Battle Styles

Houndoom

BST179· Secret Rare
Houndoom BST 179

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What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
130
Type
Darkness
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
E
Number
179/163
Set
Battle StylesBST
Illustrated by
PLANETA Mochizuki

Its Ability

Single Strike Roar

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.

Its attacks

Darkness Fang

50

What to make of it

Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.

  1. A strength

    It has an Ability, Single Strike Roar. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  2. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,810 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.

  3. Keep in mind

    Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,810 tournament lists we have read, 2,349 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

  4. Keep in mind

    Mark E. It is not among the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J. A legal reprint may still provide an exception.

Standard format: source checked on September 22, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.

When it came out

Battle Styles landed here on 19 March 2021.

Every set, with both of its dates

The other cards of this Pokémon

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