Giga Peeking Pelletonium

The Giga Peeking Pelletonium serves as an overground boss in Pikmin: Connection of the Worlds and is found at the Ancient Valley. Although it may look like a extremely rare subspecies of Pellet Posies, in truth, it's actually a member of the Chrysanthemum family. It only appears at the Ancient Valley every 20 days starting from day 41. This battle can be kind of annoying, because the Pellet on it changes color every 10 seconds, so the battle may be even harder if you're trying to get a specific color.

Attacks
When you near this "plant", its eyes will open and it'll look around, and once it spots you, it uproots itself right out of the ground. Any Pikmin close to it will be deflowered. It has four leafy limbs, and they will try to snatch your Pikmin to eat them. Each "hand" can pick up 3 Pikmin, so if you're not careful, you could easily lose 12 Pikmin. Once only 50% of its life remains, it'll have a new attack: its mouth will swoop down and start using a fiery breath. Then when it's down to 25%, it will have another new attack: it will position itself so that it's facing diagonally upwards, then its mouth will open wide, and a "fountain" of water will start shooting out of it. Finally, once down to 10%, yet another attack will be added in addition to all the other attacks; this once may be the most devastating: it'll start shooting explosive projectiles at a super-fast rate, which are very accurate. This only lasts for 3 seconds, whereas the other two attacks take 6 seconds.

Strategy
Start by grabbing some Purple & Yellow Pikmin. Get the bomb-rocks nearby, and once the boss is awake, throw your Yellows before its arms sweeps away your Yellow Pikmin. The beast will instead grab the bomb-rocks and it will topple right over. Now's your chance to counterattack. Throw your Purples on the creature's eyes, and you should deal about 10-15% of damage. Repeat the process, but be careful of the elemental attacks later in the battle. Once it finally dies, the green hue of the flesh of the creature will turn orange and crackly, then disappear. All that's left is the 100 Pellet which will give you a whopping 100 Pikmin!

Trivia
This enemy is very similar to the Peeking Pelletonium, another Chrysanthemum variant that mimics the Pellet Posies. However, some traits are different:
 * The Giga Peeking Pelletonium is much bigger than it's counterpart
 * It has only two eyes
 * It has elemental attacks
 * The pellet on it is real
 * It's never found underground
 * It's main body is thin