Talk:Purple Pikmin

According to the game, a purple Pikmin weighs 10 grams, and a red bulbord weighs 10 grams. Is there any logical explainaton you guys can come up for this? Mine is that They don't really wheigh 10 grams, but the downward force they exert is 10 grams woorth, only when they are on a scale. Is this possibly plausible? Maybe some sort of chemical reaction? ocolor 17:03, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

How could a chemical reaction cause an increase in mass? Only if the air reacted too, but it would have to be (assuming that it is Earth) about 16.6dm³ of air (a cube of sides 25cm); and why would a Purple Pikmin react? ...That was really random.

The value in the article was added by an anonymous user, so I'll assume it unfounded and remove it. It has been calculated, however, that they can carry 10g, as 100 are required to carry the 1kg weight.GP

Wait, I read what you wrote again. Where does it say that in the game?GP

Hey, I'm not anoymous!ocolor 20:43, 2 December 2007 (UTC) Oh, and what if the neutrons and electorns somehow rearranged themselves into a superdense atom? Maybe Purple Pikmin are made of this super dense Element, and thats why they are so extremely hard to produce? O.oocolor 20:43, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Uh, to get this straight: If the atoms of a Purple Pikmin where to be that dense, it's size would shrink (considering it was a simple Red Pikmin before thrown into a candypop). It's the same with black holes. The're smaller than our sun (I think), but have far stronger gravity. And GP wasn't reffering to you as a Anonymous user, instead the person who wrote the weighth. Still, this does confuse me. I think what you said at Talk:Weight and Strength was on the right track. Just because it say "10" doesn't have to mean that this is grams or a other general mesuring unit.--Prezintenden_(babble)

I guess it was guessed. But Blue Pikmin can throw Purple Pikmin out of the water, lifting 10g, so that kind of kills the whole thing. I really have no idea.

I get what you're trying to explain with the density stuff now: why the Purple Pikmin weigh the same amount as Red Bulborbs. Firstly, I have no idea where that came from. Secondly, if true, it could so easily be that Red Bulborbs have huge stomachs where there is nothing; and a 'superdense atom' is not really relevant, as density is usually determined by how spaced out atoms are due to the intermolecular bond types and quantities. For example, ice not dense because there are Hydrogen bonds, which are longer, spacing the atoms out, increasing volume with constant mass.

...yeah. That's really not relevant.GP

The more isotopes of an atom, the denser it is, regardless of density (or some other subatomic particle). This can be shown be liquid metal, Mercury weighs much more than water at the same density and mass. Also, hmmm. A Purple Pikmin weighs 10x more than a regular Pikmin. A Pikmin carries AT LEAST ten times its weight (if a blue weighs 1 and a purp weighs 10 and a blue can pick up a purp,) so the weight unit of carrying an object= 1 Purple Pikmin minumun or .1 Pikmin minimum. So, a Reb Bulborb weighs as much as 10 Purple Pikmin or 100 Regular Pikmin minimum. That makes more sense. SO, the unit for measuring how much 1 carrying weight is would be ≥ 10 Pikmin weight. So, a treasure requring 1 Pikmin to pick up is as heavy as 10 Pikmin. Maybe Pikmin are very LIGHT, as they weigh 1/10 of a four leafed clover. A scale unit ( a pikmin on a scale) is 1 Pikmin unit, Or 1 PMU. The weight of 1 carry weight (carrying a carcass or treausre) is 10≤ PMU. The stenght of a pikmin is 10≤ PMU. easy! ocolor 19:26, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

By the way, what you said about density at the start makes no sense... Anyway, that makes sense, but shouldn't be used in the articles as it'd be confusing and unnecessary. Just use numbers without units as in the game, an undefined, relative scale. But this applies only to Pikmin weight: the weight of beasts is known calculated using Doomsday Apparatus = 1kg, Purples lift 10g, others 1g, so Red Bulborbs weigh 10g, but there is no comparison anywhere with Pikmin weights.GP

But, alas, I have found a way to relate Pikmin weight to the carry weight of an object. A pikmin weighs .1 grams or less, 1 gram assuming that A blue Pikmin's maximum amount to carry is a purple, b/c if a blue can pick up both a purple and 1 gram, and a blue pik is 1/10 the weight of a purp, and therefore a purp weighs 1 gram, then yah.ocolor 01:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Also, can someone change my sig back to IAMAHIPO_ocolor?

