Editing Enemy

Enemies have varied attacks, and some take advantage of [[hazard]]s to cause damage to Pikmin who are not immune to them. Offensively, enemies either eat Pikmin or hurt them with attacks, both melee and projectile-based, and with effects that range from pushing the Pikmin off to outright killing them. A few enemies are incapable of directly killing Pikmin.

Some enemies contain important items like [[ship part]]s, [[treasure]]s, [[fruit]]s and [[castaway]]s, which they drop when defeated; these will still be dropped even if the creature was petrified or frozen. Most downed enemies will also safely release any Pikmin in their grasp, regardless of any apparently fatal damage caused when the Pikmin was trapped (like the [[Cloaking Burrow-nit]]'s impalement). This allows otherwise doomed Pikmin to be saved.

{{see also|Category:Pikmin 3 enemies|t1=''Pikmin 3'' enemies category|Piklopedia (Pikmin 3 Deluxe)|t2=Piklopedia (''Pikmin 3 Deluxe'')}}

===In ''Pikmin 4''===

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* '''{{icon|Ancient Sirehound|y|v=P4}}'''

Most enemies roam around in a specific location of the [[area]], leaving only to chase after or run away from Pikmin or [[leader]]s. Some enemies are quite dedicated to their initial spots, returning to them after wandering too far, while others, like the [[Spotty Bulbear]] in {{p2}}, will patrol a certain area and can even chase the player all the way to the [[Onion]]s. The locations in which enemies can be found sometimes depend on their nature. For instance, the fur-coated [[Hairy Bulborb]]s are better suited to cold environments, and as such, are commonly found in ice-themed [[cave]]s.

As threats to Pikmin, enemies can attack in a variety of ways, the most common one being eating them. They can also [[Crushing|crush]] them, kill them with a [[hazard]] they're vulnerable to, and knock them out with an explosion, among other methods. For some of these attacks, there is a cap on the number of Pikmin that can be affected by it. For instance, in {{p1}}, a [[Bulborb]] may only grab and eat three Pikmin at most with a single bite, but in ''[[Pikmin 2]]'', five can fall prey to the same bite. The exception to this is the enemies in {{hp}}, which more often than not, kill Pikmin and damage Olimar by simply touching them.

==Trivia==

*When the player first delivers an enemy to the [[Research Pod]], a cutscene plays with the Hocotate ship complaining that it's not a treasure, although it's still good for some Pokos. However, if an enemy of this species has already been delivered to an [[Onion]] before on the current playthrough, the Research Pod will just accept the enemy like normal without a cutscene. The cutscene can later be played by delivering a new species of enemy that has never been delivered to an Onion.{{cite youtube|Y8QaqABm7dU|explaining what does and doesn't trigger the Hocotate ship's corpse complaint cutscene}}

*There are 15 enemies that have been present in all 4 main ''Pikmin'' games: the [[Burrowing Snagret]], [[Bulborb]], [[Dwarf Bulbear]], [[Dwarf Bulborb]], [[Female Sheargrub]], [[Fiery Blowhog]], [[Iridescent Flint Beetle]], [[Male Sheargrub]], [[Puffy Blowhog]], [[Shearwig]], [[Spotty Bulbear]], [[Swooping Snitchbug]], [[Water Dumple]], [[Wolpole]], and [[Yellow Wollyhop]].

**Including {{hp}}, only 5 enemies have been present in all the games: the [[Bulborb]], [[Fiery Blowhog]], [[Male Sheargrub]], [[Swooping Snitchbug]], and [[Yellow Wollyhop]]. (There have been 6 enemies in all games if one includes the [[Shearwig]].)