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09-24-2008, 12:55 AM
Probably many people think that it's outclassed by kingler but crawdawnt can do things kingler can't, and in general is really fun to use thanks to its impressive attacking stats whom are hindered by poor speed and poor sp.def, however it should be considered when making a uu team.

CB Crabbety Crab Crab @ Choice Band
ability: Shell Armor / Hyper Cutter
evs: 70 HP / 252 Atk / 188 Spe
nature: Adamant
- Crab hammer
- Crunch
- X-Scissor
- Aerial Ace / Body Slam


This crawdawnt is by far the most affective, if this switches in safely it can terrorize a lot of thing's with it's awesome attack stat, crab hammer to put a hurting on anything that doesn't resist it and for a nice ohko on hypno, grumpig and steelix and particularly every steel type in uu, also it kos rotom making it really beastly, crunch is for a ohko on bulky rotom and for good type coverage, x scissor to take care of shiftry, and practically all uu dark type's especially sharpedo to some extent since crawdawnt make's a semi counter to sharpedo with this set, aerial ace is filler, super power is listed as an option since it can ko practically every single dark type unlike x scissor which fails to ko some, and super power is also a powerful move although the atk and def drop might seam bad since crawdawnt is more of a sweep pokemon rather than a hit and run pokemon.


Sd Crab @ Life Orb/ Leftovers
ability: Shell Armor / Hyper Cutter
evs: 70 HP / 252 Atk / 188 Spe
nature: Adamant
- Swords Dance
- Waterfall
- Crunch
- X-Scissor / Body Slam / Aerial Ace


After a Sd a lo waterfall will destroy everything even the pokes that resist it, too bad crawdawnt is kind of slow so don't expect him to sweep a whole team like other fast frail sweepers do, crunch for some good type coverage, while body slam's paralysis option make's you fast and the hax can prove good netting you a sd, aerial ace to hurt those poison and grass types since they aren't kod by anything other wise while X-Scissor is to ko those non poison grass type's like meganium who isn't koed by an aerial ace.


Specs Crab @ Choice Specs
ability: Shell Armor / Hyper Cutter
evs: 252 sp.atk/ 252 spe/ 6 hp
nature: Modest
- Ice Beam
- Surf
- Hp Electric/ Hp Grass
- Dark Pulse


This is a bit gimmicky but crawdawn't sp.atk is nothing to laugh at, Beating the normal physical bulky pokemon who switch in on crawdawnt, hp grass is for quagy and gastrodon while hp electric is for pelliper and mantine, dark pulse and surf are for stab and dark pulse 2hkoes grumpig and hypno, ice beam is for altaria and if your using it for some reason in ou for those 600 base stat dragon pokes.


Other Options: Other than the one's listed and outlined not much since I believe I listed practically everything it might use competitively.


Evs: you should probably stick with the one's listed, or if you don't care much for its speed you can use all those spe evs for some hp one's or heck all hp evs.


Opinion: many people unlike me find it totally outclassed by kingler, stat wise it might seem so, or if you look at the move's in general, but if you take a deeper look you can see how both of these poke's don't or aren't outclassed by anything inside of uu.


Counters: Toxicroak and Poliwrath are effective, since they resist Dark and are immune to Water. Hitmontop is bulky enough to take a hit from the Water attacks (particularly if it has Intimidate). Cacturne and Shiftry both resist Dark/Water, but will fall to X-Scissor. Meganium and Leafeon can handle Crawdaunt reasonably well, but beware of X-Scissor, which can 2HKO.

Otherwise, just take advantage of its low Speed.