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.
Bobbit by itself is S. Boss lockdown with boosted damage can make or break a fight. The bobbit mantis combo is double SS. Locked down boss taking increased damage getting blasted by the mantis punch. So good!
I just found something peculiar about this adaptation. If you kill the crab from bleached city while its still trapped by the bobbit, it will not resurrect/molt at all.
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
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
That's not a wave thing, that's a skill tree effect, which makes ANY Umami kill (Including spearfishing stuff, for some reason) give back 1 point of Umami
1:57 I've done some testing, if I'm not mistaken both Royal Wave and Bobbit Trap (at level 3) increase damage taken by 25%. Personally I don't consider the debuff to be a huge deal, the duration is really short so sometimes you might not be able to take advantage of it if you're unlucky. It still deals really good damage but I think Bobbit Trap is better (unless you can oneshot enemies with Royal Wave), it deals the same damage per Umami spent when both are at level 3, and the trapping effect additionally lets you take advantage of the damage boost much more easily. Tactical Tentacle is still the best by a mile lmao.
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
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
@@TheeFURNAS_ Yep, completely missed the dude because on the path to his bossfight, I fell down a pit to get some rewards and forgot there was another path that led to topoda. Didn't find the guy until much later and realized how close I was to actually finding him.
I spent ages trying to find the way into the second half, even accidentally ending up in the ornament cave through Flotsam Vale, still not finding the way into the village, and only found it (And Topoda by proxy) shortly after looking it up after beating Petroch So yeah, as the idiot I am I have proven quite easily that this fight is very much optional
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.
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.
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.
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
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
I never used it cuz I hated how hard it was to actually hit, which makes me kinda sad I never upgraded it, since unupgraded it will virtually never hit unless you are in a very specific range and the enemy doesn't move. Still, hard to argue with that, wish I upped it to see the magnetism
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.
Mantis claw is my favourite right now. With the sinker stowaway whatever doesn't instantly die to the claw is capsized for an easy riposte. Not to mention its pretty fun to use too
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.
The cool part about reading the comments and stuff is a lot people ended up mainly using completely different adaptations. I steam rolled the last like 4,5 bosses with maxxed out attack, maxxed out fork, 2 of the of the hammer damage stowaways. I'd shock them with the eel, they get sunned for a good while, it also does damage and posture damage so I'd do their entire health-bar without them even really being able to move after two of them and capsizing them once or twice.
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
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
Mantis punch is an S tier no doubt. I beat the game with it on ever since I got it . The argument with the long charge time and getting hit during it can be disproven by using level three to hit the enemy after an attack to get free balance and normal damage. Basically it’s S tier if you are good.
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.
Imo Mantis Punch is easy S Tier. Yeah it does have the downside of a long wind up but once you hit level 3 you really have no reason to even be taking hits unless the boss either has a ranged attack or a way to close distance fast. Even with literally 0 MSG investment it did good damage, a ton of stagger damage, can capsize enemies if the posture damage would have filled their bar, has insane hyper armor, and is a crazy gap closer. I abused it throughout the game and loved it every time I used it
Royal wave is S tier it only costs 1 umami charge and does a lot of damage when fully upgraded. It’s by far the best value in terms of damage for umami cost
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
Eelectrocute is absolutely disgusting If you have a lot of umami charge and a sinker you can basically stunlock every enemy including bosses it made the final boss rush and absolute cakewalk
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
@@TheeFURNAS_ Yep, the only reason I can see it wouldn’t get best Indie Game is if HK Silksong releases before the Game Awards this year. That’s it. No exceptions.
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!
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
royal wave is honestly the most deserving of S tier tho. the damage debuff lasts long enough to get some good hits in, but it is much better used when combined with something like your hammer if you use it plus a tentacle. try and and you'll see it just melts bosses left and right even more so than literally just playing the game. it's already easy enough but this just basically makes every boss easy mode. that and the damage debuff also acts on another royal wave, allowing you to reset the debuff, get huge damage in, and even more damage since the wave itself does so much more damage than a regular charged attack at base. Wave and mantis shrimp is a really good combo too, just not as broken as tentacle and wave
I know a godly thing about how the special stab during Capsize works, which is that it doesn't *stop* an attack that is already out, it just stops the *animation*, so I abused Royal Wave into instant cutscene stab to get an instant damage boost I even maxed it out in order to make it even easier to hit and give it more power, complete with being cheaper as well, I think it's the best one in the game, pretty much running only it and Eel power the moment I could (I built HEAVILY for stun, so more stun + attack interruption = goated)
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 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 😭
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.
new strat unlocked 👀
Something is wrong with you get some therapy and why is royal wave not #1
Bobbit by itself is S. Boss lockdown with boosted damage can make or break a fight.
