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[[Image: Pickymin9.jpg|thumb|right|An Armored Cannon Beetle with a group of Pikmin. This is one of the preview images of the game.]]
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'''Armored Cannon Beetle'''
The '''Armored Cannon Beetle''' is the adult stage of the [[Armored Cannon Beetle Larva]]. The beetle is first discovered during [[Captain Olimar|Olimar's]] first visit to the [[Pikmin Planet]]. During his second voyage, only the larval stage is present. It is a large, metallic-looking black beetle with a thick, rounded shell of armor and a blowhole resting above its head. It attacks by inhaling through the blowhole and subsequently firing a rolling rock from its mouth, which will crush any of its smaller prey, such as Pikmin.
 
'''''Granitus chukkulinae'''''
 
The '''Armored Cannon Beetle''' is the mature stage of an [[Armored Cannon Beetle Larva]]. The beetle is first discovered during [[Captain Olimar|Olimar's]] first visit to the [[Pikmin (species)|Pikmin]] planet. During his second voyage, only the larval stage is present. It is a large, metallic black beetle with a rounded thick shell of armor and a blowhole resting above its head. It attacks by inhaling through the blowhole and subsequently firing a rolling rock from its mouth, which will crush any of its smaller prey, such as Pikmin.


[[Image: Pikmin1d.jpg|thumb|left|An Armored Cannon Beetle about to fire a rock at Olimar and his Pikmin.]]
[[Image: Pikmin1d.jpg|thumb|left|An Armored Cannon Beetle about to fire a rock at Olimar and his Pikmin.]]

Revision as of 15:45, February 9, 2008

Armored Cannon Beetle
File:Pickymin9.jpg
Appears in N/A
Scientific name Granitus chukkulinae
Family Lithopod
Areas The Forest of Hope, The Distant Spring
Attacks Squishes Pikmin

The Armored Cannon Beetle is the adult stage of the Armored Cannon Beetle Larva. The beetle is first discovered during Olimar's first visit to the Pikmin Planet. During his second voyage, only the larval stage is present. It is a large, metallic-looking black beetle with a thick, rounded shell of armor and a blowhole resting above its head. It attacks by inhaling through the blowhole and subsequently firing a rolling rock from its mouth, which will crush any of its smaller prey, such as Pikmin.

File:Pikmin1d.jpg
An Armored Cannon Beetle about to fire a rock at Olimar and his Pikmin.

This creature is only found during Olimar's first visit in The Forest of Hope, where one is guarding the Radiation Canopy, and The Distant Spring, where one has ingested the Bowsprit.

How to kill

The only way it can be defeated is by clogging the blowhole during air intake (Pikmin, and presumably other small creatures, are impervious to harm when inhaled). This causes the beetles internal temperature to rise dramatically, and in response the beetle will expose its burning abdomen underneath the armor to vent. The exposed abdomen leaves the beetle extremely vunerable to attack. However, the Beetle will quickly unclog its blowhole, shield its backside, and continue its attack after excess heat has been drained.