Crustle
BugRock
Best attacking moveset: Fury Cutter and Rock Wrecker, worth 11.7 damage per second against a neutral target.
Best moveset
Crustle can learn 8 combinations. Fury Cutter with Rock Wrecker does the most damage per second of them, at level 40 with a perfect attack stat. Same-type moves get the 1.2× bonus, and the cycle assumes the charged attack fires the moment it has the energy.
Stats and moves come straight from the game's own data files. Every number on this page is a raid and gym number, not a PvP one.
Type matchups
| Fast attack | Type | Power | Duration | Energy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fury Cutter | Bug | 4 | 0.5s | +8 |
| Smack Down | Rock | 13 | 1.0s | +7 |
| Charged attack | Type | Power | Duration | Energy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Blast | Rock | 50 | 2.0s | -33 |
| Rock Slide | Rock | 75 | 2.5s | -50 |
| Rock Wrecker | Rock | 110 | 3.5s | -50 |
| X Scissor | Bug | 45 | 1.5s | -33 |
Shiny
Yes. Shiny Crustle has been released. Players have found it from: wild, research, evolution, photobomb.
Evolution family
Numbers
| Max CP | 2,874 at level 50, 2,542 at level 40 |
|---|---|
| Raid catch | 1,452 CP at level 20, or 1,815 if weather boosted (perfect IVs) |
| Lowest possible raid catch | 1,381 CP. Raid encounters can't roll below 10/10/10 |
| Base stats | 188 attack · 200 defense · 172 stamina |
What it costs
| Candy to evolve | 25 Candy |
|---|---|
| Second charged move | 10,000 Stardust and 25 Candy |
| Buddy distance | 1 km per Candy |
| Purify a Shadow one | 1,000 Stardust and 1 Candy |
| Size | 1.4 m and 200 kg |
Best moveset against each type
Crustle does not have one best moveset, it has 3. Which one wins depends on what you are attacking, because a move only gets its bonus against something weak to it. Best against Bug, Ice, Flying.
| Against | Best moveset | DPS |
|---|---|---|
| Bug | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 17.2 |
| Ice | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 17.2 |
| Smack Down + Rock Wrecker | 17.0 | |
| Fire | Smack Down + Rock Wrecker | 17.0 |
| Grass | Fury Cutter + X Scissor | 15.6 |
| Psychic | Fury Cutter + X Scissor | 15.6 |
| Dark | Fury Cutter + X Scissor | 15.6 |
| Normal | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 11.7 |
| Rock | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 11.7 |
| Water | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 11.7 |
| Electric | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 11.7 |
| Dragon | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 11.7 |
| Poison | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 10.8 |
| Ghost | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 10.8 |
| Fairy | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 10.8 |
| Ground | Fury Cutter + X Scissor | 10.5 |
| Fighting | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 7.5 |
| Steel | Fury Cutter + Rock Wrecker | 7.5 |
Same maths as the headline number, run once per defending type: level 40, perfect attack IV, and the target's own type taken into account. Sorted by damage, so the top of this table is what Crustle is actually for.
Counters: what beats Crustle
| Attacker | Type | Moveset | DPS |
|---|---|---|---|
 Metagross | SteelPsychic | Bullet Punch + Meteor Mash Legacy | 25.1 |
 Inteleon | Water | Water Gun + Hydro Cannon Legacy | 24.7 |
 Kyogre | Water | Waterfall + Origin Pulse Legacy | 24.6 |
 Tinkaton | FairySteel | Fairy Wind + Gigaton Hammer Legacy | 24.4 |
 Glimmora | RockPoison | Rock Throw + Meteor Beam | 24.3 |
 Rampardos | Rock | Smack Down + Rock Slide | 24.1 |
 Lucario | FightingSteel | Force Palm + Meteor Mash Legacy | 23.8 |
 Kingler | Water | Bubble + Crabhammer | 23.4 |
 Greninja | WaterDark | Water Shuriken + Hydro Cannon Legacy | 23.3 |
 Eternatus | PoisonDragon | Dragon Tail + Dynamax Cannon Legacy | 22.8 |
Ranked by damage per second against Crustle's own defense, at level 40 with a 15 attack IV, one per evolution family.