Is Krabby Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Fishing catch in Johto waters. Kingler evolves at 28 with huge physical Attack, but Water-type damage runs off the Special stat in Gen 2. The same mismatch from Red and Blue still haunts Kingler. Crystal doesn't fix this.
Krabby has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Krabby has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Krabby trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Krabby has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Krabby's defenses.
Krabby has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Kingler has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Clair's team hits Kingler's weaknesses hard.
Kingler has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Kingler trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Kingler trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Kingler has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Kingler trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Kingler resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Kingler has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Kingler trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Kingler trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Kingler has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Kingler has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Kingler has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Kingler trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Krabby on Whirl Islands (walking, Lv 22-24, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 22)
- LV 22NormalVise GripPower 55Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- LV 23NormalStompPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 41WaterCrabhammerPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
Evolve Krabby to Kingler
Krabby evolves into Kingler at Level 28. Your Krabby should hit Level 28 before you reach Pryce, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 28)
- LV 28NormalStompPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- LV 49WaterCrabhammerPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 10
How to Get Krabby in Crystal
Krabby is everywhere there's water, 54 encounters by rod, Rock Smash, and the Whirl Islands shore. The Whirl Islands hold the walkable ones, while every coastal route gives a fishing shot.
11 locations to catch Krabby
Encountered via fishing with a Rod, tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Krabby in C
Krabby is the chain's first catch. You'll find fishing, walking, and more encounters from Lv. 10-40 across 71 total spots in the chain.
- Step 1Krabby ✓Cianwood CityLv.15Smashing rocksRate 90%Dark Cave - WestLv.15Smashing rocksRate 90%Route 40Lv.15Smashing rocksRate 90%Cherrygrove CityLv.10Old RodRate 15%Cianwood CityLv.10Old RodRate 15%Goldenrod CityLv.10Old RodRate 15%Olivine CityLv.10Old RodRate 15%Route 34Lv.10Old RodRate 15%Route 40Lv.10Old RodRate 15%Union Cave - B2FLv.10Old RodRate 15%Whirl Islands - B2FLv.10Old RodRate 15%Whirl Islands - B2F Inner CaveLv.10Old RodRate 15%Whirl Islands - SELv.10Old RodRate 15%Whirl Islands - SWLv.10Old RodRate 15%Route 14Lv.10Old RodRate 15%Route 19Lv.10Old RodRate 15%Whirl Islands - CaveLv.22-24GrassRate 60%NightWhirl Islands - NELv.22-24GrassRate 60%NightWhirl Islands - NWLv.22-24GrassRate 60%NightWhirl Islands - SELv.22-24GrassRate 60%NightWhirl Islands - SWLv.22-24GrassRate 60%NightWhirl Islands - B1FLv.23-25GrassRate 60%NightWhirl Islands - B2FLv.24-26GrassRate 60%NightWhirl Islands - B2F Inner CaveLv.25-27GrassRate 60%NightCherrygrove CityLv.20Good RodRate 55%Cianwood CityLv.20Good RodRate 55%Goldenrod CityLv.20Good RodRate 55%Olivine CityLv.20Good RodRate 55%Route 34Lv.20Good RodRate 55%Route 40Lv.20Good RodRate 55%Union Cave - B2FLv.20Good RodRate 55%Whirl Islands - B2FLv.20Good RodRate 55%Whirl Islands - B2F Inner CaveLv.20Good RodRate 55%Whirl Islands - SELv.20Good RodRate 55%Whirl Islands - SWLv.20Good RodRate 55%Route 14Lv.20Good RodRate 55%Route 19Lv.20Good RodRate 55%Whirl Islands - CaveLv.22-24GrassRate 40%Morning/dayWhirl Islands - NELv.22-24GrassRate 40%Morning/dayWhirl Islands - NWLv.22-24GrassRate 40%Morning/dayWhirl Islands - SELv.22-24GrassRate 40%Morning/dayWhirl Islands - SWLv.22-24GrassRate 40%Morning/dayWhirl Islands - B1FLv.23-25GrassRate 40%Morning/dayWhirl Islands - B2FLv.24-26GrassRate 40%Morning/dayWhirl Islands - B2F Inner CaveLv.25-27GrassRate 40%Morning/dayCherrygrove CityLv.40Super RodRate 60%Cianwood CityLv.40Super RodRate 60%Goldenrod CityLv.40Super RodRate 60%Olivine CityLv.40Super RodRate 60%Route 34Lv.40Super RodRate 60%Route 40Lv.40Super RodRate 60%Union Cave - B2FLv.40Super RodRate 60%Route 14Lv.40Super RodRate 60%Route 19Lv.40Super RodRate 60%Whirl Islands - B2FLv.40Super RodRate 40%Whirl Islands - B2F Inner CaveLv.40Super RodRate 40%Whirl Islands - SELv.40Super RodRate 40%Whirl Islands - SWLv.40Super RodRate 40%
