Houndour counters

#0228

dark fireTier 1

Lobby CP

4,049

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Houndour should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 654-705.

Weak tofighting1.6xground1.6xrock1.6xwater1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Weather

★ boosts a type this boss is weak to

No boost Sunny or clear ★Rainy ★Partly cloudy ★Cloudy ★Windy Snow Fog

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend

None Good friend (+3%)Great friend (+5%)Ultra friend (+7%)Best friend (+10%)

Mega in the lobby

a Mega boosts every trainer's attacks: 1.3x of its own type, 1.1x of others

Try a Fighting Mega — most top counters attack with Fighting

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x

Off 2 trainers 3 trainers 4 trainers

Adventure Effects

only these three change a raid

Behemoth Blade (+10% attack)Behemoth Bash (+10% defense)Dynamic Punch+ (+15% attack vs Mega)

Of the game's eleven Adventure Effects only Behemoth Blade (Crowned Sword Zacian), Behemoth Bash (Crowned Shield Zamazenta) and Dynamic Punch+ (Mega Mewtwo X) change a raid; Roar of Time, Spacial Rend, Freeze Shock, Ice Burn, Sunsteel Strike, Moongeist Beam, Future Sight+ and Dynamax Cannon act outside raids. Dynamic Punch+ only counts against a Mega boss, so it changes nothing here. Sources: the full list, Behemoth Blade / Bash, Dynamic Punch+.

Best counters

Mega, Legendary, Shadow · level 40

The best Houndour counters are Mega Lucario, Keldeo, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Gallade, Shadow Kyogre & Shadow Conkeldurr.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Lucario
Keldeo
S. Blaziken
S. Gallade
S. Kyogre
S. Conkeldurr

6 more Megas ranked inside the top six — a party can hold only one Mega, so the best one stays and the next non-Mega takes the slot.

Ranked by Estimator (trainers needed); small print: time to winOrder byEstimatorOverall %

1Mega LucarioMegapartyForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.040:07
2KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.040:07
3Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
4Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
5Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
6Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
7Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.040:08
8Shadow GalladeShadowpartyLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.040:08
9Mega GreninjaMegaBubble / Hydro Cannon0.040:08
10Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.040:08
11Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Surf0.050:08
12Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyCounter / Dynamic Punch0.050:08

More orders under All settings (Sort by). The top 15 in detail.

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

Super Mega Legendary Super Mega Primal Mega Legendary Mega Elite Shadow Tier 5 Tier 5 Shadow Tier 3 Tier 3 Shadow Tier 1 Tier 1 Tier 4 Tier 2

Related countersShadow Houndour

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Top 15 Houndour counters in detail

Click a row for damage per move, breakpoints and the energy cycle. Click a column to sort. All 30 ranked attackers, with every column, are under All settings.

Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Lucariofightingsteeljoint top pick	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
2	Keldeowaterfightingjoint top pick	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
3	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	0:08	0.04	5677.3%
4	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:08	0.04	5662.5%
5	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:08	0.04	5477.5%
6	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5469.3%
7	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:08	0.04	5463.8%
8	Shadow Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	3,093	0:08	0.04	5463.8%
9	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterHydro Cannon	3,784	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
10	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
11	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	4,115	0:08	0.05	5369.5%
12	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch	3,337	0:08	0.05	5330.2%
13	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	5,902	0:08	0.05	5278.5%
14	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterRazor Shell	2,829	0:08	0.05	5265.8%
15	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterelectricThunderbolt	6,428	0:08	0.05	5129.4%

Ordered by Estimator alone, fewest trainers needed first. . The place badge names each row's Overall place on hover.

Times are one trainer with six copies of that attacker, level 40 at 15/15/15, no weather, no friendship, no dodging, Shadow / Mega / Legendary attackers hidden — the same defaults pokebattler.com's own counter pages open with. Open the full counter tool to change any of them. "Details" opens the per-move damage, breakpoints and energy cycle against Houndour.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Houndour's HP that six of that attacker remove inside one raid timer, so over 100% means they finish it with time to spare. Faints is how many of the six go down inside that timer.

“Joint top pick”: 2 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

Hardest movesets to raid against

The same boss is a different fight depending on what it knows. Each row re-simulates the top 6 counters above against one specific moveset; the list is ordered hardest first, and clicking a row filters the whole page to that moveset — the ranking, the estimator and the share link all follow.

Boss moveset	Win % (1)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	1287%	5692.3%	0:08	0.04
Ember / Crunch	100%	1331%	5671.7%	0:08	0.04
Ember / Dark Pulse	100%	1264%	5671.7%	0:08	0.04
Feint Attack / Crunch	100%	1363%	5671.7%	0:08	0.04
Feint Attack / Dark Pulse	100%	1294%	5671.7%	0:08	0.04
Feint Attack / Flamethrower	100%	1263%	5765.5%	0:08	0.04
Ember / Flamethrower	100%	1268%	5765.5%	0:08	0.04

Measured over the top 6 attackers on the list above rather than by re-ranking the whole roster once per moveset — the ordering is what the table is for, and a full re-rank per moveset would cost ten times the page's whole simulation budget. Win % is the share of runs 1 trainers of those attackers finish inside the raid timer. Overall is Pokebattler's published blend on its own absolute scale (higher is easier), not a percentage of the best row the way the ranked table's Overall column is — which is why an easy boss reads well above 100% here.

