Unknown Family

The Unkown Family are creatures with no known family in the Pikmin series for Gamecube and New Play Control! for Wii. Some of them are harmless and some are harmful.

Smoky Progg
Smoky Proggs are enemies found exclusively in Pikmin 1. Some people are really sure that it's a boss.

Appearance
It has purple eyes and is dark green. It has only two legs and has the steam.

Nintendo Player's Guide Description
The defeated smoky progg pearl can produce one hundred new Pikmin. The ghostly creature's egg disappears from the Distant Spring after Day 15. If you find the egg, attack it until it shakes, then quickly retreat and follow the hatched progg to your landing site. Relentlessly toss Pikmin at its head and stay out of its path.

Strategy
Olimar should the blues to attack the egg and the Smoky Progg will come out. It's impossible to defeat it without losing any of his Pikmin.Olimar must throw Pikmin at its head, but not at the back as the path will put them to death. As a Swooping Snitchbug is by it, Olimar must kill the Progg, but if it snatches the Pikmin, Olimar should avoid it and throw Pikmin at the Swooping Snitchbug. Destroying it produces a hundred Pikmin.

Another way is to bring in the Yellow Pikmin and they must pick up the Bomb Rocks. The bombers must aim well and shouldn't hit the Progg on the rear end.

Locations
The Smoky Progg is found only in the Distant Spring.

Goolix
Goolix are creatures found only in Pikmin 1. It floats to put Pikmin on water.

Appearance
It looks like a blue amoeba and has two nuclei, a larger yellow and a smaller blue.

Nintendo Player's Guide Description
Only blue Pikmin can safely penetrate the goolix's blobby body. Lead your Pikmin toward the blue nucleus, then hit X to unleash them.

Strategy
Touching the slime would cause Olimar to be damaged. A Pikmin will die if it touches it; a Blue Pikmin will break the slim and hit the blue nucleus. It will repeat the pattteren all over again. Olimar shouldn't underestimate it, as it could be a threat.

Locations
Goolix are found only in The Impact Site.

Mamuta
Mamuta are creatures that appear in two Pikmin games.

Appearance
It is blue and is grey and has two arm petals. It also has tattoos and blue eyes.

Pikmin 1
If you visit the Impact Site on an even-numbered day (between Days 8 and 30), you'll encounter the mamuta on a big tree stump. If the mamut attacks your Pikmin, it won't harm them; it will merely pound them into the ground and your replanted Pikmin will instantly bloom into flowers.

Pikmin 2
A Mamuta cannot defeat a Pikmin, but it can pound the trooper into the ground with its heavy arms. In fact, one rock beast can bury several Pikmin with a single blow. After you defeat the Mamuta with flying attacks, be sure to pluck your buddies from the soil; their tops will be in full bloom.

Pikmin 1
It could be very difficult to defeat a Mamuta. It will take too long as Olimar to defeat. It will pound Pikmin onto the ground and without the Pluckaphone, he should keep picking them up. It's a good idea to use bombs to kill it quickly.

Pikmin 2
Mamuta are found only in underground. It's a good idea to kill it quickly with purples. If there are Unmarked Spectralids in Hole of Heroes behind it, Olimar should kill it first then the Unmarked Spectralids. If an Iridescent Glint Beetle is near it, Olimar should pound it first and then kill it.

Pikmin 1
Mamuta are found only in The Impact Site.

Pikmin 2
Frontier Cavern

Cavern of Chaos

Hole of Heroes

Dream Den

Pearly Clamclamp
Pearly Clamclamps are enemies found only in Pikmin 1.

Appearance
It resembles a large clam and has a pearl inside and will eat a Pikmin when it stays too long.

Nintendo Player's Guide Description
Shortly after you toss Pikmin into a pearly clamclamp, its shell will snap shut. Don't let the clam gobble up your Pikmin by ordering them in and out of the shell before it ha a chance to clam up. If your Pikmin can smack the clamclamp's pearl free from the shell, they can crash it at an onion to earn fifty seeds.

