The Downfall of Yellow Pikmin

[@imhereforthememes500]

Yellow Pikmin have the “He loves swimbing!” meme, but I can’t argue about their fall from grace in the games.

[@ThatOneYellow]

What about “why so ears”?

[@RafaelRodrigues-tc5pf]

What about “Mo!” that used to be a Yellow Pikmin joke right? Or I am too old and remembering it wrong?

[@glacierwolf2155]

@@imhereforthememes500 That meme has the Yellow Pikmin drowning to death. It captures the state of Yellow Pikmin nowadays.

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

yellow pikmin have me

[@Studimus]

@@pikminologueraisin2139now kiss

[@dragoflame]

As a certified Blue Pikmin fan, I'm glad to see Blues and Yellows have a shared hatred of Winged Pikmin

[@404_nowheresnotfound3]

Winged Pikmin are honestly just a bad type design wise.

[@cocoa2251]

winged pikmin are just super strong. even with their current "limitations" they nullify quite a few types of Pikmin. though i do have some ideas for winged nerfs: * to make Blues more relevant, they could have it so by default, winged pikmin either carry things just barely off the ground or dont even lift it into the air. you'd have to put extra wings for them to lift it into the air, which also fits well with their lower attack damage, i think. more fully submerged treasures or water geysers or whatever would also work well and would be way simpler * to make Yellows more relevant, wings could just have a cap on how high they can fly, or flying enemies could just be higher up again and be easier to hit with yellows. though obviously that would be a little weird to tackle, since, why not just charge wings? so that'd probably be something that has to be addressed in the progression design itself. and of course, more electricity usage (seriously Nintendo bring back the wire idea), more deadly electricity, and more buried treasures would also be a good way to improve Yellows' usefulness edit: i actually just had another idea of maybe having heavy wind hazards, where flying enemies or winged pikmin would get caught in it and slow their movement but grounded pikmin would be able to duck under it would be cool too

[@bulborb8756]

@cocoa2251 tbh... heavy wind sounds very specific

[@cocoa2251]

@@bulborb8756 i guess you're right, yea. maybe if that was a thing it'd just slow flying things down more and still slow grounded things since obviously wind isn't going to have as much of an effect on something grounded. idk just throwing ideas at the wall here really

[@Blue_pikmin11]

preciate it dawg

[@MagerBlutooth]

In Pikmin 5 they can introduce yellow water that Yellow Pikmin can uniquely survive in.

[@bulborb8756]

actually an idea of water being electrified could be an interesting thing where that water remains hazardous due to the electricity in it until you destroy the source of it with yellow's like breaking a fuse box of sorts to disable it and thus turning it into normal water. the water doesn't need to be deep, like it could just be shallow enough that any type can go through, but still dangerous with the electricity

[@lamegamertime]

​@@bulborb8756 Electric enemies who enter water can electrify it with their attack 💀

[@xerobeat9142]

​​@@bulborb8756 I'd love for there to be more stuff for yellows to do, but in all fairness that just sounds like an electric gate with extra steps. If you take away the ability to disable the electricity it could serve as a gateway to some yellow-only throwing challenges.

[@iameepy]

piss

[@cototototorra7106]

@@xerobeat9142 i mean, blue's entire gimmick is that electricity is a roadblock tbh they should have ditched the fire cones thingie in 4 and make it some sort of electric charge yellows can use to power up things

[@Septimusbulborb]

I personally think nintendo should give them a semi automatic. 42 rifle so we can decide at the beginning of the game if we want oatchi or not

[@juter1122]

Oatchi has to be put down every morning like an immortal Bethesda NPC

[@3possumsinatrenchcoat]

the palworld approach, i approve.

[@Jacks_game_room]

The electrical wires in Pikmin 3 were such a cool concept, but was very underutilized. I hope they bring it back with more focus.

[@rikuran7042]

Maybe connect the wires to escalators or something like the hatches for flying pikmin. Or let them be able to charge with electricity and stun enemies for a few seconds or zap them for extra damage for the first throw. Or let the bouncing plattforms and their higher throwing ability to interact in an alternative destination for more routing options.