I don't think the Blue Pikmin being able to pick up Purples would have been considered in their weights. It just happens... Either way, that's still a maximum, and not worth putting on the articles.GP

Just to summarize: The weight a Pikmin can carry is assumed to be a gram because of the Doomsday Apparatus treasure. The "1k" label refers to the relative number of Pikmin required to carry it, but it can also be taken to mean one kilogram, or 1,000 grams. Since it takes 100 Purples to lift a 1,000 gram object, each one would have to carry 10 grams, and since each Purple is 10 times as strong as a normal Pikmin, all other Pikmin would be able to carry a maximum of one gram. Also, since Blue Pikmin are not only able to lift Purple Pikmin, but toss them out of the water, Purples must weigh one gram or less, making the weight of normal Pikmin equal to or less than a tenth of a gram, ultimately meaning that Pikmin can carry ten times (or more) their weight, which isn't at all strange for an animal of their size. I swear I saw this weight theory explained in an article on this site, but I can't seem to find it anymore. Was it deleted?

I'm still unsure that the Blue Pikmin's strength in those situations applies, but that is all the general idea. We still can't give an exact value as to the weights of Pikmin, though.GP

Yah, I added that :) brilliant mw :) IAMAHIPO ocolor 19:25, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

My simpler theroy is that each Pikmin weighs about a gram, so Purple Pikmin weigh 10 grams, but I am considering (actually, was) that Purple Pikmin weigh 1 gram and had a lot of muscles around the arms, but I remembered that Olimar said they weigh x10 the weight of a normal Pikmin. And it's probably true that a lot of their weight is muscle, and THAT'S how they can lift 10 grams. If anyone can understand this, please respond. If not, i'm not surprised. And to the person who posted something about Bulborbs and Purple Pikmin weighing the same, what the heck is that from? Really, it doesn't seem very important.Pikdude 00:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't think we should overlook the Blue Pikmins' lifeguard ability, as it's really all we've got to go on. If you've got a scale or a balance at home, it shouldn't take you long to discover that the game's weight units certainly aren't real-life grams, and furthermore, that the comparative weights of in-game objects aren't the same as those of their real-world counterparts (an example: the Fuel Reservoir treasure weighs only 1/3 more than the Proton AA, whereas an actual 9-volt weighs nearly twice as much as a AA battery). It's clear that Pikmin carrying strength is its own unit, and that weights of in-game treasures aren't comparable to actual objects, so disregarding the lifeguards puts us right back at square one. Actually, a thought occurred while I was typing this. What if an object's carry-weight doesn't just depend on the object's actual weight, but also on how many Pikmin in takes to balance it? It might explain how objects with completely dissimilar weights but alike sizes would require the same number of Pikmin to carry, like the Proton AA and Survival Ointment. Of course this absolutely kills the Doomsday Apparatus weight theory, and might be overcomplicating things, but it seems to me to add a dash of Rhyme and a pinch of Reason to otherwise nonsensical weight comparisons.

"Balance" is kind of misplaced here. You can lift the Plentiful Tank by cramming all the Pikmin onto one side; if real physics would apply at this point, the thing would just topple over. You can get this to an extreme by putting one or two Pikmin on the same side of the Invigorator (not sure how heavy it is). Sadly, the games dynamics can kill most of the theories.--Prezintenden

It's still a game. If nothing is certain and there are so many unexplainable discrepancies, then maybe we should just get rid of the grammes for treasures' weights and use arbitrary Pikmin units instead.GP

So, couldn't we just make up a weight(like "pikin" or something) and use that? It would make things a whole lot simpler.Pikdude 16:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

That's what I said.GP

Oh, I couldn't understand what the heck it meant.Pikdude 20:09, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Can't we just stay with primitive numbers? That's what the game uses; afterall, that is where our problems come from.--Prezintenden

What are primitive numbers? Are they our current system of numbers? (The U.S.A., not us.)Pikdude 21:18, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

......You just lost me, kid. The U.S.A., not us? Current system? By primitive numbers I mean 1, 2, 3. No "grammes", "PMU" or "Pikin". Just numbers.--Prezintenden

That's what I meant by "our current system of numbers".Pikdude 21:30, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Please, Prez, be my guest if you'd like to change it. I'd do it myself, but I haven't the slightest clue as to how to edit templates. If nobody minds, though, I'd like to change the bit on the Pikmin (species) page which says that Pikmin can only carry their own weight.

