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Moss
A render of Moss from the Nintendo Switch Online icons
Name Moss
Gender Female
Eye color Brown
Hair color Green
Home planet PNF-404
Known related characters Captain Olimar, Louie
Height Unknown
First game Pikmin 4
Latest game Pikmin 4

Moss (モス?, lit.: "Moss") is a space dog in Pikmin 4. In the game's prologue she is found by Captain Olimar when he crash-lands on PNF-404 and quickly befriends her, helping him throughout his search for his ship's missing ship parts. After the prologue, Moss is seen accompanied by a leafling-transformed Olimar, and accompanies him during Dandori Battles.

In gameplay, be it during the prologue when the player controls Captain Olimar, Olimar's Shipwreck Tale, or during a Dandori Battle, Moss works exactly like Oatchi. An exception is how she learns new skills: instead of exchanging Pup Drive, she gains new abilities as rewards for the ship parts Olimar recovers. She is only ever seen with a leaf on the tip of her tail, much like the one atop a Pikmin's stem.

Stats

Weight Max.
carriers
Seeds Value Health
N/A N/A N/A N/A 7000

Personality and appearance

Moss is fairly similar to Oatchi, with some notable differences.

  • She is larger.
  • Her fur is green.
  • Her eyes are brown and are always squinting, instead of fully open.
  • Her ears are perked upward and forward instead of drooping down.
  • Her cheeks are not as firm and droop more.
  • Her bark is deeper.

Unlike Oatchi, Moss is seen to be a native of PNF-404, with Olimar speculating that her leafy tail has actually been that way since birth, similar to the Pikmin. Despite being born light-years apart from each other, Oatchi and Moss are both stated to descend from the PNF-404 native Ancient Sirehound, which Olimar believes suggests something deeper about the nature of their universe.

As an enemy

Until Olimar's vault is opened and the entrance to Leafy Showdown is discovered, Moss can be found in the Hero's Hideaway. According to the Voyage Log, she appears to be guarding Olimar's bunker.

She will seek out Pikmin (both idle ones and ones in the player's squad), and whistle for them to put them under her control, much like an Antenna Beetle in Pikmin 2. Upon gathering Pikmin, she will try to run off with them, if she does so, she will toss them on a fan which leads to the bunker, you will have to whistle your pikmin to free them from the state they are in. Pikmin under Moss's control cannot be freed until Moss takes significant damage, at which point she will let them go and try to escape; if she does so, she will begin to heal herself. Unlike most enemies, she has a unique map icon.

Moss cannot be permanently defeated; when her health is depleted she will be incapacitated and begin regenerating her health over a period of exactly five minutes. Collin will inform the player when Moss's health is fully restored so they can plan their activities accordingly.

In Dandori Battles, she can be knocked out, which transports her to the Onion, and can then be called by Olimar or Louie.

Notes

Dalmo's Notes

Oatchi and Moss are like two peas in a pod. It's quite unprecedented that a space dog should meet such a similar creature on a far-off, unknown planet. You could even call it miraculous. Could they be siblings separated at birth? No, that's just not possible.

Olimar's Notes

As far as I can tell, Moss has been a leafling pup since birth, and some of her DNA resembles that of the Pikmin. This is the one point in which she differs from Oatchi. When Oatchi transformed from a standard space dog into a leafling pup, I started to theorize that the Pikmin are, in some capacity, propagating their DNA in other organisms. The phenomenon in which all those castaways, including myself, became leaflings was very likely caused by being absorbed into the Onion. Perhaps that process was also some sort of Pikmin-ification of the body. Pikmin-ified organisms can't leave this planet, so the Pikmin may have been motivated to carry out this process in an effort to secure a permanent leader. Of course, this is all a theory...

Louie's Notes

Convenient for procuring ingredients. Compact, with a tight turning radius.

Naming

  • Common name: Moss. It comes from her green coat of fur, which resembles moss.
  • Japanese nickname: モス?, lit.: "Moss". It comes from her green coat of fur, which resembles moss.
  • Japanese name: イチヨウイエイヌ?, lit.: "One-leaf Domestic Dog".
  • Scientific name: "Folicanis amicaris". It is based on "foliage", the Latin for "dog", and the Latin phrase for "you are friendly".
  • Internal names: CHASER. It refers to how she chases the player and their Pikmin down to try to whistle them under her control.
  • Prerelease: None.

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Flag of Japan Japanese モス?
Mosu
Moss
Flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Chinese
(traditional)
莫斯
Mòsī
Moss
Flag of China Chinese
(simplified)
莫斯
Mòsī
Moss
Flag of the Netherlands Dutch Moss -
Flag of France French Moss -
Flag of Germany German Moss -
Flag of Italy Italian Moss -
Flag of South Korea Korean 모스
Moseu
Moss
Flag of Brazil Portuguese Moss -
Flag of Spain Spanish Moss -

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