Creep-crab family

The creep-crab family consists of larger crustaceans often protected heavily by a shell or barrier.

Armurk


The Armurk is a large pillbug-like creature with solid armor that cannot be damaged no matter how many Pikmin are thrown at it. This armor covers almost all of its body except for its tail, which is usually out of reach since the boss is constantly facing leaders and their squad, and its belly, which cannot be reached when the bug is crawling on the floor. Its main attack involves raising its body to stomp down Pikmin, but this attack also exposes the belly, providing an opportunity to cause damage.

Charge Crawbster
The Charge Crawbster is a very powerful relative of the Segmented Crawbster. It attacks by charging up power to use a powerful ram attack.

Clambering Crawbster


It has red skin like its counterpart, the Segmented Crawbster, but it has a brown shell as opposed to a blue one like its relative. It has he ability to climb up walls and the ceiling because of the spikes that are now on its shell. It cannot be defeated the same way as you would for a Segmented Crawbster because it will end up climbing the wall. It still has the rolling attack of the segmented Crawbster though. If it manages to get on the wall, it will head towards the ceiling. Once on the ceiling, It can either smash the ceiling causing boulders to fall or it can fall off the ceiling, creating a large shock-wave that may malfunction your captain's suit.

Crystal Clawbstork
The Crystal Clawbstork looks like a Segmented Crawbster, except It has a pink-Red face, and the rest of its body is covered in, not a shell, but instead a thick, Goolix-like substance which acts as a barrier. Also, any non-blue pikmin that touches this liquid will start to drown. The Crystal Clawbstork can also smash pikmin into the ground with its claws, killing them on impact.

Earthquake Crawbster


The Earthquake Crawbster is a variant form of the Crawbster. This small Crawbster does not roll into Pikmin, instead, it curls up and bounces around when it sees them, creating shock-waves whenever it strikes the ground.

Flaming Crawbster


The Flaming Crawbster is red and orange with silver tipped arm spikes. Under one section of it's shell fire burst out like a rocket engine. It's whole body is on fire so it leaves fire behind when it moves. It is smaller than the Segmented Crawbster and when it hits a wall fewer boulders fall.

Jingle Raider


The Jingle Raider lobs chunks of ice from afar, which slide across the ground and freeze Pikmin when they get bowled over. Once the Pikmin are frozen, the Jingle Raider will start to reel them in with a powerful suction force, quickly picking them off with its central claw once the helpless Pikmin are close enough. The creature's hard exoskeleton prevents attacks from the front, so Pikmin must be thrown onto its exposed rear to damage it.

Noxious Crawbster


The Noxious Crawbster is a poisonous creep-crab.

Razor Blade
The Razor Blade is a small, yet highly dangerous subspecies of Creep-Crab with both electric and fire-based abilities.

Reconstructed Crawbster
The Reconstructed Crawbster is intentionally much harder to defeat than a normal Segmented Crawbster as it holds one of the Dark Spores. It's difficult to tell if the Reconstructed Crawbster is a half-natural-half-artificial chimera or a machine modeled after normal Segmented Crawbsters. To bring it down, the same general strategy is used: get it to roll into a wall, then throw Pikmin at its vulnerable underside before it manages to defend itself.

Revengeful Crawbster


The Revengeful Crawbster is truly the Segmented Crawbster after the first encounter with Captain Olimar. Currently it is more sickly and learned from the last fight, showing a higher level of intelligence.

Segmented Crawbster


The Segmented Crawbster is a crab-like creature has one large arm and an exceedingly smaller left arm. It also has a rather thick shell protecting it. This creature rolls after the active leader, occasionally crushing Pikmin with its hard shell. If it crashes into a wall, it can cause boulders to fall. It will then struggle to get back up in an upright position, and while doing so will expose its weak spot: its flashing underbelly. Eventually, it will then get back up and swing its large arm around back and forth two or so times and continue its assault. Once defeated, the Segmented Crawbster will groan and squeal as it is underbelly explodes violently, spewing goo particles all over the immediate vicinity.

Young Crawbster


A juvenile form of the Segmented Crawbster, this small Creep-crab rolls straight at your Pikmin when it sees them, knocking them away and turning them into leaf Pikmin. It can be a bit of a nuisance when being fought in groups. It is often found with adult Crawbsters.