Ancient Sirehound: Difference between revisions

|attacks    = Eat, [[crush]], ram, [[electricity|zap]], [[fire|burn]], [[ice|freeze]] Pikmin, and use [[gloom]]

While it is said to be rather gentle in most cases, [[Louie]] somehow drives it into a rampage, complicating the [[Rescue Corps]]' attempts to get the cell sample they need to reverse [[Oatchi]]'s leaf tail.

The Ancient Sirehound is found on the 20th floor of the [[Cavern for a King]].

|hp4 = 9000 (per phase)

The Sirehound will now begin to use a spread of five snowballs that bounce off of the walls (akin to those of an [[Arctic Cannon Larva]]) and a long-range ice breath attack; if it freezes Pikmin, it will follow up with a charge before eating the frozen Pikmin. While it will try to face the player when using the latter, it cannot turn very quickly and its tail can be pulled on as before. However, care should be taken in order to avoid being hit by stray snowballs. The Sirehound will use six, then seven, snowballs as its health decreases, and its ice breath rotation speed increases slightly.

* [[Cavern for a King]]: The Sirehound appears at the very last sublevel of the cave, in its 20th sublevel. It appears with both [[Louie]] and the [[Gift of Friendship]] in tow as the last possible collectibles in the main campaign, meaning it must be defeated to complete all the missions pertaining to the [[Piklopedia]], the [[Treasure Catalog]], and the [[Castaway]]s, as well as Oatchi's final upgrade.

|jpcommon  = {{j|ヤタノワスレイヌ|Yata no Wasure Inu}}. It may be a combination of {{j|八咫鏡|Yata no Kagami|Eight Hand Mirror}}, {{j|忘れる|wasureru|to forget}}, and {{j|犬|Inu}}

|jpname    = {{j|イヌガミノツカハシメ|Inugami no Tsuka Hatsume|The Messenger of the Dog Deity}}. Most likely ''{{j|犬神|Inugami|Dog Deity}}'', a type of yokai in Japanese mythology said to resemble a dog, and ''{{j|神使|Tsuka-hatsume}}''. In Shintoism, a {{j|神使|Tsuka-hatsume, Shin-shi}} is a specific animal that is considered to be a messenger of, or even may be an embodiment of, a deity.

|scientific = ''Deicanis perditum''. ''Dei canis'' is Latin for "God's dog". ''Perditum'' comes from the singular neuter form of ''perditus'', "to destroy".

|internal  = <code>BOSSINU</code>. Refering to the Ancient Sirehound being the only boss that is also a dog.

|JapM = Dog Forgotten in Eight Hands

|JapN = ''{{j|咫|ta}}'' roughly corresponds to the measurement of a hand (often defined as eight ''{{j|寸|sun}}'' or roughly 24cm).

|SpaM= Ancient Sirehound

Ancient Sirehound ice attack.jpg|The Ancient Sirehound in his second phase using its ice breath.