User blog:Milesprower2/Garden Warfare Guides: The Chomper

The third blog in my guide to Garden Warfare's plants and zombies, this time I'm talking about the best ever Garden Warfare plant, the Chomper!

Overview
Chomper's attacks are melee based, but it has lots of health and its abilties allow it to get close to a zombie easily. When used effectively, it's easy to get Vanquish Streaks of five or more using the Chomper. Just remember to be stealthy, and avoid Engineers, they're your biggest threat.

Attacks
There are six variations (including the basic Chomper), each with their own attacks (both chomping type attacks and other short-ranged attacks), but I've only got the basic Chomper so far, so I can only really give advice on its basic attacks. When I unlock other variations, I'll include their attacks.

Chomp
Well, obviously the Chomper's attack is a chomping attack. You can either bite a zombie to deal small amounts of damage up close, or you can swallow them whole. Get around behind them and use the bite attack to eat them completely, but be careful, as this won't work with bosses and will only destroy the shield of a shielded zombie, and you should not try it on an Engineer which is riding a Jackhammer. On top of that, you'll move very slowly and be unable to attack or use abilties while chewing, which leaves you vulnerable if you're in the middle of a group of zombies.

Rating: 8/10.

Abilities
The abilities are good for setting up ambushes or getting close to zombies for an easy chomping.

Burrow
Burrowing underground can be used for three things:

1: Chasing after a fast zombie, since you move very fast when burrowing, and you can eat a zombie if you get underneath them.

2: Setting up an ambush by staying still and waiting for a zombie to get close.

3: Staying still and simply regenerating back to half health when you're low on health, as you're immune to most attacks while burrowing.

I'd give this a rating of 10/10!

Goop
Goop severely slows a zombie, making them move slowly and they will be unable to use abilities. Be careful, they can still attack though! If you goop them while you're behind them, they won't be able to turn around in time to shoot at you, making them an easy target. If you're in front, then burrow after gooping them so they won't attack you. 10/10 again!

Spikeweed
Deploying a Spikeweed is good as you can eat a zombie from any direction if they're caught up in its vines. Not only that, but you can hide around a corner waiting for a zombie to walk into your trap and then eat them whole! Or just use the traps to help defend a Garden or a good strategic location on a map. 8/10.

Final Verdict
EPIC close-combat fighter, it's got a 9/10 rating! Probably 10/10 for some of the stronger variants!