>>56252510A great design which fits thematically with the trainers who use it in GSC — it's an aggressive species, but like other Pokémon, it's not inherently good or evil, and is used by both heroic and villainous trainers to indicate that.
Too bad that it got screwed over in terms of distribution in Johto, but at least later gens were kinder to it. I might try using Houndoom on my current Platinum playthrough.