Greater Spotted Jellyfloat
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| Appears in | Pikmin 2, Pikmin 4 | ||
| Scientific name | Cephalus vortexia | ||
| Family | Jellyfloat | ||
| Areas | None | ||
| Caves | Shower Room, Hole of Heroes, Dream Den, Seafloor Resort, Ultimate Testing Range | ||
| Challenge Mode stages | The Giant's Bath, Abduction Den | ||
| Dandori Challenge stages | None | ||
| Dandori Battle stages | None | ||
| 2-Player Battle stages | None | ||
| Attacks | Inhale leaders, inhale and eat Pikmin | ||
The Greater Spotted Jellyfloat (オオマンマン?, lit.: "Giant Manman") is an enemy in Pikmin 2 and Pikmin 4. Greater Spotted Jellyfloats are members of the Jellyfloat family, and as the name implies, they resemble a large, pinkish version of the Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat. In Pikmin 4, they appears much more solid, looking similar to gelatin. They have much more visible segments, more consistent and dull spots, purple luminescent organs, and more subtle lines on the oral arms. This species is considerably more rare, as it is alien to the region, but its population is quickly displacing that of its smaller cousin. Greater Spotted Jellyfloats have slightly more health and can be defeated in the same manner, but can suck up more Pikmin at once, and even leader if the player is not careful. It is possible to get out of a Jellyfloat quickly by rapidly rotating 
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. Likewise, all undigested Pikmin and leaders are returned when one is defeated. Throwing Purple Pikmin will knock one to the ground, where it can be easily killed by swarming. Like their lesser cousins, they explode in a flurry of sparkling lights when defeated, but unlike them, they do not emit a song-like sound.
Stats
| Game | Weight | Max. carriers |
Seeds | Value | Health | Regen. |
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N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 4500 | No |
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N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2500 | No |
Notes
Olimar's notes
Louie's notes
Dalmo's Notes
“This lovely floating critter sucks up food by stretching and contracting its body. It's hard to imagine such a graceful creature could be of this world. It would be rather exciting to get sucked in with all the treasures and Pikmin to float on forever. But if that really happened, I wouldn't be of this world for long either!”
Pikmin 2 Nintendo Player's Guide
Pikmin Garden
Text
“ピンク色の体に、スカート状に一体化した触手と、5本の口腕を持つ陸棲のクラゲ。頭の発光器官で獲物をおびき寄せ、体の下部にある口柄から吸い込んで捕食する。
特徴 その1 空を飛ぶ
- 体内の気圧を下げることで、外気との密度の差で浮力を得ている。
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- 獲物の上空へ音もなく近づき、体内外の気圧差で吸い上げる
- 触手や口腕には刺胞がなく、獲物の捕獲に使われることはない)
特徴 その2 外来種
- 風に乗って別の地域から飛来、定着した外来種である。
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- 大型で消化器官が発達していて、一度に捕食する獲物の数も多い
- 口腕の数や長さが異なるほか、体は一回り大きく、渦の向きが異なる)”
Translation
“A terrestrial jellyfish with a pink body, skirt-like unified tentacles, and five oral arms. It attracts prey with the luminescent organ in its head and sucks it up through the orifice on the lower part of its body.
Feature #1: Flying
- By lowering the atmospheric pressure inside its body, it gains buoyancy from the difference in density with the outside air.
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- "It approaches its prey silently and sucks it up by taking advantage of the difference in atmospheric pressure between the air inside and outside its body"
- "It has no nematocysts on its tentacles and oral arms and does not use them to capture prey")
Feature #2: Non-native species
- It is a non-native species that has flown in from another region in the wind, and has become established.
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- "Its large and well-developed digestive organs allow it to feed on a large amount of prey at once"
- "In addition to the number and length of its oral arms being different, its body is one size larger, and the orientation of its spiral is different")”
Strategy
In Pikmin 2. the Greater Spotted Jellyfloat is a large target and therefore can easily be hit with Purple Pikmin. Just one of them will bring the creature to the ground; 6 Pikmin will be needed, otherwise. Once on the ground, the player should either continue to throw Purple Pikmin at it, provided they have enough, or swarm it with a squad of considerable size. Both ways will ensure a quick defeat.
