Haughty Aristocrab

The Haughty Aristocrab is a species of onionshell that can eat and crush Pikmin.

In Pikmin: Dimensional Breach
The Haughty Aristocrab is an onionshell that appears in Pikmin: Dimensional Breach and is fought on the final floor of the Onionshell Nest, a dungeon in the Perplexing Tropics. However, every day after day thirty, if the Onionshell Nest has been completed, the Haughty Aristocrab has a one in seven chance to appear in the same area where the Yellow Onion was found.

Like many aristocrabs, the Haughty Aristocrab is best fought using mainly a single type of Pikmin; in this case, Yellow Pikmin. It has two large, fleshy claws it uses to grab and hold Pikmin before eating them, but dealing continuous damage to the claws will force the creature to drop any Pikmin it's holding. Once it has used its eating Pikmin attack, either having successfully eaten Pikmin or been stopped, it will jump away from the active captain and spit a volley of three to five balls of lightning, electrifying any Pikmin that aren't Yellow Pikmin. When approached, the Haughty Aristocrab will hoist itself into the air, similar to other aristocrabs dodging a ; in this state, only Yellow or Winged Pikmin will be able to reach it. If Pikmin are charged at the Haughty Aristocrab, it will not only dodge the charge but counter by slamming its body down onto the swarm, crushing the unlucky Pikmin that tried to swarm it. Finally, after losing one-third of its health, the Haughty Aristocrab will jump into the center of the arena and spit a stream of lightning in a circle; Yellow Pikmin will be fine, but any other Pikmin should hide behind the rocks near the edges of the arena for protection.

Upon dying, the Haughty Aristocrab will drop the, which the S.S. Dolphin II will refine into a new. Its corpse can also be carried back to the ship for an easy, the most valuable of any corpse.