Simulating each boss moveset…

Houndour weaknesses and resistances

Every one of the 18 attacking types against this boss's typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 2.56x doubly, 0.625x resisted, 0.39x doubly resisted.

fighting1.6x ground1.6x rock1.6x water1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x bug1x electric1x dragon1x fairy1x ghost0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x grass0.63x ice0.63x dark0.63x psychic0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (7)
Resists (7)

It resists psychic0.39xghost0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xgrass0.625xice0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Houndour throws at you

Its standard movepool, with the damage window a dodge has to beat.

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkFeint AttackSTAB	11	+10	1.0s	0.85s
fireEmberSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFlamethrowerSTAB	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
darkDark PulseSTAB	80	-50	3.0s	1.40s
darkCrunchSTAB	65	-33	3.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	654	818
11/11/11	664	831
12/12/12	674	843
13/13/13	685	856
14/14/14	695	869
15/15/15hundo	705	881

Caught CP range 654 - 705, or 818 - 881 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 10/10/10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Houndour is not on the raid schedule right now. The simulation above is still exact for the tier chosen — any boss can be simulated, current or not.

All settings

Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 99 / Defense 58 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

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Every column, and pokebattler.com's own rank

On a phone the list shows estimator, time to win and faints. Overall, Power, win chance, CP, DPS and TDO appear on a wider screen.

#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Lucario top pickfightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	90%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,826	91.0	637
2	Keldeo top pickwaterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	100%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,698	86.9	608
3	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	90%	5677.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,424	80.5	618
4	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	85%	5662.5%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,848	90.2	693
5	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	88%	5477.5%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,161	99.5	792
6	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	89%	5469.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	81.6	650
7	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	81%	5463.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,521	90.0	717
8	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	75%	5463.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,093	79.3	631
9	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+17 more movesets	84%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,784	77.9	623
10	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	98%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	125.4	1003
11	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	80%	5369.5%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,115	80.1	650
12	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	79%	5330.2%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,337	78.7	643
13	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	86%	5278.5%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,902	85.6	706
14	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Razor Shell	Bubble / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	71%	5265.8%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,829	78.5	649
15	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Thunderbolt	Counter / Thunderbolt+26 more movesets	73%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	70.7	601
16	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	76%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,962	71.8	610
17	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	71%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,588	71.8	610
18	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	78%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,401	71.5	608
19	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	73%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,007	72.0	612
20	Shadow Machamp fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+23 more movesets	74%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,056	74.8	636
21	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	76%	5117.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,118	71.9	612
22	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands	Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	68%	5081.6%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,244	78.9	676
23	Shadow Crawdaunt waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Crabhammer	Waterfall / Crabhammer+11 more movesets	71%	5058.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,474	74.4	640
24	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	64%	5005.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,677	76.5	663
25	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Close Combat	Fury Cutter / Close Combat+17 more movesets	74%	5000.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,814	71.6	624
26	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	67%	4943.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	86.3	760
27	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,733	71.5	643
28	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	69%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,548	68.0	612
29	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	65%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,812	67.2	605
30	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Counter / Breaking Swipe	Counter / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	66%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,593	68.8	619

How accurate is this? Same top pick as pokebattler.com on 26 of 27 lists checked, 90% of its top tens shared; weakest on Mewtwo's default list (7 of 10).

Ranking. Our full ranking against the page pokebattler.com serves for the same boss and settings, on 27 boss and filter combinations read live (2026-10-04): 242 of 270 top-ten places shared, the same #1 on 26. On the six fixed reference bosses (read 2026-10-03): 85% top-ten overlap with its default filters, 83% with Shadow, Mega and Legendary on. A close top three is shown as a tie because the order inside it is below what we can measure.

Time to win. Graded with Pokebattler's own movesets against every boss moveset, average per boss: Tier 1 and 3 +0.1% to +1.2%; Tier 5 −2.9% to +1.3%; Mega −1.1% to +2.6%; Shadow Tier 5 −1.8% to +0.3%. One attacker can be off by more: median 1.6%, worst 15%, RMS per boss moveset 2.05%.

Known weak spots.

Mewtwo (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of Pokebattler's top 10: Absol, Incineroar and Salamence sit just outside ours, Polteageist, Cursola and Hisuian Typhlosion just inside.
Groudon (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of 10; its Grass and Water counters run 2-6% fast here.
Tier 5 times run about 2-3% fast for attackers that faint often, and 2-3% slow on Mega Charizard Y and Mega Beedrill, whose counters resist the boss.
Tier 1 lists are the least checked: Combee (Tier 1) shares only 3 of Pokebattler's top 10, with Gigalith first here where Pokebattler puts Rhyperior.

This boss on pokebattler.com. Boss-by-boss accuracy report.

Ranked 30 attackers in 0.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.