[@Jacks_game_room]

@ exactly! Stuff like that

[@DoubleJ466]

Yea but too bad pikmin 4 only allowed for 3 types for some dumb reason

[@Athesies]

Yellow pikmin's strongest quality are certainly their cute ears

[@SgtGuy]

Fun fact: in the Pikmin 2 Pay off Debt speedrun, Yellows are completely ignored due to being out of the way and providing no actual incentive to get them, as electricity is something you can play around completely fine without them (there are no electrical gates in caves)

[@bulborb8756]

granted doing that means there's 3 dungeons you cannot get to since they need Yellows to open the way (Gluttons Kitchen, Bulblax Kingdom and the Shower Room)

[@SgtGuy]

the route actually includes bulblax kingdom and glutton's kitchen since they have pretty valuable treasures, its possible to get to them thanks to some clever napsack tricks, making yellows even less useful

[@bulborb8756]

@@SgtGuy so that only leaves the Shower Room being impossible to access since you need yellow's to build a bridge and break the fence so that blue's to dive into the pool and break the clog to not only drain the water but to also open the entrance to the dungeon

[@kerakhunter-b3n]

@@bulborb8756 Actually, with the speedboost from the shoes you get from the one empress bulblax, that is possible without yellows as well (in fact, pressa does that to get there with only blues).

[@fluttermellows]

i remember yellow pikmin as the "nobody out Pikmins the hut" joke

[@willbill6942]

Seeing the complaints about auto lock on in 4, I'm surprised they didn't make it mechanic specifically for Yellows, where Yellows will lock on, but others won't. Seems like a good fix to give them a strong combat niche for less experienced players.

[@The_Holy_Wooomy]

omg that's such a good idea, that's brilliant!

[@FlishonyanKing]

I remember playing through Pikmin 4 for the first time and being genuinely shocked when I realized they basically just completely forget about yellow pikmin for the latter 2/3rds of the game. They barely even have buried treasures in the later parts of the game where yellows would be helpful but not necessary. It's kinda crazy to me they made the maps so much more expansive with more verticality than any other game in the series and somehow yellow pikmin and winged pikmin are the two types that got shafted the hardest in P4.

[@Duskool]

The Downfall of Yellow Pikmin (2 hours Documentary of all the Yellow Pikmin controversies and how they became a lolcow by Joontheking)

[@vDeadbolt]

"From Yellow to Mellow" type ahh title.

[@WaluigiGoesWa]

7:24 You should have mentioned the damage nerf doesn't even matter with spicy spray since all spicy Pikmin have the same attack damage.

[@ExGanonMain]

Yellow Pikmin are the neglected middle child Edit: I didn’t even know he said that at the beginning of the video, I just thought of it randomly.

[@StrawberrySalad2]

Red Pikmin are known for their great combat abilities

[@Toad_lol]

Blue pikmin are known to be immune to the common hazard of water

[@Jp-en9uo]

Purple Pikmin are known for being sexy

[@alwin_nagel_fan8865]

Yellow Pikmin are known for their massively unique ability to carry bombs, which was later bestowed upon all types. Or the way they can be thrown higher only to become obsolete as soon as the player finds the flying boogers in P3

[@puggysmall3136]

White Pikmin are known to have excellent eyesight - perfect for detecting underground treasures. They also move faster than other types and are gay lovers with purple Pikmin

[@m.s.e.advanced2842]

They fell off so the other bottom tiers wouldnt be lonely. Truly, they are selfless

[@LudiusQuassas]

Pikmin 1 has been greatly vindicated thanks to the Switch port, because of the improvements on things like the pointer/cursor and the almost total fix of the crushing glitch. The game is a surprisingly smooth experience with an incredible amount of balance, with it being so short as its greatest advantage because it means that the devs had the time to think about every single detail they put into the game, and it all comes together in a neat, yet short, package. Yellow Pikmin are a very good example of this. The next entry in the series should put difficulty, combat and puzzle complexity on focus. How to balance these key factors and allow them to flourish on a difficulty curve similar to that of 1 and 2. A game as long as Pikmin 4 should have given every type of Pikmin a chance to shine, and yet it didn't for reasons yet to comprehend.

[@InvocationOfSebastian]

crushing glitch is a meme introduced by the terrible wii port

[@LudiusQuassas]

@@InvocationOfSebastian The crushing glitch is very real in the Gamecube version, I've played it for years and has ruined countless deathless runs. It's just even worse on the Wii version.

[@Nefnoj]

Pikmin 2 is my favorite Pikmin game, but it damaged the franchise like none other by turning Pikmin into a match-the-colors puzzle. I hate the dynamic of hazards nowadays since poison, electricity, and fire largely function the same.

[@ryle5410]

interesting take. I find pikmin 2 also took the franchise away from open, somber and lonely into linear, whimsical and character-focused.

