Uca Crusher

Among the society of the Pelagics are the Ucas, a race of gigantic crabs who adorn themselves with the pieces of shipwrecks. In battle, these Pelagic crustaceans are fearsome opponents, while they trade their direct damage capabilities for a more defensive approach, they prefer to play a long waiting game filled with stunning blows so their enemies can bleed themselves out while they desperately try to damage their sturdy shells.

Whenever a unsuspecting ship trespasses on the sacred waters of the Pelagic creatures below, these hulking crustaceans use their powerful claws to pierce the ship's hull with ease and allows his brethren to enter sinking ship and feast on the unfortunate sailors as a source of food or raise their lifeless corpses for their own sinister purposes against any other brave or foolish sailor or hero alike who dare journey through their domain.

It unclear were these creatures came from, some say that these creatures were ordinary crabs until Ancestor open the Portal and awoke Thing, it evil and corruption started to leak into seas, twisting and mutating local sea life. Other say that the Pelagics created these creatures for some sinister purposes. Other more crazier rumors say that these creatures were once human until they were sacrificed the Pelagics’ Sea God and those who survived became this ritual became this armored beasts. However considering that many of the unholy, fungal infected, bloodsucking, or other nightmarish horrors that stalk the Estate were human once in some form or other this theory is not seems so far-fetched.

Behavior
The Uca Crusher is an Eldritch type and the Large enemy of the Cove. Ucas don't do as much direct damage as the other Large enemies. However, their Tidal Slam ability has a higher than average critical chance, and will knock your front row heroes to the back of the line and stun them, effectively disabling melee focused units for several turns. Furthermore, while Arterial Pinch does very low damage, it causes massive bleeding: 8 damage a round in Veteran levels and 10 in Champion levels. Arterial Pinch also has a chance to debuff the target's Healing Received, which can put the target in a situation in which Death's Door is unavoidable. With a high HP pool and PROT stat, Ucas take quite a while to kill - keep them stunned if possible, and hit them with blight attacks to bypass their armour.

The Plague Doctor is an excellent hero for dealing with this enemy - She can easily cure the Uca's dangerous bleed attacks with Battlefield Medicine, and can also deal heavy blight damage. If your party does not have an easy way to deal with Arterial Pinch, it is recommended to bring a few bandages to any Veteran or Champion Cove mission.

Abilities
This enemy does not appear in Apprentice level dungeons. Veteran =

Champion =

Trivia

 * With one of its claw being larger than the other, the Uca Crusher resembles the characteristic of fiddler crabs, which are semi-terrestrial marine crabs that make up the genus Uca.
 * That being said, the Uca Crusher is a male crab.
 * Despite not appearing in Apprentice level dungeon, the game still contains the Uca Crusher's Apprentice level variant like all other monsters in the game. The Apprentice level variant for the Uca Crusher is refered to as Uca Major according to string files.