Imitater

The Imitater is a potato spud artist who can mimic any plant that you have in your possession.

It costs $30,000 to buy one from Crazy Dave's.

Usage
After purchasing the Imitater, he he appears on the lower right part of the plant selection screen when choosing your seeds. Selecting him brings up and overlay, asking which plant he shall imitate for the round. After selecting, he will take up a slot as the imitated plant in a melancholy gray.

Note: The Imitater cannot copy Upgraded plants like the Cob Cannon or the Gloom-shroom.

The Imitator, when planted, will appear as himself, but after a second or two, transforms into his copied form. The copied form, aside from being gray, costs as much and behaves just like the original plant. Imitated Cherry Bombs will explode. Imitated Tall-nuts can take loads of damage.

Note: The player does not need to have the original seed chosen as well. The Imitater does not need to have an original plant be planted on the field as well.

Strategy
The Imitater has two advantages going for it. It always has a fast cool-down, meaning that an imitated Wall-nut can be planted more often than a real one. And it can double the planting rate of the copied plant (assuming that the copied plant was also selected for the round)

Plants that go well with the Imitater:

Wall-nut, Tall-nut, Pumpkin, Potato Mine, Squash, Puff-shroom [on night levels the player is free to spam two free shrooms at a time]

The problem with the Imitater is that it takes time to transform, making it somewhat slow on attacking zombies right on top of it, meaning that it's effectiveness as an explosive is reduced.

Cherry Bombs are seen as one of the more risky prospects, as it requires fine timing.