Combat: Difference between revisions

[[File:Yellow Wollywog attacked P1 art.png|thumb|200px|Artwork of various Pikmin fighting a [[Yellow Wollywog]].]]

! colspan="3" | Damage

! ''Pikmin'' !! ''Pikmin 2'' !! ''Pikmin 3''

| [[Red Pikmin]] || 15 || 15 || 15

| [[Yellow Pikmin]] || 10 || 10 || 10

| [[Blue Pikmin]] || 10 || 10 || 10

| [[Purple Pikmin]] || N/A || 20 || 15

| [[White Pikmin]] || N/A || 10 || 5

| [[Bulbmin]] || N/A || 10 || N/A

| [[Rock Pikmin]] || N/A || N/A || 20

| [[Winged Pikmin]] || N/A || N/A || 5

When a White Pikmin is eaten by an enemy, the enemy will instantly take damage from the White Pikmin's internal poison. Each White Pikmin ingestion causes individual damage, even if multiple are eaten at once. Every enemy takes a different amount of damage from an ingestion, and this varies by species and by game.

Bomb rocks can be used in combat. Their explosions deal a variable amount of damage to objects in range, though they usually cause much more damage to an enemy that ingests it directly.

Pikmin do not seem to have health that can be depleted, although this is hard to confirm, as explained [[Health#Pikmin|here]]. During combat they can still be harmed. In ''Pikmin'' and ''Pikmin 2'', Pikmin that are knocked down by an enemy have a chance of their maturities being reduced as explained [[Maturity#Decreasing|here]]. In ''Pikmin 3'', Pikmin that are shaken off of an enemy or fall off of one will retain their maturities. In any ''Pikmin'' game, Pikmin that are shaken off of an enemy will briefly lie on the ground before getting up, but this is not always the case. Pikmin battling a [[Shaggy Long Legs]] that fall off one of its legs after picking the hairs off one of its joints will get up on their own, but Pikmin the creature shakes off normally will remain on the ground indefinitely until they are [[whistle]]d, as bumping into them does nothing.

The general idea is that each game keeps a list of loaded Pikmin in memory. This list can fit 100 entries, and normally, it starts off empty. When a Pikmin is loaded into memory, it fills in the next vacant slot. In the case of an empty list, this is slot 0. The second Pikmin to be called out fills slot 1, and so on. When an enemy attacks to eat, the game checks every loaded Pikmin to see if it is colliding with the mouth's hitbox, and starts checking slot 0, then slot 1, etc.

While combat can be as simple as [[throw]]ing or [[charging]] Pikmin at the beast until it does, there are a few tactics that players can make use of to minimize casualties and get the task done faster. Naturally, basic tactics include not submitting Pikmin to [[hazard]]s they are vulnerable to, and not going all-out when the enemy is doing something dangerous.

Olimar commands a [[squad]] of small Pikmin robots that each deal a small amount of damage, just like the main series. Tapping with {{button|wiiu|stylus}} will throw one of these Pikmin to the location tapped. They will attack automatically if they latch on to a weak point, but will attempt to return to Olimar if they miss. They can be regathered by using {{button|wiiu|zr|wiiu|zl}}. When calling Pikmin, the Mii Pikmin will also fly to Olimar and stack atop his head, where he can then throw them like the robotic Pikmin. Powerups change how Olimar and his Pikmin attack, but the core concepts remain.