Pogo Zombie

Pogo Zombies hop over the player's plant unless its pogo stick is taken by a Magnet-shroom or runs into a Tall-nut. The Pogo Zombie is similar to Pole Vaulting Zombies except that they will continue jumping over the player's plants after their first jump. Fortunately, they cannot jump over Roof Cleaners or Lawn Mowers. Like the Pole Vaulting Zombie, this zombie is faster than normal while it has its pogo stick.

Suburban Almanac Entry
 Pogo Zombie  Pogo Zombie hops to bypass your defenses. Toughness: medium. Special: hops over plants. Weakness: Magnet-shroom.

"Sproing! Sproing! Sproing!" That's the sound of a powerful and effective zombie doing what he does best.

Strategy
Tall-nuts will stop these zombies cold, and Magnet-shrooms will take away their pogo stick, causing them to act like a normal zombie. Squash are a good final line of defense, as they will take the Pogo Zombie out even as it tries to jump over.

The Split Pea, Starfruit and the Gloom-shroom are also useful against the Pogo Zombie, as the Split Pea and Starfruit shoot behind themselves after the Pogo Zombie jumps over them, and two Gloom-shrooms deal enough damage to kill them while the zombies are attempting to jump. This can be more effective than Tall-nuts or Magnet-shrooms, as Magnet-shrooms must recharge before being used again, and Tall-nuts will wear out after enough zombies bite it.

Like most other Zombies, Pogo Zombies can also be destroyed by plants such as Cherry Bombs, Jalapenos, and Doom-shrooms. They will never appear in a pool lane, but can appear in any setting (Day, Night, Pool, etc).


 * Note: Butter and Ice-shrooms cannot stop Pogo Zombies with pogo sticks.

Pogo Party Mini-game
In this Roof level, you will encounter mostly Pogo Zombies. You will probably need Tall-nuts and Imitater Tall-nuts, and possibly Squash, but just use a regular Roof level strategy aside from that.

Trivia

 * The Pogo Zombie is 1 of the few zombies (along with Dr. Zomboss and the Zomboni) that aren't affected by Butter.
 * It also cannot be frozen solid by Ice-shrooms while it has its pogo stick, but can be slowed down.
 * The Pogo Zombie is the only Vaulting Zombie that can jump over plants more than once.
 * The Pogo Zombie is the only zombie to have a minigame exclusively about it as it is featured in the Pogo Party minigame.