Is Houndour Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Route 214 and Valor Lakefront at level 23, a Platinum-exclusive addition. Dark/Fire fills both the Fire gap and a Fantina counter in one slot. AbilityFlash Fire absorbs Fire for immunity. Houndoom at level 24 arrives almost immediately. The most impactful new catch in Platinum's expanded roster.
Houndour trades roughly evenly with Roark's team.
Houndour has the type edge here and should clean up Gardenia's team.
Houndour has the type edge here and should clean up Fantina's team.
Houndour trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Houndoom trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Houndoom has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Houndoom resists most of Candice's coverage and hits back hard.
Houndoom trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Houndoom has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Houndoom has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Houndoom trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Houndoom has the type edge here and should clean up Lucian's team.
Houndoom has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Houndoom resists most of Mars's coverage and hits back hard.
Houndoom has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Houndoom trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Houndour on Route 214 (walking, Lv 22-24, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Lake Verity
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- After Maylene
- TUTORDarkSucker PunchPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 212
- LV 43FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 48DarkCrunchPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Volkner
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Victory Road
- Post-Game
- TM50FireOverheatPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5Stark Mountain
- TUTORFireHeat WavePower 150Accuracy 90%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Houndour to Houndoom
Houndour evolves into Houndoom at Level 24. Your Houndour should hit Level 24 before you reach Crasher Wake, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Lake Verity
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- After Maylene
- TUTORDarkSucker PunchPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 212
- LV 48FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Volkner
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Victory Road
- Post-Game
- TM50FireOverheatPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5Stark Mountain
- TUTORFireHeat WavePower 150Accuracy 90%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Houndour in Platinum
Houndour roams one area, four encounters split common and uncommon at levels 22 to 28. It favors different slots depending on whether you arrive in daylight or after dark, so the clock matters.
2 locations to catch Houndour
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 5Where To Catch Houndour in Pt
Houndour is the chain's first catch. You'll find walking encounters from Lv. 22-28 across 4 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Evolve into HoundoomBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Houndour egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Platinum for Houndour.
How to Get Shiny Houndour in Platinum
Houndour hunts the nighttime grass of Route 214 and the Valor Lakefront, so chain it to 40 for a shiny. Compare Shiny Houndour odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Houndour Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is PokeRadar Chain at full boosts, about 1 in 200 on each try. Tune it below.
PokeRadar Chain: Chain shaking-grass patches without breaking the combo. The rate peaks at a chain of 40.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 22-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 58-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 139-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 460-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Platinum shiny odds for Houndour.
Houndour Weakness
Houndour is weak to Water, Fighting, Ground, and Rock. On the flip side, it's immune to Psychic-type moves entirely. 6 resistances give it solid defensive coverage on top of that. Flash Fire grants an additional Fire immunity, reshaping the matchup chart.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Water, Fighting, Ground, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Grass, Ice, Ghost, Dark, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Psychic |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Houndour Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Houndour
 Infernape FireFighting | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Infernape builds →Focus Punch 2x333-392%KO Earthquake 2x149-176%KO Rock Slide 2x112-132%KO | ||
 Gallade PsychicFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Gallade builds →Focus Punch 2x386-455%KO Earthquake 2x171-202%KO Rock Slide 2x131-154%KO | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x400-471%KO Rock Slide 2x134-158%KO | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Heracross builds →Focus Punch 2x386-455%KO Earthquake 2x171-202%KO Rock Slide 2x131-154%KO | ||
 Toxicroak PoisonFighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Toxicroak builds →Focus Punch 2x336-396%KO Earthquake 2x151-178%KO Rock Slide 2x113-134%KO | ||
 Rampardos Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cranidos (Oreburgh City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Rampardos builds →Focus Punch 2x329-387%KO Rock Slide 2x248-293%KO Earthquake 2x220-259%KO | ||
 Marowak Ground | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Marowak builds →Earthquake 2x181-214%KO Focus Punch 2x179-211%KO Rock Slide 2x91-108%KO | ||
 Hippowdon Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Hippowdon builds →Earthquake 2x237-280%KO Rock Slide 2x119-141%KO Rock Smash 2x65-77% Water Pulse 2x46-55% | ||
 Vaporeon Water | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Vaporeon builds →Brine 2x112-132%KO Dig 2x84-99% Rock Smash 2x43-51% | ||
 Gliscor Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Gliscor builds →Earthquake 2x207-244%KO Brick Break 2x104-123%KO Rock Slide 2x104-123%KO | ||
 Empoleon WaterSteel | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Piplup (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Empoleon builds →Bubble Beam 2x112-132%KO Earthquake 2x129-152%KO Brick Break 2x97-114%KO Rock Slide 2x97-114%KO | ||
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Machoke builds →Focus Punch 2x322-379%KO Earthquake 2x143-169%KO Rock Slide 2x108-127%KO | ||
 Torterra GrassGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Torterra builds →Earthquake 2x232-274%KO Rock Slide 2x118-138%KO Rock Smash 2x63-75% | ||
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Houndour View Ludicolo builds →Focus Punch 2x162-191%KO Water Pulse 2x89-105%KO | ||
Houndour Evolutions
Houndour evolves into Houndoom. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A massive partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 170 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Houndour easily with 131 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Beat Up, Counter, Fire Fang and 9 more to offspring.
Pt Houndour Best Moveset
Dark/Fire typing with AbilityFlash Fire absorbing Fire moves for free. 80 Sp. Atk at 65 Speed gives the moveset some special output, but the defensive stats fold. Evolve to Houndoom.
Best Build
Houndour best EVs are Attack and Sp. Atk
Utility Moveset
- Sucker Punch
- Fire Blast
- Dark Pulse
- Pursuit
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Egg moves make a real difference. Houndour gets Beat Up and Counter exclusively through breeding, filling gaps that TMs and level-up can't touch. Coverage across 9 types rounds out the picture alongside Overheat and Fire Blast.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
32 of 35 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It is smart enough to hunt in packs. It uses a variety of cries for communicating with others.
Houndour Platinum Guide
In Platinum, Houndour does the job early-game if you need a Dark/Fire type on your team. Evolve it into Houndoom before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Houndour first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 17 games across 8 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
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