Chapter 4 - Battle Mode Tips
This section offers a collection of tips on Pikmin 2’s two-player battle mode.
- Pikmin 2’s two-player battle mode could be called "Capture the Marble" as the objective is to retrieve your opponent’s marble and return it to your onion. You can also capture four yellow marbles to meet the same win requirement. Note that if your enemy moves your marble halfway to their home, you can’t move it back! It will have to be defended at the new position.
- Maps contain neutral enemies that will attack you or your foe (such as bulborbs or wollywogs). Sometimes a yellow marble can be found inside an enemy. Most of the time you’ll likely want to stay away from battling too many neutral enemies but they can be returned to the onion. But if you struggle against a neutral enemy, your real foe could capitalize by wiping out your remaining forces and attacking your captain. If you lose your captain, you also lose the game.
- Neutral enemies pose the biggest problem when you’re trying to haul something back to the onion. A hungry bulborb could eat your pikmin carrier rather easily. Utilize your captain to distract the neutral enemies and allow your haulin’ pikmin to get home.
- Gain a pikmin advantage on your opponent by producing more at each opportunity. Use the posies near your start location to generate more pikmin and combat easy to defeat creatures and return their corpse to your onion for more pikmin. Obviously it can be a double-edge sword if you attack the wrong neutral enemy and suffer losses.
- Grab a cherry to receive a bonus power-up. It’s the power-up roulette! It spins in the corner; the symbol it rests on resembles a particular power-up. The chart below reveals each power-up’s graphic and its use.
| POWER-UP | PICTURE |
| Supercharge all pikmin! Enhances your pikmin with the spicy spray. | Pool of ultra-spicy spray. |
| Bury enemy pikmin! Sinks your enemy’s pikmin into the ground; he’ll have to pluck them back out. | Pool of ultra-bitter spray. |
| Volatile dweevil drops on opponent. The resulting explosion can devastate an enemy that doesn’t get away fast enough. | A volatile dweevil. |
| Blowhog drops on opponent. This is a fiery or watery blowhog variety. | A fiery and watery blowhog. |
| Blowhog drops on opponent. This is an aerial blowhog which can blow away mature pikmin. | An aerial blowhog. |
| Swooping snitchbug drops on opponent. Annoying pest that steals pikmin and tosses them into ground. | A swooping snitchbug. |
| Recover stolen marble. Get one back! | A marble. |
| Boulders drop on opponent. Smash your enemy into the ground with falling rocks. | A boulder. |
| All pikmin bloom. Mature your pikmin quickly with this power-up. | A flower. |
| Increase pikmin by 5. | A sprout and +5. |
| Increase pikmin by 10. | A sprout and +10. |
| Vanish from opponent’s view. | Light blue pikmin symbol. |
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