How to Get Captain Olimar

Captain Olimar is the main character of the Pikmin series and drives the story in Pikmin 4 by needing a rescue. Read on to find out who is Captain Olimar, how to get him, what features he unlocks, and his role in Pikmin 4 and the rest of the game series.

How to Get Captain Olimar

Complete Rescue Olimar Main Mission

Rescue Olimar is a main mission in Pikmin 4 and is what drives the game's story. It includes a series of objectives that will have the player explore several areas in succession. The mission is acquired from Shepherd at the beginning of the game, after the tutorials.

Rescue Olimar Main Mission Guide

Who is Captain Olimar?

Olimar's Roles
Captain of the SS Dolphin Provides Oatchi's Swallow Ability Provides Olimar's Shipwreck Tale Side Story Protagonist of Pikmin Series

Captain of the SS Dolphin

Olimar

Hocotate Freight Employee Home Planet: Hocotate A hard worker and family man who often sacrifices his time off to support his family. He also seems to be a magnet for bad luck.

In Pikmin 4, Captain Olimar gets stranded on a mysterious planet with Pikmin and a dog-like creature called Moss. After sending a distress signal and retrieving all the parts of his spaceship, the SS Dolphin, Moss sneaks aboard and falls seriously ill.

Realizing Moss can't survive outside the planet, Olimar tries to return but crashes again, and it's up to the player to rescue him.

Provides Oatchi the Swallow Ability

After rescuing and curing Captain Olimar, you can find him next to his spaceship at the Rescue Command Post. Talk to him, and he will teach Oatchi the Swallow skill that allows our rescue pup to store an object in his belly to transport it on his own.

Swallow Effect and How to Unlock

Provides Olimar's Shipwreck Tale Side Story

After rescuing Captain Olimar, you can talk to him at the Rescue Command Post to unlock Olimar's Shipwreck Tale. This is a post-game side story in Pikmin 4, where you relive Olimar's adventure after he crashes into PNF-404. The side story will have the player control Captain Olimar as he tries to find ship parts and repair the SS Dolphin.

Olimar's Shipwreck Tale Guide

Protagonist of Pikmin Series

Captain Olimar is the main protagonist of the Pikmin series and appears in all iterations of the game. He even represents the series as a character in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

Can You Play as Captain Olimar?

During Tutorial and Olimar's Shipwreck Tale

Tutorial

Olimar's Shipwreck Tale

In Pikmin 4, you will be able to play as Captain Olimar at two points in the game. The first is during the tutorials, which also act as the game's prologue, setting up the story. The second is after completing the Rescue Olimar main mission. This unlocks Olimar's Shipwreck Tale, which retells Olimar's troubles repairing his ship and trying to get off the planet.

Pikmin 4 Related Guides

List of All Characters

Hocotate Freight Employees

Hocotate Freight Employees
Captain Olimar	Louie

Rescue Corps Officers

Rescue Corps Officer
Oatchi	Shepherd	Collin
Russ	Dingo	Yonny
Bernard	-	-

Civilian Castaways

Civilian Castaways
Schnauz	Dalmo	Kingsly
Francois	Pitunia	Puddle
Mika	Sy	Dash
Corgwin	Jin	Chet
Sheeba	Muggs	Keesh
Osa	Frise	Kaia
Vonda	Patch	Chewy
Twyla	Don Bergman	Bernise
Yorke	Horatio	Nelle
Molly	Santi	Kayz
Kit	Komo	Alpin
Chowder	Lapi	Sammy
Wolfgang	Ren	Boris
Grace	Fawks	Beaux