Competitive Information for Krabby [Black/White]
Water
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Krabby? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in Black/White Single Battles. The movesets and EVs have been specifically calibrated to deal the most amount of damage to the largest group of potentially common opponents and typing threats for the Black/White generation metagame.
Krabby is pretty popular Water-typed Pokemon. Krabby is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Krabby can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Krabby's only type-related weaknesses are Electric and Grass.
Item: Life Orb / Mystic Water
Ability: Hyper Cutter
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Crabhammer / Dive
- Double-Edge / Frustration
- Superpower / Brick Break
- X-Scissor
Physical Sweeper Krabby (Hyper Cutter)
Krabby is a marvelous Physical Sweeper. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. White Herb will reset Krabby's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Superpower). Focus Sash helps protect Krabby from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Krabby's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Hyper Cutter, prevents other pokemon from lowering Krabby's attack stat stage.
♦ Dive is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (dives underwater turn 1, strikes turn 2).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Frustration is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at minimum happiness).
♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Krabby's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Brick Break is a physical 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
♦ X-Scissor is a physical 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a large amount of damage.
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Krabby? These builds have been optimized for Black/White Double Battles. They have movesets and EVs specifically calibrated to generally work best versus multiple Pokemon at once as well as helping to support other team members and allys in the Black/White generation metagame.
Item: Life Orb / Hard Stone
Ability: Hyper Cutter
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Rock Slide
- Crabhammer / Dive
- Double-Edge / Frustration
- Superpower / Brick Break
Doubles Physical Sweeper Krabby (Hyper Cutter)
Krabby is a notable Physical Sweeper. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. White Herb will reset Krabby's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Superpower). Focus Sash helps protect Krabby from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Krabby's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Hyper Cutter, prevents other pokemon from lowering Krabby's attack stat stage.
♦ Crabhammer is a physical STAB-boosted 90-base power Water-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Dive is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (dives underwater turn 1, strikes turn 2).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Frustration is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at minimum happiness).
♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Krabby's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Brick Break is a physical 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Krabby learn? Here is the list of moves this Pokemon can learn in this selected generation.
Sort and organize the learnset by move type, category, accuracy, and power. Bolded moves will gain the same-type attack bonus (STAB) if this Pokemon uses them.
Damage Modifiers:
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Krabby can perform in Black/White. Not every combo going to be game-changing, but some can be pretty fun to play with. Sometimes these can be easily overlooked or forgotten, hence why we find and list them here. Discover what items, abilities, and moves this Pokemon can use in combination with each other to gain a strategic advantage in competitive battles.
Competitive BW Move and Ability Combos for Krabby
- Moves: Endure + Flail
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Ability: Sheer force + Item: Life orb
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Icy Wind
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Metal Claw
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Mud Shot
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Ancient Power
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Body Slam
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Bubble
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Bubble Beam
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Fling
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Ice Beam
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Mud-Slap
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Rock Smash
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Scald
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Secret Power
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Snore
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Stomp
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Water Pulse
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Blizzard
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Rock Tomb
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Rock Slide
- Moves with Priority: Bide, Endure, Protect
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Scald, Toxic
Moves that boost Krabby's stats
- Agility
- Amnesia
- Ancient Power
- Harden
- Hone Claws
- Iron Defense
- Metal Claw
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Krabby
- Ice Beam
- Knock Off
- Protect
- Rest
- Scald
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Krabby in Black and White
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