Are we talking about removing the grammes for treasure and beast weights? Because the Pikmin's weights are already unit-less.GP

Pikmin weights had a unit, just no exact value. Pikmin were ≤0.1 grams, while Purples were ≤1 gram. The whole gram system kind of fell apart though. Might just be best, and probably less confusing, to remove the gram units from the treasure, ship part, and beast templates, but keep the weight values on the individual articles.

Okay, I'll do that.GP

Umm.....some of you guys are looking wayyy to into this.....I dont think what a Pikmin weighed was ever in grams....if someone can point out in the game where it specifically says their weight in grams, that would help. But I rellllly think it does not. The weights of the treasure in Pimin 2 where when in....pikmin; things were weighed according to how many pikmin where needed to carry it..........you guys were like looking for something that was not there.....

Already explained. The Doomsday Apparatus had a 1k label, leading many to believe it weighed a kilogram, leading to an entire weight theory. It's since been disproved, though...thoroughly, hence why it's been removed from every page. —Jimbo Jambo

Wait, the 1 kilogram on the weight was dissproved? IAMAHIPO ocolor 04:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, yeah, kind of. Problem is that real-world objects' weights don't add up to those in the game. Actual AA batteries weigh close to 25 grams, whereas the Proton AA weighs six Pikmin units. It's more likely that 1k just means 1000 as a reference to the Doomsday Apparatus' Pikmin weight than that it means one kilogram. —Jimbo Jambo

should we bring the wind resistance back? I am rocky0718 and i PWN

We never really had it in the first place, it was just some idiot anonymous who didn't know how to use talk pages or edit summaries and ignored warnings given to them. The reason we removed it is because the resistance box is for resistances to deadly hazards, like fire and electricity, not things like wind. —Jimbo Jambo

Wind could be deadly if they were standing around an electric fence... ~CrystalLucario~ 10:50, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

...Then we may as well add Olimar as a hazards; he's the one that leads the Pikmin to their deaths. Better yet, blame the Pikmin for following him...GP

dont insult the pikmin. I am rocky0718 and i PWN

Just thinking out loud here, the chemical reaction thing at the start somehow make sense, because of the Purple pikmin's ability to alter the Waterwraith. Also, it could be that Purple Pikmin weigh 1 gram, and the others weigh 1/10 of a gram, explaining the lifeguard thing. Either that, or there is a Pikmin equivelant of adrenaline, allowing the Blues to rescue their friends. ferailo9 00:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure where the chemical reaction thing came from. As Green said, a chemical reaction wouldn't cause an increase in mass unless the Purple Pikmin actually absorbed material from the environment, and even then it wouldn't explain why Purple Pikmin are so much smaller than Bulborbs. I think we did come to the conclusion that Purple Pikmin weigh one unit and other Pikmin weigh a tenth, which, as you pointed out, would explain the lifeguard ability. —Jimbo Jambo

lets put olimar as a hasard because toadmin are resistant to his control (A.K.A. stupidity.) I am rocky0718 and i PWN

How about we (INSERT IDEA HER)! No. ~CrystalLucario~ 00:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Whu do we assume that pikmin weigh one gram? Ants can lift 10x their own so maybe pikmin weigh less.

We stopped using grams as the unit of weight because in-game values and real-world values just didn't add up. Also, I think we did come to the conclusion that Pikmin can lift at least ten times their own weight, meaning that normal Pikmin weight around a tenth of a unit and Purple Pikmin weight about one. —Jimbo Jambo

And some of the enemys have 1 unit too...which means Purples need a diet.... ~CrystalLucario~ 18:40, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Here's an idea! Why don't we consider it a part of the game that has no real world equivelant, and stop taking it so seriouly!!!!!!Killerbreadbug72Disscussion 03:02, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Don't be silly... I'm ~CrystalLucario~ And I approve this message.

