EVERY Boss Fight in Pikmin 4 Ranked from Worst to Best

[@victzegopterix2]

Fun fact: In the French version, the Sovereign Bulblax keeps the Emperor Bulblax name it deserves. The smaller ones are just called King Bulblaxes.

[@tibby4503]

French version of Pikmin 2 as well.

[@SomeoneOnline]

They didnt have to make the groovy long legs theme as good as it is but I love it so much. I love that it changes if he inflicts the dance status on pikmin. PIkmin 4 is such an amazing game

[@kj_H65f]

The sirehound music is also top notch

[@youtubechannelthatsnotmyre3831]

A bit of a shame we didn’t really see any P3 bosses. It’s probably because of how long and phase heavy they are, but watching this made me realize I do miss the several minute long bosses offered in 3. Think the snow moth in 4 could have been more memorable if it had more of a 3 final boss treatment ---------- Edit: Yeah seeing a lot of people say P4 is a sequel to P2. Not sure if I fully agree since it has as much P1 nostalgia as P2. Think they tried something different w/P3 and are just returning to formula in P4. Something I like, but think there's still wiggle room for more P3 love is all.

[@Tatertots_yummy]

Agreed, the only boss that’s similar is the final boss.

[@hardlyanydiggity3953]

I think it's mainly just because, simply put, this is more of a sequel to pikmin 2 than it is to pikmin 3. Pikmin 2 didn't have anything like that except for the final boss, so neither would 4.

[@justapickedminfan]

I actually feel the same but for the opposite reason. I never liked the Pikmin 3 bosses very much because the phase-based fights felt very game-y and unnatural, like they belonged in Zelda or Super Mario Galaxy. So I think it would have been nice to see the fights reworked into the classic Pikmin formula.

[@carnage0685]

@@hardlyanydiggity3953 pikmin 3 started this by shafting pikmin 2. pikmin 4 is just returning the favor.

[@GoldenRevenge]

i was thinking that earlier, the armored mawdad could have definitely fit in pikmin 4

[@ShiaTheBunnyGirl]

For anybody wondering no you do fight the arctic cannon beetle in a slightly different way compared to the horned cannon beetle. Instead of throwing your piimin at a certain area, you have to bait it’s attack and get behind it before it starts actually sucking the pikmin in. And then send your guns ablazing

[@kerbe3]

Plus, you get one extra attacking Pikmin for that added 0.001% damage boost.

[@parchmentengineer8169]

I lost about 25 Pikmin my first time around by just standing in front of it waiting for it to expose a frontal weak point.

[@antusFireNova]

​@@kerbe3more so a 1% boost, or comparatively higher if you have less than 100

[@Rellik165]

I think my favorite thing about how Pikmin 4 approaches its bosses is that it really feels like you can just stumble upon them anywhere in the world, just like in Pikmin 1. Yes, they're not the super video-gamey three act huge spectacle bosses from Pikmin 3, but the wonder on going through a glass wall only to find a Sovereign Bulblax on the other side is something that really didn't exist in 2 and 3.

[@AzureMoebius22]

Man-at-Legs is easier because Oatchi makes it to where you can keep your Pikmin close by and reliably out of harms way. But if you dont keep moving, you will be eating some potshots, because its gun is still very accurate.

[@NunnyNugget]

Imma be fr in Pikmin 2 you never really lost Pikmin either since hiding behind cover completely blocked the shots, now you do have oatchi but you have to constantly engage to avoid the fire and all of the cover is now temporary and destructible

[@jameslawrenson1208]

The shots also sound more realistic.

[@Side_N0te]

I honestly thought that the Engulfed Castle was a joke and that the Water Wraith actually couldn't show up before the final floor.

[@darrengrainger1299]

i saw him twice in the whole thing including the end the first was when i was standing next to the cave exit what did they do to my boy

[@Kro-RissaVirus]

@@darrengrainger1299Nothing, it has the same floor layouts and exact same spawn timer as in Pikmin 2, it’s just that 4 is much more fast paced in what it allows you to do in terms of both fighting and getting around the place (that and you know.. we’re not small children anymore and have many years of gaming experience now) so you’re far far less likely to hit that timer in this game.