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into KinglerWhirl Islands - B2FLv.40Super RodRate 20%Whirl Islands - B2F Inner CaveLv.40Super RodRate 20%Whirl Islands - SELv.40Super RodRate 20%Whirl Islands - SWLv.40Super RodRate 20%Cherrygrove CityLv.40Super RodRate 10%Cianwood CityLv.40Super RodRate 10%Goldenrod CityLv.40Super RodRate 10%Olivine CityLv.40Super RodRate 10%Route 34Lv.40Super RodRate 10%Route 40Lv.40Super RodRate 10%Union Cave - B2FLv.40Super RodRate 10%Route 14Lv.40Super RodRate 10%Route 19Lv.40Super RodRate 10%or evolve from Krabby (Step 1)
Bring the right balls: check Krabby catch odds in the Crystal Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Krabby in Crystal
Krabby scuttles out of smashed rocks in Cianwood and Dark Cave, and rods pull it commonly at Cherrygrove and Cianwood; Rock Smash gives the grind variety. Compare Shiny Krabby odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Krabby Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breed w/ Shiny Parent: Eggs inherit stats from a shiny parent, so about 1 in 64 hatch shiny. A shiny Ditto helps every egg, and any other shiny parent (the red Gyarados works) helps only eggs of the opposite gender.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 7-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 19-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 45-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 147-- | -- |
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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Krabby in the Crystal Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Krabby Weakness
Type-wise, Krabby takes extra damage from Electric and Grass. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Krabby's physical bulk (base 90 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
- Special stat split into Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
What is Krabby Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Krabby
 Magneton ElectricSteel | C | |
 Raikou Electric | S | |
 Jolteon Electric | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Electabuzz Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodTeam Rocket Hq Interact Encounter | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Sunflora Grass | C | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Meganium Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Tangela Grass | C | |
 Pichu Electric | D | |
Obtain MethodRoute 34 Gift | ||
 Skiploom Grass | C | |
Krabby Evolutions
Krabby is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Kingler. Check the evolution method below. A small partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 150 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Krabby easily with 13 breeding partners from the Water 3 egg group. Pass egg moves like Amnesia, Dig, Flail and 2 more to offspring.
C Krabby Best Moveset
105 Attack locked out of Water TermStab because Water moves use the 25 Sp. Atk stat. The best physical stat among pre-evolutions pointed at the wrong damage type. Normal physical moves are the only honest output.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Crabhammer
- Body Slam
- Double Edge
- Swords Dance
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Amnesia and Dig aren't available any other way for Krabby, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Crabhammer and Surf for solid options.
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.
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
20 of 24 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
If it is unable to find food, it will absorb nutrients by swallowing a mouthful of sand.
Krabby Crystal Guide
In Crystal, for a casual playthrough, Krabby works as a placeholder. Water coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Kingler. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Krabby appears in 19 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Krabby have the longest track record of availability in the series.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
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
Winds & Waves
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