[@Nefnoj]

@ryle5410 you're totally right. Olimar's presence was continuous, but more subtle, and there was a lot more to be unexpected in Pikmin than the formulaic Big Boss on the Last Floor design of Pikmin 2. Do you think that's a good thing or bad? I see it as different, but I don't see it as a step backwards for the franchise.

[@ryle5410]

​@@Nefnoj I see it as a step to the side. Pikmin 1 is amazing as an art piece, but Pikmin 2 is much better as a videogame in my opinion. Though I think pikmin has strayed too far from what made the first game unique and amazing. I really did not enjoy pikmin 4 for how linear the game plays, how the theme of isolation and figuring things out for yourself is gone and how increasing the amount direct impact you have on combat via oatchi. The character designs felt far too whimsical and childish too, with everything feeling like it's there to be part of the game rather than part of the world (espeically the leaflings and fixation on telling you to have good dandori). Not worth the $60ish nor the 10 year wait.

[@Nefnoj]

@ryle5410 all well said! I can't agree about the worth of Pikmin 4 but can agree with your critique of it. It probably has the worst pacing in the franchise. I THINK the narrative of having to save people from the planet is cool, but could have been executed better. Despite having the potential of making the world seem more threatening as you're saving lives, it doesn't really succeed. I also don't prefer its level design, Pikmin 3 leaned too hard into puzzles which Pikmin 4 tried to adapt to Pikmin 2's dungeon gameplay, and I think a balance between puzzles and combat would have been a better balance.

[@ryle5410]

​@@Nefnoj Your are amazingly civil - thanks for restoring my faith in friendly discussion! If I may ask, what do you consider the strengths of pikmin 4 to be?

[@glacierwolf2155]

To be charitable in 4's case, if you don't have a specific niche, then you're outclassed by fully-upgraded Oatchi, full stop. I can think of niches that other types of Pikmin fill in that game. - Red: Can carry fire starters and burn haystacks. - Blue: Can multitask in water. - Purple: Stomp is fucking busted as an offensive tool, can multitask with large treasure and bodies, immune to wind and suction, break out of bubbles very fast, and can weigh down flying enemies. - White: _...can carry fast, I guess?_ - Rock: Charge + Oatchi = instant death for most enemies and can break crystal walls and nodes. - Winged: Can carry treasure over many enemies and hazards, can reach high places, and Ultra Spicy Spray makes them the ultimate homing swarm of death incarnate. - Ice: Can freeze bodies of water, freeze enemies which drop nectar and spray on death, and break out of bubbles very fast. - Glow: Bulbmin 2.0, what can I say? The only niche that Yellows fill are _maybe_ buried treasure on high ledges, but Winged can probably cover for that.

[@bulborb8756]

and yet Yellow's dig speed is completely abandoned after Serene Shores, so this means that one niche they have gets dropped after the 3rd area, I swear with Yellow's they have 0 idea what to even do with them

[@ThatLuigiBrothershipRender]

Even if they've fallen from grace, they'll always be my favorite type. Their ears are so cute.

[@plasmerus262]

I have an idea for Pikmin 4: Instead of having a button, there will be electric circuits for yellow pikmin to complete in order to turn on the fans in Hero's Hideaway and to lower iron fences in various caves.

[@tom_stuff2806]

I love pikmin so much that im addicted to videos about "X pikmin thing" even tho i know all the things that are gonna be mentioned in them I just love seeing people talking about pikmin for 10 minutes or more

[@WaluigiGoesWa]

9:30 I disagree. The sublevels and general level design in Pikmin 4 is significantly harmful to yellows usefulness compared to Pikmin 2. In Pikmin 4 (due to autolock I assume) most enemies are segregated into different rooms, so you only have to worry about 1 (or at worst 2) enemies or hazards at the same time. In Pikmin 2 you could have rooms with a variety of actually dangerous enemies + electricity. Due to the constant and cumulative danger in Pikmin 2, having a type of Pikmin to quickly take care of a hazard was vital. This does not hold for Pikmin 4 as if you come across electricity, it's in the "electricity room" where you can take it out without any issue, even without yellow Pikmin.

[@glacierwolf2155]

Pikmin 4 also suffers a lot from "Having a lot of a type of enemy but using them very little" syndrome and this is very prominent with electric enemies.

[@WaluigiGoesWa]

@@glacierwolf2155 Agreed. 2 Anode Beetles are as difficult as 100 Anode Beetles.

