Issue is, they do need to get to melee range in order to sting
They'd still have the advantage of higher range due to flying
Range for evasion, not attacking. I recall flying enemies were decently common in Pikmin
These are rock pikmin though and their sole method of attacking is throwing themselves a centimeter, as the other comment said they might redirect their attention on Oliver.
Hey, keep in mind that Olimar can always call them back and yeet the rocks further.
The Wasps are agile enough
Well yes but how intelligent are the wasps to target Olimar specifically and not the more dangerous Rock Pikmins? Wouldn't they just have normal wasp intelligence since their Mind Manipulation is due to a toxin and not them mind controlling people?
I think the Scornet Maestro had her Scornets do the same thing; the only difference is it's patterned. The closest thing I can think of to that is when they form a cone/drill and attack all at once in a sort of single-file line.
The only verifiable poisons in the series that I can find are methane, hydrogen sulfide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide ), and Wolfsbane (found in White Pikmin).
The only difference between venoms and poisons is how they enter the body. Venoms are injected while poisons are practically every other way toxins can enter the body. Even then, I don't think that matters much since there's a good chance you'll find similarities between the workings of poisons and venoms. Like for example, the toxins of both brown recluse spiders and Startle Spores cause necrosis.
Olimar (and somehow, Oatchi and Moss) can survive Gloom (initially believed to be poison, but now I guess it's some form of Death Manipulation), so there's that. Don't think that's helping the Pikmin, tho despite the dogs having been Pikminified (note the leaf tails).
Mah, Olimar has dealt with swarms before, and he is even more skilled on pikimin usage them the likes of Alphy who could fight a bee like swarm of bugs, much more them the amount of wasps here, olimar relally just need to keep 5 rock pikimins around for defense and use the other 10 to atack, he should still take the victory without much problem
I already made the CRT for Pikmin. If a car crash doesn't make a driver 9-B, a rocket crash wouldn't make Olimar 9-B either. Besides, a crash-landing had been calc'd at 22.6 joules; what are you on about?: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:The_Smashor/Pikmin_Captains_fall_from_space
Smaller objects recive less air resistence, did you you putted that in account whem making the calc?
