Submerged Castle
Summary and Location
The Submerged Castle can be arguably one of the most agitating or hardest caves found in Pikmin 2. You are only able to bring Blue Pikmin with you, even if you figure out you can use Blue Pikmin's water patroling ability to carry non-blues onto land where you can get them under your command and enter the cave; this will never work. It has been programmed into the game, whether somehow you got them under your command or not, that they cannot enter the cave whatsoever. All hazards are found here, making it imperative that you command your Blue Pikmin carefully, though you can get Bulbmin. The worse is yet to come however, for the boss appears on every level, making it crucial that you devise movements to secure the cave's sublevels quickly. To get to the cave, you need to defeat many Yellow Wollywogs and tear down the black gate near Glutton's Kitchen. After the gate is gone, you need to defeat two Hermit Crawmads, Water Dumples and a Withering Blowhog. The cave's entrance is surrounded by undrainable water, which is exactly why non-blue Pikmin can't enter, it was programmed so that the situation would make sense.
Cave Information
- Name: Submerged Castle
- Location: Perplexing Pool
- Sublevels: 5
- Treasures: 13
- Hazards: Fire, Electricity, Water, Poison, and Explosions
List of Treasures
- Bug Bait
- Diet Doomer
- Pastry Wheel
- Comfort Cookie
- Confection Hoop
- Chocolate Cushion
- Compelling Cookie
- Activity Arouser
- Succulent Mattress
- Pale Passion
- Drone Supplies
- Proton AA
- Professional Noisemaker
Enemies
- Anode Beetle
- Anode Dweevil
- Bulbmin
- Careening Dirigibug
- Dwarf Orange Bulborb
- Fiery Blowhog
- Fiery Bulblax
- Fiery Dweevil
- Iridescent Glint Beetle
- Mitite
- Volatile Dweevil
- Withering Blowhog
- Wollywog
- Boss: Waterwraith
Strategy
The best way to complete this cave is to rush through every floor,clearing paths.And keeping your pikmin safe and get the treasures fast.Becuase if you wait too long, the Waterwraith will come.Don't care about your army.Youll need bulbmin despritely on sublevel three.On three,USE THE BULBMIN ONLY AND OPEN PATHS TO TREASURES ONLY!If you just wander around,youll find the most annoying enimies in this hole.Alo,when you try to get one of the treasures,a anode dweevil dops from the sky and kill it quickly!Ok,this sublevel,put your blues away take every bulbmin and try to get the treasures.LOOK OUT!Bomb rocks will drop from the sky,and even worse, votile dweevils too!!So if you don'y have 26 bulbmin,and you have only ten bulbmin,grab sixteen blues!By now,the Waterwraith should have dropped down.So quickly get out of here and head for the final sublevel!