The gimmick
What Kaiser Crab does
The one thing that defines this fight — read this before you draft your route.
A body flanked by two claws that layers heavy block while battering you with claw barrages. Destroying one claw reportedly makes the other surge with Strength and a wall of block for a turn, and clearing both ends the fight — so block management and bypassing armor are the core problems.
Game plan
How to beat Kaiser Crab
Ordered priorities for the fight. Tools shift by deck, but these beats hold across most archetypes.
- Decide whether to focus a claw or spread damage — killing a claw triggers the survivor's surge, so be ready to weather one big retaliation turn.
- Get through its block: AoE and multi-hit attacks chip armor far better than one big swing that the block soaks.
- Poison and other block-ignoring damage are the universal answer — they melt it regardless of how much armor it stacks.
- Save defensive resources for the claw-barrage turns; unblocked, those barrages shred decks that have no plan for them.
By character
Class-specific tips
How each kit leans into this matchup. Open a class hub for full builds and card priorities.
Poison is the classic cheese — it ticks straight through the crab's block stacks and ignores claw shielding entirely.
Multi-target Lightning and Frost let Defect contest both claws and the body without depending on landing one fat hit.
Verify
Sources
Roster and mechanics cross-checked against the official wiki and EA boss coverage: