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[[File:Yellow Wollywog attacked P1 art.png|thumb|200px|Artwork of various Pikmin fighting a [[Yellow Wollyhop]].]]

In the {{ps}}, [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] and [[leader]]s need to engage in '''combat''' against the many different [[enemies]] they encounter. Combat is a core mechanic of the series, as it is frequently required to open up paths or retrieve [[:Category:Collectibles|collectibles]]. The general goal of combat is to reduce an enemy's [[health]] to 0, but there are several ways of damaging enemies and many technicalities of the combat system.

 

Note that most of this article discusses the main series of games. Spin-off games are described in their own sections.

The main way Pikmin damage enemies is by slapping the enemies with their stems. The main way to get a Pikmin to attack an enemy is to [[throw]] it directly at the enemy; if it lands on an attackable location, it will start slapping the enemy. If a Pikmin is standing near an enemy, it will begin trying to attack the enemy, periodically jumping at it to slap it with the stem. There is also the possibility of the Pikmin eventually latching on and dealing damage at a normal rate. Some enemies, like [[Female Sheargrub]]s, are too small to be latched onto but have a small enough amount of health that they die quickly. Other enemies, like the [[Anode Beetle]], are larger but still cannot be latched onto. Idle Pikmin will automatically begin hitting enemies, [[obstacle]]s, and [[egg]]s if they are near enough. In {{p1}} and {{p2}}, [[swarm]]ing an enemy will cause most of the involved Pikmin to latch onto it, if possible, and begin attacking. In {{p3}}, Pikmin that are [[charge]]d into an enemy will always immediately latch onto it if they make contact with it and if the enemy is possible to be latched onto.

In competitive modes like [[2-Player Battle]] in ''Pikmin 2'' and [[Bingo Battle]] in ''Pikmin 3'', Pikmin can be commanded to harm other [[leader]]s or their Pikmin. This can be accomplished by throwing, swarming, or charging Pikmin into another player's leader or forces, although in 2-Player Battle, Pikmin merely need to be standing by the opposing leader or their Pikmin to initiate combat. In {{p1}}, [[Mushroom Pikmin]] can also attack [[Captain Olimar]] and his Pikmin in a similar fashion.

! colspan="4" | Damage

! ''Pikmin'' !! ''Pikmin 2'' !! ''Pikmin 3'' !! ''Pikmin 4''

| [[Red Pikmin]] || 15 || 15 || 15 || 15

| [[Yellow Pikmin]] || 10 || 10 || 10 || 10

| [[Blue Pikmin]] || 10 || 10 || 10 || 10

| [[Purple Pikmin]] || N/A || 20 || 15 || 15

| [[White Pikmin]] || N/A || 10 || 5 || 5

| [[Bulbmin]] || N/A || 10 || N/A || N/A

| [[Rock Pikmin]] || N/A || N/A || 20 || 40

| [[Winged Pikmin]] || N/A || N/A || 5 || 5

| [[Ice Pikmin]] || N/A || N/A || N/A || 5

Notes:

* [[Maturity]] does not have an effect on how much damage a Pikmin does.

* When any type of Pikmin is under the effect of an [[ultra-spicy spray]], they will deal 10 damage per attack but attack at 2 times the speed.

* In {{p2}}{{'s}} [[2-Player Battle]] mode, Blue Pikmin deal 15 damage per hit so that both teams are even.

* [[Ultra-bitter spray|Petrified]] enemies may suffer more or less damage than normal; see [[Ultra-bitter spray#Petrification|here]] for more details.

===Purple Pikmin slam===

{{see more|Purple Pikmin#Pikmin 2 slam and stun}}

In {{p2}}, soon after a Purple Pikmin is [[throw]]n, it will halt its momentum mid-air and plummet to the ground very quickly. If there are any enemies nearby, it will attempt to move towards the nearest enemy's center whilst it is descending. When a Purple Pikmin latches onto an enemy this way, the force of a Purple Pikmin slamming into an enemy hurts it and very briefly causes the it to freeze in place. For most enemies, a Purple Pikmin's slam deals 50 damage, but for the [[Segmented Crawbster]], [[Waterwraith]], and [[Emperor Bulblax]] it is 10 damage.

Each slam also has a chance of stunning an enemy. For most enemies, this chance is 30%, but some enemies have higher or lower chances. When an enemy is stunned, it is frozen and does not move, usually for 5 seconds, though a few enemies have longer stun times.

In {{p3}}, while the slam does exist, it does not damage enemies. Throwing a Purple Pikmin onto an enemy will result in the Pikmin going idle on top of it, before slipping off its body; only when the Purple Pikmin touches the ground can it attack.

 

In {{p4}}, the slam is set to do proportional damage to the enemy, similarly to how Rock Pikmin are handled in ''Pikmin 3''; meaning that the amount of damage done varies from enemy to enemy.

When a White Pikmin is digested by an enemy, the enemy will instantly take damage from the White Pikmin's internal poison. Each White Pikmin ingestion causes individual damage, even if multiple are eaten at once. Every enemy takes a different amount of damage from an ingestion, and this varies by creature and by game.

