- Set
- Battle Styles
- Number
- 179 / 183
- Rarity
- Rare Secret
- Regulation
- E
- Pokédex
- #229 · Gen 2
Sword & Shield · Battle Styles · #179
Houndoom
DarknessStage 1Single StrikeRare Secret130 HP
Sword & Shield · Battle Styles · #179
Months with fewer than three recorded sales are omitted — a single sale is a data point, not a market price.
5 recorded sales · last sold 9/17/26
Completed eBay sales of raw copies. Listings that read as graded, lots or non-English, prices far from the TCGplayer market, and prices that match this card's PSA 9s are left out.
Grading with PSA pays if your copy has better than an 81% chance of a 10.
58% of the 2,661 copies PSA has graded got a 10. People mostly send their cleanest copies, so a typical raw copy's odds are lower.
Evolution line
Abilities
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.
Attacks
Darkness Fang
50Combat & details
Flavor
Identifiable by its eerie howls, people a long time ago thought it was the grim reaper and feared it.