Kingcap
| Kingcap | |
|---|---|
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| Appears in | Pikmin 3, Pikmin 4 |
| Scientific name | Unknown |
| Family | Unknown |
| Areas | Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra |
| Caves | None |
| Collect treasure! levels | Tropical Forest, Twilight Hollow |
| Battle enemies! levels | Distant Tundra Remix |
| Side Story levels | Flower Garden, Inside Forest, Tundra, Pikmin Reunion, First Part Found |
| Dandori Challenge levels | None |
| Bingo Battle levels | None |
| Dandori Battle levels | None |
Kingcaps (マダラタケ?, lit.: "Spotted Mushroom") are a type of fungus in Pikmin 3 that serve as obstacles. They are usually found blocking the way in corridors, and come accompanied with a series of Spotcaps. Leaders can use their Pikmin to destroy Kingcaps, but the leaders can not destroy the king cap themselves.
Kingcaps have a lot of durability and occupy a lot of space, but once cleared, they open up some significant space. Unlike the smaller Spotcaps, Pikmin can latch on to a Kingcap when thrown, and it has a health wheel.
Stats
| Weight | Max. carriers |
Seeds | Value | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1000 |
Poison Kingcap
In Pikmin 4, a poisonous variant of the Kingcap can be seen. It is rarer than its normal counterpart, only being found in 2 caves, the Doppelgänger's Den and the Engulfed Castle. It functions the same as normal Kingcaps, except it can only be attacked by White Pikmin due to its poison. However, they can also be damaged easily by Oatchi's rush.
Locations
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Kingcaps are always found with Spotcaps nearby.
Tropical Wilds
- A Kingcap appear in a non-obtrusive fashion in the cave next to the landing site, leading up from Alph's crash site.
Distant Tundra
- Two Kingcaps appear in the area around Captain Charlie's crash site. These serve as the game's first obstacle.
- In one of the Side Stories,Olimar's comeback, There are some Kingcaps along with Spotcaps blocking the pathway from spawn
Twighlight Hollow
- In the Battle Enemies! version of this map, there is a Kingcap to the west that leads to the onion of Rock Pikmin.
- In the Collect Treasure! Version of the map, the kingcap is in the same place as in the Battle Enemies! version of the map, but instead of Rock Pikmin, there's a Bulborb with many Sunseed Berrys inside of it.
Technical information
| Pikmin 3 technical information (?) | |
|---|---|
| Internal name | mush
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| HP | 1000 |
| Rock Pikmin throw hits to kill | 10 |
| White Pikmin ingestions to kill | 0 |
| Bomb rock explosions to kill | 1 |
| Bomb rock ingestions to kill | 0 |
| Number of direct hits on top to kill | 0 |
| Damage to leaders | 10 |
| Territory radius | 100 |
| Mission Mode value | 0 |
Gallery
A Kingcap from the Nintendo Facebook Pikmin Photobook app.
The first Kingcaps encountered in Story Mode.
Yellow Pikmin attacking the Kingcaps, under Captain Charlie's orders.
A Spotcap next to a Kingcap in a cave.
Trivia
- Spotcaps and Kingcaps share many similarities to Dwarf Bulborbs, and Bulborbs, respectively. Spotcaps and Dwarf Bulborbs each have 100 health, while Kingcaps and Bulborbs each have 1000. Both are red with white spots, and both Spotcaps and Dwarf Bulborbs instantly get defeated when hit on top.
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese |
マダラタケ? Madara Take |
Spotted Mushroom |
 French (NoE) |
Bulbolet | From bulborbe (Bulborb) and bolet (bolete) |
 German |
Gemeiner Punktpilz | Common Spot-mushroom |
 Italian |
Fungoleto | From fungo (mushroom) and coleto (Bulborb) |
 Spanish |
Superfungo moteado | Spotted superfungus |
See also
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| Minor obstacles |
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