Yellow Pikmin

The Yellow Pikmin is the second Pikmin found in Pikmin and the Fourth in Pikmin 2. It has the ability to be thrown higher and farther than any other pikmin due to its light weight and glider-like ears. In Olimar's first foray to the Pikmin Planet this Pikmin could lift Bomb-Rocks and throw them at enemies and walls to cause great damage. However, the Bomb Rocks have seemed to grow in size between the first and second games, as Yellow Pikmin can no longer lift them. The Yellow Pikmin also appeared to evolve an immunity to electrical shocks and again became a great help to Olimar in repaying his company's massive debt.

In Other Games
Yellow Pikmin appear in the Pikmin 1 Card Set. As this is before they forgot how to use bomb-rocks, they have a similar card to Bomb-Rock Pikmin (explosion damage; a counter; high attack). In other sets, they are more like red and blue pikmin, with just a resistance to electricity.

In Pikmin 4, yellow pikmin reappear along with every other original type of pikmin

Pikmin 3 (Flish addition)

They are now immune to acids, making them perfect for fighting acid using enemies such as the Vomiting Blowhog.

Yellow Pikmin can still be thrown high, carry Bomb-Rocks, and are immune to electric.

Pikmin 1
The Yellow Pikmin in Pikmin 1 are the ancestors of the Yellow Pikmin in Pikmin 2 and the. They have large ears which allow them to be thrown farther, also they have the ability to carry bomb-rocks and are immune to elecricity. Besides its two sub-species, this species of Pikmin is extinct.

Pikmin 2
When the Yellow Pikmin evolved some stayed yellow, lost the ability to carry bomb-rocks, but gained the resistance to electricity. These are the yellow Pikmin that Olimar and Louie encounter in Pikmin 2.