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[[File:Pluck.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Captain Olimar]] and [[The President]] plucking some Pikmin.]]

'''Plucking''' (also known as '''picking'''{{cite quote|'''Button {{button|gcn|A}}''' / '''Pick a planted Pikmin'''|Information box|the controls page of the {{p1}} instruction manual}}) is how [[leader]]s uproot [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] planted on the ground. When an [[Onion]] expels some Pikmin seeds, these float gently to the ground, where they become buried. Afterwards, a Pikmin seed sprout appears, and from this point forward, the leader is able to pluck it. There is a small delay until the seeds are ready to be plucked, but it is only present in ''[[Pikmin (game)|Pikmin]]'' and ''[[Pikmin 2]]''.

===Using more leaders===

In ''Pikmin 2'' and ''Pikmin 3'', any other leader following the current one will help the latter pluck Pikmin. When the button is pressed, the accompanying leaders will automatically move to and pluck the closest Pikmin, ignoring any Pikmin already being targeted by other leaders. Although the player's leader can use the fast pluck animations, the leaders following them cannot; they will move from Pikmin to Pikmin automatically, so long as the player keeps plucking, but they will only pull out Pikmin using the slow animations. Canceling the pluck will make the secondary leaders stop as well.

If possible, plucking should be avoided altogether: if delivering something into an Onion will cause it to spit seeds, it might be faster to withdraw some Pikmin from the Onions before that, so that the number of Pikmin in the field is as close to [[100 Pikmin limit|100]] as possible. This is because the Onion cannot expel seeds if there are already 100 Pikmin in the field, storing them inside instead. It is usually faster to withdraw the Pikmin to the 100-Pikmin cap, deliver the item to the Onion, and, if the Pikmin the player wants are from a different type, re-store the previously withdrawn Pikmin, and withdraw out Pikmin from the type of the receiving Onion.

===Pluckaphone===

[[File:Pluckaphone plucking.jpg|thumb|Pikmin being plucked by the Pluckaphone.]]

By far, the fastest way to pluck Pikmin in ''Pikmin 2'' is by using the [[whistle]], after the [[Pluckaphone]] has been obtained. This [[Exploration Kit]] treasure allows the current leader to uproot Pikmin merely by whistling at them. The [[Mega Tweeter]] can also expand the whistle's range, making the task even easier.

===Pluck cancel trick===

In ''Pikmin 3'', a peculiarity makes it possible to pluck Pikmin much faster than normal, with the player-controlled leader. The pluck button makes the leader pull out the sprouts, while the [[whistle]] button ({{button|wiiu|ZL}} in Stylus mode) makes the leader cancel the task altogether, regardless of what they were doing when the button was pressed. This means that it is possible to stop instantly even if they are grabbing onto and pulling out a Pikmin, something not possible in the previous games.

Curiously, even if the leader stops while doing so, the Pikmin sprout will still be unearthed. As such, the player can abuse this oddity to pluck Pikmin sprouts much faster than normal, given that they can move on to the next sprout while the Pikmin plucks itself out, effectively bypassing the leader's pluck animation.

==Glitches==

*In {{p1}}, if the player is doing an input for [[Group move|moving the group]] when they begin plucking, the fanfare will not end until the plucking does.