Best Houndour counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Houndour counters in Pokémon GO with their Fast Attacks, Charged Attacks, DPS (damage per second), TDO (total damage output), faints, TTW (time to win), and score. The list is sorted by the score, which is calculated based on the DPS and TDO.

Simulation settings

Weather

Extreme↓

Raid Difficulty

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

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Best overall 👑

Primal Kyogre

Waterfall Origin Pulse *

Best performing move types

• 35.5%
• 25.5%
• 18.5%
• 15.5%
• 3.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	78.83	4401.01	0	48.9s	177.9
2	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	78.29	4371.14	0	49.3s	176.7
3	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	72.40	3190.70	1	54.2s	155.7
4	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	70.05	3369.07	1	55.7s	153.4
5	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	71.14	3087.05	1	55.3s	152.5
6	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	66.63	3592.56	1	58.0s	149.3
7	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	60.70	4759.34	0	62.3s	146.9
8	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Rock Wrecker *	69.02	2751.06	1	57.4s	145.4
9	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	65.16	3059.18	1	60.0s	142.0
10	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	59.88	4117.33	0	63.6s	141.1
11	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	65.10	2847.15	1	60.4s	139.8
12	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	61.87	3336.00	1	62.5s	138.7
13	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	66.21	2554.80	1	60.0s	138.6
14	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	67.75	2149.39	1	59.8s	136.3
15	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	71.70	1657.86	2	58.9s	135.2
16	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	60.27	3141.08	1	64.3s	134.2
17	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	61.27	2808.26	1	63.9s	132.8
18	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	64.82	2169.42	1	62.2s	131.8
19	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	62.48	2484.70	1	63.4s	131.6
20	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	64.69	2072.54	1	62.6s	130.4
21	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	61.18	2433.91	1	64.8s	128.9
22	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	63.03	2145.93	1	63.8s	128.6
23	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	68.99	1498.26	2	61.8s	128.4
24	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	63.35	2003.28	1	64.0s	127.3
25	Mega Lopunny	Double Kick	Focus Blast	60.21	2347.54	1	65.9s	126.3
26	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Rock Wrecker *	56.98	2695.95	1	68.5s	124.3
27	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	58.21	2436.90	1	67.8s	123.9
28	Greninja	Water Shuriken	Hydro Cannon *	59.31	2237.72	1	67.1s	123.6
29	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	63.76	1647.61	2	65.2s	123.0
30	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	65.19	1486.96	2	64.9s	122.6
31	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	60.02	2039.42	1	67.0s	122.4
32	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Close Combat	62.70	1692.79	2	65.9s	122.0
33	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	66.19	1310.54	2	65.4s	120.9
34	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	58.42	1979.93	1	68.9s	119.1
35	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	54.69	2504.72	1	71.6s	118.6
36	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	55.86	2297.00	1	70.7s	118.5
37	Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	56.04	2111.42	1	71.1s	116.7
38	Shadow Ursaluna	Rock Smash	High Horsepower *	56.32	2043.18	1	71.0s	116.4
39	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	57.48	1850.23	1	70.4s	115.9
40	Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	59.34	1629.36	2	69.5s	115.9
41	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	50.18	3089.18	1	76.4s	115.6
42	Galarian Zapdos	Counter	Close Combat	53.62	2343.52	1	73.3s	115.1
43	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	58.94	1549.64	2	70.4s	114.1
44	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	60.31	1402.67	2	70.0s	113.8
45	Shadow Poliwrath	Counter *	Dynamic Punch	52.87	2303.52	1	74.3s	113.4
46	Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	53.51	2127.33	1	74.0s	112.7
47	Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	53.97	2051.48	1	73.7s	112.6
48	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	55.86	1770.06	2	72.6s	112.3
49	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Earthquake	55.67	1773.11	2	72.8s	112.0
50	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	53.07	2111.28	1	74.7s	111.8

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About the results

Houndour type chart

When fighting Houndour, keep in mind the following that Dark and Fire-type Pokémon are weak to Fighting, Ground, Rock, and Water type moves. They take reduced damage from Dark, Fire, Ghost, Grass, Ice, Steel, and Psychic type moves.

Weaknesses

Fighting	160.0%
Ground	160.0%
Rock	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Psychic	39.1%
Dark	62.5%
Fire	62.5%
Ghost	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ice	62.5%
Steel	62.5%

Type chart shows the percentage (%) of damage taken from an incoming attack of a particular type.

Best move-types and weather for Houndour Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fighting	35.5%	Cloudy
Water	25.5%	Rainy
Ground	18.5%	Sunny
Rock	15.5%	Partly Cloudy
Dragon	3.0%	Windy
Flying	1.0%	Windy
Electric	0.5%	Rainy
Poison	0.5%	Cloudy

About our ranking methodology

When calculating the best counters for any Pokémon, our simulator takes into account various factors, such as the defender's typing and average DPS against each attacker, the weather's influence, energy left over from using charge moves, Shadow Pokémon attack and defense stat changes, and more. During the initial phase of simulations, we calculate DPS and TDO for each attacker that is currently available in the game, and then we continue to rank them.

We use a ranking method developed by a Reddit user named /u/Elastic_Space, which is described in detail in this Reddit post. It is a fairly complicated, but very well thought-out mathematical model for predicting simulation results without actually running the simulations. It also correlates with field data almost too well not to be used.

Our Time to Win (TTW) and Faint numbers are also estimated, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Since we do not account for factors like Friendship and Mega damage boost, they will differ from actual experience in the field.