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Just a heads-up, this is also partially a rant/vent journal. I am looking for advice on how to handle this situation as I deal with it on a daily basis, leaving me feeling unappreciated.

I need ideas for handling a "Credit Gobbler" situation.

Not sure what that is? It's a person who takes all the credit for someone else's accomplishments, gobbling up all of the attention or praise.

Confronting them doesn't seem to work.
One person (same person every time) takes credit for everything I accomplish while in their presence.
Seriously, they'll sit there and tell our friends that they single-handedly did all the work without acknowledging me or the other people who helped.
When confronted, they'll partially admit that we helped, but only to us and no one else... then end with "but I still did the most" or "but if it weren't for me, it wouldn't have turned out so great".
I've even produced hard evidence proving that they don't match our level of effort or accomplish more than we do... and they still take the spotlight.

Everyone we know thinks he's a bigshot.
No one takes help from the rest of us or values our opinions because of it - even if we have much more knowledge about something that he knows very little about. He'll just take what he's heard us talk about and say it, word for word, to the others without understanding what he just told them.

Their ego is the most obnoxious part of their personality and it's also the most hurtful.
I have to be with this person every single day and I don't know what else to do.
His actions are affecting the entire team and no one believes us when we try to clear the air and show them his true colors.
He just feeds them more lies and they eat it all up, putting the rest of the team down in the process.

Even when things go wrong because of him, he somehow twists the situation around and makes us believe it was our fault. We still haven't figured out how the heck he does that, but in the end... we're the ones apologizing to him.

How do you even handle a person like that?
They have an impenetrable force-field of egotistical narcissism.