Demi-Legs

The Demi-Legs lies half-buried in the ground and very much resembles a dormant Onion in such a state. It even leaps out in similar fashion to an Onion activation cutscene, but this Man-at-Legs relative is only interested in killing Pikmin.

This iron-plated Arachnorb will immediately start chasing down nearby targets and will occasionally try to stab them with an extendible lance-like weapon from underneath its body. This lance has a long range and can skewer up to ten Pikmin in a single strike, but it has a charge-up time that allows one to move out of the way before it attacks.

The Demi-Legs is also capable of flight via the Onion-like propeller on top of its head, and it will do so when aggravated to fly out of the range of Pikmin attacks. Once airborne, the Demi-Legs will fly to various spots nearby Pikmin and leaders, locking on and firing several bullets from the tip of its lance in quick bursts each time it stops in midair. This makes the various hiding places in the arena less reliable, but the gunfire can be dodged by simply watching the crosshair and then dodging away when it locks on. The Demi-Legs is a rare case of an Arachnorb that leaves a corpse; its legs fall apart, leaving just its large body for salvage.