[@MegamanGuy444]

The only thing I wanna mention about the Waterwraith is that they DID actually change him a bit. Its A.I. is better. It will more actively track you down better than the original. And can turn corners on a dime if your close. The O.G. didn't do that.

[@nickw8160]

Groovy Long Legs is not just a boss fight, it's a whole experience

[@Olivertheolive]

Nah it’s a drug trip

[@AlexanderLoaizaGameDev]

I went through every emotion a person can during that fight.

[@Dewberry14]

@@Olivertheolivethat’s just Mario wonder

[@ogspirit2620]

Crusted Rumpup may be easy, but in my opinion, it’s absolutely adorable. That’s enough to put it in my top 10 enemies.

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodNoob]

Most bosses in Pikmin 4 are a joke because of Oatchi's charge and the Ice Pikmin (the Water Wraith and the Snowflake Buttertail are an exception, until you reach a certain point during their boss fights). Enemies like the Horned Cannon Beetle or the Empress Bulblax could surely be difficult for new Pikmin players, but for everyone else, they're mediocre We need an Ultra-Spicy diffuculty in the DLC

[@denpadolt9242]

I never realized you could rush Oatchi at the Gildemander to knock its armour off, and it's honestly a lot of fun to fight just by chucking Pikmin at it. You need to circle-strafe around it to stay out of its tongue range, and then distracting it to let your Pikmin destroy its gold pieces before it can recover them is surprisingly engaging.

[@Brandon-tz6vf]

I played the entire game without using oatchi rush on most enemies and bosses because I wanted more of a challenge and I had a lot of fun with it. I ended up losing like 250 pikmin or something but I wouldn’t want it any other way

[@Side_N0te]

The only reason why I was having trouble with the Empress Bulblax refight is because the game kept on refusing to let me jump in the geysers because it rolled "too close."

[@Darca1n]

The water wraiths are a tad nerfed from Pikmin 2 too, which I'm not sure if you realised, as they now seem to have a patrol route they tend to stick to, only breaking off from it to chase you a bit but if you go somewhere like a dead-end or somewhere they can't fit, they turn around and go back to patroling. This was perhaps intended so that they would be, at the very least, possible to play around, rather than permanently homing in on any pikmin carrying stuff and making it impossible to put in treasures.

[@sonicrunn3r895]

They also added the arches and grass patches to indicate safe zones that the Water Wraith can't go through, which honestly while it is nice from a gameplay perspective (especially on sublevel 2 at the treasure pickup point), it does kind of reduce its threat a little

[@carnage0685]

they would turn around on dead ends in pikmin 2 as well.

[@Darca1n]

@@carnage0685 Yes, but they usually wouldn't go far at all, and some dead ends didn't have them turn around at all but rather just endlessly try to get to you, and overall they were just practically impossible to do anything around once they'd arrived. While now, as another commenter mentioned, there's even dedicated safe zones marked by green grass and such to mark where they will not roll ever. Sure, 2 might have safe zones of sorts too, but they weren't really particularly marked at all to my memory, and the wraith was so much more of a hunting danger that trying to collect more treasures after it arrived was a waste of time.

[@TheFunkyFrogwastaken]

For real? I always felt it was following me

[@Baileography]

Great work as usual, I'm loving these Pikmin videos. And I 100% agree about the Waterwraith. I love how the Engulfed Castle takes cues from it's predecessor with the music and floors that have very similar layouts and enemies to what was in Pikmin 2. But I wish the Waterwraith did something to spice it up. To throw off the veterans, they should have had a hidden mechanic where the WW's 5 minute floor timer decreases by a minute for every floor you get through without it spawning in. That would've been a great mix-up for fans.

[@AlfonsoSRT]

It was supercool seeing the waterwraith but I'd be lying if I didn't say I'd rather have seen another creature with the same idea but that wasn't literally the same monster.

[@RGC_animation]

Tip for the electric portion of Ancient Sirehound: All of the electric fuzzball might look horrifying if you didn't get any Yellow Pikmin, but by that point in the game, most probably probably bought the shock resistance armor for Oatchi already, so just disband all of you Pikmin near base and destroy the fuzz ball with Oatchi.