In Pikmin 4, Greater Spotted Jellyfloats are much more dangerous. They can not be weighed down, and kill Pikmin much faster. Any non yellow Pikmin will latch onto the tentacles, where they can be inhaled, excluding Purple Pikmin. As Yellow Pikmin are not usually brought to any caves that contain these Jellyfloats, fighting them will usually be a pain, as they are also quite sensitive to damage, and will shake Pikmin off quickly. Winged Pikmin (who are useful in the Ultimate Testing Range, where a few of these Jellyfloats can be encountered.) can also be used to attack the main body, though due to their low attack power, it's not a fast process without the use of Ultra-spicy spray. Much like the Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat, it can be defeated instantly when Ice Pikmin freeze it, due to its gelatinous body crashing into the floor when frozen. Like in Pikmin 2 Purple Pikmin are still an option, however, due to their lowered throw height and the incresed floating height of the Jellyfloat, it is much more difficult to hit it with Purple Pikmin. In exchange, Purple Pikmin do particularly massive damage when latching onto these beasts, all it takes is to find a single opening where the Jellyfloat lowers down and Purple Pikmin can quickly cause its demise. If you happen to miss, it doesn't matter much since Purple Pikmin are immune to the creature's sucking attack. Another option is Rock Pikmin, who are thrown higher than Purple Pikmin and do not mind the enemy's frequent shaking, since they don't latch on anyway. A small squad Rock Pikmin can quickly and easily defeat the beast within a few consectutive throws. Or, if you just give up, throw 3 Ice Pikmin at it and wait for it to eat them.
An alternate method is possible with only leaders in Pikmin 2. Have the Greater Spotted Jellyfloat absorb one leader, and then switch to the other leader and use an ultra-bitter spray to petrify the Jellyfloat. Switch back to the leader who is currently swallowed, and wiggle the Control Stick to break free. The Jellyfloat will be defeated. It's possible to do this with a single leader by spraying it as he is being sucked in, but this is very difficult.[1]
To note is that in Pikmin 2, if a Greater Spotted Jellyfloat digests a White Pikmin, it will not take damage from it. This is also the case with the Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat.
Technical information
| Pikmin 2 technical information (?) | |||
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| Internal name | onikurage
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| Global properties (List) | |||
| ID | Japanese comment | Property | Value |
| s000 | friction(not used) | Friction | 0.5 |
| s001 | wallReflection | Unknown (wall bounce speed multiplier?) | 0.5 |
| s002 | faceDirAdjust | Unknown | 0.25 |
| s003 | accel | Acceleration | 0.1 |
| s004 | bounceFactor | Unknown (bounce when it hits the ground?) | 0.3 |
| fp00 | ライフ | HP | 4500 |
| fp01 | マップとの当り | Unknown (related to slopes) | 40 |
| fp02 | ダメージスケールXZ | Horizontal damage scale | 0.1 |
| fp03 | ダメージスケールY | Vertical damage scale | 0.1 |
| fp04 | ダメージフレーム | Damage scale duration | 0.35 |
| fp05 | 質量 | Unknown (weight?) | 0.0001 |
| fp06 | 速度 | Move speed | 75 |
| fp08 | 回転速度率 | Rotation acceleration | 0.1 |
| fp09 | テリトリー | Territory radius | 500 |
| fp10 | ホーム範囲 | "Home" radius | 100 |
| fp11 | プライベート距離 | "Private" radius | 70 |
| fp12 | 視界距離 | Sight radius | 500 |
| fp13 | 視界角度 | FOV | 180 |
| fp14 | 探索距離 | Unknown (exploration radius?) | 300 |
| fp15 | 探索角度 | Unknown (exploration angle?) | 90 |
| fp16 | 振り払い率 | Successful shake rate | 1 |
| fp17 | 振り払い力 | Shake knockback | 120 |
| fp18 | 振り払いダメージ | Shake damage | 1 |
| fp19 | 振り払い範囲 | Shake range | 25 |
| fp20 | 攻撃可能範囲 | Unknown (shock attack max range?) | 60 |
| fp21 | 攻撃可能角度 | Unknown (shock attack max angle?) | 25 |
| fp22 | 攻撃ヒット範囲 | Unknown (attack hit range?) | 60 |
| fp23 | 攻撃ヒット角度 | Unknown (attack hit angle?) | 25 |
| fp24 | 攻撃力 | Attack damage | 10 |
| fp25 | 視界高 | Unknown (height visibility?) | 50 |
| fp26 | 探索高 | Unknown (exploration height?) | 50 |
| fp27 | ライフの高さ | HP wheel height | 10 |
| fp28 | 回転最大速度 | Rotation speed | 5 |
| fp29 | 警戒時間 | Unknown (warning time?) | 15 |
| fp30 | 警戒ライフ | Unknown | 50 |
| fp31 | ライフ回復率 | Regeneration rate | 0 |
| fp32 | LOD半径 | Off-camera radius | 80 |
| fp33 | マップとのあたりポリゴンの選定 | Collision processing radius | 60 |