{{game help|p3d|Study how Rock Pikmin cause damage in ''Deluxe'', since it has been changed.}}

When Rock Pikmin are [[throw]]n directly at an enemy, instead of latching on and hitting it, they will bounce off it like a rock, dealing a high amount of damage. This damage varies by enemy, as every enemy has an internal value for the number of direct Rock Pikmin impacts it takes to defeat it. For example, a [[Bulborb]] normally has 1000 [[HP]] and is specified to take 25 Rock Pikmin hits to kill, so each hit does 40 damage, whereas a [[Medusal Slurker]] normally has 750 HP and is specified to take 10 Rock Pikmin hits to kill, so each hit does 75.

When [[charge]]d onto an enemy or when running towards it while idle, Rock Pikmin will attack by rolling into the enemy. This normally deals 20 damage, but it happens much less frequently than slap attacks, which means calling Rock Pikmin and throwing them again usually deals more damage than letting them attack on their own. There are a few situations where Rock Pikmin can latch onto enemies, such as on the legs of the [[Shaggy Long Legs]], and they will attack at the standard speed in these situations, dealing 20 damage per hit.

When attacking enemies, they will progressively freeze them, as represented by a ring-shaped gauge around the enemy's [[health wheel]]. The gauge increases every time an Ice Pikmin hits the enemy or is directly eaten by them. While attacks from an Ice Pikmin only increment this gauge slightly, when one is eaten the gauge increases substantially – around 40% when fighting a [[Red Bulborb]]. Once the gauge is full, the enemy freezes entirely, and can no longer act. Defeating a frozen enemy will make it shatter into chunks of ice without leaving a corpse, instead producing a drop of [[nectar]], similar to enemies killed while petrified by [[ultra-bitter spray]]. After a few seconds, the enemy will begin shaking and eventually break out of the ice, knocking any attached Pikmin to the ground.

When a [[leader]] doesn't have any Pikmin in their squad, they can perform a punch, or in the case of ''Pikmin 2'' with the [[Rocket Fist]], a series of punches. The exact damage depends on the game and the type of punch. In {{p1}}, a punch deals 10 damage. In {{p2}}, regular punches deal 7.5 damage, but after the Rocket Fist is obtained, the third punch in a series deals 18.75 points of damage. In {{p3}}, a punch deals 3 damage.

Bomb rocks can be used in combat. Their explosions deal a variable amount of damage to objects in range, though they usually cause much more damage to an enemy that ingests it directly. Additionally, some enemies such as [[Spotty Bulbear|Bulbears]] will foolishly eat them, defeating themselves in the process.

[[File:P2 Combat High Scores Artwork.png|thumb|The drawing used to represent combat in the [[high scores menu]] of ''Pikmin 2''.]]

Pikmin do not seem to have health that can be depleted, although this is hard to confirm, as explained [[Health#Pikmin|here]]. During combat they can still be harmed. In ''Pikmin'', ''Pikmin 2'' and ''Pikmin 4'', Pikmin that are knocked down by an enemy have a chance of their maturities being reduced as explained [[Maturity#Decreasing|here]]. In ''Pikmin 3'', Pikmin that are shaken off of an enemy or fall off of one will retain their maturities. In any ''Pikmin'' game, Pikmin that are shaken off of an enemy will briefly lie on the ground before getting up, but this is not always the case. Pikmin battling a [[Shaggy Long Legs]] that fall off one of its legs after picking the hairs off one of its joints will get up on their own, but Pikmin the creature shakes off normally will remain on the ground indefinitely until they are [[whistle]]d, as bumping into them does nothing.

Flower-stage Pikmin that die in ''Pikmin'' have a chance of leaving behind a seed that becomes a [[sprout]] the following day and can be plucked. Hazards like [[fire]], [[water]], and [[poison]] will respectively cause all but [[Red Pikmin]], [[Blue Pikmin]], and [[White Pikmin]] to begin scrambling wildly with that corresponding hazard on the end of their stem. Enemies in ''Pikmin 2'' that use [[electricity]] are arguably the deadliest, as electricity in that game can instantly kill Pikmin. Electricity in ''Pikmin 3'', however, is harmless, only causing non-[[Yellow Pikmin]] that come in contact with it to be thrown back, onto the ground, paralyzed, until they are [[whistle]]d. Electricity in Pikmin 4 will kill Non-[[Yellow Pikmin]] after 6 seconds, just like normal hazards.  

Enemies have a variety of ways to harm or kill Pikmin, such as [[#Shaking|shaking them off]], deflowering them, burying them, crushing them, eating them, or using another hazard against them. Most enemies have a limit on how many Pikmin they can kill or harm at once in a given [[#Attacking|attack]]. For example, a Spotty Bulborb in ''Pikmin'' can only gobble 3 Pikmin at most in a single chomp, but a [[Spotty Bulbear]] can capture up to 5. Some enemies can also harm other enemies or themselves; a prime example is the [[Decorated Cannon Beetle]], a creature that spits boulders which can be led into other enemies or even the creature that launched it.