[@AzureMoebius22]

Glow Pikmin are also an option due to being immune to all hazards sans the kill mist in the final phase, and by now, you likely have a decent reserve of seeds if you cured all the leafified castaways.

[@GuidingLightAngel]

I wonder what these bosses would be like if you had a "no oatchi for combat" challenge.

[@Olivertheolive]

When I get the game that’s what I’ll do

[@Guardian-of-Light137]

I definitely wanna do this with as little of otchi as possible of course I'll use him where necessary but I feel like he makes the game to easy. But what do I know I haven't played the game yet.

[@Olivertheolive]

Have you SEEN what he can do to groovy long legs with 100 pikmin?

[@GuidingLightAngel]

@@Olivertheolive 100 rock Pikmin to be more specific. Straight up obliterates bosses.

[@Olivertheolive]

@@GuidingLightAngel except groovy, doesn’t do much but the others YES

[@329link]

Something to note about the sovereign bulblax; he's still got that issue with bomb rocks. Not hard to one-cycle him with a stun followed by a purple/red charge.

[@aidanhammans9337]

He’s surprisingly smart though. Guy knows full well what Bomb Rocks do to him and refuses to deal with it, forcing you to throw them onto his tongue as he swings it.

[@gavinmccarty7865]

one time when i was playing pikmin 2, in the submerged castle, the waterwraith actually spawned on the other side of a gate that i didn't break down. There were no treasures on the other side, the entrance to the next level wasn't on the other side, there were no bulbmin on the other side... ol' waterwraith had an off day, and i had a laughing fit.

[@victordien9915]

Wish I could have recorded my reaction to seeing most of these bosses, namely the Man-At-Legs, Smokey Progg, and Ancient Sirehound. The jaw-dropping and pants-shitting were visceral. Groovy Long Legs also has to be the best-named entity in all of Pikmin

[@camtheman7654]

Smokey progg was spoiled to me by an ingame tip one night before it appeared.

[@alexursu4403]

Still prefer Disco Long Legs.

[@StartouchArts]

@@alexursu4403 Raving Long Legs would've been better as well.

[@Dan-mz3we]

The sire hound killed all my pikmin except ONE blue during his electric phase, so I retreated to my base and used all my glow seeds to make an army of glow pikmin that trivializes the fight

[@Life4Nintendo]

This was a perfect thing to see right after finishing the game 100%

[@kj_H65f]

Me too! Just finished yesterday

[@lazypaladin]

_No matter how shite my Sunday is. Rabbid always make it that little bit more bearable._

[@purplenothing9305]

Hey so btw…who else figured out the Bulblaxes get stunned by bomb rocks like Pikmin 1? I think it’s funny you didn’t mention that because that makes them wayyy more easy

[@KazLordOfLightWarriors]

You say there's a lack of cheese strats, but you absolutely can throw bomb rocks at the Emperor/Sovereign Bulblaxes to stun them like the good ol days of Pikmin 1

[@CJ-ln5ov]

It had been so long since I had fought an Armored Cannon Beetle that I completely misunderstood its new icy cousin. My mismatched memory told me to start chucking my Pikmin into its blowhole…Yeah. I forgot the OG had one above its mouth. Which meant I was just directly feeding it. Cost me half my Ice Pikmin way too early on in my playthrough…

[@wr5488]

There’s more guys that are considered bosses I believe! Stuff like Mamuta and Jumbo(?) Bulborb. My least favorite is Bug Eyed Crawmad, it got nerfed so hard because of auto lock, it’s a joke now.

[@WhitePikm1n]

Jumbo Bulborb is not a boss…

[@FrahdChikun]

The Sovereign Bulblax gave me trouble the first time I encountered it, had to rewind time a few times during the fight. Then, I had a sudden realization: I have bomb rocks, a dog capable of charging into foes, and a bunch of Purple Pikmin. He didn't last a minute after that.

[@phoenixstar0755]

Puffy Blowhog is ranked and Baldy Long Legs isn’t?

[@durpanda123]

He also missed the Giant Wollywog

[@lucasrodney7886]

You forgot the slashing whipcrab it’s a hidden boss in the serene shores who appears every 25 days after day 100. He’s like a giant peckish aristocrab. He’s not logged in the piklopedia either like the ujidani from Pikmin 2.

[@deadmeme739]

Where does he appear in serene shores?

