Common Passive

Everything is Crab Plated / Plating Guide

Raises plating for shield-like durability. Pair it first with Overwhelm and Carapace and test that relationship in the Chonk Body Slam route. Plating or delayed mitigation does not make no-hit conditions safe.

Plated iconPlated

Effect

Raises plating for shield-like durability.

Type
Passive
Rarity
Common
Affinities
Imposing

Practical use

Pair it first with Overwhelm and Carapace and test that relationship in the Chonk Body Slam route. Plating or delayed mitigation does not make no-hit conditions safe.

Plated / plating quick answer

Players searching plating usually need Armor, no-hit caveats, or defense-build planning. A July 19, 2026 Steam answer now makes one edge case explicit: losing plating still breaks Zen or other no-hit attempts.

Use Plated with Moulting, Shell, Spines, or recovery when the route needs repeatable damage buffers, but treat it as defense rather than an achievement loophole.

Related routes: Moulting Defense, Spines Reflect, Pressure 20 Complete.

Related pages

Continue into a playable route instead of stopping at a single evolution note.

Chonk Body Slam

Max HP, Size, Body Slam, food reach, POI leveling, and durability scaling. After 1.0.1, Robust is still useful but cannot be the whole tank plan.

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Spines Reflect

Contact-punishment routing built around Spines, plating, recovery, and controlled damage intake. Reflect is bonus damage, not permission to stop dodging.

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Moulting Defense

A defensive achievement route for 100 Coats and long fights: armor, shell value, recovery windows, and patient boss pacing.

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Overwhelm

Pair it first with Plated and Carapace and test that relationship in the Beginner First Clear route. Losing Plating also removes part of the damage payoff.

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Carapace

Pair it first with Plated and Shell and test that relationship in the Full Crab Carcinisation route. Plating or delayed mitigation does not make no-hit conditions safe.

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