	Special	80	100
Destiny Bond	ghost	Status	—	101
Double-Edge	normal	Physical	120	100
Endure	normal	Status	—	101
Facade	normal	Physical	70	100
Feint	normal	Physical	30	100
Fire Blast	fire	Special	110	85
Fire Fang	fire	Physical	65	95
Fire Spin	fire	Special	35	85
Flame Charge	fire	Physical	50	100
Flamethrower	fire	Special	90	100
Flare Blitz	fire	Physical	120	100
Foul Play	dark	Physical	95	100
Giga Impact	normal	Physical	150	90
Heat Wave	fire	Special	95	90
Helping Hand	normal	Status	—	101
Howl	normal	Status	—	101
Hyper Beam	normal	Special	150	90
Hyper Voice	normal	Special	90	100
Inferno	fire	Special	100	50
Iron Tail	steel	Physical	100	75
Lash Out	dark	Physical	75	100
Mud Shot	ground	Special	55	95
Mud-Slap	ground	Special	20	100
Nasty Plot	dark	Status	—	101
Overheat	fire	Special	130	90
Pain Split	normal	Status	—	101
Payback	dark	Physical	50	100
Protect	normal	Status	—	101
Psychic Fangs	psychic	Physical	85	100
Rain Dance	water	Status	—	101
Rest	psychic	Status	—	101
Roar	normal	Status	—	101
Round	normal	Special	60	100
Scary Face	normal	Status	—	100
Scorching Sands	ground	Special	70	100
Shadow Ball	ghost	Special	80	100
Sleep Talk	normal	Status	—	101
Sludge Bomb	poison	Special	90	100
Snarl	dark	Special	55	95
Snore	normal	Special	50	100
Solar Beam	grass	Special	120	100
Spite	ghost	Status	—	100
Substitute	normal	Status	—	101
Sucker Punch	dark	Physical	70	100
Sunny Day	fire	Status	—	101
Swagger	normal	Status	—	85
Taunt	dark	Status	—	100
Temper Flare	fire	Physical	75	100
Thief	dark	Physical	60	100
Throat Chop	dark	Physical	80	100
Thunder Fang	electric	Physical	65	95
Torment	dark	Status	—	100
Toxic	poison	Status	—	90
Trailblaze	grass	Physical	50	100
Uproar	normal	Special	90	100
Will-O-Wisp	fire	Status	—	85

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