FREE TO PLAY TIPS: What hat’s best for your crab?

TL;DR speed hats for small crabs, your best damage modifying hats for your fat crabs.

You may have noticed that in King of Crabs, your crabs get to wear hats. And, as much as you may want to don the rarest hat in your collection, or the most attractive one that appeals to your aesthetic sensibilities, the truth is, these hats can have a profound impact on gameplay – so for the best* experience, you should not be picking your hats flippantly.

Best* = dying the least number of times.

Thankfully, if you can’t for the life of you figure out what hat goes best with your crab, there’s this neat guide to help with your selection.

In the game, there’s only two responses to any engagement: that is to fight or take flight. No matter how stacked your small crabs are (i.e. anything under the Super Rare category), you will not win in a straight up fight with the big crabs, smol crabs are simply that weak. Conversely, if you’re running a fat crab, be ready to brawl your way into attrition because you can (and thus should). So, throw away your thinking hats because the solution is simple:

Common Crabs: Use speed hats

Use whichever is stronger. You are small and nimble. Make use of this to dodge unwinnable fights and escape hot pursuits by weaving in and out of AI crabs and terrain.

Rare Crabs: Use speed hats

In this category, there are still more crabs that are stronger than you, so the ability to flee a scene is more important than standing your ground. Again, use whichever hat you have that is stronger. 

Super Rare Crabs: Use damage modifying hats

If your damage hats are strong enough, go with them, because as a super rare crab, you should be able to hold your own even against the mega rare crabs. Otherwise, run the speed hats until your damage hats are worth wearing.

Mega Rare Crabs: Use damage modifying hats

Samurai helmet, ALWAYS, unless it’s woefully under-levelled and you have the Viking helmet or voodoo skull at level 3. Otherwise, there is no contest. The Samurai helmet is objectively the best helmet you can don in game. If all crabs attack at the same rate, any modifier that increases your chance at scoring a critical hit will always be valued higher than a modifier to your base damage.

Honourable Mentions

If you’re new to the game, the pizza hat is probably one of the few hats that’s available to you from the get-go. If your crab’s starting out at under 30% (size), you may consider picking this (or Uncle Sam). Remaining small is the bane of all crabs and players, and the less time you spend that way, the better.

Maybe it’s a nod to the developers, Robot Squid, but the squid hat is unique enough to warrant a mention. An XP boost is valuable if you’re trying to beat the grind and climb the progression tree to a Crab Emperor. Not something any healthy gamer should aspire to, but hey, to each his own.

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