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   If the appeal points for the Pokémon who appealed right before the user were less than 3, the user gets double the appeal points. (If they were greater than 3, user gets 0 appeal points.)

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