Kingcap

Kingcap
Appears in	Pikmin 3, Pikmin 4
Scientific name	Unknown
Family	Unknown
Areas	Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra
Caves	Engulfed Castle
Collect treasure! levels	Tropical Forest, Twilight Hollow
Battle enemies! levels	Distant Tundra Remix
Side Story levels	Flower Garden, Inside Forest, Tundra, Pikmin Reunion, First Part Found
Dandori Challenge levels	Hotshock Canyon
Bingo Battle levels	None
Dandori Battle levels	None

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Kingcaps (マダラタケ^?, lit.: "Spotted Mushroom") are a type of fungus in Pikmin 3 and Pikmin 4 that serve as obstacles. They are usually found blocking the way in corridors, and come accompanied with a series of Spotcaps. Only Pikmin can destroy King caps in Pikmin 3, but Pikmin, Leaders and Oatchi can destroy them in Pikmin 4.

Kingcaps have a lot of durability and occupy a lot of space, but once cleared, they open up some significant space. Unlike the smaller Spotcaps, Pikmin can latch on to a Kingcap when thrown, and it has a health wheel.

Stats

Game	Weight	Max. carriers	Seeds	Value	Health
(?)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1000
	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1000

Poison Kingcap

A Poison Kingcap near 3 Poison Spotcaps.

In Pikmin 4, a poisonous variant of the Kingcap can be found. It is rarer than its normal counterpart, only being found in 2 caves, the Doppelgänger's Den and the Engulfed Castle. It functions nearly identically to normal Kingcaps, except it can only be attacked by White Pikmin, Glow Pikmin and Oatchi with the Pup Sniff Saver due to the poison emitting from it. It weirdly can't be attacked by the player.

Locations

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Kingcaps are almost always found with Spotcaps nearby.

Areas

Tropical Wilds

• A Kingcap appears in a non-obtrusive fashion in the cave next to the landing site, leading up from Alph's crash site.

Distant Tundra

• Two Kingcaps appear in the area around Captain Charlie's crash site. These serve as the game's first obstacle.

Side Stories

Olimar's Assignment

• Flower Garden
  • There are three Kingcaps in this level. Two are located near a group of Dwarf Bulborbs and one is located near the Face Wrinkler and Skutterchucks and contains nectar.
• Inside Forest
  • There are some non-blocking Kingcaps sitting southeast to the ship.
• Tundra

Olimar's Comeback

• First Part Found
• Pikmin Reunion

Mission Mode

Collect treasure!

• Twilight Hollow
  • The Kingcap is in the same place as in the Battle enemies! version of the map, but instead of Rock Pikmin, there's a Bulborb with many Sunseed Berrys inside of it.

Battle enemies!

• Twilight Hollow
  • There is a Kingcap to the east that leads to the Rock Onion.
• Distant Tundra Remix
  • There are Kingcaps blocking the Yellow Onion on the west side of the map.

Technical information

Pikmin 3 technical information (?)
Internal name	mush
HP	1000
Rock Pikmin throw hits to kill	10
White Pikmin ingestions to kill	0
Bomb rock explosions to kill	1
Bomb rock ingestions to kill	0
Number of direct hits on top to kill	0
Damage to leaders	10
Territory radius	100
Mission Mode value	0

Gallery

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  Artwork of a Kingcap from the Nintendo Facebook Pikmin Photobook app.

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  The first Kingcaps encountered in Story Mode.

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  A few Yellow Pikmin attacking some Kingcaps.

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  A Spotcap next to a Kingcap in a cave.

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  A Kingcap and a few Spotcaps in Hotshock Canyon.

Trivia

• Spotcaps and Kingcaps share many similarities to Dwarf Bulborbs, and Bulborbs, respectively. Spotcaps and Dwarf Bulborbs each have 100 health, while Kingcaps and Bulborbs each have 1000. Both are red with white spots, and both Spotcaps and Dwarf Bulborbs instantly get defeated when hit on top.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	マダラタケ? Madara Take	Spotted Mushroom
French (NoE)	Bulbolet	From bulborbe (Bulborb) and bolet (bolete)
German	Gemeiner Punktpilz	Common Spot-mushroom
Italian	Fungoleto	From fungo (mushroom) and coleto (Bulborb)
Spanish	Superfungo moteado	Spotted superfungus

See also

• Spotcap
• Crystal
• Bouncy Mushroom