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Contents

  • Essentials
    • Controls
      • Controls
    • Game Modes
      • Game Modes
    • Progressing the Story
      • Progressing the Story
    • The KopPad
      • The KopPad
    • The Basics
      • The Basics
    • Essential Techniques
      • Essential Techniques
    • Collectables
      • Collectables
  • Walkthrough
    • Walkthrough
      • Walkthrough
    • Day 1 (Part 1) - Distant Tundra
      • Day 1 (Part 1) - Distant Tundra
    • Day 1 (Part 2) - Tropical Wilds
      • Day 1 (Part 2) - Tropical Wilds
    • Day 2 - Garden of Hope
      • Day 2 - Garden of Hope
    • Day 3 - Garden of Hope
      • Day 3 - Garden of Hope
    • Day 4 - Distant Tundra
      • Day 4 - Distant Tundra
    • Day 5 - Distant Tundra
      • Day 5 - Distant Tundra
    • Day 6 - Distant Tundra
      • Day 6 - Distant Tundra
    • Day 7 - Tropical Wilds
      • Day 7 - Tropical Wilds
    • Day 8 - Tropical Wilds
      • Day 8 - Tropical Wilds
    • Day 9 - Tropical Wilds
      • Day 9 - Tropical Wilds
    • Day 10 - Tropical Wilds
      • Day 10 - Tropical Wilds
    • Day 11 - Twilight River
      • Day 11 - Twilight River
    • Day 12 - Twilight River
      • Day 12 - Twilight River
    • Day 13 - Twilight River
      • Day 13 - Twilight River
    • Day 14 - Garden of Hope
      • Day 14 - Garden of Hope
    • Day 15 - Garden of Hope
      • Day 15 - Garden of Hope
    • Day 16 - Garden of Hope
      • Day 16 - Garden of Hope
    • Day 17 - Garden of Hope
      • Day 17 - Garden of Hope
    • Day 18 - Distant Tundra
      • Day 18 - Distant Tundra
    • Day 19 - Distant Tundra
      • Day 19 - Distant Tundra
    • Day 20 - Tropical Wilds
      • Day 20 - Tropical Wilds
    • Day 21 - Tropical Wilds
      • Day 21 - Tropical Wilds
    • Day 22 - Twilight River
      • Day 22 - Twilight River
    • Day 23 - Formidable Oak
      • Day 23 - Formidable Oak
    • Day 24 - Formidable Oak
      • Day 24 - Formidable Oak
    • Day 25 - Formidable Oak
      • Day 25 - Formidable Oak
  • Area Breakdown
    • Area Breakdown
      • Area Breakdown
    • Tropical Wilds
      • Tropical Wilds
    • Garden of Hope
      • Garden of Hope
    • Distant Tundra
      • Distant Tundra
    • Twilight River
      • Twilight River
  • Collectible Data Files
    • Tropical Wilds
      • Tropical Wilds
    • Collectable Data Files
      • Collectable Data Files
    • Garden of Hope
      • Garden of Hope
    • Garden of Hope
      • Garden of Hope
      • Garden of Hope
      • Garden of Hope
    • Tropical Wilds
      • Tropical Wilds
      • Tropical Wilds
      • Tropical Wilds
    • Distant Tundra
      • Distant Tundra
    • Distant Tundra
      • Distant Tundra
      • Distant Tundra
      • Distant Tundra
    • Twilight River
      • Twilight River
    • Twilight River
      • Twilight River
      • Twilight River
      • Twilight River
    • Formidable Oak
      • Formidable Oak
    • Formidable Oak
      • Formidable Oak
      • Formidable Oak
      • Formidable Oak
  • Characters and Items
    • Characters
      • Allies
      • Enemies
      • Bosses
    • Items and Obstacles
      • Collectable Items
      • Equipment
      • Devices
      • Important Objects
      • Obstacles
  • Missions
    • Missions
      • Missions
    • Collect Treasure!
      • Course 1: Tropical Forest
      • Course 2: Silver Lake
      • Course 3: Thirsty Desert
      • Course 4: Twilight Hollow
      • Course 5: Shaded Garden
    • Battle Enemies!
      • Course 1: Tropical Forest
      • Course 2: Silver Lake
      • Course 3: Thirsty Desert
      • Course 4: Twilight Hollow
      • Course 5: Shaded Garden
    • Defeat Bosses!
      • Course 1: Armored Mawdad
      • Course 2: Vehemoth Phosbat
      • Course 3: Sandbelching Meerslug
      • Course 4: Scornet Maestro
      • Course 5: Quaggled Mireclops
      • Course 6: Plasm Wraith
  • Bingo Battle
    • Bingo Battle
      • Bingo Battle
    • Bingo Cards
      • Bingo Cards
    • Unlocking Maps
      • Unlocking Maps
    • Starting a Bingo Battle
      • Starting a Bingo Battle
    • Using Items
      • Using Items
    • Common Strategies
      • Common Strategies
    • Bingo Battle Maps
      • Bingo Battle Maps

Pikmin 3 Guide › Characters and Items › Characters

Allies

Crew Members

Each crew member has a unique personality, but they all share the same abilities when leading Pikmin in the field.

Alph

As the ship’s engineer, Alph is responsible for maintaining equipment and scanning the planet for items of interest.

Brittany

Brittany is the crew’s botanist. In addition to her scientific duties, she’s responsible for monitoring and distributing the crew’s juice supply.

Captain Charlie

As the crew’s leader, Captain Charlie makes up for his lack of technical or scientific knowledge with an abundance of confidence and bravado.

Pikmin

All Pikmin share a set of basic skills. As you explore an area, you’ll use Pikmin to battle enemies, destroy obstacles, and transport objects. Most Pikmin are vulnerable to common hazards like fire, water, electricity, and crushing damage. Understanding the unique strengths and weaknesses of each Pikmin type is the key to overcoming the game’s many challenges.

Red Pikmin

Unique Strengths:

  • High attack power
  • Immune to fire

Unique Weaknesses:

  • None

Yellow Pikmin

Unique Strengths:

  • Immune to electricity
  • Can connect Electrodes
  • Can be thrown higher than other Pikmin
  • Increased digging speed

Unique Weaknesses:

  • None

Blue Pikmin

Unique Strengths:

  • Immune to water

Unique Weaknesses:

  • None

Rock Pikmin

Unique Strengths:

  • High attack power when thrown
  • Immune to most crushing attacks
  • Can shatter crystal objects

Unique Weaknesses:

  • Cannot cling to most objects or enemies
  • Falls down after each attack
  • Bounces past target when thrown

Winged Pikmin

Unique Strengths:

  • Flight
  • Aerial combat
  • Can pull Flukeweeds

Unique Weaknesses:

  • Low attack power

White Pikmin

White Pikmin do not appear in the game’s Story mode.

Unique Strengths:

    • Increased movement speed
    • Poisonous to enemies

Unique Weaknesses:

  • None

Purple Pikmin

Purple Pikmin do not appear in the game’s Story mode.

Unique Strengths:

    • Has the strength of 10 Pikmin

Unique Weaknesses:

  • Greatly reduced movement speed while carrying objects

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