Trial Run

Trial Run is the first Dandori Battle stage in. In Story Mode, the opponent is the Olimar leafling. It is unlocked automatically in Dandori Battle mode.

It is a small stage with few enemies and treasures.

How to reach
. It will be in the Sun-Speckled Terrace, Blossoming Arcadia or Serene Shores depending on which one is entered first.

Overview
There is a time limit of 4:00.

Layout
Trial Run has a very simple arena, consisting of only one square environment with four alcoves: two acting as each player's respective base and another two behind dirt walls housing piles of Gold Nuggets. There are also two small piles of sand that have one Portable Sunset each buried within them and two blocks that can have a Sunseed Berry on top of them. Occasionally, a Zest Bomb will be placed along the wall of each side that must be shook down with the player's space dog.

There are only two types of enemies, Dwarf Bulborbs and Fiery Blowhogs, neither of which are difficult to fight with Red Pikmin.

Strategy
Before anything, make sure to take down the nearby Pellet Posies so your Pikmin numbers can grow higher and allow you to do more things.

Due to the lack of enemies and obstacles, you can focus most of your efforts on preventing your opponent from getting any points directly. The confined area also allows you to quickly keep track of any treasure or corpses your opponent is collecting. Make sure that anything going to their Onion is redirected to yours by stealing each object, which can be accomplished by having 1 or more Pikmin carrying them. Your opponent moves slowly, and will almost never attempt to steal items your Pikmin are already carrying, so keeping them from scoring is nothing more than making sure nothing goes to their base.

When not doing that, be sure to use Oatchi to ram down the Zest Bomb on either side of the stage when possible. Nothing in the stage weighs more than 10, so if Oatchi's Buff skill as been upgraded to level 3, he will be able to carry any object to the Onion on his own, which helps keep you with the maximum Pikmin possible to carry back more things. In regards to the two dirt walls, try to have only one or two Pikmin working on it at a time instead of charging a whole group, as its very likely your opponent will break down the wall on their own while you're working anyway. From there, make sure to charge as many as possible onto the pile of gold to get it out of your opponent's hands quickly, since singular gold nuggets cannot be stolen like other treasures.

If you're struggling to keep up with your opponent, Moss should be easily weakened by a swarm of your Pikmin and knocked out for a large amount of time.

Objects

 * Starting Pikmin
 * &times; 10


 * Treasures
 * &times; 2
 * &times; 2
 * &times; 4
 * &times; 50 (2 piles of 25)


 * Enemies
 * &times; 6
 * &times; 2


 * Obstacles
 * &times; 2


 * Others
 * &times; 12 (10 1 pellets, 2 5 pellets)