[@bulborb8756]

@@glacierwolf2155 no kidding, the Anode Beetle (a group of 4) and Shockcake (legit only 1) only show up in 1 cave, Anode Dweevil's show up in 2 caves (totaling to only 6 being seen) and the Amprat is only seen in 2 caves and 2 area's (so only 8 of these rat's), it's like why even have these guys when they are barely even used? this is a consequence of the 3-type limit as certain hazards are gonna suffer, and electricity suffered greatly alongside poison

[@glacierwolf2155]

@bulborb8756 3-type limit shafted Yellows _hard._ The only reason why they aren't the worst in 4 is because White Pikmin are also in this game.

[@WaluigiGoesWa]

@@glacierwolf2155 My tier list (in Pikmin 4 specifically) is: Purple Red Ice White Blue Yellow Rock Wing

[@heffhue409]

You are the first KZbinr I genuinely get exited when I see a new video from. I love watching imonlyhereforpikmin

[@fauxshamrock7447]

Pikmin are like Smash newcomers - if they're broken in one game they'll be bloody useless in the next! Reds were overshadowed by Purples, who were then gutted in the third instalment (hell, even White Pikmin were more useful); the Pink ones went from being busted in 3 to rarely used in 4, if ever at all... I'd rather they better balance the existing 8 types before they dare consider adding more!

[@bulborb8756]

of the current types: Reds: they are fine, no changes needed Yellows: make electricity and electric foes more prominent...and maybe do SOMETHING to make bringing more then like 15 yellows worth while Blues: like Red's they are fine as is Purples: these guys are a balancing nightmare, so best to leave them as is Whites: revert their damage from 0.5x back to 1x and make poison a bit more common Rocks: adding more foes with crystal armor would help along with crystal obstacles, otherwise they are fine Winged: better ai pathing for sure, maybe bring back the bamboo gates too Ice: that freeze ability they have on foes is frankly broken and should get nerfed, its like having sentient purple potions that barely need to be farmed for

[@fauxshamrock7447]

@@bulborb8756 Agree on bamboo gates! Should have come back if the glass walls did. I'm glad you're specific about the Ice Pikmin because they're not flat out broken but their freezing ability is a bit busted, yes... I swear Purple and White Pikmin were only added to the main campaign late in development! Poison is only prominent in the later levels and objects weighing over 100 are few and far between; plus, you're only able to get their Onions at the very end!

[@bulborb8756]

@@fauxshamrock7447 yeah, i mean it is entirely possible to get the purple and white onions before starting the Giant's Hearth but you may need to grind some raw materials first to get all the upgrades to unlock the pluckaphone for the trials. and yeah the freeze ability ice pikmin have is what makes them broken, so at least nerfing that will at least bring them down a peg, but the nerf to it shouldn't be too drastic like how purples and whites where nerfed into oblivion in Pikmin 3. It's just that you can't nerf their damage since they are already as weak as winged pikmin are, so just toning down their freeze is the only thing that can be done

[@testservergameplay]

0:11 HOW did you neglect the "yellow pikman loves swimmbing" joke?!

[@Natmoder]

I think it would be cool if they brought back the electric wires as something you could use against the enemies (of course it would need to be an insta kill hazard for pikmin to balance it out)

[@YelloDello]

11:52 Christmas mentioned. Merry christmas, imonlyhereforpikmin.

[@GeneGerald925]

Yellow pikmin are good for one thing and that's reminding us that NOBODY can out-pikmin the hut

[@iameepy]

theyre the only type of pikmin that cant be replace by purples immediate S tier

[@metal_pipe9764]

Blue

[@baconlabs]

That's okay guys, I still appreciate you. Howsabout I take a hundred of ya into the Dream Den to fight the Titan Dweevil in a challenge run? Fun times!

[@matt4tea]

Def not walking around with a yellow Pikmin avatar...

[@BoringBluejay]

you forgot to mention about yellows in pikmin 4 is that you can upgrade oatchi to be immune to electricity

[@BoringBluejay]

so pikmin 4 made yellows even worse

[@furiouscorgi6614]

​@BoringBluejay it lets every immunity be nullified, so it's not necessarily a point to bring up when he can be immune, it's more of when he can't

[@bulborb8756]

you can also upgrade Oatchi to dig even faster then yellows, so legit in Pikmin 4 the worst end up being winged, yellow and whites

[@SaviourOfLight]

@@bulborb8756 all of the pikmin in 4 are useless (outside of reds, blues, and ices, each with a tiny niche that oatchi doesn't completely outclass them in)

[@mariorockysonicmegasochjag]

​@SaviourOfLightyou're forgetting about Purple Pikmin.

