Oatchi

This article relates to the official games. See Pikipedia's "Oatchi" article for more official information.

For other types of Oatchi, see Oatchi (disambiguation).

Oatchi
Name	Oatchi
Gender	Male
Age	Not specified (pup)
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Golden
Home planet	Giya
Known related characters	Erma Sherpherd, Rescue Officer

Oatchi is a space dog part of the Rescue Corps. He serves as a companion to leaders, assisting them as a mode of transportation, working like a Pikmin and performing other specialized tasks, and even acting as a leader when necessary. He has golden fur with orange spots and other features, a narrow tail that ends in a white tuft, two legs and floppy ears, a red collar, blue eyes, and no visible nose. His breed has long served the Shepherd family, and he obeyed only Erma Shepherd, the captain of the Rescue Corps, until the Rescue Officer appeared. Like his owner, he is from the planet Giya. Despite being born light-years apart from each other, Oatchi and Moss are both stated to descend from the PNF-404 native Ancient Sirehound, which Olimar believes suggests something deeper about the nature of their universe.

While Oatchi is the active leader, any leaders in the squad will ride atop him and any Pikmin in the squad will ride on his hips. Additionally, he can call leaders and Pikmin to him with a bark, and throw them and some items by grabbing them in his mouth and flinging them. While traversing the landscape, Oatchi can also hop up short ledges that leaders and Pikmin can't alone.

If Oatchi is hurt by an enemy attack, or a hazard he is not immune to from an upgrade, he will take damage. Additionally, he suffers from hazards in much the same way Pikmin do, running around in a panic with his tail engulfed by the hazard and his health steadily dropping until he is whistled. If his health is fully depleted, he will be knocked out, and be unusable for the rest of the day or night.

Should he have enough drive, as indicated by pup drives, Oatchi can be trained to learn new skills or improve those he already knows, but he will also learn certain unique skills as time goes on. The five skills already part of Oatchi's skillset are as follows: buff, how strong Oatchi is in terms of carrying capacity; chomp, how much damage Oatchi does with each bite; rush, with which Oatchi can sprint forward after a short preparation period; dig, allowing Oatchi to excavate buried objects; and command, which allows Oatchi to pick up scents, navigate a path automatically through the environment, and gather any stray Pikmin. Additionally, Oatchi is capable of learning to temporarily swallow objects larger than raw materials, how to swim in water by doggy-paddling, how to pluck Pikmin, and how to recover any health he may have lost. Each skill has its own intricacies and uses. Each skill also improves in different ways, if it can be improved, but typically by simply making Oatchi faster and stronger, overall increasing his performance.

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