Blubberous Dumple

The Blubberous Dumple is a species of large Grub-dog that has a thick hide but soft underbelly.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin Evolution
The Blubberous Dumple is a species of hypertrophic Grub-dog appearing in Pikmin Evolution, it is the hypertrophic variant of the Water Dumple. It naturally appears similar to the basic Water Dumple, but its skin is a dark indigo rather than a bluish-purple, and it is noticeably more overweight than the Water Dumple. As the name suggests this is due to its very thick layer of blubber, which was made because the hormonal changes caused by hypertrophy made the Blubberous Dumple more gluttonous than its normal counterpart. This gluttonous appetite is seen by the fact that the Blubberous Dumple always patrols its territory, looking for food, eating even carcasses and pieces of refuse with its big sticky tongue. This makes the body of the Blubberous Dumple larger and rotund as a result of it eating everything, leading towards its maximum health increasing after each meal. In battle the thick hide of the Blubberous Dumple is too thick to attack normally, as it receives reduced damage from most attacks. Rather to really deal any meaningful damage you need to wait for it to charge its eating attack, as that has it lift its head up and reveal a soft pink underside. You need to swarm this underside to deal heavy damage, but recall your Pikmin so as to not have the Blubberous Dumple eat them, which is a very deadly attack as it can eat over 100 Pikmin with its tongue. The other attack it can perform is a quick and short lunge attack, this attack can eat up to 50 Pikmin, which is still a lot making it a dangerous attack. When it performs its leaping attack you have to completely dodge it, as that makes the Dumple fall on its head and reveal its pink underbelly, while swarming it now makes the Pikmin attack the tough hide, tossing Pikmin is now the way to go as that now hits the soft underbelly. However it will eventually flip back over and crush anyone underneath, so be careful about that. The Blubberous Dumple's mindless search for food is its greatest weakness as while getting bigger means it gains more health, it also means its much slower and easier to attack. Its endless gut also means that it will eat things it really shouldn't most notable explosives. Feeding this thing a volatile orange syrup will deal massive damage to it and instantly causes it to flip over and expose its weakpoint, a good trick to use against the fight. Another good trick is too spray its underbelly with an acidic green syrup when it tries to charge a lick attack, as it will burn its throught and cause it to spit out any item it recently ate and deal heavy damage to the creature. Regardless the Blubberous Dumple is a one-track minded creature, and while it can eat a lot of Pikmin if given the chance, its also slow and preditable. When it is slain it will barf out all the stuff it ate before its body shrinks down to the size of a regular Water Dumple that you can collect, giving a large amount of refuse and corpses for you to harvest, a worthy and fitting reward for such a gluttonous creature.