Calcified Crushblat

Calcified Crushblat
Appears in	Pikmin 3
Scientific name	Unknown
Family	Unknown
Areas	Tropical Wilds
Mission Mode Collect Treasure! stages	None
Mission Mode Battle Enemies! stages	None
Side Story days	None
Bingo Battle stages	None
Attacks	N/A

The Calcified Crushblat is an unusual enemy in Pikmin 3. It resembles a bulbous, frog-like creature that stands on tall, stilt-like legs. It is capable of covering itself in a crystal-like shell for defense. Rock Pikmin are needed to shatter its defenses. It attacks by crushing Pikmin by sitting on them. The creature only appears once in story mode, residing in the Tropical Wilds.

Strategy

The Calcified Crushblat sits motionlessly on the ground with its legs retracted, resembling nothing more than a crystaline lump on the ground. However, as the player approaches, it will begin to visibly breath heavily, get up, and walk around. It will not actively attack Pikmin or players, but if they walk underneath it, it will not hesitate to sit on them and crush them. 

As the calcified layer of this creature is very hard, one must use either Rock Pikmin or Bomb Rocks. Because Rock Pikmin tend to only break away small portions, it is recommended to use Bomb Rocks whenever possible, as they will blow away a huge portion of the armor and expose the creature within to attack.

Once exposed, simply throw Pikmin on the exposed tender flesh of the Crushblat. Once defeated, its entire crystaline casing will shatter and it will fall dead onto the floor. However, it is advised that only a small portion of the armor is removed, as it will be able to run faster as more armor is taken off of it.

Before the armor is removed, it will do more damage to captains when it sits down and squash all non-Rock Pikmin. After the armour is removed, it does almost half the damage to players, but its body stretches outwards and knocks over Captains and Pikmin. However, it is now completely incapable of squashing any Pikmin.

Gallery

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  A sleeping Calcified Crushblat with its calcified layer completely intact.

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  A sleeping Crushblat without its calcified layer.

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  Calcified Crushblat Coming Towards The Player With Full Shell

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  A Calcified Crushblat being scanned while its walking around with its crystal coating.

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  A Calcified Crushblat with half its shell broken.

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  An armourless Crushblat stretching out as it lands.

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  A sleeping Crushblat without its calcified layer.

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  Calcified Crushblat Coming Towards The Player With Full Shell

Trivia

• In reality, calcification usually takes around 3-4 years to take place.
• Although the Calcified Crushblat respawns, the calcified layer never respawns suggesting that calcification takes a long time on PNF-404 also.
• The Crushblat's appearance when its armor is taken off somewhat resembles the Large-Mouth Wollywog from Pikmin Adventure.
• Although the Crushblat shows many qualities a mini-boss has, it does not play the remixed Pikmin 2 boss theme like the other minibosses.
• Interestingly, the Crushblat's head still expands and retracts after its death.