Archmage Zombie

 (大法师僵尸; pinyin: dà fǎshī jiāngshī) is a zombie encountered in Dark Ages in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2. It shoots projectiles from it's staff at the player's plants every 12 seconds to cause them to fall sleep, rendering them useless. The attack affects plants in a 3x3 area. A Coffee Bean, on the other hand can counter the ability, waking the plants up in a 3x3 radius.

Strategy
This is an extremely dangerous zombie that must be defeated as soon as possible, as it will make your plants asleep in a 3X3 area and these plants do not wake up on their own, unlike Wizard Zombie whose magic fades upon its destruction. Use a Coffee Bean to awaken plants that are made asleep by this zombie, but you may not always have enough slots for one if you did not purchase the 8th slot, and large numbers of this zombie can make your plants asleep faster than you can awaken. Like the Wizard Zombie it is very slow as well which gives time for it to bombard your plants, and also ensures faster zombies protect it. If in problem, use an instant kill such as a level 2 or higher Jalapeno to kill all of the zombies in a column. Wake up your plants with Plant Food if you did not bring Coffee Bean.

Just like the Wizard Zombie, it does not eat plants, so Hypno-shrooms and Chili Beans are useless against it. Due to its slow speed, close range plants such as Snapdragons are ineffective against them and will be neutralized before it can come into their range.

Oak Archery
Use level 2 arrows to take them out. It has more toughness and does more damage than the Wizard Zombie.

Trivia

 * There is a glitch when an puts a Fire Gourd to sleep and the player taps it, Fire Gourd will still breathe fire, but it does not deal any damage.
 * 's attire and power allude the Disney villain Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, and the recent live action film with the same name as the character.
 * is the second zombie to use magic to bypass the player's defenses. The first one is the closely related Wizard Zombie.
 * It appears to have a bone sticking out from its left arm.