Slimamander

is the first Boss Yo-kai of the series.

In Yo-kai Watch 2, Slimamander can be befriended, and is a Fire-attribute Rare Yo-kai of the Shady tribe. Introduced as Rank B, this form was promoted to Rank A with Yo-kai Watch Busters.

The Yo-kai Medallium bio reads: "A huge, snakelike Yo-kai with three bigmouthed heads and skin thicker than an elephant's. Aim for the eye in its mouth!"

Appearance
Slimamander appears as a three-headed creature resembling a reptile, with purple warty skin and blue lips with appendages resembling eyelashes on each of its mouths. Each mouth also sports a long drooling tongue, and out of any of them its single eye may pop out. It has thick legs with four digits on each foot, and a purple liquid seeps out of its body.

Personality
In Japanese, Slimamander ends all sentences with "gyoro" (ギョロ).

Stats
(This is the moveset of Yo-kai Watch 2: Ganso and Honke 's friend form)

YW 2
Slimamander-Attacker

Kon (Soul)
Slimamander's soul-When the yo-kai having this is in the middle, their strength raises. Defeat by attacking the exposed eye.

Yo-kai Watch 2
Complete the quest "The Destroyed Barrier" to be able to battle Slimamander once a day outside of Springdale Elementary.

Strategy
The only way to damage Slimamander is to target the mouth in which its eye resides. The method to do this is to damage the heads until they open their mouth; therefore Soultimate Moves that attack multiple targets are extremely helpful.

After a while, Slimamander will close its open mouths and reposition its eye, requiring you to repeat the above pattern.

Quotes

 * Loafing: "Gyororo-n"

Origin
Slimamander may be based on the, a snake-like youkai with a thick, hairy body resembling a mallet in shape, and no features on its head save for a large mouth (though sometimes, nozuchi have tiny eyes). It feeds on small wildlife and travels down the mountains it inhabits by biting on its tail and tumbling down slopes. It's very aggressive towards humans, and will roll down onto anyone disturbing its nest and inflict a nasty, painful bite on them.

This youkai is one of Japan's most ancient youkai species, being among the first mentioned in recorded history, though the nozuchi is considered to be more of a mountain kami than an actual youkai.

Name Origin

 * "Slimamander" is a portmanteau of slime and salamander.
 * "Mitsumata-nozuchi" translates as.

In other languages

 * Japanese: ミツマタノヅチ Mitsumata-nozuchi
 * Korean: 삼두 구렁이 Samdu Gureongi
 * Italian: Trisalamandra