Ice Weasel

"It is true, weasels are pesky."

- Plants vs. Zombies Facebook

Ice Weasel is the twelfth zombie encountered in Frostbite Caves in Plants vs. Zombies 2. The Weasel Hoarder releases these when damaged to rush at plants. They can run over sliders without switching lanes. Lightning Reeds, Laser Beans, Fume-shrooms, Ghost Peppers, and Spikerocks are good ways to deal with them.

Almanac entry
TOUGHNESS: Fragile SPEED: Flighty

Once released, weasels run full speed even over ice floes to nibble your brains.

Skweek-ka-REE!

Overview
An Ice Weasel absorbs 2 normal damage shots. It is slightly slower than a Zombie Chicken and has no degrades.

Appearances
Player's House: Piñata Party

Frostbite Caves: Days 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30, and Icebound Battleground

Strategies
If you see a Weasel Hoarder in the seed selection screen, be sure to bring at least Lightning Reed, Fume-shroom, Laser Bean or Spikerock in your seed slots. Although Lightning Reeds' lightning will go through multiple weasels and they attack fast, Laser Beans can instantly kill all Ice Weasels in a lane as their damage per individual laser beam is the same as a Ice Weasel's health. Fume-shrooms are cheap for preparing the defense fast, and they have a slightly faster firing rate than Laser Beans. It is also recommended to put Wall-nuts in front of the sliders, due to the fact that weasels will run over sliders. Anything you'd do to defeat Zombie Chickens is recommended here, but don't treat them as easy as the chickens as they have 8x more health, which may ruin your strategy in an instance. Snapdragons are recommended (with defensive plants) as well for damaging zombies in a 3x2 area.

Using catapult plants (Cabbage-pult and Kernel-pult) is a bad idea towards Ice Weasels (unless you feed them Plant Food), as they can easily destroy your catapults. This is because their lob shot is slow and the Ice Weasel's speed is fast. Also, avoid using Citrons against them (unless you have Plant Food), as their plasma balls can only hit one Ice Weasel at a time.

Guacodiles are good choices against Ice Weasels. Combining this plant with a Sweet Potato is also a good idea. Once the Sweet Potato gets destroyed and the Ice Weasels get close to the Guacodile, it will rush towards an entire lane. You can also use Hurrikale to push them back to the right side of the screen to slow them down.

Bonk Choys can help as always they have a defensive plant (preferable Tall-nut or Pea-nut) because they defeat an Ice Weasel in three punches, meaning that a large number of Ice Weasels can defeat them cause they can only hit one Ice Weasel at a time.

Using Plant Food on Fire Peashooters and Chompers is a good idea, as they can easily kill all overlapping Weasels in one lane. If you do not have both of these plants boosted, do not use them.

Trivia

 * They were originally called Snow Weasels. However, in Weasel Hoarder's almanac, they are called snow weasels, weasels, and ice weasels.
 * This is currently the only zombie in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that is referred by three different names.
 * It is the only zombie of Frostbite Caves Part 2 that was featured in an advertisement.
 * Its appearance in the advertisement is different than the released Ice Weasel. The main differences are its nose is black rather than pink, has its mouth open instead of closed, the ears are folded down instead of standing up, and it has eye bags. Also, it doesn't have its two front teeth.
 * In Plants vs. Zombies Facebook, PopCap said the Ice Weasels were similar to the Zombie Chickens, and their weakness was Lightning Reed.
 * Both Zombie Chicken and Ice Weasel have similar almanac entries, as their entries are the onomatopeic sounds they make.
 * Currently, Day 30 is the only level where it appears on its own.
 * Ice Weasel has an achievement tied to it - Run Weasley. It requires the player to not let any Ice Weasels cross over any sliders for an entire level.
 * Before the 3.4.4 update, they did not have any eating animations.
 * Ice Weasel and Zombie Chicken are currently the only zombies that have a Flighty speed.
 * Ice Weasel is the second animal zombie introduced in Frostbite Caves, with the other ones being Walrus Zombie and Dodo Rider Zombie