Crabhammer (move)

Crabhammer クラブハンマー Crab Hammer

Battles Type  Water Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  90 Accuracy  85% Priority  0 Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

Availability Introduced  [[Generation {{{gen}}}]] Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   ???

Super Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Crabhammer is a mostly accurate and very damaging Water-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Crabhammer does damage, and has a high critical hit ratio.

In the anime

File:Corphish Crabhammer.jpg

Ash's Corphish using Crabhammer.

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Mr. Saridakis's Crawdaunt using Crabhammer on Ash's Corphish.

Pokémon

Corphish. Corphish's claw glows white. Corphish then hits its opponent with its claw.

• Used by Ash's Corpish from Go Go Ludicolo to ???.

Crawdaunt. Same as above.

• Used by Mr. Saridakis's Crawdaunt in On Olden Pond.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

• Krabby at Lv.35
• Kingler at Lv.42

Generation II

By leveling up

• Krabby at Lv.41
• Kingler at Lv.49

Generation III

By leveling up

• Krabby at Lv.45
• Kingler at Lv.57
• Corphish at Lv.35 (R/S/E)
• Corphish at Lv.34 (FR/LG)
• Crawdaunt at Lv.39 (R/S/E)
• Crawdaunt at Lv.38 (FR/LG)

Generation IV

By leveling up

• Krabby at Lv.41
• Kingler at Lv.56
• Corphish at Lv.38
• Crawdaunt at Lv.44

In other languages

• French: Pince-Masse
• German: Krabbhammer