Grass Knuckles


 * For other uses, see Bonk Choy (disambiguation).

"My spies tell me Grass Knuckles has been putting his fighters through a rigorous training regimens. Expect to face off against tough Plants ready to get buff!"

- Dr. Zomboss

Grass Knuckles is the plant hero in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes. Grass Knuckles leads the and  plants against the zombies. Grass Knuckles's signature superpower is Power Pummel. It allows him to attack for 2 damage in every ground lane, but not the aquatic or roof lanes. If there is no zombie on a ground lane, the zombie hero will receive the damage.

Origins
His name is a portmanteau of "grass," a name that refers to many species of plants in the family Poaceae and "brass knuckles," weapons that fit around the knuckles and are used in hand-to-hand combat.

Statistics

 * Classes: ,
 * Superpowers:
 * Signature: Power Pummel - Attack for 2 damage in each Ground lane.
 * Other:
 * Holo-Flora
 * Time to Shine
 * Root Wall
 * Boss Fights:
 * Zombie Mission 06: A Fight to the Finish Line
 * Zombie Mission 14: The Foe with the Furious Fists
 * Zombie Mission 27: Grass Knuckles Strikes Back
 * Zombie Mission 38: Kick Grass!

Hero description
''He's the best at what he does... and what he does is punching!''

With
Grass Knuckles can use Mega-Grow tricks such as Fertilize to boost up what are usually non-attacking plants such as Wall-Nuts to make them able to attack the zombies. His signature superpower, Power Pummel, is useful to take down weak zombies in the ground lanes or to deal 0-10 damage to the zombie hero (depends on how many ground lanes without zombies are in the lawn). Additionally, if one would put a deadly plant such as Doubled Mint behind a high health plant like Water Chestnut, it will be very difficult to take this hero out. Another good strategy to use with Grass Knuckles is buffing plants with Bullseye such as Sting Bean, Cactus or Jugger-Nut and then having them do bonus attacks by using Time to Shine or Plant Food to be able to deal large amounts of damage to the zombie hero without charging their Super-Block Meter.

Trivia

 * He could be based on the concept of Grass Knuckles from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures.
 * The punching bag that appears on the comic strip after the player receives Grass Knuckles has the face of the Balloon that the Balloon Zombie uses.
 * In the first comic strip the player receives, it shows that a peashooter and three other plants get turned into heroes at the same time, as one of them is Grass Knuckles.
 * However, Grass Knuckles has his own individual comic strip, in a different manner than how he was transformed.
 * Some of his idling and worrying animation is based off the drawings of it in Chinese Plants vs. Zombies Comics.
 * In the strip where the player receives Grass Knuckles, he is shown to be in the same Bonk Choy Boxing place in one of the extra comics.