[@chippy6792]

"Red Pikmin are known for their great combat ability" shows them getting rocked by a random ass Bulbear

[@Lorinato]

Funfact : In Smash, yellow pikmin are probably the second best type besides purples if we value versatility ! They have slightly bigger hitboxes than other pikmins due to their ears (I guess) and are good for both racking up damages with the extra combo potential that the thunder effect on their attacks give them, than for killing with their attacks having good knockback. Reds and whites tend to be prefered at lower percentages and blues to be used as a kill option with their added knockback on throws. Yellow pikmin are my absolute favorites and I'll remain their biggest fan in the world no matter what! PS : my lucky charm yellow pikmin plush is called "Volt"

[@simonestrazzi521]

I think that Nintendo tries too hard to make the Yellow Pikmin useful, instead they made them way to gimmicky.

[@bulborb8756]

yeah that sounds about right, and gimmicky in a bad way since that seems to be the path they are going down with them

[@gboogie3257]

Yellow Pikmin can be thrown high so they can fall down more

[@vengefulfork7169]

I recently found your channel and have binging all your videos. Extremely high quality and funny

[@NonononJacuzzirayProductions]

I got gifted a membership! Whoever gave me it. Thank you very much, I love Pikmin and I am grateful to be here on this channel.

[@Kro-RissaVirus]

Yellow pikmin’s usefulness has become lost media.

[@crinklyonion1410]

I just found your channel and I finally caught up by watching every single one of your videos

[@Greenish9204]

I believe their downfall really started in Pikmin 2. Electricity may be an OHKO Hazard, but all of the electric wires can be easily disposed of with any Pikmin type. It’s like the common consensus with Fire Geysers, you can dispose of them super easily since they power off for so long. Also Purple Pikmin being able to eliminate any niche for them really hurts them. They can flip over Anode Beetles from a ways away, easily dispatching them. And Anode Dweevils suffer from being stunned 100% of the time from Purples. Not to mention that Purples can reach all Yellow intended treasures by getting a running start and throwing them at a slope. That leaves Yellow Pikmin stuck with Electric Gates. Which is a Blue Pikmin type of argument, they are the only Pikmin who can destroy them, and once you do, you have no reason to pull them out. Red Pikmin may not be good in this game either, but compared to Yellow Pikmin, I at least have a reason to want to use them.

[@bulborb8756]

well...Yellow's are still good to have when fighting Beady and the Titan Dweevil (just break everything else except the Shock Therapist and it'll be smooth sailing). But in 2 i mostly just use red's to convert them into Purples and Whites and maybe to fight a Fiery Bulblax who don't appear that much

[@Greenish9204]

@bulborb8756 valid argument. But its falls under the same agenda as you described the Fiery Bulblax. They don’t appear much. Beady only appears 3 times in the adventure (one of which only appears if you go really slow), and he is also very pathetic, any Pikmin type can easily rid of him. And the Titan Dweevil is the final boss, and it’s not like other Pikmin Types can’t do it either, I was able to beat him in about 3-4 minutes with just Blue Pikmin. And the Fiery Bulblax is honestly more frequent than you would think as well, they appear in every Wistful Wilds cave, and there happens to be 3 of them on the 2nd Sublevel of the Cavern of Chaos. Like I said, valid argument, but Yellow’s are still the worst in my opinion.

[@Dynamick65]

Yellow Pikmin are very much like my alcoholic uncle. They're sometimes well behaved, they're sometimes interesting but mostly, mostly they're violent

[@photonic083]

Honestly the way I see it is that electricity should be *deadlier* than other hazards of your Pikmin are going to stay still, but it shouldn't be instakill. You could also increase the knockback dealt by electric damage + give it spread so that it takes more time to whistle a large group of Pikmin compared to how it is in 3 and 4.

[@steenwastaken]

Yellow Pikmin are my favorite types. They are also the type with the biggest identity crisis. I would really approve of shallow water puddles in Pikmin 5 that can be electrocuted and that only Yellows can walk in that shallow water to fix the wires at the other side so that everyone else can cross, and more aerial related hazards for Winged Pikmin so that you can EARN the right to use the most busted type for carrying things cross-map.

