Chippopotamus

Chippopotamus
Chippopotamus must have the worst glands in the entire animal kingdom. I mean, they don't eat a lot, not really, but you never see a slim one.
Level	8
Base Value	3600 coins
Housing	Chippopotamus Home
Animal	Hippopotamus
Candy	Chocolate chip
Attack Type	Mud pies

A Chippopotamus is a blue hippo piñata.

Appearance

The Chippopotomus is a large, boxy blue hippopotamus piñata. Its large head is about half of its entire height, and its mouth protrudes by a large distance. It has large eyes with green irises and a purple border. A yellow pattern is on its ears and hands. Its lower body is a lighter shade of blue than its head.

Requirements (Original)

Appear Requirements

• Have 400 square pinometers of water (40%).

Visit Requirements

• Have 500 square pinometers of water (50%).
• Have 14 watercresses or 14 water lilies or 14 bullrushes in the garden.

Resident Requirements

• Have 600 square pinometers of water (60%).
• Has eaten 10 water lilies.
• Has eaten 10 watercresses.
• Has eaten 10 bullrushes.

Romance Requirements

• Have 700 square pinometers of water (70%).
• You have the Candary Master Romancer award.
• Have 1 Candary in the garden.
• Has eaten 4 birds of paradise.
• Have a Chippopotamus house in your garden.

Variant 1 Requirements (Green)

• Feeding it a watercress and a mushroom changes its color to green.

Variant 2 Requirements (Purple)

• Feeding it a water lily seed and a bird of paradise changes its color to purple.

Variant 3 Requirements (Pink)

• Feeding it a jar of blackberry jam and a bottle of medicine changes its color to pink.

Requirements (Trouble in Paradise)

Appearance Requirements

• Have 40 square pinometers of water (40%).

Visit Requirements

• Have 50 square pinometers of water (50%).
• Have 9 bullrushes or 9 watercress plants or 9 water lilies in the garden

Resident Requirements

• Have 60 square pinometers of water (60%).
• Has eaten 9 water lilies.
• Has eaten 9 watercresses.
• Has eaten 9 bullrushes.

Romance Requirements

• Have 70 square pinometers of water (70%).
• You have the Candary Master Romancer award.
• Have 1 Candary in the garden.
• Has eaten 4 birds of paradise.
• Have a Chippopotamus house in your garden

Variant 1 Requirements (Green)

• Feeding it a mushroom changes its color to green.

Variant 2 Requirements (Purple)

• Feeding it a water lily seed changes its color to purple.

Variant 3 Requirements (Pink)

• Feeding it a jar of blackberry jam changes its color to pink

Trick Requirements

• Has eaten a Watercress Seed.
• Has eaten a Bullrush Seed.

Wildcard Variants

• Long ears
• Long tail
• Nostril bumps

Requirements (Trouble in Paradise - Just for Fun)

• Attract it by having a 10 square pinometers of water in the garden.

Requirements (Pocket Paradise)

Appear

• Have 100 square pinometers of water (10%).

Visit

• Have 300 pinometers of water (30%).
• Have 3 Watercress plants in the garden.
• Have 3 Water Lily plants in the garden.
• Have 3 Bullrush plants in the garden.

Resident

• Have 400 pinometers of water (40%).
• Has eaten 1 Waterlily flower.
• Has eaten 1 Watercress flower.
• Has eaten 1 Bullrush head.

Romance

• Have 500 pinometers of water (50%).
• You have the Candary Master Romancer Award.
• Have 1 variant Candary in the garden.
• Has eaten 4 Bird of Paradise flowers.
• Have a Chippopotamus house in the garden.

Variant (Pink)

• Has eaten a jar of Jam.

Chippopotamus Uses

• Eating 1 Chippopotamus helps to meet the Tigermisu's Romance requirements. (Pocket Paradise)

Species Conflicts

Eats

• None

Eaten by

• Roario
• Tigermisu

Scared of

• Roario (Avoids gardens if resident)
• Tigermisu

Rivals

• Pigxie

Other Information

Huge and valuable, the Chippopatamus is the argument for running multiple gardens at once. Requiring a huge amount of water to be in the garden, it is tough to plan for one of these beasts in your primary area, trying to get ‘em next to all your cute and cuddly land-based piñatas. They’re extremely annoying and complex to get, but they’re worth it in the end.

It is more of a pipe dream to get a resident Chippopatamus in a garden before getting both Land Upgrades, due to the massive amount of water required, and only 56 percent of available space can be modified with only one upgrade, and even less with no upgrades. Both upgrades are required to start romancing a Chippopotamus, because it requires 60% of the garden to be water.

Even after getting both upgrades, it is time consuming to modify the garden to have 50% or 60%+ water using the shovel. Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise has an upgrade which allows for marking off larger zones of terrain to be dug up for a pond or filled in with dirt at once, though due to the limited area for the selection, it is still somewhat time consuming.

In the classic version of Viva Pinata, the water flower requirements won't pop up as you get the right number of deep water in the garden for the Visit Requirements and the Resident Requirements, unless you got the right number amounts of the 3 water flowers (Watercresses, Water lillies or Bullrushes) 14 of each in the garden for the Visit Requirements and 10 for the Resident Requirements, this is a glitch. Also, the three pictures of the water flowers for the visit requirements are all mismatched, this is also a glitch.

Chippopotamus are happier when sprinkled with water.

Frequently Asked Questions

I've spent days and days trying to get a Chippopotamus to be a resident with no luck. Is this a glitch?

Like the Elephanilla (see answer), this is another pinata that takes time to reside. As with any pinata that needs multiple visits, it's important to keep in mind that you probably won't get exactly the same Chippopotamus, the next time a wild one visits your garden.

Always make sure to maintain well more than 14 watercress or 14 Water Lillies or 14 Bullrush in the garden, and replant the ones it eats. If its Visit requirements are no longer met, it will leave the garden early, drawing out the number of visits needed.

If you've got a visitor that only needs to meet one or two more requirements, try not to distract it with other items that it no longer is required to eat. One tip is to whack the plants that a particular visitor needs to eat, and move the flower heads near where he visits/eats, to help speed things along. This way, it will hopefully eat more of what it needs to eat, instead of randomly devouring whatever it's fond of.

Ultimately, patience is the key, while you pay attention to its needs, and keep your garden well-planted. (Either that, or you could pay someone off to ship you one.)

In the TV Series

In the TV series, Chippopotamus characters stand up like a biped matching the official artwork, unlike in the game where they walk on four legs.

Chortles Chippopotamus

Chortles Chippopotamus.

Chortles Chippopotamus is a major character in the Viva Piñata TV series. He is a gardener who is aided by Cecil Cocoadile who fertilizes his plants with Cocoadile Tears.

Shiraishi Chippopotamus

Shiraishi Chippopotamus.

Shiraishi Chippopotamus is a minor character in the Viva Piñata TV series who is a sumo wrestler. Drumstick Chippopotamus is his assistant and junior apprentice.

Drumstick Chippopotamus

Drumstick Chippopotamus.

Drumstick Chippopotamus is a minor character in the Viva Piñata TV series who is a sumo wrestler. He is Shiraishi Chippopotamus's assistant and junior apprentice.

Trivia

• The Chippopotamus that blocks Goobaas from entering the garden in Trouble in Paradise is fully colored despite being a Wild Piñata not owned by the player.

Gallery

Green variant

Purple variant

Pink variant

To see all pictures and videos about this topic, see Chippopotamus/Gallery.