Explorer Zombie

The Explorer Zombie is a zombie in Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. It holds a torch that burns any plant it gets close to. Iceberg Lettuces, Snow Peas and Winter Melons can extinguish the torch, but Snapdragons and fire peas can relight it again.

Almanac Entry
TOUGHNESS: Solid

SPEED: Hungry

Carries a torch that can instantly destroy your plants.

SPECIAL: Torch destroys plant on contact.

WEAKNESS: Cold attacks extinguish torch.

His impressive friendly mutton chops has always kept food in them for weeks, making sure his explorations are filled with snacks.

Overview
Explorer Zombie takes 12 normal damage shots. It loses its arm at 6 shots before dying at 12 shots.

Appearances
Tutorial: Piñata Party

Ancient Egypt: Day 6, 10, 11, Save Our Seeds II, Locked and Loaded II, Last Stand II and III, Pyramid of Doom

Strategies
Iceberg Lettuce, Winter Melon and Snow Pea are good plants to use against it since it extinguishes its flame. Wall-nut and Tall-nut don't work since the Explorer Zombie can burn it, even if it has been upgraded by Plant Food. In the worst case scenario, using two Plant Food on Cabbage-pult can kill every Explorer Zombie on the screen, and deal high damage to other zombies, and Plant Food on any other plant may kill it as it has low health. The Iceberg Lettuce's Plant Food upgrade also extinguishes all torches on the game screen.

Using Snapdragons in the same lane as the Zombie is a very bad idea since the Snapdragon can unfreeze it and even re-light its flame. Also the Snapdragon only has a close-range attack, so it won't get very many shots in before it is killed.

Trivia

 * If the Explorer Zombie meets a Potato Mine with his torch still alight, it will walk past it without burning it.
 * Explorer Zombie, Zombie Parrot, and Gargantuar are the only zombies in Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time which can take down a Tall-nut immediately.
 * If the Explorer Zombie is buttered, its flame will freeze, but still be lit.