They also stun most enemies when thrown on top them, and they are only Pikmin capable of weakening the viscious water wraith. Like White Pikmin, they feature purple flowers instead of white ones ...

Before long some purple flowers will be located, which will allow Olimar and Louie to throw up to five Red Pikmin into each flower, creating a new type of Pikmin (ten times stronger than Red ...

The purple Pikmin are bruisers, able to do the work of 10 regular Pikmin. These brawny bulbs are well suited for combat, as many small foes can be bested by just one purple fellow.

Each type of Pikmin has a different skillset. You need them all to make it through Pikmin 4, so here's where to find the purple, ice, pink, and rock pikmin.

You will need to constantly keep your purple pikmin at the ‘flower’ level just to have them keep up with our other pikmin. The other new pikmin are the tiny, poisonous, white ones.

You'll get Olimar some white and purple companions by making use of color-coded flowers that are designed to eat any of the standard Pikmin classes and can decant white or purple counterparts.

Where can you find the Purple and White Onions in Pikmin 4? It’s locked behind quite a bit of stuff. Our guide explains where to find these special Onions.