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Quaggled Mireclops

Quaggled Mireclops icon from Pikmin 3 Deluxe

Piklopedia #54

Notes

Alph

Structural flaw: fruit-like protrusion
Weight: 20

I thought it was an ordinary fruit trapped in crystal until it started stomping around the bog. Its stony hull is invulnerable to damage everywhere except its toes. If you can hit them enough, it'll fall over and leave its fruit-like bulb open to attack. But even then, it has a fallback mechanism in the form of its huge tongue. When it starts shaking, it's best to back away unless you have Winged Pikmin to send after it.

Brittany

Its giant head perplexes me. I know now that it's not a Sunseed Berry, but what is it? A plant? An animal? I thought I'd figure it out once I tasted it, but the captain snapped at me not to lick everything we fight. How else am I supposed to do science?!

Charlie

I don't like doing it, but I had to put my foot down when Brittany tried to taste its brightly colored core. (Talk about forbidden fruit!) I must put the safety of my crew before their research, and I don't know where that thing's been.

Louie

A fruit so sweet, it could be a dessert unto itself. Remove and discard peel and core. Slice fruit into small pieces and enjoy!

Olimar

Quaggled Mireclops
Trestripods gigahenum
Mireclops family

A rule of thumb is that the larger a creature is, the more it must consume to support its body weight. The quaggled mireclops is no exception. It uses its rootlike legs to drain its environs of nutrients, to the point that puncturing it could improve the entire surrounding area's ecosystem. It also catches small insects using a hidden tongue in the wide mouth found all about its circumference. What prey it manages to catch, it dissolves to their base compounds, such as nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potassium. Its insides are fertile ground for a wide variety of plants, including Sleeping Beauty and Dusty Mushrooms. Some theorize that the fruit-like growth atop its main body is in itself a parasitic species living off the nutrients it drains from the mireclops's enormous body.

In the game

Pikmin Needed to Carry20
Most Pikmin that carry it30
Pikmin seeds when carried to an Onion50
Comes back afterDoes not come back

Main habitat

Fruit it holds

In the official guide

Quaggled Mireclops art from the Pikmin 3 Official Game Guide
Quaggled Mireclops. Pikmin 3 Official Game Guide, Prima Games, 2013, p. 187

The Quaggled Mireclops is located in the Garden of Hope. When you encounter this creature, throw Rock Pikmin at its Mireclops Crystal until the creature wakes up.

Once active, the Quaggled Mireclops creature stomps around its enclosure, creating pools of water in the soft mud. Use your Blue Pikmin to attack one of the creature's feet until the Quaggled Mireclops collapses. When it does, use your Rock Pikmin to destroy the Mireclops Crystal and expose the enemy's spike-covered bulb. Although the Mireclops is vulnerable from this position, it's not helpless. When the creature sweeps its giant tongue around the area, make sure all of your Pikmin are safely out of its path.

When the Quaggled Mireclops recovers, use your Blue Pikmin to attack one of its feet. Once the creature collapses, use your Blue Pikmin (and/or Winged Pikmin) to attack the Quaggled Mireclops' spiked bulb. Repeat the process until you defeat the creature.

The Quaggled Mireclops grows more aggressive as the battle progresses. Take care to keep your Pikmin safe as the creature charges around the enclosure.

Pikmin 3 Official Game Guide, Prima Games, 2013, p. 187

Name in each language

EnglishQuaggled Mireclops
日本語ヌマアラシ
DeutschSchlammstampfer
FrançaisPaludambule
Français (Canada)Paludambule
EspañolIslote zancudo
Español (Latinoamérica)Islote zancudo
ItalianoIsomobile paludosa
한국어늪황폐마
简体中文沼泽荒魔
繁體中文沼澤荒魔