Crabhammer (move)

Crabhammer クラブハンマー Crab Hammer

The foe is hammered with a large pincer. This move has a high critical-hit ratio.

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

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0  ?

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

Crabhammer on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Crabhammer on Eevee's Movedex

Crabhammer (Japanese: クラブハンマー Crab Hammer) is a damage-dealing Water-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Crabhammer deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 098 Krabby Water 35 099 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 098 Krabby Water 41 099 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 098 Krabby Water 45 099 Kingler Water 57 341 Corphish Water 35RSE 341 Corphish Water 34FRLG 342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 39RSE 342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 38FRLG 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 098 Krabby Water 41 099 Kingler Water 56 341 Corphish Water 38 342 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 the anime

	Corphish	Crawdaunt
The foe is hammered with a large pincer.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Kingler	Kingler slams its pincer onto its opponent, or it slams its claw into the ground and a round white energy ball slams into the opponent.
Giovanni's Kingler	The Battle of the Badge		Debut
Ash's Kingler	Round One - Begin!		None
Crawdaunt	Crawdaunt's hits the opponent with its pincers. Sometimes they glow white before hitting it.
Team Aqua grunt's Crawdaunt	Stairway to Devon		None
Mr. Saridakis's Crawdaunt	An Olden Pond		None
Kyle's Crawdaunt	Strategy with a Smile!		None
Corphish	One or both of Corphish's pincer glows white and it hits its opponent with one of them, or Corphish's pincers glow white and it hits the ground, sending a invisible shockwave to hit the opponent.
A wild Corphish	Which Wurmple's Which?		None
Ash's Corphish	Gone Corphishin'		None
A wild Corphish	Cheers on Castaway Isle!		None

Trivia

• The only Pokémon who can learn Crabhammer are crustacean based, hence the name.

In other languages

• French: Pince-Masse
• German: Krabbhammer
• Italian: Martellata
• Norwegian: Krabbehammer
• Dutch: Krabhamer

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