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|image      = P2 Gatling Groink Cropped Screenshot.png

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|icon        = Piklopedia Gatling Groink.png

|underground = [[Subterranean Complex]], [[Cavern of Chaos]], [[Dream Den]]

The '''Gatling Groink''' ({{j|タマコキン|Tama Ko Kin|Bullet Child Goldfish}}) is an [[enemy]] in {{p2}}. Gatling Groinks are biomechatronical creatures similar in size to an [[Bulborb (disambiguation)|adult Bulborb]]. They resemble rotund goldfish, including skin that resembles fish-scales and sport the typical orange and white coloring of goldfish. They further have two slender legs that end in web- or fin-like feet, what appears to be windshields between their two forward-facing eyes, two upward exhaust pipes, rotatable fin-like tails, and mouth plates which covers both their undersides and their retractable cannons. The cannons fire mortar rounds and are placed where a fish's mouth would typically be. The origins of the mechanical parts are quite vague, much like the [[Man-at-Legs]] and [[Fireflinger Groink]].

They attack by extending cannons from their mouths and firing either one large or three small mortars (with a small duration between firings). When the shells hit the ground, they explode and scatter any of the Pikmin in range and kill those at the absolute center of the blast for the large mortar. The 3-shot mortars have one deadly mortar which will kill pikmin along the entire radius while the 2 others simply knock pikmin away.

==Stats==

{{Notes|olimar=y|louie=y}}

 

===''Pikmin 2'' Nintendo Player's Guide===

 

==Strategy==

 

 

However, in the [[Cavern of Chaos]], they are accompanied by many [[Dwarf Bulborb|Dwarf Red Bulborb]]s, in which case using an [[ultra-bitter spray]] would be wise due to the Bulborbs. In the case of patrolling Gatling Groinks, it is also possible to attract the Groink's attention, and then move to a position in which a bottomless chasm is between the leader and the Groink. The Groink's stride is often high enough to step over the safety barriers that ordinarily stop leaders, Pikmin, and other monsters from falling into the chasms. In this case, the body will be irretrievable, although any treasures it may have been carrying will show up elsewhere on the sublevel. If two Gatling Groinks are near each other, it is possible to have one Groink kill the other by shooting it; the other Groink should then be killed with [[Purple Pikmin]].

 

Another strategy is to use one lone leader as bait, to draw the Groink's attention, and then switch leaders and attack the distracted creature from behind. Idle leaders run about to try to avoid enemy attacks, so it's likely that the bait leader will suffer minimal damage from this strategy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

|common    = Gatling Groink. The word "Gatling" is a reference to the {{w|Rotary cannon|Gatling-type cannons}} in real life. The name "Groink" seems entirely made up; it is possible to extract the onomatopoeia for pig grunts, "oink", thus contracting "grunt" and "oink" to "Groink". Though it's difficult to see how pigs factor into the creature's design, the "grunt" component is found again in the German localization. "Groink" could also stem as an attempt at translating a possible play on words with "testicles" in the Japanese name (see below), wherein the translators kept the same thing as well as the "surplus" {{j|コ|Ko}} character.

|jpcommon  = {{j|タマコキン|Tama Ko Kin}}. It translates to "Bullet Child Goldfish", referring to how it looks like a goldfish and fires bullets. The word "child" suggests it is a juvenile member of its species. Also possible is a wordplay on {{j|きんたま|Kintama}}, which translates to "gold ball" and is a slang term for human testicles.

 

 

Gatling Groink shot.png|The mortar blast of a Gatling Groink.

Gatling Groink P2S icon.png|The [[Piklopedia (Pikmin 2)|Piklopedia]] icon of the Gatling Groink in [[Pikmin 2 (Nintendo Switch)|the Nintendo Switch version of ''Pikmin 2'']].

 

*In the Wistful Wild, if the Gatling Groink is in the end of [[day]] [[cutscene]], it can actually shoot at the leaders and damage them. The leaders cannot be knocked down with this, however.

 

 

 

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