Houndoom 179/163 · Battle Styles

Battle Styles is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on March 19, 2021. The printed size is 163. This checklist is longer, at 183 cards. Houndoom is 179/163, in position 179 of 183 on this checklist. Before it is 178 Octillery, and after it is 180 Exp. Share. The collector number is above the printed set size of 163. The listed rarity is Rare Secret.

Houndoom is a Stage 1 Single Strike Darkness Pokémon with 130 HP. In the Pokédex this is Houndoom (#229), generation 2 (Johto). The card says it evolves from Houndour. In this catalog that name is Houndour (#228).

PLANETA Mochizuki illustrated this card. The same name is on 131 other cards in the catalog.

Houndoom (#229) has 44 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 30 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2025. The earliest other card is Houndoom 4/75 in Neo Discovery (2001). That card lists 70 HP, and this one lists 130 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare Secret. Shin-ichi Yoshida illustrated that card, and PLANETA Mochizuki illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 38 other cards of Houndoom list a different HP.

Single Strike Roar is listed as Ability. Once during your turn, you may search your deck for a Single Strike Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Single Strike Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck. If you attached Energy to a Pokémon in this way, put 2 damage counters on that Pokémon. The attack Darkness Fang lists 50 damage. The cost is Darkness, Colorless. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "Identifiable by its eerie howls, people a long time ago thought it was the grim reaper and feared it." The regulation mark is E.

I keep a set binder for Battle Styles, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Battle Styles set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Houndoom can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.