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blue pikmin don't suck. they are probably the most effective pikmin when thrown, considering they do as much damage as a red when they latch, and have nearly as much life as a purple which means that they won't die when the enemy knocks the pikmin off. they suck when not throwing them, but that of course is what the whistle is for.On space levels, I seem to get a lot of Purples. Norfair gives me plenty of Reds while ice and water levels give me plenty of Blues (the suckiest of all Pikmin). It all seems pretty evident by looking at a level which Pikmin you'll get, aside from the Purples being a bit strange.
I can do that. Maybe not tonight, but I'll get to it sometime.I'll make up a plan to solve this mystery:
- pull and record 100 pikmin on two levels with terrain that is very different from one another.
Ok, i made the plan. Anyone feeling scientific enough to pull a couple hundred pikmin and record their colors ?
Things to keep in mind during level selection:
--Pikmin disposal
in order to pull these *******s up we gotta kill their predecessors off. So the stage must have at least one place to ditch your pikmins. (remember: blue pikmins dont die in water, red pikmins dont die in fire)
well thank you. see what other stages get other pikmin if you can.So, I started this project to remove all doubt from this subject, as seemingly minor though it may be =P
Most of the way through my third year in a science major I can be sure of one thing, data is all one has to go off of, and the more of it you've got that you can use, the better =P It makes sense, that thing everyone learns in high school and even grade school... remove random error by conducting multiple tests yada yada... So anyone thats gonna contribute I urge you to follow lofty ideas of pulling/recording pikmin till your blue, or white or purple or red or yellow... Anyway, my goal was 1000 plucks on Final Destination, assuming we'd use FD as the standard by which we compare other stages by. I got to 700, which I will say is not an easy or fun task, especially later on at night when your not awake enough to play seriously and decide to do this. For the sake of completeness, I would ask anyone who is helpful enough to contribute to this effort not to offer much data if its under 500 plucks, luck is a fickle mistress but 500 should be enough to wear her down. So anyway, on to my results:
700 Pikmin plucked on Final Destination:
164 Yellow 151 Red 170 Blue 113 White 102 Purple
23.4286% 21.5714% 24.2857% 16.1429% 14.5714%
Its been suggested before, and the simple %s of 23.3% 23.3% 23.3% 15% 15% work very nicely, averaging each section brings you startlingly close to these numbers.
With that pretty strongly supported now, the process needs only be repeated on other stages. Seeing as while interesting to casual players, this would seem more important to competative players, I suggest we focus on tournament neutral stages and counter picks. If anyone would like to do any of these: Battlefield, Bridge of Eldin, Yoshi's Island, Lylat Cruise, Castle Siege, Smashville, or Pokemon Stadium 1, it'd be appreciated. Even redoing tests can't hurt, though I do now believe if these patterns exist, they are going to be as obvious as the FD ratio.
The other suggestion we have so far was specific to ground type plucked from. While this is not an issue on most stages, my next test is going to be exploring for heavy single colored plucking in reasonable places, such as the blue heavy ice area mentioned above. If this is the case obviously we won't need to do a bunch of tests on each individual stage, it may be completely balanced on the neutral stages as there are no real different terrain types on them.
-True
*Update* So its certainly map specific in a logical way. I didn't take numbers, but Summit certainly offers an increased blue pikmin rate, for logical reasons. Without taking statistics, my 15 minutes of plucking led me to strong believe its right about 33% for blue pikmin on that map. I can't tell you where those pikmin are made up from, if it takes evenly from the other four colors or what, but if you bother for even 5 minutes there, you'll see 2 of any given set of 6 pikmin (disposing of them all each time and drawing 6 new) will almost always result in at least 2 blue pikmin. Also of note is this isn't affected by where you pluck pikmin. Of that 15 minutes 10 was spent strictly plucking from whatever non ice areas i could find on the stage just to confirm this, which it was. I'm headed out of town this weekend, so probably won't get any more numbers till at least middle of next week at the earliest, anyone willing to help out its not hard, feel free to step up.