Emperor Crab
Poor
No
Neutral
Ground
Idles about.
Pit-pattering footsteps; vocalizations (on-click)
None
3 allowed
Mists of Pandaria
Patch 5.0.1 | Posted: October 4, 2012
The emperor crab was named for its regal appearance: the ridges of its shell and its raised claws eerily resembling a crown. One that would pinch your eyes out if you tried to wear it.
The P/P version guy is basically immune to DoTs with the combination of Shell Shield, his racial, and his powerful heal.
An extremely tanky pet, and one of my personal favorites.Â
Without question, the Emperor Crab is my favorite pet to use for the capture of wild pets. The damage mitigation and healing makes it nearly indestructible, and when combined with Surge, the high speed, low damage attack, you have the perfect combo for capturing even the most powerful or sensitive wild pets. You will have no more accidental kills of those rare wild pets you've been farming for hours with the Emperor Crab!!Â
One of the first truly great battle pets I ever caught. A P/P Emperor Crab will be a mainstay on your pet battle teams forever. It's that good!
Absolutely love this guy. I have a P/P and, like the guy who named his Bane of Nishi, I use him to power level on both Nishi and Aki! I'd really like to get a second.
Honestly, this guy (in P/P breed) is my favorite pet for wild pet fights and pvp. You can stay at full health using Shell Shield and Renewing Mists. Shell Shield completely blocks most flock abilities and dots. Some fights can be a little slow since your Surge only does 282 dmg.Â
If you are leveling pets just throw on Renewing Mists before swapping them in, helps keep them topped off.
@Khorghast
Short answer: Because of breeds. Emperor Crab is the only variation that can be P/P.
At 357 Power, it can dish out solid damage. Not great, since it doesn't have any inherently strong attacks outside of Whirlpool (which you shouldn't use as I'll explain later) but it's good.
Its true strength lies in the combination of Shell Shield and its healing ability. It just survives for ages, since both the damage reduce and the heal scale with its massive Power.
This is a must-have battle pet.
Not only can he solo most wild pet encounters and more than one trainer, I almost always run with him in my pvp team. Of course he is great against ele's and undead (spectral kid/unborn val'kyr can't touch him,) but he is shockingly good against flyers. His shell shield mitigates most of the dmg of abilities like slicing wind and his surge takes a lot of the punch out of alpha strike. The pets you do have to watch out for are ones with darkness/nocturnal strike.
This guy devastates Farmer Nishi. Against first sunflower pet use almost any combo starting with Whirpool, Heal and Surge. Against his second turnip pet; he will submerge for two rounds, so on your first move use Surge, then Whirpool and Heal yourself up. Once he pops back up, that untasty turnip is basically just a nice soup for your Emp Crab. Hit his last beast pet with Whirlpool to keep things safe, then swap in low level pet to finish up, getting tons of exp.
I got a 4, 14 (Destruction) breed of this guy and he's been one of my mainstays ever since. Â Good mix of moves, and with his high damage/high healing, he's got great survivability, and he absolutely crushes Elemental pets with a Surge, Healing Wave, Whirlpool moveset. Â Surge makes his high damage, low speed combo almost a non-factor, since you can always get off a finishing attack even against faster opponents. Â Pop Whirlpool, Surge, Surge, and Healing Wave as needed :D
So many other crabs come in the H/H 6,16 breed, but only this and the other panda crab (spirebound) have the P/P 4,14 breed, so why have another H/H? Edit, the goblin crab also currently comes in a P/P, but it might not when it gets changed. Anyone know what its getting changed to? I would guess its going to be B/B but I really hope not.
Caught as second on the coast
A real slogger. A P/P, even at half health (if you can't be bothered reviving)....can take on an entire wild team, have a couple of trap misses and end up with even more health at the end of the battle. Mine has caught close to 100% of my wild battle pets since Pandaria.
Also a good starter for the ocasional World Quest and Garrison battle.
@Phelgrahm:"...Spirebound Crab is also available in a P/P breed and has the same ability set..."
That's true, yet Spirebound Crab has 1481 hp, 325 power and 244 speed while Emperor Crab has 1481, 357 and 211 respectively. That MAKES a difference ;).
Strongest Crab in the Game (P/P).
94 Shield (Stronger than Anubisath)
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150+ Heal per Turn Renewing Mist.
Would get this crab over all the other crabs.
Spirebound Crab is also available in a P/P breed and has the same ability set.Â
Why is this crab rated so highly when Strand Crawler and Shore Crab have identical abilities and are rated relatively low? I'm pretty new to pet stuff.
I just picked one up. Â They are often secondary pets to the horrible snails in the region.Â
Went to hunt this pet today in preperation for the Pandaren Spirit Battles. First encounter was a rare, now he's part of my collection.
I had two pets left to get in Pandaria - this and a crunchy scorpion. I went to the Dread Wastes to get my scorpion first and guess who popped up in my secondaries! Sadly he's only poor quality but I at least have the credit for the achievement... now to find another scorpion :-)
Really good pet. Very dependable with that shield.Â