Talk:Hound/@comment-39421695-20190522235700

Regular Hounds have 150 Health. Red and Blue Hounds have 100 Health. Tentacle Spikes do 51 damage.

If you dodge their bite, and your timing isn't great, you still have enough time to hit them once and then run away from their next bite. Twice, if you're not worried about their next bite.

If your timing is good, you can hit them twice without being bitten. Three times, if you're not worried about their next bite.

This means that with a Spike: If you get a Red/Blue Hound to miss a bite, you can immediately beat them to death before they get another bite off.

If you get a Regular Hound to miss a bite, and your timing is good, you can immediately beat them to death before they get another bite off.

If you get a Regular Hound to miss a bite, and your timing isn't great, you can hit them once, dodge their next bite, and immediately beat them to death before they get another bite off.

"But when will I ever only be fighting one Hound at a time?" Early Waves. Hound Mounds. Fire/Ice Staff Traps. MacTusk survivors. Mavericks that lose interest in Tentacles/Bees/Moose/Deerclops/Bearger/Beefalo/Volt Goats/Chess Pieces/Pigs/Spiders/Treeguards in favor of you.

Or, my favorite: Find a road/trail and equip Walking Cane, then race down that road until they are all offscreen and stop chasing you (usually when they've been distracted by random birds). Slowly edge back until exactly one aggros you. Slaughter, and repeat.