Wolpole

Wolpole
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Appears in	Pikmin, Pikmin 2
Scientific name	Amphicaris frodendum
Family	Amphituber
Areas	The Forest of Hope, The Distant Spring, Awakening Wood, Perplexing Pool
Caves	Shower Room, Hole of Heroes, Dream Den
Challenge Mode stages	None
2-Player Battle stages	None
Attacks	None

Wogpole is an enemy and are completely harmless in the Pikmin games. It resembles tadpoles in appearance, and is in fact the larval form of the frog-like Wollywogs.They turn into the Wollywogs and yellow Wollywogs. In the first game, it only appears in the The Forest of Hope and The Distant Spring areas. It is typically a hard-to-get, low-reward enemy; in that it is a fast swimmer which only give out one Pikmin seed when carried to the Onion. In Pikmin 2, Wogpoles are found in the Awakening Wood and Perplexing Pool areas, as well as the sublevels of certain caves where they have a measly treasure value of one poko. While being chased, Wogpoles may sometimes accidentally beach themselves, flopping about helplessly until they land safely back in the water. They may also drop from the ceiling. As a side note, the Wogpoles in Pikmin 1 seem to be closer to maturation than those in Pikmin 2, as the legs near their tails are present.

These creatures are called Wolpoles in the New Play Control! Pikmin 2 released in PAL.

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Killing Strategy

Although they constantly swim away from captains, Wogpoles will occasionally stop for a few seconds when only chased by Pikmin, giving the Pikmin a chance to attack making the best strategy to spread out your Pikmin in a line using the c stick and charge at them so they pass through the line of Pikmin and the Pikmin begin to chase it. Wogpoles themselves can't attack, but they can cause flower Pikmin to lose their petals when they shake the predators off. Since they only yield one Pikmin seed when retrieved, they're almost always more trouble than they're worth.

Gallery

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  A group of Wogpoles.

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  A Wogpole in water.

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  Wogpoles can be seen in the pond in the background of this Pikmin 3 screenshot.

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  Another Wogpole in PIkmin 3 near a captain and some Winged Pikmin.

Trivia

• When using an Action Replay to access a model test menu in Pikmin 1, the Wogpole's code name is "otama".
• The reason Wogpoles were changed to Wolpoles is because in the PAL areas, "wog" is an offensive racial slur.