[@eightcoins4401]

What if it was shallow yellow water puddles.

[@avengingchemicals]

I think a way to give Yellow Pikmin another niche is for there be two types of electric hazards. The one in Pikmins 3 and 4 that just stuns all the Pikmin while Yellows are completely unaffected by it, and the one in Pikmin 2 which acts as a more powerful electric variant that instant kills all other Pikmin types, but with Yellows, it just stuns them unconscious. I think there should be more enemies/bosses that use electric attacks. Like how about another Arachnorb boss whose stomps causes electric shockwaves and pissing it off enough causes it to stomp the instant kill electric shockwaves. Or maybe an Arachnorb whose body acts as a bug zapper luring Pikmin to climb it legs and approach to the ball and then releases a discharges that instant kill attack while Yellows are completely immune to the boss's bait. Arachnorbs are already weird enough with Man-at-Legs and Groovy Long Legs, so would a "Shockwave Long Legs" or a "Bug Zapper Long Legs" really be out of the ordinary for this species?

[@SpathiTS]

I am still surprised that Pikmin 1 didn't have electricity as a hazard

[@Zolerian]

I think it would be neat if Yellow Pikmin were given the general ability of being a sort of tinker, which fits with their electricity, enhanced digging and bomb rocks stuff. Like, have a game were there is a lot of various small stuff that Pikmin need to grab or act on about but only Yellow Pikmin can handle them, because only them have the inner knowledge about that stuff or idk. It makes sense to me.

[@biggarffan37]

Yellow Pikmin have "get them big ass ears out the way of the caption god damn" which I think about regularly

[@kalel4everr]

Just return the electricity puzzles from pikmin 3 I love them PLEASE NINTENDO

[@poppyfrancis7338]

I believe that in Pikmin 3 they actually got thrown farther as well as higher, and I immediately noticed that yellows don't seem to be thrown very far at all compared to the other types in 4 and it made me sad because I used to love yellows for that reason

[@IcyTomato]

2:20 Yellow Pikmin should join MLB as a Pitcher

[@psychonauts0]

Honestly i would use yellow Pikmin more (in pikmin 1 and 2 specifically) if not for their throw height, they are so hard to hit things with in combat

[@jasonerty]

Genius miyamoto bloating the pikmin type pool in 2 and as a consequence reducing all pikmin types to glorified puzzle solutions, except the puzzle is just "did i bring the right pikmin for this hazard", then realizing the little 5 year olds playing will scream and cry if they cant instantly be given the answer. Pikmin 3 answers this by making all the hazards meaningless and trivial to ignore. 4 answers this by somewhat returning to actual hazards, but then literally forcing you to take the correct types at all times, and also forcing you to only take 3 types just so you dont get too confused, and also aiming for you, and also giving you a nearly invincible dog that does everything automatically, and also giving you a bunch of consumable items that instakill everything, and also giving you unlimited glow pikmin just in case you still cant do it and also... yknow what, maybe they should also just add a new pikmin type that has the ability to make the game instantly play the end credits in pikmin 5, genius i know.

[@giggle.3035]

Would be nice if they had a new niche role as some kind of support pikman. Extend spray time, apply an electric damage over time, cause an electric paralysis on death, increase damage to the fellow pikmin they both are attacking on a single target. The possibilities are endless with electricity and it's disappointing the most we get is a pikmin immune to the game equivalent of an electric bug swatter.

[@quotebalrog]

Heard that your talking about the downfall and how bad yellow pikmin are in this video so I had to lock the heck in and see this whole thing.

[@bloopahVIII]

Hey there! You should give yellows a grenade launcher in Pikmin².

[@Louie42069]

I mean, past the tingling feeling they are one of the better tasting specimens when it comes to pikmin so that’s something.

[@davidthecommenter]

so YOU'RE why i saw "Lost In Battle: 001"

[@DoctorMinjinx]

I honestly never got the claim that Yellows are the worst type in Pikmin 1. You need the least amount of them compared to other types, sure, but a ton of stuff actually requires them and Bomb Rocks are pretty useful in Pikmin 1 due to no spicy spray/Purple Pikmin cheese.

