Skating Shearnymph

The Skating Shearnymph is a species of Mandiblard appearing in Pikmin: Spark. They are an artic subspecies of the Shearnymph having a lighter blue coloration than its aquatic counterpart. Like the vanilla Shearnymph they have a pair of long frontal limbs instead of a pair of sharp frontal mandibles of the Shearwig, however, instead of using them for swimming the Skating Shearnymph use their frontal limbs to swiftly move across icy surfaces. This makes them dangerous hazards as due to the icy surfaces causing most Pikmin to suffer from bad traction giving them the ability to just run across the ice and eat the Pikmin. As such Hairy Pikmin are recommended to defeat them as they are immune to slipping on the ice and therefore able to have a better advantage against the shearnymph. Still, be careful if you have a squad of Winged Pikmin however as the Skating Shearnymph can still jump and eat the Winged Pikmin from the sky.