Spotstool

The Spotstool is a species of sporovid that splits into smaller duplicates when damaged.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin Evolution
The Spotstool is a species of sporovid appearing in Pikmin Evolution. They have a thin red cap featuring large, pale, fleshy lumps, giving them the overall appearance of a Kingcap. They are quite clumsy even by Sporovid standards, skipping with their legs and occasionally tripping over on its cap even without needing Pikmin to chase it down. However that belies a surprisingly crafty predator as its one of the few fungi species to be purely carnivorous. When it flips back over on its feet it will crouch down and enclose its cap, eating any Pikmin underneath. This attack is quite fast so you need to recall your Pikmin quick if you want to avoid the attack. The large cap of the Spotstool also guards it from direct Pikmin tosses, meaning you have to risk swarming it in order to damage it. When you manage to get it at half health the Spotstool reveals its odd signature ability to split into three smaller duplicates. These smaller duplicated are faster but frailer clones of the original, with the cap now being small enough for Pikmin to be thrown at it, however thrown Pikmin will deal reduced damage compared to swarming Pikmin. When one of the smaller duplicates loses all of its health it will split into three even smaller duplicates who are even faster and frailer than the original. The caps are also small enough to be able to have Pikmin able to be tosses on them without reducing their damage. This stage is the smallest they can be as once they lose all their health they will shrivel up and die, allowing them to be collected. If two Spotstools of the same size are together and left along they will perform one of their deadliest abilities of fusing together into the next largest size, making fighting the Spotstool take longer than usual. Spotstool corpses should also not enter water as that will cause them to rehydrate their bodies and revive themselves, so you not allow any water based enemies to attack you around these corpses if you don't want to fight to take even longer than usual. However they hate getting their bodies dried up, so when exposed to heat the Spotstool will shrivel up and split into its three smaller forms. As such one should bring a red syrup to burn these enemies to a crisp and quickly take them down, but not too much as to not risk burning any carcasses you can collect. By killing the last Spotstool with the refuse they hold finally drop, often one of smaller size due to being carried by the smallest stage of Spotstool. Overall just defeat it quick and don't let the Spotstools get near each other, that way you won't have a long battle.

In Pikmin: Dual Worlds
The Spotstool is a somewhat uncommon sporovid appearing in Pikmin: Dual Worlds, in the Salem Swamp and some of its caves. It appears to be little more than a weak tripedal sporovid at first, but due to them all having nearly identical genetic information and being incredibly malleable, three of them together can fuse into a larger version of themselves. At its smallest size, it can easily be defeated with a single Pikmin thrown on top of it. It's still weak to attacks from above at the next size, though to a lesser extent. However, at the third and fourth sizes, it becomes immune to aerial attacks, solely destructible from the sizes. This is when it's most dangerous as if it happens across prey to its sides that happen to be beneath its cap, it crouches down and closes its cap on them to eat them. If attacked enough, it can be split back into its parts, though at sizes three or higher it will split into the size below it instead of directly into the smallest size. They can be summoned by and are often in the presence of Swarmstools, though they don't spawn exclusively due to them.

In Pikmin: Spark
The Spotstool is a sporovid miniboss appearing in Pikmin: Spark. Found in dens, they have a red cap featuring large, pale, fleshy lumps, giving them the appearance of a Kingcap. They appear to be quite clumsy creatures as they move in an awkward waddle and trip quite frequently, characteristics that belie so dangerous a predator. After getting up from tripping, it closes its large cap and traps anything inside for consumption. The creature has little vitality but is not easy to take down as it splits into three smaller versions of itself when damaged enough. These smaller Spotstools act as smaller and faster versions of the original Spotstool and also split into three even smaller Spotstools under the same conditions. Upon death, the smallest Spotstools either disintegrate completely or leave behind recoverable remains. The final one killed drops the Tangy Capsule, a container of garlic powder worth, is dropped.

In Ultra-Spicy Mode, after being split, Spotstools of the same size eventually merge into a full Spotstool if not split again soon enough. Two split Spotstools can merge if the third is split, forming a full-size Spotstool that splits into three smaller Spotstools, meaning its spoils may be harvested indefinitely.