Swashbuckler Zombie

Swashbuckler Zombie is the sixth zombie and is the first new pirate zombie that is encountered in the Pirate Seas in Plants vs. Zombies 2 and Plants vs. Zombies Online. He swings onto the player's lawn up to four rows (five in Plants vs. Zombies Online). He occasionally falls into the ocean, but this happens very rarely. A Blover can blow all Swashbuckler Zombies that have not yet stepped into the lawn.

Almanac entry
TOUGHNESS: Average SPEED: Basic

Swings in on a rope to lane midway onto your lawn.

Special: lands four tiles into your lawn

He swashes. He buckles. But, he also writes home every third Sunday and sends brains and treasure via post. He's a good zombie at heart.

Overview
Swashbuckler Zombie takes 9.25 normal damage shots. He loses his arm at 4.75 shots and before dying at 9.25 shots.

Appearances
Player's House: Piñata Party

Pirate Seas: Dead Man's Booty and all levels except Days 2, 3, 11, 22, and 23

Strategies
Be careful when you see a Swashbuckler Zombie behind the docks. Put a Potato Mine behind the last spot where the Swashbuckler Zombie is about to land, but put it before he appears. Like the regular Zombie, he takes nine and a half hits to defeat. To make sure to keep him away from land, use a plant such as Kernel-pult's butter to stun him and make him fall into the ocean or a Coconut Cannon to fire its projectile at the swinging zombie. However, the projectiles must be timed carefully. Lightning Reed is also very effective, if you have many of them, as they can take him down very fast. But of all the best plants you could make use of to eliminate it instantly especially in large numbers is none other than to use Blovers. However, keep in mind that they are airborne only while swinging. Therefore, use Blover only when they are swinging, but stay alert as you need to be very fast in placing Blover in Dead Man's Booty.

In higher levels of Dead Man's Booty, specifically from 160 onwards, you have to speed up the repetitive use of Blovers to repel Swashbuckler Zombies because a certain level there may occur a consecutive Raiding Parties per wave. You might also want to use Chard Guard to throw a lot of them at a time into the water.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies 2

 * In one square, for every time a wave is triggered, there will be eight Swashbuckler Zombies that will perform an ambush through the course of the wave in higher levels of Dead Man's Booty.
 * Swashbuckler Zombie has a chance of not landing on the lawn, failing his attempt and automatically falling into the ocean, killing him instantly. However, this is rare.
 * Swashbuckler Zombie was one of the six zombies to get a new christmas look for the 5 Days of Festivus, along with Pianist Zombie, Camel Zombies, Poncho Zombie, Gargantuar, and Imp.
 * To know when a Swashbuckler Zombie is going to fall into the ocean, his legs will swing when swashbuckling. He will also have the rope behind him when he falls.
 * Swashbuckler Zombie cannot be frozen by Iceberg Lettuce's Plant Food attack while swashbuckling.
 * Swashbuckler Zombie is the only zombie who uses the modern world groan from Plants vs. Zombies.
 * However, in Pinata Party, regardless of what period the zombie came, be it Egyptian, Pirate, Western, or Medieval, they will use the modern zombie groan.
 * Before the 2.3 update, when killed by instant-kill plants while swinging, the Swashbuckler Zombie will die normally. The same goes with robot zombies, Jetpack Zombie, Disco Jetpack Zombie, Zombie King, and Fisherman Zombie.
 * When he is stunned by the Chili Bean's gas while swinging, he will stop swinging for a while.
 * Swashbuckler Zombie can still be blown away by Blover and/or Hurrikale right after he lands.
 * Swashbuckler Zombie and Lost Pilot Zombie are the only zombies that appear during ambushes only.
 * Relic Hunter Zombie acts in a practically identical manner to the Swashbuckler Zombie. The only difference is that this zombie lands on the 5th tile, while Relic Hunter Zombie can land on the 4-6th tile, and he is stronger than the Swashbuckler Zombie.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies Online

 * He lands five tiles instead of four.
 * This is because lawn in this game have 10 columns as opposed to 9 columns.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars

 * He attacks plants by swinging through them on a rope.