Guys, what you're not comprehending is that there are two separate weights, one for Pikmin, and one for treasures. i.e., the scales and the treasure weights are completely different units. IAMAHIPO_ocolor 14:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

The thing is that Pikmin weights can't really be measured exactly, but we're estimating their weight based on how much they can carry and how heavy a Pikmin blues can lift and toss (that being, Purple Pikmin). There is no other unit here, since we're associating weights to Pikmin based on the weights of the treasures. —Jimbo Jambo

Well Put... I'm ~CrystalLucario~ And I approve this message.

Nobody's said anything about Purples half jumping out of the water, so the Blues just give them a boost....Pikmin Commander 23:03, January 29, 2010 (UTC) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �

Resistance

Purple pikmin don't panic when mitites cpme out of the ground or when emporer bulblax roars. Souldn't we label it's resistance as panic or something?Masta pikmin 16:19, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

...That's even worse than wind. It's not really a resistance since it's not a hazard in the first place, and it's pretty hard to actually meaningfully classify in an infobox in one word anyway. You'll just confuse people.GP

I need to concede to that. A "resistence" is for a hazard that is life-threatning for the pikmin. This just leads up to an enevitable doom. EvilLouie13

I think that Mitites may have some effect on purples, I completely lost control of one and could not whistle it back when I was in the Shower Room. Then again, I always get glitches in the Perplexing Pool caves. Portal-Kombat

Although wind (and panic) could potentially be fatal, blown (or Ran) into electricity, water, fire, etc. it isn't fatal itself... I'm ~LonelyTurret~ And I approve this message.

Thank goodness SOMEONE agrees with me. :D

Arg!

label says 67 grams! weight of 8! The calculations will suffer!

I'm JimmytheJ, btw <-my siggy, until I work out how to make a real one.

There's more like that XP... I can make you a siggy and show you how to use it to... I'm ~LonelyTurret~ And I approve this message.

I think we should just call it enthusiasm and unexpected adrenaline due to value... or something-nothing else seems to make sense.

JimmytheJ

I dunno I'm ~LonelyTurret~ And I approve this message.

Maybe decay of some kind reduced the stuff's density from the marked amount? --Yoshord

This is great. We should redo those calculations based off of this. Oh, and that whole 'battery theory'? The one that involved the weights of certain objects not adding up to their real life versions? Has Olimar opened them up and looked inside? No? How do we know their not hollow or something? ParadoxJuice 19:51, January 26, 2010 (UTC)

What calculations? Deductive reasoning people.

The ones at the top of the page down. Actually, my reasoning cancels itself out...but a 1k dumbell can't be hollowed out or missing components. ParadoxJuice 22:17, January 29, 2010 (UTC)

P.S., that means guess.Pikdude 00:41, January 29, 2010 (UTC)

Doomsday Apparattus

Shouldn't we delete that section?I mean, that is in another article and it's the same information. Snakeboss14

???...oh. I'm not sure... but talks aren't censered... but then again it DOES repeat...--File:IdlePikmin.jpg the master --MewFan128 17:36, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

How about renaming the section "Tips to get more Purple Pikmin" and see if the section fits in the article then?

Ok, I'll do that. Snakeboss14

Maybe the Pikmin are using some sort of pyschic help from the Onions to help them lift stuff like the Doomsday Apparatus?Pikmin Commander 22:52, January 29, 2010 (UTC)Pikmin Commander

Lolwut? I'm ~LonelyTurret~ And I approve this message.

A hive mind encouraging them and giving them strength? Interesting...Pikdude 21:12, January 31, 2010 (UTC)

All these theorys prove nothing Pikness34 00:02, July 29, 2010 (UTC)

They prove nothing, true, but we can speculate. But not on Pikmin 3. Crys will arrest you if you speculate about Pikmin 3.Pikdude 00:01, July 30, 2010 (UTC)

O really? Pikness34

Feature Notice

Sorry about removing that, I didn't really know how the template worked; I didn't look at its page. Vol (Talk)

No problem. For future reference, it's all here. GP

Size

Just with whites there size also changes when with an object.They become as tall as red/blue/or yellow and there flowers/leafs/bud are smaller.(I only noticed with a flower though but I assume if its with that its also with the leaf or bud)They still are obviously wider then others.--Man-at-Legs888 02:38, 5 July 2011 (EDT)

Resistance?

