Houndoom Raid Counters Guide

Houndoom is a Tier 3 raid boss with a Combat Power of 18082. It is a Dark and Fire type raid boss that is available as a shiny due to it being a Mega Pokémon.

It is weak to Fighting Ground Rock and Water, and as such has a wide variety of counters. It is soloable for the high level prepared trainer, but lower level trainers, or those without ideal counters, may want to bring a friend.

Upon capture Houndoom can have the following CP values:

• Level 20: 1450-1505
• Level 25: 1813-1882 boosted by Fog and Sunny weather

Houndoom Raid Counters

Since Shadow Pokémon are extremely expensive to power up and require specific events to remove Frustration with a Charge TM, they will NOT be listed as raid counters in this article. That being said, if you have the shadow form of a listed raid counter Pokémon powered up and TMed, use it.

Let’s check out the top raid counters for Houndoom:

#	Pokémon	Fast Move	Charge Move	TTW	Faints
1.	Swampert (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	65.29s	1.00
2.	Blaziken (Mega)	Counter Fighting	Focus Blast Fighting	67.42s	1.38
3.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	72.58s	1.75
4.	Kyogre (Primal)	Waterfall Water	Origin Pulse Water	77.51s	1.00
5.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	75.79s	1.75
6.	Gyarados (Mega)	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	78.94s	1.13
7.	Groudon (Primal)	Mud Shot Ground	Precipice Blades Ground	81.11s	1.25
8.	Lopunny (Mega)	Low Kick Fighting	Focus Blast Fighting	80.64s	2.38
9.	Terrakion	Double Kick Fighting	Sacred Sword Fighting	91.91s	2.13
10.	Slowbro (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Surf Water	98.32s	2.50
11.	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick Fighting	Sacred Sword Fighting	99.04s	2.13
12.	Keldeo	Low Kick Fighting	Sacred Sword Fighting	99.34s	2.13
13.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Origin Pulse Water	100.28s	2.25
14.	Alakazam (Mega)	Counter Fighting	Focus Blast Fighting	90.36s	4.88
15.	Salamence (Mega)	Dragon Tail Dragon	Hydro Pump Water	105.32s	1.88
16.	Lucario	Counter Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	97.00s	4.17
17.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Precipice Blades Ground	101.80s	3.00
18.	Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	98.83s	4.00
19.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Rock Wrecker Rock	106.40s	2.25
20.	Medicham (Mega)	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	98.00s	4.25
21.	Conkeldurr	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	104.96s	2.75
22.	Pheromosa	Low Kick Fighting	Focus Blast Fighting	102.95s	4.50
23.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	107.65s	3.00
24.	Aggron (Mega)	Smack Down Rock	Meteor Beam Rock	114.53s	2.00
25.	Machamp	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	109.41s	2.80
26.	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap Ground	High Horsepower Ground	109.97s	3.50
27.	Breloom	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	106.71s	3.75
28.	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw Rock	Meteor Beam Rock	111.85s	2.43
29.	Latios (Mega)	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dragon Claw Dragon	108.51s	3.00
30.	Zapdos (Galarian)	Counter Fighting	Close Combat Fighting	115.06s	2.00
31.	Pinsir (Mega)	Bug Bite Bug	Superpower Fighting	108.01s	3.75
32.	Empoleon	Waterfall Water	Hydro Cannon Water	113.08s	3.00
33.	Gardevoir (Mega)	Charm Fairy	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	108.02s	3.57
34.	Swampert	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	111.10s	2.88
35.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	111.22s	3.00

Houndoom Stats

Pokémon	Houndoom FireDark
Max CP at level 50	2979 CP
Max CP at level 40	2635 CP
Raid catch CP values	Level 20: 1450-1505 (no weather boost) Level 25: 1813-1882 boosted by Fog and Sunny weather
ATK	224
DEF	144
STA	181
Weak to	Water Rock Ground Fighting
Resists	Psychic Dark Grass Fire Ghost Ice Steel

Houndoom Movepool

Houndoom’s movepool consists of the following:

Most of Houndoom’s counters will resist their various movesets, and as such it shouldn’t be too problematic no matter the moveset.

Sprites

As Houndoom has a Mega Pokémon available in the raid pool, it can be shiny upon completing a tier 3 raid.

Houndoom Sprite	Shiny Houndoom Sprite