Houndmaster and You | Darkest Dungeon Guide

This video covers tips, tricks, and builds for everything involving Houndmaster. A versatile character to be sure since he can swap from solid ranged damage to good support moves in battle, and he even has good camp skills. It's harder to find a team this guy doesn't work in than it is to find one he does.
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0:00 Intro
0:38 Strengths
1:36 Weaknesses
2:11 How to Play
3:26 Abilities and Camp Skills
9:54 Trinkets
17:22 Quirks
17:49 Teams
20:49 Outro

[@Guille2033]

You forgot the most important detail about HM. He protects the doggo when he gets hit because she's a good girl

[@matthewteague623]

Self Heal by giving doggo a hug. Proof positive HM is a noble hero.

[@colossaltitan3546]

@@matthewteague623 in the butcher's circus dlc, if you kill a houndmaster, his corpse shows his dog looking sad standing over him, and it's the most heartbreaking thing ever

[@bonogiamboni4830]

@@colossaltitan3546 note to self, never bring houndmaster in the circus.

[@PrivateDaisy]

@@bonogiamboni4830 especially cause he's annoying to fight against. He's the reason I run two characters with riposte

[@alessandrosaltarin9990]

babe wake up new shampoodleFM DD1 character guide

[@yourfacemeetsmyfist]

Babe wake up new Shuffle guide dropped. That aside, HM is one of my favorite heroes to run, happy to see a guide on him.

[@Shadowlurker4897]

The only reason why the guard lasts 2 turns is because it gets reduced by 1 as he uses it so it's pretty much only 1 turn of guard.

[@Franiac32]

I'm really glad you continue to make these videos, as I'm just now getting into DD1. I watch your Provisions video basically every dungeon run I go on, haha.

[@LightOfSkyFalling]

DD1 2022 guides... Let's go!

[@Korvinian4601]

Happy this series is still going, started another DD game, and your guides helped a lot, thanks so much man

[@falseking989]

In my experience Eldritch Slayer and/or Beast Slayer are his best quirks. It makes up for his low accuracy against those enemy types. The Spiked Collar is his best damage trinket with Evidence of Corruption as his best utility trinket. The Lawman’s Badge is easily outclassed with the Slayer quirks & the Spiked Collar trinket. The 30% bleed increase is actually the best part of that trinket. Lick Wounds is useless in champion dungeons. His utility & damage far outweigh any use Lick Wounds would have. Using Blackjack to prevent damage or Guarding someone to increase his dodge is a better form of healing than his self heal. In fact, even in Bloodmoon champion dungeons, if you know what you’re doing you’ll take little damage in the first place. Thank you Shuffle for continuing this series. I’ve spend hundreds of hours listening to your videos & they’ve given me the building blocks to overcome every challenge of this game.

[@ShuffleFM]

Thanks for watching these videos. I see you comment a lot but I don't always respond. Wanted to let you know it's appreciated

[@NickyPoundhers]

I don't think Houndmaster's guard works the way you described. The guard duration doesn't tick down when his guarded target takes a turn, it ticks down when HM takes a turn, INCLUDING the turn he uses Guard Dog. You can see this by mousing over the "guarded by HM" icon below the guarded ally. When you do this you'll notice that immediately after hitting Guard Dog the duration will tick down from 2 rds to 1 rd. Basically the guard functions similarly to a self buff for the HM, not his guard target (in terms of duration). So even though it technically lasts 2 rds, it effectively only lasts 1 rd. This means if you plan on dodge tanking with HM you need to use Guard Dog every single turn. Unfortunately this means that HM has to do nothing else but spam Guard Dog in order to maintain his guard on an ally, because if he does literally anything else the guard will wear off. You can try this out yourself by using Guard Dog and then on the very next turn use any other skill and you'll see the guard wear off immediately. I hope this wasn't too confusing.

[@ShuffleFM]

Thank you. It's such a hassle lol. It feels like you only get 1 turn of guard but I didn't want to just say that :P

[@bonogiamboni4830]

I wonder why they did it like this honestly. Was it just for the sake of not stepping on man at arms's toes? I don't think giving another class a good guard would have been that game breaking, and it would have been nice to have more options for fights like vvulf and the prophet than only using man at arms (then again, in those two the bonus that the second turn of guard gives is not that great since it's only useful if the rubble/bomb lands on the person who was already guarded). That said i do really like that both of the guard characters are the jaded, bearded old men basically saying "i've already lived a while, it's better if i take a hit than one of the youngsters".

[@fairyonice9504]

Oh god, this killed an occultist in my DD2 run. The gaurd fell off *right* before the poor sod got a revalation to the face.

