Gargantuar Prime


 * For other variants of Gargantuar, see Gargantuar.

Gargantuar Prime is a special variant of Gargantuar in Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. Although it has the same health as the other types of Gargantuar, it also has the abilities to shoot lasers that tend to incinerate a plant or two. Also, since it is a robot, it is temporarily shut down by E.M.Peach.

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Gargantuar Prime

Has it all: heavy armor, laser eyes, smashing arms, and Bug Bot deployment system.

Damage: crushes plants with arms

Damage: randomly burns tiles with laser eyes

Special: launches Bug Bot when damaged

The imp pilots of the Gargantuar Prime series are handpicked by Dr. Zomboss himself. They are the imp elite. The small, the mean, and the fearless! But mostly the ones who drive a stick shift.

Appearance

 * Far Future: Day 8, Day 12, Day 19, Day 22, Day 25, Terror from Tomorrow

Strategies
Gargantuar Primes are easier to kill than the others. When it launches its Bug Bot Imp, use a Blover to blow it away. Unlike all Gargantuars, this variation will use its laser to kill your plants in one hit, so avoid use expensive plants like Winter Melon, as he might burn them to a crisp with his laser eyes. Use an E.M. Peach to disable it. Citrons with Plant Food will insta-kill Gargantuar Prime. Just make sure no other machines are in front of it. One Gargantuar Prime can be deadly but fifteen to thirty of this in a lawn paired with ten to twenty Mecha-Football Zombies can cause havocs on your lawn, emptying everything. You will have to make use of E.M.Peaches and Iceberg Lettuces (especially if the Iceberg Lettuce is boosted), then you can concentrate on weakening it. Avoid using Jalapenos rather, use Cherry Bombs while they are disabled.

Trivia

 * This is the first Gargantuar to have a two special attacks. One is incinerating a plant and the other one smashes a plant.
 * It is the first Gargantuar to smash the plant twice.
 * This is because it wishes to ensure that plants like Wall-nuts, Tall-nuts, and Infi-nuts cannot survive another hit. This only works with Plant Food though.
 * Its name is a parody of Optimus Prime, the main protagonist of Transformers series.
 * This is the first Gargantuar to have two Imps. One being the pilot of the mech and the other one deployed on last resort purpose which is the Bug Bot Imp.
 * It is the only Gargantuar so far not to lose its head..
 * The Gargantuar Prime is the only Gargantuar to have stiff speed (the others are "hungry").
 * The arms of a Gargantuar Prime resemble the telephone pole the Gargantuar carried in the original game.
 * While there was only one telephone pole carried in the original game, the design was implemented to both arms of the Gargantuar Prime.
 * Gargantuar Prime is the only Gargantuar to appear in levels other than Day 8, Day 25 and Endless Zones.
 * It's laser eyes can burn other zombies that touch it.