I think that putting in wind as a resistance is a valid answer, considering that it RESISTS wind. - Cocoandrew (talk • contribs)

(Please sign your edits to talk pages with '~~~~'.) We need to decide, then, whether non-lethal hazards should be considered for the 'resistance' part of the infobox - because, yes, the current wording does imply they would fit. A problem I see with this is it could easily lead to including things like 'purples are resistant to Mitites so we should add Mitites as a resistance' - and I don't know about you, but including that in the infobox seems silly.

Anyone else have an opinion? GP 05:49, 12 July 2012 (EDT)

Yes, that was my main concern as well. If we don't consider only hazards, it's going to be one gigantic list. I can understand the logic behind it, but mentioning they're resistant to wind would be better suited in the article's body. It's a resistance to something non-lethal, so it's less important, hence, less worthy to be on the infobox. — {Espyo^T} 07:39, 12 July 2012 (EDT)

As per Espyo and GP.--Prezintenden

Confirmation

Oh, no, not again. Sorry to doubt you, SuperLuigiBros., but are you absolutely sure that Purple Pikmin are now limited to Challenge Mode or whatever in Pikmin 3? Seriously, this question has been bugging me for a long time (I am now entirely reliant on overpowered(ness?) in my battles), so... it would be nice to see confirmation. -Los Plagas

The North American website for Pikmin 3 states that "you'll also find Purple and White Pikmin in Mission and Bingo Battle game modes". This is official confirmation they don't appear in Story Mode (but I'm disappointed that they don't return in it...) ~PikFan23

Throw height

After comparing some screenshots, I realized that Purple Pikmin are thrown 0.8 times as high as normal types, in Pikmin 2. This value isn't confirmed, so I'm not adding anything, but I'm keeping this in the talk page because it's still a more-or-less confirmed value. — {Espyo^T} 13:12, 29 July 2014 (EDT)

Comment by Purplepik3 on 30th January 2014

PURPLES ARE THE AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!! - Purplepik3 (talk • contribs)

Yeah but they all lost there abilities in pikmin 3 like being less 10 times stronger - Pikmin heroic (talk • contribs)

Comment by Pikmin heroic on 11th April 2014

Yeah but they all lost there abilities in pikmin 3 like being less 10 times stronger - Pikmin heroic (talk • contribs)

Comment by anonymous user on 12 October 2015

The article states that Purple Pikmin never appear with a Puffy Blowhog in Mission Mode. This is incorrect; Mission 4 has both a Blowhog and Purples in the stage.

Oh. Right you are. I'll add a tag to the page to remind us to check that level, then. — {Espyo^T} 03:56, 13 October 2015 (EDT)

Tripping

I am here to confirm that Purple Pikmin do trip less often. I did the experiment here. — Mariotime315 ^{Let's-a go!}

I saw the notes you took on your page. Seems convincing, but I have to ask: how did you test this? In a normal playthrough, Pikmin trip like once every hour. Did you just play for 50 hours straight or what? You should elaborate on these details, so that others can decide if the experiment is biased or not, and so that they can recreate it if they want to. I'm not saying I don't trust your result or skills. I'm actually pretty excited we can get closure on this. I just mean that, in order to get a convincing answer, we have to make sure that the experiments run aren't missing anything. — {Espyo^T} 10:17, 16 October 2016 (EDT)

Sorry about that. I added a "how to" section now in case anyone wants to recreate it. — Mariotime315 ^{Let's-a go!}

Sorry if I'm a bit skeptical, but it's just that myths that are not true are a bit common in the Pikmin fandom. Anyway, your study seems convincing. Feel free to add your findings to the page, and add a reference to your userpage with the study, so people can know that the fact that Purples trip less wasn't just made up. (You can check out Carrying#Speed and Dirt mound#Digging speed for other articles that use internal studies as references.) — {Espyo^T} 09:53, 17 October 2016 (EDT)