Uca Crusher

It is unclear where these creatures came from - whether they were once ordinary crabs, or are some other horror that has emerged from the bottom of the sea. In battle, however, the Ucas are fearsome opponents, using their thick armour to ward off attacks while they slice open their victims' arteries.

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 [which can stack to 16 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. [They have 70% stun resist, so in order to do this you'd have stun chance increased beyond base values as a permanent strategy when dealing with veteran cove.]

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.