[@thedropshotter115]

to fix the insta kill electricity problem, they could have just made it like pikmin 1 fire, where yeah you can save em, but they die in like a second

[@anonamoly]

i loved how yellow pikmin worked in the first pikmin. theres not enough pikmin types that you should have LESS of, its a great way to balance them. good utility but grows redundant when you have like 30 of them when theres only gonna be like 20 bomb rocks max in a level. if their ai wasnt made of wack they would be one of the best types in the game with the additional quirk of being one of the only combat type pikmin that is obscenely powerful but not ALWAYS obscenely powerful

[@Nic_2751]

Ok jokes aside it’s a shame how Pikmin 3 ALMOST gave us back ideas to buff yellows without resorting to keys, like the electric wires were a great concept but are simply switches and that’s it, it needed more strategy like which lights you want on or off to progress through a dark area, or how the 4 bombs in Twilight River can only be reached via wings or tossing yellows, inadvertently giving them that niche back, it’s a big waste they basically gave up on them by 4

[@pastabowl7]

The yellow pikmin situation is crazy

[@adfkzaha24]

weve been going backwards ever since they made pikmin 3

[@kaasiand]

I'd love if the approaches Pikmin 2 and 3 took were combined, to give yellows completely new combat potential. Have more electric hazards like pikmin 2, but instead of those hazards being like a "you should use yellows as the (safest) way to dispose of this thing Or Else", they should be more useful as SOURCES of electricity and not necessarily as obstacles to be taken down. In the case of enemies they still might be, but something like an indestructible exposed wire should allow you to think in a way that actually makes logical sense: if you shouldn't touch an exposed wire... should an enemy either? So imagine: you swarm your yellow pikmin like in 1 and 2 (in a line formation), and if this line of yellow pikmin goes through any source of electricity, this electrifies the entire line of yellow pikmin (like in 3!) except it's fully controlled by you this time (unlike in 3). You could use this as an alternative (possibly fastest, depending on the type) way to damage enemies, or even as a way to "catch" a whole bunch of small enemies in your electrified bug zapper net made of yellows, or to power on electric appliances like in Pikmin 3, possibly for shortcuts as you described (and here it'd be done in a freeform way where you get to figure out yourself where the electric conga line can go, and nothing would be explicitly spelled out for you). Electricity probably shouldn't be an instakill in this scenario (as funny as it would be), neither to enemies nor to your own non-yellow pikmin, but would still be Lethal If You're Too Slow just like fire/water/poison is to your squad. Just make sure you only have yellows with you when you're doing the electric conga line. also we should get Bomb Pikmin (they die when they explode)

[@DetournementArc]

It definitely feels like the ever increasing abundance of Pikmin types was going to make redundancy inevitable; that said: • If electricity was more like a panic or confusion hazard, that might split the difference between insta-kills and just having them inert. You could even have the lightning chain between pukmin to the pilot, temporarily reversing controls or something. • If the fans or other general updrafts were exclusive to Yellows and their glide-able ears, that could also be... something. • Thinking on the Glow Pikmins' special charge ability, kinda wondering if giving every Pikmin type spmething like that might differentiate them (even if Just Adding Supers feels like a bridge too far to me), Yellows could have a charge that stuns non-electric foes or something.

[@moosecannibal8224]

How did I get a gifted membership for this channel despite never watching you stream? No one will ever know, but I will say, I'm glad it's this channel 'cuz you deserve some extra moolah in the money pocket. Also, coincidentally, Merry Christmas!

[@jackbob83]

As a Yellow Pikmin fan, I am sad.

[@Razoredge581]

Irishman with a ginger captain and green suit, 9:03

[@Manavine]

it says a lot that the *only* reason outside of mandatory stuff I used Yellows in Pikmin 3 was for Daddy Long Legs on Ultra Spicy.

[@user-to9ge8ii9n]

I only played the first two, but based on this it seems like it would be sweet to have some additional yellow capabilities -- - if you have a bunch together, they generate static electricity to defend themselves - but if you make a wire of them, you can make a fence - making a wire near water does big damage to things in the water nearby - somehow a way to trigger bombs with electricity for an even bigger boom I guess we'll see when Switch 2: Pikmin Machine comes out what they've done with it.

[@raviolieothedisgustingsupe4504]

dwarf bulborb at 0:37 could not figure things out

[@oatmeal3013]

he's doing his best

[@Kaibwah]

No...Noooooo i watch every single one of your video i need more! I NEED MORE

[@EntoneTori]

The title suggests that Yellow Pikmin is like a KZbinr who did something bad, which led to their downfall and you're covering that and that's extremely funny to me

[@vDeadbolt]

I remember seeing a video where a yellow Pikmin kidnapped Olimar and shot him in the head as a prank.

