Arrow Crab

Arrow Crabs, mainly known for their long but thin body and the ability to consume brittle worms. Besides that they're also known for their aggressiveness towards small fish and other crustaceans.

## Overview

Arrow Crabs are a part of the light weight class like most salt water crustaceans. They are mainly nocturnal, roaming during the night. They are usually aggressive and territorial, chasing off and attacking similar sized organism. This allows the crab to have a higher chance of find food in it's area. When falling in the open ocean they allow they're legs to drift upwards to increase the falling rate and make it look like organic debris.
Arrow Crabs have high stealth to evade potential predators. decent defense and power to resists attacks and do good enough damage towards other builds. They have mediocre health and speed for a crab due to their unique legs among crustaceans. The legs allow the arrow crab's vertical speed to be better than most crustaceans. Lastly the arrow crab has terrible intelligence like most crustaceans.

## Abilities and Skills

With does mediocre stats this crab makes it up with better abilities that help it dominate the light weight player base in the ocean.

### Thin Legs

Arrow crabs choose the slender but long leg approach to give itself a height advantage. With the extra height the arrow crab's head and other major body parts are away from the ground and out of reach from most small builds. The legs also greatly increase the range of the arrow crab, allowing it to out range close range builds like bristle worms, hermit crabs, emerald crabs, puffer fish, and others. This allows the crab to steal loot from others, reach into small openings, and attack predators from afar. The legs can be released to allow the crab to escape and regrow it through another molt. Lastly the legs drastically increase climbing speed, this allows the crab to easily traverse the rocky coral where it lives. It also allows the crab to have the "high ground."

### Joints

Rare among crustaceans, arrow crabs have well jointed legs, allowing them to bend more, strike faster than most crustaceans, and allow the crab to use the move twist. Twist is good for weakening flesh to rip apart. But when paired with the arrow crabs' mediocre power allows it to tear up fleshy organisms effectively.

### Hooks

Some arrow crabs have miniature hooks, which allows it to attach debris on its body. This greatly increases it already high stealth. Allowing the crab to travel unnoticed by many builds.

### Hard Exoskeleton

Like all crustaceans the arrow crab has a hard exoskeleton. This allows it to shrug off hits from spikes and prevent spines from breaching its flesh. With that it allows the crab to be immune to anemones and bristle worms.

## Weakness

This build is very good for a light weight build, but the weaknesses hold the build back.

### Size

The arrow crabs size allows it to be preyed a pound by bigger build that can ignore the attacks and gobble up the crab. The crabs' low health doesn't help much. Because of that the crab hides in cracks till its dark.

### Brittle

The legs are long but they are very brittle. Causing them to snap if bent with enough force, but lucky the force needed to break the legs easily are mainly held by builds that are out of it's weight class.

### Low Intelligence

The arrow crab's intelligence doesn't really hold it back. But its does prevent it's potential of being more dominate.

## Moveset

### Moves

Grab - Holds opponent dealing a percent of damage based on the power.

Twist - Weakens target's flesh allowing tearing.

Slap - Hit the opponent with the side or the limb. If power level is high enough and/or the environment is underwater, move the opponent to the side.

Leg Strike - A quick strike dealing damage based on the power the leg has.

Rapid Strike - A flurry of attacks that deals a lots of damage the closer the opponent is. Increases flinch rate. If the target is equal or lighter than the user, apply knockback based on the power and speed stat.

## Pros & Cons

### Pros:

* Amazing Range for a light weight crab
* Great STL
* Decent DEF and PWR
* Good Resolve and Intimidation
* Weak Poison Resistance
* Molting to recover limbs
* Small torso hitbox, but a large leg hitbox to block attacks

### Cons:

* Low horizontal MBL  and HP
* Terrible INT
* Brittle
* Terrible match up against faster heavier builds

## Tier Placement

Arrow crabs sit nicely in High B tier. With that great stealth stat, decent power, decent defense, and great range this build can dominate the territorial light weight meta. But it is held back like most light weights by getting countered hard by bigger builds like Snappers, Queen Angelfish, and Octopus as they are too heavy for this to effectively damage.