[@sonicrunn3r895]

The…WHAT

[@deadmeme739]

@@kirbystar634 it's fake

[@avery.thibeau21]

@@deadmeme739 You have to leave the area with some treasures uncollected since it picks them up like dweevils, it won't spawn without them

[@magiciandice]

I cheesed the Soverign Bulblax with bomb rocks. Emperors too. They gobble them up and it was a pleasant way to not lose half my Pikmin due to my own cruddy reflexes.

[@MarioGMan25]

The roughly 3rd Porquillion fight is interesting because it's standing on a platform that makes it impossible for Oatchi to ram it, meaning you have to do it the long way by individual throwing.

[@AlfonsoSRT]

It is so possible to rush Porquillion that it literally acts the tutorial for rushing enemies.

[@MarioGMan25]

@AlfonsoSRT No that's the 1st one. The 3rd Porquillion on the Kitchen table can't be rushed because it's on a stack of small plates that make it impossible to be rushed.

[@pohnile]

Ganondord, the final boss of Master Detective: Archives Rain Code, the one from Magolor DLC and THIS!!! Wow, this years delivers when it comes to final bosses :)

[@doommustard8818]

ancient sirehound feels more like a mario boss than a pikmin boss

[@TheFatestPat]

It's pretty badass that Bulblax returned and reclaimed his thrown.

[@AlfonsoSRT]

"There's a significant lack of cheese strats with Sovereign Bulblax"... uh Bomb Rocks?

[@DracianFlame]

"I made the mistake of not bringing Yellows into the Sirehound fight and suffered for it." sums up my experience with it as well. And "The Sovereign WILL humble you" is accurate as heck. Those things are only the second leading cause of my rewinds/resets because the stupid geysers for that one specific Empress would NOT work for me for some reason. Groovy Long Legs is absolutely the G.O.A.T. of the game though.

[@begabojo]

Groovy left such an impression I couldn't help but go into the Piklopedia and fight it a second time... And then a third time... And then a fourth time... And then a fifth time... And then a sixth time... And then a- you get the point.

[@ceasinghornet40d40]

i had trouble with the sovereign bulblax the first time around, but for the louie side quest i just chucked a shit ton of purples at it and it died almost instantly. the ancient sirehound was much harder for me, it was the only boss in the game that i had to rewind for.

[@francisharkins]

Porquillion actually can be rushed, and is even easier if you remember that Rock Pikmin are resistant to stabbing and crushing attacks which its Spikes count as. (Didn't actually know the spikes would be resisted by Rocks until I got greedy in Sage Trials and learned from my mistake that they are indeed immune to the volley of spikes and absolutely tear through the Porquillon.)

[@captainkoala23]

I love the rumpup’s cute but deadly personality

[@PLAYD0E]

I found that the best way to cheese the empress bulblax in king's cavern is, to sit on the ledge and hurl bomb-rocks/homing-bombs at her

[@Banana-lf4lm]

Empress Bulblax becomes a joke of a fight with rock pikmin

[@avery.thibeau21]

You forgot the slashing whipcrab, he's an hidden enemy like the ujadani from pikmin 2

[@camtheman7654]

So the last time you fight the bug eyed crawmad is super easy, you freeze the water, then it can't do anything and you kill it. That's also how I defeated Man- at legs the second time with some ice bombs (icebombs freeze water temporarily); And when I did the engulfed castle, I cleared all the levels before the water wraith came, I was disappointed that I wasn't chased (wasn't even trying to go fast) As for Sovereign Bulblax... bomb rocks stun it and then it dies to rush.

[@drdiabeetus4419]

Groovy doesn’t stamp his feet to the music. He makes the music himself

[@AlvinEarthworm]

Sovereign Bulblax is not the best boss in the game. You can literally one cycle it with a well timed Oatchi rush. The Sirehound has multiple phases and can't be cheesed. Also that metal music for its boss theme is awesome.

[@Nootathotep]

"sovereign" is not an upgrade on the term "emperor", the localisers just couldn't find a good word

[@voidslasher1012]

8:00 this fight right here caused me to restart from the begging a little bit yesterday cause that cramped area causes so many pikmen to shake off and let’s hope someone has mercy if you can’t get to that air vent in time. 11:03 and finally yes the smoky prog returning was cool I was just playing a night expedition and it showed the cutscene and I was like smoky prog and i saw it as the egg cracked and I just went oh cool it came back.

