Difficulty

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Pikmin 3 Deluxe and Pikmin 4 each have 3 difficulty modes, called creature Activity Level modes in Pikmin 4. These modes alter aspects of the game in order to adjust how easy or hard it is.

In Pikmin 3 Deluxe, upon creating a save file, the player will be prompted to choose a difficulty. There are 3 options: Normal (ふつう^?), Hard (むずかしい^?), and Ultra-Spicy (ゲキカラ^?), in increasing order of difficulty. Ultra-Spicy difficulty is unlocked once the player has completed Story Mode in Hard difficulty, or completed the demo. At any point in the story, in the saved game selection menu, the player can press to change a file's difficulty, but doing so prevents the player from earning any badge related to completing Story Mode in a given difficulty, in that file. If the player uses this option to change to the same difficulty the file is already at, nothing will happen.

In Pikmin 4, upon creating a save file, the player will be prompted to choose a creature Activity Level. There are 3 options: Relaxed, Normal, and Fierce, in increasing order of difficulty. The creature Activity Level can be changed at any time in the settings menu, but doing so sets the difficulty shown at the final results menu of that saved game to the lowest difficulty set for the run, even if the difficulty was changed back.

In Pikmin 3 Deluxe

Differences

The following is a list of known differences between difficulty modes. The Wii U version of Pikmin 3, which is most similar to Pikmin 3 Deluxe's Hard difficulty, is included for comparison's sake.

Subject	Normal	Hard	Ultra-Spicy	Wii U
Day duration	18 minutes	13 minutes	13 minutes	13 minutes
Fruit juice	100%	100%	50%	100%
Total juice bottles	98	98	50.5	98
Enemy health	Enemies usually have lower health than on the Wii U	Most enemies have twice as much health than on Normal difficulty	Enemies have either the same or higher health than on Hard difficulty	N/A
Nectar eggs in the Garden of Hope	13	5	0	0
Pikmin limit	100	100	60	100
Pikmin drowning time	≈11 seconds	≈6 seconds	≈3 seconds	≈6 seconds
Sprayed Pikmin drowning time	≈5 seconds	≈2 seconds	≈1 second	≈2 seconds
Leader health	≈1.5 times the usual	Same as on the Wii U	Same as on the Wii U	N/A
Data files	All opened when collected	Only some opened when collected	Only some opened when collected	All opened when collected

In other game modes

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Internally, other game modes use rules based off of specific difficulty modes. Each stage is capable of specifying what difficulty mode it uses.

Badges

There are three badges the player can gain from completing Story Mode on any given difficulty, without changing it at any point.

• Pikmin Challenger: Obtained by beating Story Mode on Normal, Hard, or Ultra-Spicy difficulty.
• Pikmin Professional: Obtained by beating Story Mode on Hard or Ultra-Spicy difficulty.
• Pikmin Master: Obtained by beating Story Mode on Ultra-Spicy difficulty.

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  Pikmin Challenger. The badge shows Alph with a single flag.

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  Pikmin Professional. The badge shows Brittany with two flags.

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  Pikmin Master. The badge shows Charlie with three flags.

Names in other languages

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Normal

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ふつう? Futsū	Normal
Chinese	普通 Pǔtōng	Normal
French	Standard	Standard
German	Normal	Normal
Italian	Normale	Normal
Korean	보통 botong	Normal
Spanish	Normal	Normal

Hard

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	むずかしい? Muzukashī	Difficult
Chinese (traditional)	困難 Kùnnán	Difficult
Chinese (simplified)	困难 Kùnnán	Difficult
French	Difficile	Difficult
German	Schwierig	Difficult
Italian	Difficile	Difficult
Korean	어려움 eolyeoum	Difficult
Spanish	Difícil	Difficult

Ultra-Spicy

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ゲキカラ? Gekikara	Fiercely-spicy
Chinese	激辣 Jī là	Spicy
French	Super piquant	Super-spicy
German	Ultra-Motiviert	Ultra-Motivated
Italian	Ultra-piccante	Ultra-spicy
Korean	불맛 bulmas	Burning-taste
Spanish	Superpicante	Super-Spicy

In Pikmin 4

Differences

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The following is an incomplete list of known differences between activity levels.

Subject	Relaxed	Normal	Fierce
Enemy health	Approx. 0.25x	1.0x	Approx. 2.0x
Pikmin limit	100	100	60
Hazard kill speed	?	1.0x	Approx. 2.0x
Enemies' Pikmin consumption	?	1.0x	2.0x
Enemy freeze time	Approx. 2.0x	1.0x	Approx. 0.5x
Rush stun time	Approx. 2.0x	1.0x	Approx. 0.5x

Names in other languages

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Relaxed

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	おだやか? Odayaka	Calm
Chinese (traditional)	溫馴
Chinese (simplified)	温驯
Dutch	Ontspannen
French	Paisible	Peaceful
German	Entspannt	Relaxed
Italian	Pacato	Calm
Korean	얌전
Portuguese	Tranquilo
Spanish	Apacible	Peaceful

Normal

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ふつう? Futsū	Normal
Chinese (traditional)	普通
Chinese (simplified)	普通
Dutch	Normaal
French	Normal	-
German	Normal	-
Italian	Normale
Korean	보통
Portuguese	Médio
Spanish	Normal	-

Fierce

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	きょうぼう? Kyōbō	Ferocious
Chinese (traditional)	狂暴
Chinese (simplified)	狂暴
Dutch	Intens
French	Intense	-
German	Wild	-
Italian	Intenso	Intense
Korean	난폭
Portuguese	Intenso
Spanish	Feroz

See also

• Options menu
• Challenge run