[@TwoSpark55]

The additional debuff chance is insanity. I've been playing this game on and off for many years, and I love running the houndmaster on certain teams. I never ever ever noticed the increased chance on the ability text. I just always thought "Damn, this dog is REALLY hitting those debuffs, he's missed like 5 times over his career". Love to see this content still going strong.

[@TwoSpark55]

**A personal note on the +stun, - speed trinket. It can help tweek & manipulate the micro management of the team's speed to help better influence guarding.

[@ELMITLON]

Great video as always! I still love seeing these although I don't play dd anymore

[@zenkichihitoyoshi9513]

The only thing I dislike about houndmaster is how he interacts with Vvulf's bombs. When if you dodge the "Bomb's Away!" You still get the bomb falling and the explosion is basically undodgeable. Why D: Let me use my boi to help others

[@quinnlee-miller9792]

MAA’s players laughing through their Prot stacks FR though, that’s a pretty valid complaint

[@zenkichihitoyoshi9513]

@@quinnlee-miller9792 funnily enough, I've never done Vvulf with a Man at Arms lol. Never been a fan of the meta comps. My favorite is flagellant+a girthy, prot-based leper+withstand and someone like Highwayman who can switch places if the bomb falls on someone unfavorable. The flagellant just doesn't care, more bombs mean more blood!

[@damjanbuvari1718]

Amazing vid

[@Khrene]

16:30 I want to highlight Berserk Charm for HM as a magnificent option if you can get your hands on the Lawman's Badge. 19:10 Ohhh~ I gotta try that Control Team!

[@mylesaquino]

its finally here lets gooo!!!

[@oleksii-kozak]

Yeah, lost a pretty good legendary shieldbreaker on the first death door hit simple because of shorter guard duration of HM. So you're not alone.

[@infinity_flair]

I always enjoy these and I'll definitely give Let there Be Blood a whirl; personally I enjoy The Huntsman Corp. I'm looking forward to your Abomination guide; he's the only character I can't really get a feel for.

[@IHaTeCookie05]

Get broken key spam manacles congratulations you just mastered abomination outside of some bosses

[@butteredpie5666]

4 hound master with hounds Harry spam

[@matthewteague623]

will do terrible awful things to the Flesh boss.

[@TheSpiritedFendron]

As an actual gendarme, this char feels great to play :D

[@victorprati7908]

So the dog is basically a bow. I still struggle to efficiency guard people with HM

[@driedroot6962]

A good guide as always! I'm looking forward to Abom guide, especially beast mode Abom!

[@meeklynobody3230]

Thanks.

[@dragontamer2474]

He's done it! Finally my favorite good boi (or girl) gets their spot.

[@Linkiiiiin]

I am just wondering what dog breed I need for a hound master cosplay. Irish wolfhound is the closest I can think of

[@lawrencetorrance7051]

See you next time!!

[@wesleifilho7774]

I saw the the thumbnail and for a split second i tought that this was a confirmation for him in dd2 😞

[@ShuffleFM]

I wish, that would be hype lol

[@johhan4216]

Shuffle i love you

[@bebramikro6049]

For a moment of blissful ignorance I thought they finally added him to the second game

[@ducraphael5499]

Amazing visuals

[@londonfog6654]

Got a lvl 3 houndmaster with Hot to Trot. I've lost two houndmasters throughout my playthrough. I can't lose another one. I forbid his death.

[@gorgeouszan]

Think you're grossly overselling Cry Havoc. A moderate stress heal that you cannot target and doesn't always work is straight up terrible at any level.

[@KindaReallyBad]

i've found that none of my lepers ever miss, but my houndmasters always do, almost like their stats were swapped ; - ;

[@MsGorteck]

Do you get 2 dog treats per HM or just 2 period? If 2 per HM, do they stack or each 2 take a slot?

[@ShuffleFM]

2 per HM and they do not stack :(

[@MsGorteck]

@@ShuffleFM thank you.

[@melancholyman369]

The new enemy mods make him borderline perfect.

[@Delicashilous]

1:05 why you attacked the backline corpse?

[@ShuffleFM]

That's a good question haha. Misclick maybe.

[@Delicashilous]

@@ShuffleFM ok, I just wanted to know because I begun to learn the Game, that I could missed Something by seeing that action.

[@codycomstock3260]

Can you stack protect me and guard dog? I have wanted to try but am kinda scared

[@ShuffleFM]

The prot and dodge buffs will activate but guarding the same target twice cancels the first guard.

[@codycomstock3260]

@@ShuffleFM Thank you very much.

[@KongOfLightning]

AH YES DD1 DA SUPERIOR VERSION OF THE GAME

[@beeeean]

Damn i thought this wss DD2 😔

[@jonathanngo7452]

7 hours ago? I'm late!!