Armored Cannon Beetle

The Armored Cannon Beetle (フタクチドックリ?, lit.: "Tokkuri Top-Mouth") is the adult stage of an Armored Cannon Larva. The beetle is first discovered during Olimar's first visit to the Pikmin Planet, and is seen again in Pikmin 2 and Pikmin 3, but only on its larval stage. It is a large, black, almost shiny beetle with a thick, rounded shell of armor and a blowhole above its head. It attacks by inhaling through this opening and subsequently firing a rolling rock from its mouth that travels in a straight path, which crushes any small creature in its path, and only stops when it hits a wall or another enemy. To defeat the creature, one must attack its abdomen: attacking other parts of the creature (like its legs) won't damage it.
This enemy is only found in The Forest of Hope, where one is guarding the Radiation Canopy, and The Distant Spring, where one has ingested the Bowsprit. As a side-note, Olimar can destroy the rocks by punching them; this does not work with the rock-producing lithopods in Pikmin 2, however. The boulders also do not damage other enemies, but the ones from Pikmin 2's lithopods do.
Category:Animals
Category:Creatures