| fp34 | ピクミンとのあたり | Pikmin damage radius | 15 |
| fp35 | 石化時間 | Petrification duration | 1 |
| fp36 | ヒップドロップダメージ | Purple Pikmin drop damage | 50 |
| fp37 | 地震気絶確立 | Purple Pikmin stun chance | 0.3 (30%) |
| fp38 | 地震気絶時間 | Purple Pikmin stun time | 5 |
| ip01 | 振り払い打撃Ａ | Shake mode 1 – hit count | 8 |
| ip02 | 振り払い張付１ | Shake mode 1 – Pikmin requirement | 5 |
| ip03 | 振り払い打撃Ｂ | Shake mode 2 – hit count | 15 |
| ip04 | 振り払い張付２ | Shake mode 2 – Pikmin requirement | 10 |
| ip05 | 振り払い打撃Ｃ | Shake mode 3 – hit count | 20 |
| ip06 | 振り払い張付３ | Shake mode 3 – Pikmin requirement | 20 |
| ip07 | 振り払い打撃Ｄ | Shake mode 4 – hit count | 25 |
| Specific properties | |||
| ID | Japanese comment | Property | Value |
| fp01 | 飛行高さ | Flight height | 75 |
| fp02 | 上昇係数 | Unknown (rise coefficient?) | 5 |
| fp10 | 地上ウェイト時間 | Unknown | 0.5 |
| fp11 | 吸い込み時間 | Suck duration | 2 |
| fp12 | 吸い込み確率 | Unknown (probability of a leader or Pikmin being sucked in?) | 0.1 |
| fp04 | 振払落下時間 | Determines the time until it shakes in the air once a pikmin is latched | 1 |
| ip01 | 落下最低ピキ数 | Pikmin weight needed to bring it down | 6 |
| ip11 | 吸い込みピキ数 | Unknown (maximum number of Pikmin it can suck at once?) | 20 |
Other information
- Size: Diameter: 93mm, as per the e-card
- Pikmin 2 Piklopedia number: #36
- Pikmin 4 Piklopedia number: #87
Naming
- See more: Jellyfloat family#Naming.
- Common name: Greater Spotted Jellyfloat. It is the largest of the three known Jellyfloats, the others being the Flying Spotted Jellyfloat and Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat, hence the "Greater" in its name.
- Japanese nickname: オオマンマン?. オオ? (lit.: "giant") refers to its size too.
- Japanese name: ヨミノホトクラゲ?.
- Scientific name: Cephalus vortexia. Vortexia refers to how it sucks up Pikmin and leaders with a whirlwind.
- Internal names: Internally, it is called
onikurage, which translates to "oni jellyfish" (鬼くらげ?), as opposed to the Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat'skurage. - Prerelease: None.
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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 Japanese |
オオマンマン? Oo Manman |
Large Manman | |
 Chinese(traditional) |
大慢慢水母 Dà Mànmàn Shuǐmǔ |
Large Manman Jellyfish | 慢慢 also means "slowly" |
 Chinese(simplified) |
大慢慢水母 Dà Mànmàn Shuǐmǔ |
Large Manman Jellyfish | 慢慢 also means "slowly" |
 French |
Jellyflotte Coloré Jellyflotte coloré (Pikmin 4) |
Colorful Jellyfloat Colorful jellyfloat (Pikmin 4) |
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 German |
Starkgetupfte Schwebequalle | Heavily Spotted Hover Jellyfish | |
 Italian |
Gorgone Maculata | Spotted Gorgon | |
 Portuguese |
Medusa pintada | Spotted jellyfish | |
 Spanish |
Maximedusia moteada | Spotted maxi-jellyfish | "medusia" is a corruption of "medusa" (jellyfish) |
Gallery
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Pikmin 2
Artwork of the Greater Spotted Jellyfloat from Pikmin 2.
An idle Greater Spotted Jellyfloat.
A grounded Greater Spotted Jellyfloat.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat dying.
Captain Olimar and a Blue Pikmin trapped inside a Greater Spotted Jellyfloat.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat about to try and suck something up.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat trying to suck up something.
A petrified Greater Spotted Jellyfloat.
A Purple Pikmin trapped inside a Greater Spotted Jellyfloat.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat sucking up some Purple Pikmin.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat digesting Pikmin.
The Piklopedia icon of the Greater Spotted Jellyfloat in the Nintendo Switch version of Pikmin 2.
Pikmin 4
Render of the Greater Spotted Jellyfloat from the Japanese Pikmin Garden website.
The Piklopedia icon of the Greater Spotted Jellyfloat.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat in Pikmin 4's Piklopedia.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat trying to suck up things.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat with Pikmin inside it which it has sucked up.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat that has been shocked by a lightning shock.
A Greater Spotted Jellyfloat exploding into pink luminescent particles after its death in the Piklopedia.
Other
The creature's e-card, #40 (14th red card).
See also
References
- ^ The Devs Thought of Everything on Twitch.tv
