Is Crawdaunt Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Water/Dark with AbilityHyper Cutter or AbilityShell Armor. Crawdaunt hits hard physically from both typings. Handles Phoebe, Tate and Liza, and contributes against Steven. The Dark sub-typing gives it coverage most Water-types lack. One of the more underrated options in RS.
Corphish has the type edge here and should clean up Roxanne's team.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Wattson's team hits Corphish's weaknesses hard.
Corphish has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Crawdaunt trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Crawdaunt has the type edge here and should clean up Tate & Liza's team.
Crawdaunt trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
Crawdaunt trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Crawdaunt has the type edge here and should clean up Phoebe's team.
Crawdaunt has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Crawdaunt has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Crawdaunt trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catch Corphish
Catch Corphish on Route 102 (Good Rod fishing, Lv 10-30, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- LV 20WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- LV 35WaterCrabhammerPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
- After Wallace
- TM03WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Wallace
Evolve Corphish to Crawdaunt
Corphish evolves into Crawdaunt at Level 30. Your Corphish should hit Level 30 before you reach Winona, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- LV 39WaterCrabhammerPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
How to Get Crawdaunt in Ruby & Sapphire
Corphish evolves into Crawdaunt at level 30, the lone way to one. You'll be fishing up the base form first, since Crawdaunt itself never takes a hook.
Catch Corphish at any of these 3 spots to eventually evolve into Crawdaunt.
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
- 1Catch Corphish
- 2Evolve Crawdauntat Lv.30
Badge 1
Badge 2
Badge 3How to Obtain Crawdaunt in RS
Corphish is your first catch on the way to Crawdaunt. You'll find fishing encounters from Lv. 10-45 across 12 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Crawdaunt ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Corphish egg.
How to Get Shiny Crawdaunt in Ruby & Sapphire
Crawdaunt never bites a line itself, so hook a shiny Corphish on the Super Rod and evolve it up. Compare Shiny Crawdaunt odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Crawdaunt Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Ruby & Sapphire shiny odds calculator with Crawdaunt already selected.
Crawdaunt Weakness
Type-wise, Crawdaunt takes extra damage from Electric, Grass, Fighting, and Bug. Psychic moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. 6 resistances give it solid defensive coverage on top of that. Crawdaunt's physical bulk (base 85 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass, Fighting, Bug |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Ghost, Dark, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Psychic |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Crawdaunt Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Crawdaunt
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x177-208%KO Solar Beam 2x105-124%KO | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Heracross builds →Focus Punch 2x170-200%KO Megahorn 2x136-160%KO | ||
 Hariyama Fighting | B | |
 Blaziken FireFighting | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Route 101 Gift) | ||
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Shiftry builds →Solar Beam 2x146-171%KO Brick Break 2x48-56% | ||
 Pinsir Bug | C | |
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Cacturne builds →Solar Beam 2x178-210%KO Focus Punch 2x106-125%KO Pin Missile 2x11-13% | ||
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Sceptile builds →Solar Beam 2x165-194%KO Focus Punch 2x83-97% Fury Cutter 2x7-8% | ||
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Ludicolo builds →Solar Beam 2x146-171%KO Focus Punch 2x70-83% | ||
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Rustboro City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Cradily builds →Solar Beam 2x133-157%KO Rock Smash 2x12-14% | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Tropius Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Tropius builds →Solar Beam 2x121-143%KO Rock Smash 2x11-13% | ||
 Medicham FightingPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Medicham builds →Focus Punch 2x94-111%KO Thunder Punch 2x45-53% | ||
Crawdaunt Evolutions
Crawdaunt is the evolved form of Corphish. Breeding produces Corphish eggs, and they are quick to hatch. Evolving from Corphish gave Crawdaunt the biggest boost in Attack (+40), bringing the total to 468 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Crawdaunt to get Corphish eggs easily using 58 partners from the Water 1 and Water 3 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Ancient Power, Body Slam, Endeavor and 1 more.
RS Crawdaunt Best Moveset
Water/Dark with 120 Attack firing MoveCrunch for Dark TermStab and MoveSurf for Water coverage. AbilityHyper Cutter protects that Attack from Intimidate drops. 55 Speed is painfully slow. Held ItemChoice Band amplifies. Massive Attack that goes last against everything.
Best Build
Crawdaunt best EVs are HP and Sp. Atk
Special Tank Moveset
- Brick Break
- Crabhammer
- Knock Off
- Ice Beam
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Ancient Power and Body Slam give Crawdaunt options it can't learn any other way, and coverage across 7 types already covers a decent range on top of Crabhammer and Surf. The egg moves push it further.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
All 28 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
CRAWDAUNT has an extremely violent nature that compels it to challenge other living things to battle. Other life-forms refuse to live in ponds inhabited by this POKéMON, making them desolate places.
CRAWDAUNT molts (sheds) its shell regularly. Immediately after molting, its shell is soft and tender. Until the shell hardens, this POKéMON hides in its streambed burrow to avoid attack from its foes.
Crawdaunt Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Crawdaunt is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Corphish under specific conditions.
Game Availability
Crawdaunt first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and has been available in 15 games across 7 generations. Obtainable through wild encounters in most titles where it appears.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
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