[@BASCILLICUS]

groovy long legs is one of my fav bosses from any game ever. what a banger of a theme and I was like OH GOD NOOOOOOO when he started stomping my little dudes with increasing vigor

[@unemilifleur]

For the ancient doggo: oatchie and the glow pikmins can destroy the electric balls. I also didn’t have any yellow 😂😂

[@I.T.P]

I loved the Groovy Long Legs battle. Long Legs battles will always be a joy to me, there will never be a point at which they become irritating to me. Still miss Beady tho

[@PlayMyLifeOF]

Sovereign Bulblax: You can't cheese me I am too tall! Bomb rocks: Hold my beer. Legit, chuck a bomb rock at him, Oatchi rush, maybe an ultra spicy, done.

[@projecteer9439]

Lack of cheese strats for Sovereign Bulblax? I just chuck a bomb rock at him and charge an ultra spicy rush. I respect his health pool less than any of Louie's attempts of going on a diet.

[@zargogames5206]

I still managed to one-cycle the Sovereign Bulblax by feeding it a bomb rock then rushing it

[@josiahsmith9657]

I deadass thought he was gonna put Jumbo Bulborb on here above Water Wraith

[@cendronhawk977]

I'd say a boss is anything holding a treasure when not in Cavern for a King (And must be mandatory in Caves for a King appearance (if it has one))

[@FileStorage-dt5gq]

Hav you seen "Pikmin Hybrids"? Pikmin fanz R talking about that video. (Do not forget about the special offer the creator left in the description.)

[@DSmaster8585]

I ignored the chance to get Yellows for the Sirehound too! The trick is to send Oatchi to destroy the hair balls

[@gamemasteranthony2756]

So…Groovy Long Legs is using the Groove-O-Tron weapon from Ratchet & Clank, eh? Didn’t realize those worlds were connected!

[@DibMMM]

Sovereign Bublax is ez and I will explain why. If you have purple pikmin and a spicy spray, it takes 3 seconds to kill the sovereign bublax

[@xxmension04xx47]

what I'd classify as a boss in the game...is an enemy that only appears once or twice

[@jobot0114]

Both the Emperor and Sovereign Bulblax retained their weakness to bomb rocks in Pikmin 4, so.... yeah, I never really had a hard time with either of them.

[@gulfgiggleanimations4472]

I remember being short on time and really wanting that black onion before the day ended, so it was either sacrifice all my pikmin to a boss I was unfamiliar with or stun him with a bomb and one-cycle him with a full squad of mostly reds. I kinda spoiled the fight that way.

[@mamamiaawoodenboy]

Uhm actually you missed the Shaggy and Baldy king legs

[@ancientgearsynchro]

If you need cheese strats for the Souvenir Bulblax, get some bomb rocks and bait its tounge attack, then throw the bomb on its tongue and watch it blow up. After that rush with poochi and deal alot of damage. If you are replete with reds and Purples, then you can one round him, but you might need two.

[@conemancentral2826]

I actually had the smokey progg spoiled for me from a loading screen, why they decided to let that appear before you actually saw one of the things is beyond me

[@andrewlyon8924]

I haven't played this game yet, but one thing I've noticed is that it really seems like the enemies are more or less the same as they've always been, but the MC has had such an overall in abilities that seems like it just unbalances a lot. In Pikmin 1, the Armored Cannon Beetle could be really difficult to beat without losing a lot of Pikmin, because you had to manually aim at his weak point (after figuring out how it worked in the first place) and then gather your Pikmin up behind it to start throwing them at its back. And while that wasn't too hard once you figured it out, Pikmin 4 looks like it just throws him in, unchanged, into a game where you have lock-on, charges, and the ability to keep all your Pikmin on Oachi (Oatchi? Idk how it's spelled) which eliminates almost all of the difficulty from the original boss fight. It looks like they've evolved the gameplay so much, but left the enemies more or less the same, to the point that most of them aren't actually designed to offer a real challenge. The Sire Hound, Empress Bulblax (in the small room), and the elephant looking one are the only ones that seem to actually be tweaked to offer a challenge that plays into what you're actually capable of doing. I haven't played the game yet, so I don't know for sure, but it's kinda disappointing looking at it from the outside.