[@EntoneTori]

@@vDeadbolt Must have been Sam Pepmin...

[@montyturner6511]

The electric banana needs a comeback here.

[@Marchers46]

I guess you could say Yellow Pikmin became Brussel Sprouts.

[@WaluigiGoesWa]

9:55 Basically what I said in my response to your post asking for hot takes about Pikmin.

[@BloodfelX]

I miss my bomb squad from Pikmin 1. Sure they were often low in numbers, but that was more to my sociopathic leadership ("Your job is to explode") than lack of use. If they were to have their gimmicks expanded upon, perhaps being able to use bombs more effectively (larger throwing range, higher throwing speed) or leaning into them being more aerodynamic perhaps other Pikmin could be able to throw them - like if when obtaining the Libra in Pikmin 1 there was no geyser to easily get your captain up another level.

[@numbcube6729]

I think if yellow pikmin threw the treasure/fruit they were carrying at enemies when bringing it back, they could have a niche as a "I want this back safely" type of support. That, and maybe give them enemies their throw can reach that flying pikmin can't, or make flying pikmin have 0.1 attack power. I'd also be okay with yellow pikmin perhaps being faster at "building" or repairing structures than other types. Idk.

[@nyanekoboypurinsu]

Yellows should also have a passive damage effect of a chance to stun enemies for a short while.

[@MichaelHeide]

Once the Rhythm Heaven music started, I couldn't listen to the voice over anymore. It was all drowned out in "something something I suppose - IIIII SUPPOSE, HEY" chants in my head.

[@nikita-wj7pt]

What about "I am not insane, I am mentally hilarious!" meme. That seems like a yellow pikmin joke

[@WaluigiGoesWa]

True

[@alejandrosoto8592]

I think a more notable one is the one that loves swimbing

[@groundbeef2]

I like your taste in background music.

[@The_Holy_Wooomy]

Yellow Pikmin got the skrunkly plush

[@caoistico669]

it had been a time since ive watched you, still fun

[@SuperGameFan77]

I feel like pikmin 4 completely misunderstands why people liked the franchise.

[@bloopahVIII]

Pikmin 4 is the Hey! Pikmin of the Pikmin franchise

[@Fredfredder]

0:01 "Gellow Pikmin" - imonlyhereforpikmin 2024

[@snersh6446]

👂Ear👂 pikmin's greatest quality is probably their sleek ⚡yellow⚡ coloration.

[@Chadworthy_]

That bomb shot on the frog…..

[@Yellowpikmin3018]

Simply bring back their old abilities, and make electricity something to be feared again

[@exotericidymnic3530]

Louie's counterattack will save us.

[@catalienaliebn]

im so pikked up

[@skagilter5152]

2:20 GREEN FN

[@gabrielhernandez7801]

Yellow better than blue and reds are better than yellows in pikmin 1

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

yes more like it

[@gabrielhernandez7801]

Yellow pikmin love swimming :)

[@shadowraith10]

Old machinery left behind by 'the inhabitants' of PNF 404 that create shortcuts but only when powered by Yellows, areas where the hazard is a literally electrified floor with a destroyable source only at yellow pikmin throw height, and Yellows having unique carryable objects that give off electricity similar to the firestarters for red pikmin. Fixed.

[@NeverBeGameOver]

The Rise and Fall of Yellow Pikmin

[@Klyxlik]

Next up: the downfall of purple, white, winged, rock, ice, glow, earth, lead, carapace, green, banana, maroon, amogus, portal, peppermint, gummy, sweet, ganvious, grayfruit, vinesauce, meat & north american swimming pool pikmin.

[@PikMin-f8m]

Pikmin

[@yourlocal_gingerbread]

pikmin

[@seagullbecause]

I guess you could say that the usefulness of yellow pikmin is…. *lost media.*

[@michaelr3077]

you must specify which electric fence cuz that could either be death or eternal dirt nap.

[@kirbykraftgames]

Pikmin 2 Yellows will always be the best, just because of how dangerous Electricity is If Pikmin 5 makes Yellows a combination of Pikmin 2 and 3’s yellows then we might have a Yellow get past Low A tier

[@KaguyaH]

I heard that sneaky Shanghai Teahouse

[@AlmyTheAlien]

> Breaks down wall to Beady Longlegs arena > Has a couple pikmin with bombs left > Doesn't realize crushing sets off bombs > Doesn't realize Beady Longlegs entrance animation can crush pikmin