Talk:Combat

Stuff to add

There's a lot we can talk about. I'll list what I wrote on Pikcord and expand on it:

• Explain:
  • How Pikmin attack:
    • By standing up or latched on, and how in the former, they can rotate or latch on by themselves
    • How they can attack other leaders in competitive modes
    • How they decide to attack, by just being idle near a target, or being thrown at it, and how they can even enter combat with objects like eggs
  • How leaders can get damaged: simple damage, knockback, and crush, and the ramifications for recovering and getting hit by subsequent hits
    • Same with Pikmin, but also how they can catch on fire and so on
  • In Pikmin and Pikmin 2, Pikmin can lose their maturity, and in the case of P1, how they can leave behind sprouts for the next day if they die as a flower
  • More info about attacks:
    • Spicy Pikmin
    • How maturity affects it (or doesn't)
    • Petrified enemies
    • First latched-on hit (supposedly cause double damage in Pikmin 3)
  • How enemies attack:
    • How enemies that captured Pikmin will release them when they die before swallowing
    • Enemy in-fighting
    • How some enemy attacks have a limit of Pikmin they can capture/kill at once (WIP research here)
  • Tactics
    • It's usually a good idea to coax an enemy into shaking Pikmin off, and then rush at it while it's busy ending its shaking animation and preparing its next attack
    • How some enemies have weakspots, are vulnerable to certain actions like Dwarf Bulborbs getting crushed, etc.
    • Bomb rocks
  • Pikmin that get shaken off in a battle against the P3 Shaggy Long Legs can either stay on the ground forever (normal shake), or get up by themselves (joint de-hair shake). They also will not respond to being bumped, only to the whistle.

— {Espyo^T} 13:29, January 13, 2021 (EST)

Do enemy attacks against the Leader count as attacks?

I think I should edit the Goolix’s page. － ～✿ＬｏｎｇＴａｉｌＣａｔ３✿～＇ｓ　Ｄｉｓｃｕｓｓｉｏｎ～✿ＬｏｎｇＴａｉｌＣａｔ３✿～＇ｓ　Ｄｉｓｃｕｓｓｉｏｎ (❀🌸❀She/Her/Hers❀🌸❀), 01:19, June 15, 2021 (EDT)

Are there any attacks that exclusively target leaders? — {Espyo^T} 16:21, June 16, 2021 (EDT)

The Goolix slides towards Olimar, and Olimar only slowly, and Olimar loses health. － ～✿ＬｏｎｇＴａｉｌＣａｔ３✿～＇ｓ　Ｄｉｓｃｕｓｓｉｏｎ～✿ＬｏｎｇＴａｉｌＣａｔ３✿～＇ｓ　Ｄｉｓｃｕｓｓｉｏｎ (❀🌸❀She/Her/Hers❀🌸❀), 18:11, June 16, 2021 (EDT)

Hmm, I'm not sure how to document that. Are there other cases of the sort? — {Espyo^T} 13:53, June 18, 2021 (EDT)

kageyamii, terribilis, and pseudooculli try to bite the leader. － ～✿ＬｏｎｇＴａｉｌＣａｔ３✿～＇ｓ　Ｄｉｓｃｕｓｓｉｏｎ (❀🌸❀She/Her/Hers❀🌸❀), 13:06, July 28, 2021 (EDT)