Crustle was first seen as a Dwebble when Ash and company were on their journey towards Nacrene City in A Home for Dwebble!. Dwebble was busy making its house out of a rock, which Ash, Cilan and Iris were observing, but three more Dwebble appeared, attacked it and stole its rock, before escaping. Dwebble tried to chase after them but failed. Ash and the others witnessed the scene, and they tried to help Dwebble, but it was scared of the group and attempted to run off. Pikachu tried to assure it, but the Rock Inn Pokémon Dwebble mistook Pikachu for an enemy and attacked the Electric Mouse Pokémon with Slash. Pikachu dodged its attack and Dwebble struck a rock instead. A piece of the rock flew off and hit Pansage on the head. Dwebble felt bad and apologized to him. The gang tried to help it but Dwebble did not want any help and ran off. However, the group helped anyway, with Ash's Pidove searching from the sky and Pansage looking underground with Dig.
Dwebble later returned to the group and Cilan invited it to have dinner with them. During dinner, Pansage collapsed from a fever to which Ash suspected was caused by the rock that hit him earlier. Dwebble becomes overwhelmed with guilt. It later watched over Pansage as it slept and soon fell asleep right beside him. The next day, after Pansage had recovered, Dwebble decided to search for its rock. With the help of the gang, it defeated the other three Dwebble and got its rock back. Later, after the group said their goodbyes and started to walk away, Dwebble began to follow them wanting to be a part of Cilan's team. Cilan, saying that Dwebble was the perfect Pokémon for him, subsequently agreed and captured it.
In Oshawott's Lost Scalchop!, Dwebble fashioned a giant scalchop out of stone for Ash's Oshawott to use in place of the one he lost. At first, the scalchop was way to heavy for Oshawott to carry, much less use it in battle. It took some training, but Oshawott was able to use the scalchop successfully. However, it was destroyed during Ash's rematch with Stephan and his Blitzle.
In Battle For The Underground!, it was let out of his Poké Ball by Snivy when she found it amongst those that Team Rocket had stolen from the Nimbasa Pokémon center, to help everyone escape from Team Rocket's train, Pikachu asked him to use its corrosive fluid to burn through the door, allowing them all to escape.
In BW062, Dwebble was sent out to help battle against Team Rocket. When Woobat launched a Gust attack on it and Excadrill, Dwebble found it hard to hold its ground, but determined to carry on fighting, Dwebble mustered up its strength and began crawling against the Gust. After a few steps, to Cilan's excitement and everyone else's surprise, Dwebble evolved into Crustle. Emerging from the light, Crustle let out a roar, scaring Woobat and Team Rocket. Crustle then revealed itself to have learned Rock Wrecker by using it to block Woobat's Air Slash. Crustle launched another Rock Wrecker alongside Pikachu's Electro Ball at Team Rocket, forcing them to retreat.
Personality and characteristics
As a Dwebble, it could be described as a little Pokémon with a lot of heart. When its rock that it had worked hard on was stolen from it, it stopped at nothing to try and get it back, despite being outmatched and overpowered. Out of pride, Crustle did not want the dedication it took to make its home to be in vain and it refused to make a second one. It was also been shown to be fearful of humans at first. Crustle is also a very caring Pokémon as seen when it stayed up to watch after Pansage. Crustle seems especially happy to help out the other Pokémon, giving a salute to Pikachu when he asked for its help in Team Rocket's train.
On top of all that Crustle is smart and resourceful, using great tactics to win back its home and competently fixing it, whenever it needs fixing.
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.
Trivia
Crustle is the first Pokémon belonging to a main character to use its ability in the Best Wishes series.
The evolution from Dwebble to Crustle was first presented in the "Pikachu the Movie" poster for the fifteenth Pokémon movie, which was revealed about a month before BW062 premiered in Japan.
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For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Dwebble and Crustle.
