Houndoom
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Names
- English: Houndoom
- Japanese: ヘルガー (Hellgar)
- German: Hundemon
- French: Demolosse
Number(s)
- National: 229
- Hoenn: 367
- Johto: 210
Gender
♂ 50% - ♀ 50%
Egg Group(s)
Ground
Evolution
| Basic | Stage One |
|---|---|
Size
- Height: 1.4 m / 4’07”
- Weight: 35.0 kg / 77.2 lbs.
Damage Taken
- Immune: Psychic
- ×½: Ghost, Steel, Fire, Grass, Ice, Dark
- ×2: Fighting, Ground, Rock, Water
Ability effects are not included.
Base Stats
| Stat | Rank | E.P. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sum | 500 | ||
| HP | 37 | 0 | |
| Attack | 25 | 0 | |
| Defense | 58 | 0 | |
| Sp.Atk | 12 | 2 | |
| Sp.Def | 31 | 0 | |
| Speed | 16 | 0 | |
Ability
- Early Bird
- Game's description
- The Pokémon awakens quickly from sleep.
- Battle effect
- SLEEP conditions lasts for half as long, rounding down. For example, half of three turns is 1.5, which rounds down to one turn. When the number of turns to sleep is one, half of this rounded down is zero, and the Pokémon wakes up instantly.
- Flash Fire
- Game's description
- Powers up Fire-type moves if hit by a fire move.
- Battle effect
- Activates when user is hit by a damaging Fire-type move (including Fire-type Hidden Power). Once activated, user’s Fire-type moves deal 1.5 times damage. While this ability is in effect, this Pokémon is immune to damage from Fire-type attacks and Fire-type Hidden Power (accuracy and effect from these moves are ignored). For Fire-type Pokémon with this ability, Will-O-Wisp activates this ability without having an effect. If a non-Fire-type Pokémon has this ability, Will-O-Wisp will activate the ability and will have an effect.
Wild Item
- NONE
Pal Park
- Area: Mountain
- Points: 70
- Encounter rate: 20
Miscellaneous
- Species: Dark Pokémon
- Steps to hatch: 5,120
- Color: Black
- Catch Rate: 45
- Base Tameness: 35
- Growth Group: Slow
1,250,000 exp. points to Lv100
Location
- Diamond
- Transfer from GBA Games, Trade with Pearl [None]
- Pearl
- Routes 214 & 215 [Rare, (Pokédar)]
Pokédex Flavour (description)
- Gold
- If you are burned by the flames it shoots from its mouth, the pain will never go away.
- Silver
- Upon hearing its eerie howls, other POKéMON get the shivers and head straight back to their nests.
- Crystal
- The pungent-smelling flame that shoots from its mouth results from toxins burning in its body.
- Ruby
- In a HOUNDOOM pack, the one with its horns raked sharply towards the back serves a leadership role. These POKéMON choose their leader by fighting amongst themselves.
- Sapphire
- In a HOUNDOOM pack, the one with its horns raked sharply towards the back serves a leadership role. These POKéMON choose their leader by fighting amongst themselves.
- Emerald
- In a HOUNDOOM pack, the one with its horns raked sharply back serves a leadership role. They choose their leader by fighting among themselves.
- Fire Red
- Upon hearing its eerie howls, other POKéMON get the shivers and head straight back to their nests.
- Leaf Green
- If you are burned by the flames it shoots from its mouth, the pain will never go away.
- Diamond
- Long ago, people imagined its eerie howls to be the call of the grim reaper.
- Pearl
- Long ago, people imagined its eerie howls to be the call of the grim reaper.