The bobbit mantis combo is double SS. Locked down boss taking increased damage getting blasted by the mantis punch. So good!
I just found something peculiar about this adaptation. If you kill the crab from bleached city while its still trapped by the bobbit, it will not resurrect/molt at all.
THANK YOU. I LITERALLY SEE NOBODY USE IT
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
oh wow, never thought to just chain something like that over and over. pretty nuts!
Not only that, but the trap and mantis punch has like a lot of damage, and if the trap still lasts, you can spam your fork.
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 didn't know that about the refunding per kill for the wave, that's kind of nuts
That's not a wave thing, that's a skill tree effect, which makes ANY Umami kill (Including spearfishing stuff, for some reason) give back 1 point of Umami
1:57 I've done some testing, if I'm not mistaken both Royal Wave and Bobbit Trap (at level 3) increase damage taken by 25%. Personally I don't consider the debuff to be a huge deal, the duration is really short so sometimes you might not be able to take advantage of it if you're unlucky. It still deals really good damage but I think Bobbit Trap is better (unless you can oneshot enemies with Royal Wave), it deals the same damage per Umami spent when both are at level 3, and the trapping effect additionally lets you take advantage of the damage boost much more easily.
Tactical Tentacle is still the best by a mile lmao.
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
very true. It's definitely an important one. I just wish the wind up was faster
@@TheeFURNAS_ imagine how coddamn op it would ber to spam this tho. The main reason its slow is so its not too op (even tho it still is)
You can actually slime rancher style jump over that block, getting to that area early
@@Teh_Sk3llyalso if you rush down wavebreaker like I did you can grapple to the archer crabs on the platform that the umami block opens up to
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
btw since you didnt get to use the bobbit trap it can actually also trap bosses giving you time to get in high damage.
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
Wait really? I feel like skipping Topoda would be such a dumb move. Upgrading is so helpful and mantis punch literally unlocks so many paths.
@@TheeFURNAS_ Yep, completely missed the dude because on the path to his bossfight, I fell down a pit to get some rewards and forgot there was another path that led to topoda. Didn't find the guy until much later and realized how close I was to actually finding him.
I spent ages trying to find the way into the second half, even accidentally ending up in the ornament cave through Flotsam Vale, still not finding the way into the village, and only found it (And Topoda by proxy) shortly after looking it up after beating Petroch
So yeah, as the idiot I am I have proven quite easily that this fight is very much optional
I saw miniature and was like 'yo why Adam Neely is playing Crab 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.
All these comments are making me want to replay the game with an Umami build instead of ATK
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.
That’s kind of genius actually
i actually used the one that gives you a shell like sooooo much and it won me almost all the bosses after petroch
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.
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
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
I wish I unlocked it much sooner. Seems OP from the few times I've used it against mobs
I never used it cuz I hated how hard it was to actually hit, which makes me kinda sad I never upgraded it, since unupgraded it will virtually never hit unless you are in a very specific range and the enemy doesn't move. Still, hard to argue with that, wish I upped it to see the magnetism
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.
good points for sure
Snail Sanctum + boost damage shell its very strong to kill giante crab on the end game. just need 14 bullets to kill it.
Mantis claw is my favourite right now. With the sinker stowaway whatever doesn't instantly die to the claw is capsized for an easy riposte. Not to mention its pretty fun to use too
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.
Good point. It's definitely not a bad option. I still prefer to rock other shells and adaptations though.
You can also put it on your hammer if you want the damage and stun
The cool part about reading the comments and stuff is a lot people ended up mainly using completely different adaptations. I steam rolled the last like 4,5 bosses with maxxed out attack, maxxed out fork, 2 of the of the hammer damage stowaways. I'd shock them with the eel, they get sunned for a good while, it also does damage and posture damage so I'd do their entire health-bar without them even really being able to move after two of them and capsizing them once or twice.
