Editing Stalking Piranha Plant

|image=[[File:StalkingPPlantNSMBW.png|200x200px]]<br>Model from ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''

|variant_of=[[Ptooie]]

|variants=[[Fire Stalking Piranha Plant]]<br>[[Trottin' Piranha Plant]]

|relatives=[[Elasto-Piranha]]

'''Stalking Piranha Plants''' are [[List of enemies|enemies]] introduced in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''. They are [[Piranha Plant]]s that often have the ability to stretch their necks and walk around, not unlike [[Elasto-Piranha]]s in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'', though they are designed more closely to [[Ptooie]]s. At some point, even, in various official social media posts, [[Nintendo]] consistently misidentified the Ptooies in the {{classic-link|GBA|Riverside Park}} course in ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' as Stalking Piranha Plants.<ref>{{cite|language=en-gb|author=@NintendoUK|date=March 8, 2023|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20230308153658/https://twitter.com/NintendoUK/status/1633467611026534400|title=Time to make a splash! Dodge the Stalking Piranha Plants and burst through the waterfall of Mario Kart: Super Circuit’s Riverside Park, coming in Wave 4 of the #MarioKart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass.|publisher=X|accessdate=March 8, 2023}}</ref> These mistakes were later corrected.<ref>{{cite|language=en-gb|author=@NintendoUK|date=March 9, 2023|url=x.com/NintendoUK/status/1633844655459827715|title=Looks like we need to brush up on our botany! Thanks for letting us know that we got our Stalking Piranha Plants and Ptooies mixed up when we originally posted this.|publisher=X|accessdate=March 9, 2023}}</ref>

Stalking Piranha Plants are enemies in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''. They appear only in [[World 5-1 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 5-1]], [[World 6-3 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 6-3]], and the World 5 [[Enemy Course]]. When the player characters are not nearby, they walk around on two legs, like [[Ptooie]]s, and when the player characters approach a Stalking Piranha Plant, it stretches out its necks up and downwards, attempting to block their path. These enemies can be defeated by a [[fireball]], a [[Super Star|Star]], or a [[shell]], or by being [[Ground Pound|ground-pound]]ed when frozen by an [[iceball]]. Like most Piranha Plants, these enemies cannot be picked up when frozen.

[[File:NSLU Rising Piranhas Screenshot.jpg|thumb|left|Screenshot from ''New Super Luigi U'']]

Stalking Piranha Plants are enemies in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'' and their [[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe|shared port]]. They act the same as they did in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''. They appear as rare enemies in [[Bramball Woods]] and are much more common in [[Walking Piranha Plants!]] and [[Rising Piranhas]].

 

In ''New Super Luigi U'', they appear in [[Spinning Sandstones]] and [[Rising Piranhas]].

Stalking Piranha Plants are enemies in ''[[Yoshi's Woolly World]]'' and [[Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World|its port]], being made of yarn and ribbon. They mainly appear in the level [[Naval Piranha's Sewer]]. In this game, if the stalk of the plant is hit, then the head will fall down next to the body, and the two will rejoin each other shortly after. When the head and body rejoin, a sound plays similar to that of a Dry Bones' regeneration sound. Attacking the head will permanently defeat the Stalking Piranha Plant. They attack similarly to how they attack in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''.

In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', Piranha Plant has an attack where it stretches its stem to bite distanced opponents, which is based off of Stalking Piranha Plants and [[Elasto-Piranha]]s. On [[Palutena's Temple]], Stalking Piranha Plants (just called '''Stalking Piranhas''') are mentioned briefly by {{iw|icaruspedia|Viridi}} during [[List of Palutena's Guidance conversations|Palutena's Guidance]] dialogue for [[Piranha Plant#Super Smash Bros. Ultimate|Piranha Plant]].

 

 

===Names in other languages===

|JapM=「テクテク」is an onomatopoeia meaning "to walk trudgingly", and「パックン」is from the Japanese name of [[Piranha Plant#Names in other languages|Piranha Plant]]; following the naming of「フーフーパックン」(''Fūfū Pakkun'', [[Ptooie#Names in other languages|Ptooie]])

|Fre=Plante Piranha errante (''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia]]'')

|FreM=Errant Piranha Plant

|FreA=Plante Piranha chasseuse

|FreAM=Huntress Piranha Plant

|FreE=Plante Piranha trotteuse

|FreEM=Trotter Piranha Plant

|PorE=Piranha-Lapa<ref>{{cite|language=pt-pt|accessdate=August 9, 2024|publisher=YouTube|author=Canal New Super Mario Bros. U|date=April 4th, 2013|url=youtu.be/yS7CazJosu0|title=''New Super Mario Bros. U'' - Desafios: Perigo em Corrente (Wii U)}}</ref>