Should i go for Houndoom/Abosl?
I know that tyranitar is the superior dark type, for now and likely all future generations, but I do have a general lac of dark types, as in I have one 98 tyranitar that I got super lucky from a raid, and almost never see any tyranitar.
My other dark types are yet to be powered up are a perfect craudaunt and shiftry, and was wondering would it be worth it to get a houndoom or absol as another dark attacker because tyranitar raids are somewhat scarce and generation 4 has a great many psychic types and giratina
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Perfect or not, Crawdaunt is a bit lacking in the DPS department, as is Shiftry. Absol has higher DPS than Tyranitar but is paper thin. Houndoom has slightly less DPS than Tyranitar but considerably more damage output than Absol - so long as it has Snarl/Foul Play.
DPS-wise, any of the three between Absol, Tyranitar, and Houndoom will have similar performance, deviating less than half a point of DPS from highest to lowest. In all honesty you're likely better off finding Tyranitar raids anyway since Absol is raid/research exclusive and Houndour can be hard to find depending on where you live. Tyranitar also has the advantage of rewarding the most candies per raid should you catch it, meaning you'd need to do less of them for the same end result.
Agree with that, but their use also depends on what moveset the oppoent has, something like focus blast mewtwo dark types are a no go, but agaisnt shadow ball sets ghost types arent an option. Ghost types and dark types seem to be used agaisnt the same pokemon species, but agaisnt different movesets
Houndoom is much better out of the two of them. The DPS is similar but Houndoom is tankier by a solid 50%. Absol is literally paper-thin, frailer than Gengar.
It's also much easier to get candy for Houndoom since raids award more and Houndour nests.
And of course, remember to sit on your high-level Murkrows to evolve in gen 4, Honchkrow has good potential.
If you NEED a Dark Attacker now, go for Houndoom. It's a better attacker than Absol. And you have a chance of finding one at Level 25 as it's a Fire type as well, so gets a boost in Clear weather, which lowers the costs to power it up to a useful level by a small - but significant - amount.
If you don't NEED a Dark Attacker now, go for Absol - Absol is easy to beat (2 trainers with Level 35+ Machamps can make mincemeat of it, even in neutral weather), it can be Shiny and when you do beat it, you can Pinap it every time because the catch rate is stupidly high. (It's easier to catch than a (bleeping) Krilia. (Bleep) you, Krilia, (bleep) you.)
A big reason for this is that Houndoom is likely going to be part of any and all future Fire events due to its dual typing AND the low number of Fire Types in the game. (there are what, 8 Fire lines that you can find in the Wild? And a few that get a Fire typing after you evolve them, like Eevee?) After the last Fire event I ended up with over 900 Houndour candies and 5 Houndooms that are worth using in battle; I still have 4 Houndours that I am using as a "Evolve a Fire Type" for Research Quests because I have more candies than I need, so it's an easy way to get a stamp. And on very rare occasions, I find Houndours spawning in the Wild.
No one can say if there's going to be a Fire event coming up in the near future, of course. But if you don't need a Dark attacker in the immediate future, then raiding Absol is the way to go.
