Crusty

Super Mario RPG enemy
Crusty
Role	Common
Location(s)	Sea, Sunken Ship
HP	80
Attack	100
Magic attack	12
Defense	100
Magic defense	35
Speed	6
Spells	None
Sp. attacks	Mute Light Beam
Items	Honey Syrup (25%), Royal Syrup (5%)
Exp. points	25
Coins	7
More FP 100 Evade 0% Magic evade 0% Strong Jump Weak Fire, Thunder Bonus Flower Attack Up! (80%) Yoshi Cookie Bracer Morph rate 75%
Psychopath
"Look at THIS!"

In-game sprite of a Crusty underwater, with its pink coloration never revealed.

Crusty is a powerful crab-like crustacean that lives underwater, typically in the waters in and around Jonathan Jones' Sunken Ship during the events of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Crustys resemble another spiked monster, the Spikey, but the two are unrelated. A Crusty actually has a pink exoskeleton; however, since they can only be found underwater, they appear blue and their real coloration is never seen.

Crustys are very powerful monsters but are also very rare; they can only be found aiding other types of underwater monsters in battle. These monstrous crustaceans have high physical attack and high physical defense. A Crusty uses its massive pincers to inflict severe damage to an opponent 2/3 of the time, or fires a light bubble 1/3 of the time that does no damage, but with the effect of inflicting Silence. Crustys do not have any magic.

Although Crustys have high physical defense, their magical defense is low, and they are weak to Fire and Thunder. As such, Mario and Mallow can dispose of them fairly easily, especially once the latter has learned Shocker. Crustys are related to the more powerful Star Crusters.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	カーニィ Kānī	From 「カニ」kani, the Japanese word for "crab"