Armored Cannon Beetle

An Armored Cannon Beetle ('ar-merd 'ka-nen 'be-tel) is a member of the Lithopod family in found only Pikmin 1. It takes thirty to carry and it produces fifty seeds.



Appearance
It has only a quartet of legs and has a red abdomen and has a pair of blue eyes. It has the inhaler that sucks up Pikmin and fires boulders.

Nintendo Player's Guide Description
Continously fire Pikmin into the armored cannon beetle's upper-snout until it inhales a Pikmin. The Pikmin will plug up the bug and cause it to open its protective shell and reveal its vulnerable body. Circle to the bug's rear end and toss Pikmin onyo its exposed red body to inflict damage.

Strategy
To defeat the Armored Cannon Beetle, it must inhale a Pikmin and it will plug it up and it opens its protective shell. Olimar must toss Pikmin on it, but he must time his tossing before the shell closes. Later, the bug will shoot the boulder. A Pikmin dies when a boulder runs over it. Olimar can punch it and it is destroyed and Olimar cannot punch it in Pikmin 2.

Locations
The Forest of Hope

The Distant Spring