Beach Crab

Beach Crab
Other Names	Spiral Crab (EBF3)
Group	Crabs
Roles	Foe
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy Epic Battle Fantasy 3 Epic Battle Fantasy 4

The Beach Crab, also known as Spiral Crab, is a recurring foe in Epic Battle Fantasy series. As its name suggests, it appears primarily near beach/sandy areas, but can occasionally be found in caverns. It can be found in the beach area in Epic Battle Fantasy, Rock Lake in Epic Battle Fantasy 3, and Goldenbrick Resort in Epic Battle Fantasy 4.

Appearance

The Beach Crab is a red creature resembling a stylized hermit crab. Its body is a shapeless blob protruding from a large tan shell with a spiraling cone design; the shell is dotted by pink speckles and numerous small spikes. It has two eyeballs with small black dots for pupils, with the left eye being much larger and slightly bloodshot. It also has two spike-covered pincers; the left claw is small while the right one is disproportionally large, being larger than the Crab's entire body.

Overview

The Beach Crab is a relatively simple foe that uses single-target attacks. Like all Crabs, it can tuck into its shell as a defensive maneuver; the exact effects depend on the game, but it always makes it a lot harder to damage. However, it's generally a low-level threat that can be ignored until stronger foes are dealt with.

Across all of its appearances, the Beach Crab is consistently weak to Thunder and Earth; on the other hand, Fire, Wind and Water tend to be ineffective. Its Evade is also below-average, making it easier to hit than the average foe.

Epic Battle Fantasy

The Spiral Crab has two attacks that only differ in which defensive stat reduces their damage; its pinch deals physical damage and its bubble attack deals magical damage. It can also hide in its shell to halve the damage it takes, but it is unable to attack in this state and spends a turn to both enter and exit its shell. Depending on the situation, Matt and Natalie can either power through the crab's boosted defenses, focus on other enemies, or just take the opportunity to heal and buff themselves.

The Spiral Crab is quite weak to Bomb, significantly weak to Thunder, and extremely weak to Earth.

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

The Spiral Crab has two physical attacks, one of which has higher damage and critical chance while being slightly less accurate and easier to resist (due to being mostly Earth-based). It also has a pair of Water spells; Flood acts as its main damage spell, while its bubble attack is more accurate and capable of lowering the victim's Evade. It can also briefly hide in its shell to give itself a large Defence and Magic Defence buff, but this can be easily removed with Dispel effects or even turned against it with Tera Drill. Poison is another means of bypassing its defenses while simultaneously hitting one of its weaknesses.

The Spiral Crab is weak to Poison (both the element and the status), Thunder, and especially Earth. On the other hand, it is immune to Fire and Wind while greatly absorbing Water.

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

The Beach Crab is armed with three physical attacks; a non-elemental pinch, a half-Earth shell attack, and Geyser. The latter is its strongest attack, dealing mostly Water-based damage while also applying a stack of Wet to its target; however, it still isn't especially powerful. It can also hide in its shell to give itself Defend (and Regen on higher difficulty levels).

The Beach Crab resists Fire and Bomb while being immune to Wind and Water, however, it is very weak to Poison, Thunder, and Earth. It also has a vulnerability to the Poison status effect. With "More Foe Resistance" enabled, it loses its Thunder weakness and becomes immune to Stun.

Beach Crabs are noteworthy for having a 1% chance to drop Sushi; however, farming this way is not recommended.

Statistics

Epic Battle Fantasy

Spiral Crab	EBF

Statistics
Wave
13	22000 30000	1.2	1.2	1.2	1
14	20000 30000	1	1.2	1	1

Resistances
-	-	-100%	-	-120%	-	-	-	-70%

In EBF, foe stats are specifically set per wave, thus two foes of the same type may have different stats (resistances will still be the same). See EBF Foe Waves for a list of all foe waves.

Stats in brackets (below/right from actual) are for its pre-EBF Collection update version.

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

	Spiral Crab	Seafloor Dweller	EBF3
	Defensive creature which attacks with bursts of water.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	Gold
	140	4	4	4	4	4	3.5	26	2	15
Elemental Resistance
	100%	-60%	-	300%	100%	-70%	-60%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-	-	-
Name	Sea Shell	Bubble Stone	Earthball	-	-	-	-
Chance	80%	40%	20%	-	-	-	-

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

	Beach Crab	EBF4
	A defensive creature which uses water and earth attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	123	4	4	4	4	4	3.7	16	2	2	10	50
Elemental Resistance
	50%	-80%	-	-80%	-80%	50%	100%	100%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-50%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon						-	-
Name	Sea Shell	Seaweed	Solid Spike	Bubble Stone	Sushi	-	-
Chance	80%	20%	10%	5%	1%	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
3.5%	5.4% per stack, up to 48.6%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Beach Crab	EBF4
	A defensive creature which uses water and earth attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	123	4	4	4	4	4	3.7	16	2	2	10	50
Elemental Resistance
	50%	-	-	-80%	-80%	50%	100%	100%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	100%	-	-	-50%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon						-	-
Name	Sea Shell	Seaweed	Solid Spike	Bubble Stone	Sushi	-	-
Chance	80%	20%	10%	5%	1%	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
3.5%	5.4% per stack, up to 48.6%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Attacks and Abilities

Epic Battle Fantasy

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	R.Power	Type		Status Effect			RdF
Claw Strike	Single	2000	--			--	--	--	10%
Bubbles	Single	2000	--			--	--	--	10%
Shell Visit	Self	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
Notes: Retreats into its shell, halving all damage received but becoming unable to attack.
Get Out	Self	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
Notes: Comes out of its shell.

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Claw Strike	Single	23		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Shell Stab	Single	33		80%	--	--	--	90%	20%	10%
Bubbles	Single	18		100%	50%	30%		120%	0%	10%
Flood	Single	40		100%	--	--	--	100%	20%	10%
Shell Visit	Self	--	--	----	--	40% 40%		--	--	--

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Claw Strike	Single	22		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Shell Stab	Single	28		50%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Geyser	Single	30		80%	100%	1x		100%	10%	10%
Shell Visit	Self	--	--	----	--	--		--	--	--
Notes: On Hard and Epic difficulties, also applies 3x Regen.

Battle Logic

The following describes general logic of the enemy and attack patterns, with chances of each attack to be used. Conditions are listed from highest to lowest priority unless specified otherwise.

Epic Battle Fantasy

• Outside Shell → Claw Strike (1/3), Bubbles (1/3), Shell Visit (1/3);
• Inside Shell → Nothing (2/3), Get Out (1/3).

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

• Berserked → Claw Strike;
• Syphoned → Claw Strike (1/4), Shell Stab (1/4), Bubbles (1/4), Shell Visit (1/4);
• Otherwise → Claw Strike (1/5), Shell Stab (1/5), Bubbles (1/5), Flood (1/5), Shell Visit (1/5).

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

• Berserked → Shell Stab;
• Syphoned → Claw Strike (1/3), Shell Stab (1/3), Shell Visit (1/3);
• Otherwise → Claw Strike (1/4), Shell Stab (1/4), Geyser (1/4), Shell Visit (1/4).