The general idea is that each game keeps a list of loaded Pikmin in memory. This list can fit 100 entries, and normally, it starts off empty. When a Pikmin is loaded into memory, it fills in the next vacant slot. In the case of an empty list, this is slot 0. The second Pikmin to be called out fills slot 1, and so on. When an enemy attacks to eat, the game checks every loaded Pikmin to see if it is colliding with the mouth's hitbox, and starts checking slot 0, then slot 1, and so on.

Suppose that a day starts, 100 Pikmin are taken out from Onions, and they are all bundled together within reach of a [[Bulborb|Red Bulborb]]'s bite hitbox, which is an attack that will only chomp 5 Pikmin. The game will check the Pikmin in slot 0, confirm that it is within reach, and add it to the list of eating victims. It would then check slot 1, confirm that that one is as well, and add it. It would check slot 2, confirm that as well, and add it. It would do the same for slots 3 and 4. At this point, since it already added 5 Pikmin to the list of eating victims, it would stop checking, and would let the Bulborb's attack finish with those 5 Pikmin captured in its mouth. In this case, the five Pikmin that fell victim to the attack were the first five ones that got pulled out of the Onions. This means that, when starting a day normally, the first Pikmin that left the Onion are more likely to get eaten.

Internally, Pikmin types are declared with [[Blue Pikmin]] first. Then comes [[Red Pikmin|Red]], [[Yellow Pikmin|Yellow]], [[Purple Pikmin|Purple]], [[White Pikmin|White]], [[Bulbmin]], and [[Pikpik carrot]]. The reasons for this seemingly random order are not known for certain. However, it is possible that a discovery order of Blue→Red→Yellow was planned during [[Pikmin prerelease information|development for ''Pikmin'']], due to Blue Pikmin being the primary type shown off in old trailers.{{cite youtube|7x245evHAhQ|of a prerelease trailer of ''Pikmin'' from 2000}} So regardless, in scenarios where the game has to load multiple Pikmin of different types "at once", Blue Pikmin will be loaded first, meaning they will fill in the first Pikmin slots. If players find themselves in one of these scenarios then Blue Pikmin will be more likely to be eaten, since hitboxes that catch multiple Pikmin will pick the Blue Pikmin first.

Some players have noticed that, in ''Pikmin 2'', Blue Pikmin seem more likely to die than other types.{{cite web|http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/why-do-blue-pikmin-get-eaten-the-most.172402083/|Why do blue pikmin get eaten the most???|IGN Boards|published={{date|18|October|2008}}|retrieved={{date|15|August|2017}}}}{{cite web|https://www.pikminwiki.com/Forum:Blue_pikmin_get_eaten...alot|Blue pikmin get eaten...alot|Pikipedia|published={{date|9|February|2008}}|retrieved={{date|15|August|2017}}}} This is exactly why.

{{game help|hp|Research the combat system further.}}

In {{hp}}, some parts of combat work differently from the main series of games. As a 2D side-scrolling game on the [[Nintendo 3DS]], combat is less focused on maneuvering around enemies and strategizing to defeat them, and is more about quick reactions and accurate aiming. Enemies rarely require complex strategies to defeat, with the exception of [[boss]]es. Some enemies cannot be defeated at all.

 

 

 

 

 

{{pb}} does not have a true combat system as there are no [[Enemy|enemies]] in the game. However, Pikmin can attack mushrooms on [[mushroom battle]]s. While combat looks similar to how it does in the main series, its mechanics are very different. A Pikmin's attack power is determined by its [[Pikmin family#Types|type]], its [[maturity]], its [[friendship]], whether it is a [[Decor Pikmin]], and the mushroom's color. This attack power is not used for individual Pikmin attacks, but rather to calculate the overall strength of the group, and once the challenge begins, each Pikmin hit does as much damage as it needs to to make the health of the mushroom decrease at a rate proportional to the strength of the group. For more information on how damage works, see the '''[[Mushroom battle]]''' article.

{{game help|pa|Add more detailed info and info about damage to this section.}}

 

 

 

Olimar commands a [[squad]] of small Pikmin that each deal a small amount of damage, just like the main series. Tapping with {{button|wiiu|stylus}} will throw one of these Pikmin to the location tapped. They will attack automatically if they latch on to a weak point, but will attempt to return to Olimar if they miss. They can be regathered by using {{button|wiiu|zr|wiiu|zl}}. When calling Pikmin, the Mii Pikmin will also fly to Olimar and stack atop his head, where he can then throw them like the Pikmin. Powerups change how Olimar and his Pikmin attack, but the core concepts remain.

 

 

The other players control [[Mii]]s in Pikmin costumes. They can attack with {{button|wii|1}}, which will do a simple smack with whatever is on the end of their stem. This, in combination with {{button|wii|2}} to jump, makes the players able to utilize several attacks. When using powerups, some of these attacks behave differently.

 

| {{button|wii|1}} while in the air and having a Whip Seed.

| Punches in a diagonal line down to the ground using the fist on the player's head.

| {{button|wii|1}} while latched onto an enemy and having a whip seed.

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