[@wr5488]

Some of the endgame fights are really good. Like every boss in the last cave are really really good with their environment. Like Masterhop/Sovreign making water puddles, or fighting Baldy in a pool, or Empress’ small room. Auto lock makes it a bit too easy but it’s still fun. Owtchi makes it REALLY easy if you max him out but if you only get a couple upgrades and don’t abuse the charge it’s great.

[@andrewlyon8924]

@@wr5488 Okay, thanks for clearing it up for me, I guess there's not as much to worry about as I thought. And I've only heard positive things about this game so far, with the only negative that I could see being that it's easier than the older games (which are the only ones I have any experience with. I didn't have a Wii U and haven't gotten around to trying 3 yet). So I'll definitely have to try it out; but I definitely have this game to thank for making me play 1 and 2 again 😂

[@BigMastah79]

Ancient Sirehound was the only boss that felt like a boss imo.

[@Nootathotep]

I've done 2 Pikmin 4 runs and haven't attacked Foolix's tail once

[@DesolateLavender]

I don't fhink the Giant Breadbugs were ever meant to be difficult. They were always meant to be goofy. They do well at that.

[@shyguykid7935]

That’s why you need plenty of Bomb Rocks to take down a Sovereign Bulblax.

[@landoftom332]

For Sovereign Bulblax I prefer to stock up on bomb rocks, ice blasts, and mines, then just do it pikmin-less with the leader and Oachi, it saves me losing any pikmin and honestly doesnt take very long to do.

[@comeonandslamandwelcometot2418]

Wanna point something out about the water wraith: it doesn’t actually spawn on a timer in 4. It seemed to me that it spawns when you triggered it by getting to a certain point in each subfloor.

[@AlvinEarthworm]

It's definitely on a timer. I've already cleared out a floor and stood waiting at the entrance to the next sublevel to see how long it takes to spawn.

[@StarlightNkyra]

I never played pikmin 2 or 1, so I was less prepared for a lot of these fights than a lot of veterans. When I stumbled into a long legs that had a freaking shotgun, you could imagine I was shocked, laughing hysterically, and terrified all at the same time as I constantly hit the rewind button. Contrastly, I found the iconic waterwraith extremely underwhelming, but still likeable due to mystique, and also was wonderfully caught off guard when they threw two of them in at that one point, I forget where. (I find ways to like a lot of the bosses in this game) During the night missions, despite not playing pikmin 1, I lost my crap when the smokey progg started to appear during the night missions during the cutscenes, and I was surprised you could manually open the eggs to avoid one if you wish. It would be a crime not to mention the groovy long legs, which is already from my favorite enemy family (yes, the longlegs) and provides a creative twist that functions amazingly, quickly making it one of my favorites. Finally, I would have to agree, the sovereign bulblax might possibly be my favorite in the game. It was a neat surprise that caught me off guard, and is difficult in a fun way. A little extra section regarding the bulbax; (If you charge directly at the sovereigns mouth with oatchi and a full squad, depending on the pikmin type (red and purples do the best, while ice and wings do the worst), you can kill it pretty quickly. I found this during piklopedia training when I was trying to determine the best types to fight it with. I was quite shocked how bad ice pikmin did, freezing the bulblax when attacking in this manner somehow leads to more ices being killed, and the ice pikmin don't do a good job at decreasing its health. Meanwhile, Reds can pretty much instakill it, with the only negative being red pikmin PTSD as some reds almost die to its tounge right before the bulblax dies, sparing them.)

