Another Crab's Treasure Adaptations Guide & Tier List 

Trap is 100% S tier. Debuff + no moving+ okay damage + low cost, you literally cannot go wrong. If you put on phytoplankton+ with Bobbit, you can actually kill every single boss without it attacking you. And if you wanna do it quickly, just pair it with mantis claw.

Mantis claw S tier if you use it right insanely high damage no matter what build your using and it unlocks several secret areas and also allows you to get the tentacle adaptation

The bobbit worm is easy mode on basically any boss or enemy that touches the ground. You can use it to cancel their moves, give time to heal or get new shell/hammer, and (what I mainly used it for) holding them in place just long enough for a charged attack/multiple light attacks for balance damage like crazy. Add the sponge and those multiple light attacks gives you another bobbit worm for free. I would summon tentacle and then bobbit them into oblivion.

Been running a pure msg build, pistol shrimp goes HARD with that talent that refunds you umami. The talent itself buffs your msg dmg by an insane amount, so you can effectively steamroll through locations gunning everyone down without ever really being at risk. I think this is THE best adaptation for common enemies in the game. Against bosses nothing beats royal wave spam. At 1 cost it allows you to wave, get in 4 attacks with the knife stowaway and repeat for crazy dps. Additional cool fact about the wave: each enemy killed will refund an umami point so you can gain like 3-4 umami points if you use it on isopods in the unfathom. Very pog

I’ve done a magic run and nothing is more satisfying than 1 shoting mobs with royal wave 98 msg and get the charge back right after

The trap is S tier for me. I killed last 5-6 bosses with it first try. They just don’t do anything for seconds while you are attacking them and while attacking you are restoring umami. So you basically just get close to enemies and spam the ability. I don’t even know what the last several bosses’ moves were, they where trapped most of the time

topada is actually optional, i didn't find him until after beating the game. i really just got the map piece from heikea and yeeted myself out of there

btw since you didnt get to use the bobbit trap it can actually also trap bosses giving you time to get in high damage.

i actually used the one that gives you a shell like sooooo much and it won me almost all the bosses after petroch

Omg im not alone on the Tactical Tentacle as the best in the game. Once I got it to max, that shit clears casually.

As a power only build, bobbit trap was s tier until I found tactical tentacle. Mantis punch and the electric eel are b tier only because of their use outside of bosses and exploring the map. Bubble gun is c tier cause I only ever used it to lower an enemy’s health from a distance to make it slightly easier when I was traversing without heals. Royal wave is d tier because the duration of the damage buff was never long enough to warrant its umami usage, and the urchin is last cause I didn’t find out about it till the end of the game

Actually the Snail Sanctum can be made pretty overpowered by slapping on two +2 Welks and a siphonophore and maxing out your umami level to 30. Its shell ability uses up durability instead of umami charges, so you can just spam the twinkle ability. I tested it, and its enough to get you through the whole game. Even bosses will go down easily with it.

I ran tripple weights.(stagger/knockdown buff) and mantis punch knocked bosses down 100 percent of the time and pear that with the skill that lets you do a crit hit when you stun enemies and you take away half the bosses health in the first 5 seconds

I actually find the shell really well. Though I do rock the helmet on my back every fight I use the umami shell on my fork. Anyone wondering how I do this, you just press down on the d-pad if you're playing on console, it'll swap your back and fork shells.

I saw miniature and was like 'yo why Adam Neely is playing Crab game?'

eel is so S tier for how much damage it lets you do with fork without fear of being hit. it can also be used to not just stun but interrupt attacks enemies are charging

if you want to try these adaptaions on a boss, you can always rematch firth

i unlocked urchin as soon as you could, i explore a lot. its easily S tier.

Ok so you gotta hear me out. The Snail Sanctum is a shell, right? And with the self repair upgrade, if you take shell damage, the damage you deal is healed back, right? And the Sanctum doesnt use Umami Charges for spells, instead pulling directly from the shells health... See where im goin? If you let and enemy even slightly hit the shell, and then cast magic, any shell health used to cast the spell is immediately healed by the damage caused. I beat Firth second try with this technique. And since it never uses Umami, you can summon another one if it breaks with no worries. Its so busted.

A popular combo I see is Mantis Punch then when a boss is capsized, use Royal Swipe. As you can just wail on the Boss you can get a lot of value out of the swipe

The urchin was the second adaptation i got amd i used it in my fight against grove keeper topoda, it is a very useful adaptation that id out at high A tier to low S

How did I manage to not get mantis punch but also never upgrade adaptations in my whole run

The bubble gun is not necessarily good for damage, it's really just for keeping up capsize pressure for times when you jeed to heal, or quickly capsizing something when you've done enough capsize damage to it. With that said, I think the bubble gun is great at keeping up pressure and capsizing things when going for a heavy attack would be too risky.

You didn't mention the best quality of the Umami shield: when equipped, your shell ability as well as other adaptations use up durability instead of umami charges. Given that they use up very little durability, it's almost like having infinite casts.

my run right now is my first one, and my go to combo is royal wave + tentacle with a hammer and it fucks up literally every boss. it makes the game easier than it already is. it makes the bosses last like 15 seconds, and it helps that i have close to if not equal msg (umami) and strength stats which boosts everything up so much more. bleached castle boss second phase went down super quickly because of my build. Bless Chitan for telling us about mantis shrimp guy, otherwise barely anyone would go to find him. I have used the built in umami shell a couple times too, because if you compare the stats to other shells, it's honestly one of the best shells in the game having the same stats as your home shell (only found this out in shell collection) being only a medium. I don't mind being a little encumbered so it's perfect having a 150 health shell with 50 def and a good spell at the ready at all times.

Snail Sanctum + boost damage shell its very strong to kill giante crab on the end game. just need 14 bullets to kill it.

I loved pairing the trap with the tentacle, insane combo.

Bro I didn’t know that the claw you had to actually activate, I fought 3 bosses before knowing that I could use her claw as a hit. I was panicking and hit it on accident 😭

Look you've got some good insight but as a person who did a 30attack first then 30msg in two separate runs I can say with certainty the msg is the superior stat and with the bomb and bubble gun at 30msg and the get a charge when you kill with a spell you can just piggyback the bonus and one shot most all lowend enemies or a whole load of harder enemies. The tentacle is only S with both attack and msg, you gotta look at which stat could do the fastest run and while msg is a harder run to build it has much more reward. Even with the lug nut and two rusty nail pluses you get a lower highest stat from attack with the moon snail +15 overall you can get some really crazy late game stuff. Really what is S depends on which stat or stats you build but go make an msg file and try it, I promise that mine and gun with 10 resistance got me some insane stowaway combos and made farming plastics like I was using the assist gun. Thanks for supporting AggroCrab and ACT!

Hope you make. SHELL Tier List

my favorite combo and the one i used on the final boss was tentacle + mantis claw with sinker ++ sinker+ and sinker with red solo cup to maximize stun damage, starting the tentacle then immediately using mantis punch did like half his health and stunned him followed up by the take down attack phase 1 was done, i just did the same shit phase 2 and it was over

Bobbit trap holds an enemy in place and increases damage taken, it’s ridiculously good on bosses and the fact it’s so far away from anywhere you’re likely to go is a shame

Umami tentacle is so absurdly overpowered i had to downgrade it to level 2 so i didnt feel like i was cheating

Yeah Bobbit trap and Tactical Tentacle are broken. Ive been doing a challenge run where i can't use a shell or level up. these two adaptions make it possible to get a boss down to half health before they even get a chance to attack you. Completely busted combo

Bro did not cook 💀