Pikmin: Treacherous Treasures/Piklopedia/Giant Breadbug

The Giant Breadbug is a mini-boss in Pikmin: Treacherous Treasures. Unlike other Breadbugs, this one's large and cube-shaped, looking like a whole loaf of bread. It acts similar to other Breadbugs, dragging corpses, treasure, and pellets to it's burrow when it comes across one and being able to be dragged to the ship/onion should enough Pikmin be dragging in the opposite direction. However, unlike other Breadbugs, this one cannot be damaged by landing a Pikmin on top of it, rather, you'll have to use a precise Purple Pikmin throw or a Rock Pikmin slam to damage it. If it collects a pellet or an enemy corpse, it'll replenish health according to the size of the enemy/pellet(refer to the stats for more information).

Stats

 * Health: 2250
 * Health regeneration rate: 20 health/second
 * Weight: 10
 * Max Carriers: 20
 * Poko Value: 70
 * Seed Worth: 12


 * Health gained from a 1-pellet sized enemy: 5%


 * Health gained from a 5-pellet sized enemy: 20%


 * Health gained from a 10-pellet sized enemy: 40%


 * Health gained from a 20-pellet sized enemy: 70%

Strategy
There are a few ways to damage the Giant Breadbug.

The standard way of damaging any Breadbug is waiting until it latches onto a treasure or a corpse and then swarming the corpse/treasure with Pikmin, twice the minimum weight is recommended for this to work, otherwise your Pikmin will be dragged into it's lair and eaten. This'll hopefully end up with the colossal Breadbug dragged into the Ship/Onion, taking out about one tenth of it's health. You'll need to repeat this procedure about 11 times in succession for the Breadbug to finally die(it regenerates health at a steady rate).

If there's no corpses around, the another way to damage it is to pelt it with Rock Pikmin. Each Rock Pikmin hit can make it lose it's balance, causing it to roll to it's side and roll back up. A Rock Pikmin hit will take out about one hundredth of it's health.

If there's no corpses around and you don't have Rock Pikmin available, the only other way to damage it is to throw Purple Pikmin directly on top of it. Each successful Purple Pikmin hit takes away about one twentieth of it's health.

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Trivia

 * The Giant Breadbug emits oinking noises when looking around, damaged, or dragging something.