[@sansthedog]

soverign is crazy easy, especially considering how many bomb rocks you can aquire lol. Bait the tongue, bomb him, then one cycle him with an oachi rush lol

[@creepstr4678]

All the emperor bulblaxes are laughably easy once you chuck a bomb in its mouth to stun it

[@creepstr4678]

Didn't even realize sovereign bulblax was different. Just went "ah, a bulblax. Bomb time" just shove a bomb rock, tracking bomb, or mine on its tounge and its good as dead

[@the_godbodor7026]

Groovy is probably my favorite just because cmon, it’s GROOVY LONG LEGS, what’s not to love about a disco ball spider with a banging track

[@pastaman7278]

Sovereign bulblax is the bulblax we deserved

[@scribbleslol1566]

The sirehound is the size of pikmin 1 bulblax, so I think it should be call LORD BLUBLAX

[@Firefly52570]

I about had a heart attack on the empress ball blacks fight, because I remember she threw all of my purples, and then almost crushed all of them

[@kerbe3]

I did that fight in the slowest manner possible, going in controlling Oatchi all by himself. It took a while, Oatchi took a beating but with the necter drops from the larvae we i eventually took it down.

[@darcidious99]

Sovereign bulblax actually can get cheesed a little bit if you have your bombrocks, since that tongue is still mighty sticky. Just load up on purples, get him to eat a bomb (which is really hard because of the awful auto aim feature throwing it too far and rolling it under him, why was this not a toggle-able mechanic miyamoto?!?!), spicy spray and watch as he gets absolutely demolished.

[@AlvinEarthworm]

The easier method to make him eat a bomb rock is to just stand in front of him holding one. He just scoops the bomb up with his tongue and shallows it. Just make sure your Pikmin are dismissed before you do that since they can get caught.

[@realteamwall]

6:06 it would only rank a lot higher than 12th if your eye was gone

[@agentclank8183]

Groovy Long Legs doesn’t dance to the music. He is the music!

[@jameskelly-smith1279]

You put Porquillion and Puffy Blowhog in... But you forgot Beady Long Legs.

[@QuJee]

how is the bug-eyed crawmad this high up? Its legit never an issue, just stand infront of him and press Am and keep pressing A until he is dead or all your pikmins are scattered. He is such a non-issue, you dont have to be experienced to not fear him at all.

[@smallman9545]

i would have counted the masterhop as a boss, since it appears at the end of the resort cave

[@wr5488]

Masterhop, Mamuta, Giant Bulborb, Titan Fire/Ice Blowhog, Grubchucker, etc. are all bosses I believe, plus a few more.

[@calyx8808]

So THAT'S where the Snagrets come from. I never knew.

[@basketbomberslackingson4417]

Sirehound with pure reds or purples is a smart way to fight it if your evasion skills are good

[@waulkingwithdinos4564]

3 bomb cycles and the sovereign Bulblax is toast. Super fun list!

[@Lordbowser666]

The man-at-legs in the water felt unfair. Because you want to be under it but some how it knocks you down. Making killing some Pikmin very ez because their is no way to get up quickly

[@Magic_Ice]

Wait did you forget Baldy Long Legs?

[@durpanda123]

and giant wollywog

[@ecstaticwooper368]

giant breadbug at the bottom is blasphemy against the state

[@amirgarcia547]

The Ancient Sirehound is definitely a better version of Pikmin 3’s final boss, the Plasm Wraith. Since much like it, it will frequently change forms that require using different Pikmin types. But unlike the wraith, which would kinda just change forms on the fly, the hound has multiple phases and so tests your reaction timing and adaptability with each one naturally, instead of just randomly changing its properties. It also has a *ton* of health, so each phase will at least require you to down it a few times before its depleted. Purple and Glow Pikmin are by far the most useful in that fight, being that the former of course do the most damage and can knock down the hound with only two of them holding on its tail, and the latter are immune to any environmental hazards, so they pretty replace any other Pikmin along with instantly teleporting back to you.

[@monkeyheist]

I’m really surprised to see all this Groovy Long Legs praise. I killed him really quickly.

[@slyfox7452]

I dont like how small all the bosses are the bosses in pikimin 3 were really fun and these small ones arent that threatening.

[@Noisy_The_Rooster]

i understand why some bosses dont appear like puffstool and baldy lonGlegs because there not in a cave BUT MASTERHOP IS AND WILL ALLWAYS WILL BE A BOSS

[@oregano6523]

sovereign bulblax gets farmed by charging spicy sprayed winged pikmin at it

[@Diego-lm7vs]

Are we considering the jumbo bulblord as a boss because it had a floor in the last cave along with all the other bosses

[@shawnheatherly]

Without context, this list sounds like absolute madness for most of it. Still a good time.