Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-26239911-20160131183746/@comment-25982947-20160205024832

IG Gaming + Maramok= Awesome wrote: Ok guys, let's compromise about the instants. GP is not an instant while idle, and is an instant while it is attacking. You're just trying so hard to call GP something it's not and I don't understand why.

An instant is a plant that, no matter what the situation is, you plant it, it does its thing, and then immediately disappears, like for example Cherry Bomb, E.M.Peach or Grapeshot. Another way you can look at it is this: If you can never have more than 1 of said plant on the lawn at once, (not counting the use of Imitater), it's an instant plant.

Other plants, like Ghost Pepper, are delayed activation plants, plants that do their thing only once or for a limited time like instants, but only activate during certain situations, like being close close to a zombie in most cases. Other examples are Potato Mine, Squash, Stallia, Shrinking Violet, etc. Using a similar example to before: If you can have a whole row of said plant but they'll disappear on their own once the zombies get close enough, then that plant is a delayed activation plant.