Well said. The build variety in this game is surprisingly deep.
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
How did I manage to not get mantis punch but also never upgrade adaptations in my whole run
Sameeeeeee
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
Mantis punch is an S tier no doubt. I beat the game with it on ever since I got it . The argument with the long charge time and getting hit during it can be disproven by using level three to hit the enemy after an attack to get free balance and normal damage. Basically it’s S tier if you are good.
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.
Imo Mantis Punch is easy S Tier. Yeah it does have the downside of a long wind up but once you hit level 3 you really have no reason to even be taking hits unless the boss either has a ranged attack or a way to close distance fast. Even with literally 0 MSG investment it did good damage, a ton of stagger damage, can capsize enemies if the posture damage would have filled their bar, has insane hyper armor, and is a crazy gap closer. I abused it throughout the game and loved it every time I used it
fair points all around!
Royal wave is S tier it only costs 1 umami charge and does a lot of damage when fully upgraded. It’s by far the best value in terms of damage for umami cost
i unlocked urchin as soon as you could, i explore a lot. its easily S tier.
I really should just go re-fight Firth with a couple of these
if you want to try these adaptaions on a boss, you can always rematch firth
Very good point. For some reason I didn’t think of that 😅
Bobbit Trap destroys Firth
You can rematch firth???
That's so nice to know, I was so dissappinted that I destroyed him with bobbit trap
I loved pairing the trap with the tentacle, insane combo.
never tried that but it does sound nice. Does the trap work on bosses the way it works on normal enemies?
@@TheeFURNAS_ yeah it stuns them in place and does the tick damage also
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
Why do you say the royal wave uses a bunch of umami? It's base cost is 2 charges and when upgraded its only 1 charge
honestly idk, might've just been a sloppy mistake 😅
Eelectrocute is absolutely disgusting If you have a lot of umami charge and a sinker you can basically stunlock every enemy including bosses it made the final boss rush and absolute cakewalk
Not to mention how effective it is during regular exploration taking care of groups of enemies at a distant
once you start mantis punching with three sinkers you can never go back
mantis punch really did carry my entire playthrough once I got it haha
Omg im not alone on the Tactical Tentacle as the best in the game.
Once I got it to max, that shit clears casually.
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
I swear if ACT doesn’t get at least 1 award this year I’ll throw a fit
It really does deserve it!
@@TheeFURNAS_ Yep, the only reason I can see it wouldn’t get best Indie Game is if HK Silksong releases before the Game Awards this year. That’s it. No exceptions.
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
Bobitt trap is the I use it on bosses so I can leave and heal
smart tbh
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
Some good points in here for sure!
royal wave is honestly the most deserving of S tier tho. the damage debuff lasts long enough to get some good hits in, but it is much better used when combined with something like your hammer if you use it plus a tentacle. try and and you'll see it just melts bosses left and right even more so than literally just playing the game. it's already easy enough but this just basically makes every boss easy mode. that and the damage debuff also acts on another royal wave, allowing you to reset the debuff, get huge damage in, and even more damage since the wave itself does so much more damage than a regular charged attack at base. Wave and mantis shrimp is a really good combo too, just not as broken as tentacle and wave
I know a godly thing about how the special stab during Capsize works, which is that it doesn't *stop* an attack that is already out, it just stops the *animation*, so I abused Royal Wave into instant cutscene stab to get an instant damage boost
I even maxed it out in order to make it even easier to hit and give it more power, complete with being cheaper as well, I think it's the best one in the game, pretty much running only it and Eel power the moment I could (I built HEAVILY for stun, so more stun + attack interruption = goated)
Urchin toss is s tear lol
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
bobbit trap+ mantis punch. thank me later
Umami tentacle is so absurdly overpowered i had to downgrade it to level 2 so i didnt feel like i was cheating
Royal Wave is SSS Tier. You're wrong.
fair enough lol
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 😭
nah it took me a while to figure out adaptations also. I barely used them until like halfway through the game.
Bro did not cook 💀
In my opinion mantis ponuth should be s tier
U mean woke morals
@@retr0flex 🤡