Crabhammer (move)

Crabhammer クラブハンマー Crab Hammer

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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 I 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 I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII 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

• Corphish Crabhammer.jpg

  Ash's Corphish using Crabhammer.

• Crawdaunt Crabhammer.jpg

  Mr. Saridakis' 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 Corphish from Go Go Ludicolo to ???.

Crawdaunt. Same as above.

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

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0098 Krabby Water 35 0099 Kingler Water 42 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0098 Krabby Water 41 0099 Kingler Water 49 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0098 Krabby Water 45 0099 Kingler Water 57 0341 Corphish Water 35 0341 Corphish Water 34 0342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 39 0342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 38 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0098 Krabby Water 41 0099 Kingler Water 56 0341 Corphish Water 38 0342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 44 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In other languages

• French: Pince-Masse
• German: Krabbhammer