Strategy
Olimar must throw Pikmin in the pearl and must call them as it will have to close its mouth and eat the Pikmin. After destroying the pearl, it will eat them again. It will still eat the Pikmin when the pearl is gone. With the Positron Generator, the fighting pattern is the same like attacking its pearl.

As Olimar, it only works in The Distant Spring and he must find a Yellow Wollywog and lure it inside it and he will be inside and he must punch the Massage Machine and it will try to eat him.

Locations
In the main game, it is found only in The Impact Site.

They only appear in The Forest Navel, The Distant Spring and The Forest of Hope in Challenge Mode.

Mitite
Mitites are egg-like bugs that produce nectar and are found only in Pikmin 2.

Appearance
Its body is white and its face is pink. It also has six claws.

Nintendo Player's Guide Description
When you break an egg expecting nectar, sometimes you'll be surprised b a flurry of Mitites. The cretures won't harm your Pikmin, but they will send them into panic. Call your purple troops with your whistle, then stomp one of the Mitites to generate nectar and let the others scurry away.

Strategy
When breaking an Egg with a Pikmin, a Purple Pikmin will kill all in one hit, leaving some nectar. Also, when they come out of the ground, Olimar must throw it when they come out and they are killed in a hit.

Also in Blublax Kingdom, a bomb will all kill them in a hit, unlike using a Purple Pikmin.

Location
Mitites appeared in several locations.

Gatling Groink
Gatling Groinks are creatures found only in Pikmin 2.

Appearance
It has a shield to protect its face and is a goldfish with two legs and a cannon that shoots Pikmin. It also has two drumstick horns.

Strategy
It could be too difficult to defeat the Gatling Groink without losing any Pikmin. Using Purple Pikmin is to kill it quickly. In the Subterranean Complex, when it falls off the bottomless pit, it will be killed instantly. Use Bomb Rocks or a Volatile Dweevil could kill it quickly.

Locations
The Gatling Groink only appeared in a very few locations.

Fast Gatling Groink
After defeating one after it dies in the challenge, Secret Testing Range, it will be fast and could be very difficult to avoid. To avoid starting this, Olimar or Louie must bring it to the ship before it becomes fast.

Waterwraith
Waterwraith are creatures found only in Pikmin 2.

Appearance
It appears to look like liquid in water and it has two stone logs. It turns purple when a Purple Pikmin attacks it.

Nintendo Player's Guide Description
The anxious Waterwraith appears before the final floor of the Submerged Castle, but you won't be able to defeat it until you use Violet Candypop Buds to create purple Pikmin on the cave's lowest level. One touch from a purple will make the beast temporarily vulnerable.

Strategy
The Waterwraith could be very impossible to defeat in most sublevels. Olimar must avoid it and if an enemy is on the way, it will crush it to death, like a Fiery Bulblax. Using Purple Pikmin will make it upset and will break its logs. Olimar will have to chase it and will later be tired. Olimar ust run after it and it will be tired and will repeat the pattern again.

Locations
Waterwraith are found only in the Submerged Castle in the main game.

There are two Waterwraith in Bully Den.

Ujadani
Ujadani are unnamed creatures that resemble ticks found only in Pikmin 2.

Appearance
It is light brown and has a nose likea rhinoceros beetle does and has a small legs.

Nintendo's Player Guide Description
Note: You can't see the description; this is made up.

Simply, bring your White Pikmin to the Ujadani to kill them and will cause other to be poisoned and will produce nectar. Use your C-Stick to move your whites to them.

Strategy
Ujadani are found in several days. Only White Pikmin can affect it and others are poisoned. Destroying them will produce more nectar.

Locations
Ujadani are found only in Wistful Wild above ground.

Trivia
The Mamuta is the only member of the Unkown Family to appear in another Pikmin game.