Crab (creature)

* Regular
* Golden

*For the crab boss see Main Article: Crab (boss)*

*For the special variant, see Christmas Crab.*

Crab was the first Legendary creature to be introduced to the game. Crab has a slow attack but deals a large amount of damage that can kill 1 star creatures in a single hit.

## General Information

The crab is added as a one star creature and can be fused into higher star levels.

The crab does not give body parts since it can't be killed on the main map. Once added to the army it can be discarded.

## Description

Crabs are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, composed primarily of highly mineralized chitin, and armed with a pair of chelae (claws).

## Stats

Main article: Creature Stats

The crab has very high health but a slow attack rate. The attack deals big damage and can take out some 1 star creatures with one hit. It is one of the slowest creatures. 1 star crabs die very quickly but the health improves as the star level increases.

It can be upgraded to a max of 20% per stat in the Creature Lab.

* Health
* Attack Rate
* Damage

**Crab Health Stats:** (Shown in bites from a 4-star gold spider)

 2
 3
 4
 4 (gold)  | 140 hits

**Crab Attack Stats:**

Attack rate is how quickly it moves to attack after the  appears shown in seconds.

**The attack speed changes depending on star level.**

 2
 3
 4
 4 (gold)  | 3.0 seconds

**Crab Damage Stats:**

Data is based on attacking a 3 star normal tarantula, shown with the % of health bar lost for each hit.

 2
 3
 4
 4 (gold)

A picture of the full Crab entry can be found below:

## Obtaining

The crab can only be acquired by earning points to fill the Co-op Activity Bar. Points are awarded for winning a Crab Beach co-op. Two points can be added each day: one for a public co-op and one for a clan co-op. Gems can be used to reset the daily co-op limit to get more than two activity points per day. It takes a minimum of 8 days to fill the activity bar if gems are not used.

Once the bar is filled there is a button to add the crab to your army. There is no wait time for the crab to be added but the player must have an available creature storage slot.

There is a very rare chance to have a golden crab added to your army instead of a regular one. The actual percent chance is not known.

## PvP

Crab walks sideways but attacks forward. It is ignored by the Venus fly trap and it will not attack the Venus fly trap or ants on its own. However, ants can be commanded to attack the crab and it can kill ants when they are hit by its claw swipe.

Crab is big, therefore it can block the stun effect of the chrysanthemum and the player's view. This makes it good for tight spaces like the queen's chamber defense.

Once it sees an enemy creature it locks onto it, pauses, then runs forward to the attack range of the creature. It then slowly pulls back its claws to attack. There's max damage at the very front because both claws hit there, at the sides there's lower damage because only one claw hits, at the back there's no damage because no claw hits there.

## Trivia

* A single crab could be acquired in one day. To do this a player would need to spend 4,550 gems to reset the daily co-op limit 13 times and win crab co-ops 15 times (including 1 clan co-op win).
* The crab in the game is a fusion between the cancer pagurus and cancer productus species of crab. Due to inconsistency on the design, it couldn't just be assigned to Cancer pagurus, so it is best to assign it to the Cancer genus.
* The crab is the first creature that is a Crustacean. However, it is an arthropod which is the phylum the other creatures are also classified under.
* Crab was added to the game on 11-Nov-2021 as part of the v0.0686 Crab Beach co-operative mode update.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 4 star golden crab data is based on Christmas Crab. Currently no 4 star golden crab is known to exist.