Puffy Blubbug In-game icon.
A Puffy Blubbug in the Creature Log. Enhanced with Citra.
Appears in Hey! Pikmin
Scientific name Fouskaflexilis mallia
Family Bloather
Areas Over Wintry Mountains
Attacks Bump into Olimar and Pikmin
For the floating enemy that blows air, see Puffy Blowhog.

The Puffy Blubbug (フグムシ?, lit.: "Pufferfish Bug") is a rare enemy in Hey! Pikmin. It is a blue round bug-like creature, with various darker spots and a coat of fur. It has a very small head in proportion to the rest of its body, with two equally small antennae. It is about three times the size of Captain Olimar. Unlike the much larger Blubbug, it has no legs, and instead sports two wings attached to its head. It will bounce forward, and may bump into the player or their Pikmin. Its only location is Over Wintry Mountains.

Behavior

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Puffy Blubbugs will fly onto the screen trying to push the player into something undesirable.

Locations

Strategy

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Throwing a lone Winged Pikmin is all that is needed to essentially defeat this creature.

Notes

Hey! Pikmin logs

The snow makes this creature's habitat so cold that its normal layer of fat wasn't enough. Hence the need for its coat of fine hair. It's too big for me to get my arms around, but it looks so warm that I wish there was some way to hug it.

Naming

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  • Common name: Puffy Blubbug.
  • Japanese nickname: フグムシ?, lit.: "Pufferfish Bug".
  • Japanese name: コフグゴムマリムシ?, lit.: "Small Pufferfish Rubber Ball Bug".
  • Scientific name: Fouskaflexilis mallia.
  • Internal names: Unknown.
  • Prerelease: None.

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
  Japanese フグムシ?
Fugu Mushi
Pufferfish Bug
  Dutch Langharige ballantor
  French Adipoïde duveteux Adipoïde is a portmanteau of adipeux (fatty) and the suffix -oïde (-oid), and duveteux means fluffy.
  German Arktischer Ballonkäfer Arctic Balloon Bug
  Italian Apidus impellicciato
  Korean 복어벌레
  Spanish Globichejo pelusoide

Gallery

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See also