Pikmin 4

Miniature Snootwhacker

Miniature Snootwhacker In-game icon.
Icon for the Miniature Snootwhacker, from Pikmin 4's Piklopedia.
Appears in Pikmin 4
Scientific name Naspiralum melona (adolescent)
Family Snootwhack
Areas Hero's Hideaway (Story Mode and Olimar's Shipwreck Tale)
Caves Dream Home, Ultimate Testing Range, The Mud Pit
Dandori Challenge stages Trial of the Sage Leaf
Dandori Battle stages None
Attacks Knock back Pikmin

The Miniature Snootwhacker (コバナタタキ?, lit.: "Little Nose-Knocker") is an enemy in Pikmin 4. It is the younger variant of the Mammoth Snootwhacker. Due to its tough skin, it is immune to most physical attacks from Pikmin, even Rock Pikmin. Its belly is its weak point, but it can only be exposed by charging at it with Oatchi, using a lightning shock, or detonating a bomb rock or other explosive item near the creature.

StatsEdit

Weight Max.
carriers
Seeds Value Health
7 14 6   × 7 500

BehaviorEdit

Upon getting close to Pikmin, Oatchi, or the player, the Miniature Snootwhacker will use its trunk to do a spinning attack. If this attack hits its target, they are briefly knocked into the air and sent a moderate distance away from where they were hit. If Oatchi hits the Miniature Snootwhacker with a rush, it will flip and reveal its soft belly, which is able to be damaged by Pikmin and/or Oatchi. When the Miniature Snootwhacker regains it's footing after being flipped, it will knock off any Pikmin attacking it. The Miniature Snootwhacker is unable to kill Pikmin.

AppearanceEdit

The Miniature Snootwhacker is a small, green, elephant-like creature with a bright red underbelly that closely resembles the Mammoth Snootwhacker, its older counterpart. Its color palette and texture resemble that of a watermelon.

LocationsEdit

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StrategyEdit

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Due to the creature's hard skin, it cannot be attacked directly. Using Oatchi's Rush attack is the simplest and most effective method to flip the Snootwhacker over in order to attack its soft underbelly.

NotesEdit

Dalmo's notesEdit

The way it catches its food, protects its belly, and gets up while working with the weight of its sizable trunk are all taught by its diligent parents. Instead of hand and foot, they attend to their offspring nose and foot! They prepare the child for the day it will leave the nest and eventually become a parent itself.

Olimar's notesEdit

Immediately after birth, this species's skin starts to harden, and before long it will reach the same impenetrable toughness as that of an adult.

Adult Snootwhackers dexterously use their trunks to grab food from high tree branches, but juveniles consume fruits and nuts that have fallen to the ground, as well as other types of terrestrial flora.

This specimen's leg and torso muscles are underdeveloped compared to those in their nose, so they lack the strength to maintain their posture and easily lose their balance.

Louie's notesEdit

Gently peel the skin back from the nose. Its meat has a grassy bitterness. Tastes like cucumber.

Other informationEdit

  • Pikmin 4 Piklopedia number: #64

NamingEdit

See more: Snootwhack family#Naming.
  • Common name: Miniature Snootwhacker. The "miniature" helps describe their smaller nature in comparison to full grown variety.
  • Japanese nickname: コバナタタキ?, lit.: "Little Nose-Knocker". "Little" is used to differentiate it from the Mammoth Snootwhacker.
  • Japanese name: クロスジマキバナウリ 幼体?, lit.: "Black-streaked Coiled Nose Melon (juvenile)".
  • Scientific name: Naspiralum melona (adolescent). It has the same scientific name to the Mammoth Snootwhacker, with the mention of its adolescence.
  • Internal names: SHIPPOZAKO. SHIPPO is the internal name for the Mammoth Snoothwhacker, which means "tail", which could refer to how it swings its trunk like a tail. "Zako", which means small-fry, is used to distinguish the size.
  • Prerelease: None.

Names in other languagesEdit

Language Name Meaning Notes
  Japanese コバナタタキ?
Ko Bana Tataki
Little Nose-Whacker
  Dutch Snoetstomperkalf Snoot thumper calf
  French Frappatrompe nain Dwarf Snootwhacker
  German Mini-Rüsselklatscher Mini Trunkclapper
  Italian Proboscibatto nano Dwarf trunkbeater Portmanteau of "proboscide" (trunk) and "battere" (to beat)
  Korean 꼬마코치기
Kkoma-Ko-Chigi
Little Nose-Whacker
  Portuguese Trombate nanico Runt trunnock "trombate" is a portmanteau of "tromba" (trunk) and "bater" (knock)
  Spanish Trompador miniatura Miniature snootwhacker "trompa" (trunk) with the agent suffix "-ador"

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