Pileated Snagret
Pileated Snagret
Shiropedes ambulatria
The Pileated Snagret, is a larger, and more powerful species in the Snavian family. It has a green scaly body, and a much larger head that is red. It is called 'pileated' because it has a crest of feathers on its head. Its eyes are also covered by some ears-like features. This Snagret is definitely more powerful, because not only does it have a lot of more health, it also is able to walk on the ground, and is also a lot taller. This makes it very hard to hurt it by throwing Pikmin onto it. However, Purple Pikmin are still the best choice because you can still throw them on there if you are accurate, but you will need to use ultra-spicy spray, so they can run fast enough, and cause enough damage. The reason purples are great is that when the creature emerges from the ground, you purples will make the Snavian 'bounce', like in most cases of enemies, and in the small seconds of those bounces, your Pikmin attached to the Snavian will deal damage, and then it will probably return to the ground without eating any Pikmin. If you repeat this, you will emerge victorious towards the terrifyingly difficult creature.
Another, safer strategy is to run around and wait for the Pileated Snagret to emerge. 1/4 of the time, the Snagret will have trouble coming out of the ground. Toss your Pikmin on him during this time. When it fully emerges, it'll be too weak to attack, and burrow underground again. Repeat until the creature dies.
The Pileated Snagret is found only in Pikmin 2. It can only be found on Sublevel 7 of the Snagret Hole, Sublevel 4 of the Hole of Heroes, and the last (2) sublevel of the Rumbling Grotto in Challenge Mode.