Giga-Football Zombie


 * For a similar looking zombie in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, see Berserker.

Giga-Football Zombie is a Football Zombie wearing black and gray football gear that is only in the online version's Survival Mode and Vasebreaker. The Giga-Football Zombie has the health of a Gargantuar, but it moves around faster (the same speed as a Football Zombie basically) and has to chew plants to eat them, instead of smashing them like Gargantuars, and also has no Imp to throw. Also unlike normal Football Zombies, the Giga-Football Zombie has spikes on its shoulder plate.

Overview
The Giga-Football Zombie absorbs 150 normal damage shots and its appearance changes upon an absorption of 47, 94, 140 normal damage shots (by this point, the Black Football Helmet is destroyed) before dying at 150 normal damage shots. It does not lose its arm until he dies.

Strategies
You should do what you might do to kill a Gargantuar to kill it. However, you will have to act faster to kill it, since the Giga-Football Zombie moves faster than a Gargantuar, although the Giga-Football Zombie has no Imp to throw and has to chew through plants. It is harder to kill it than a Gargantuar since most of the powerful plants don't appear in that version. In Survival: Endless, it is even harder to kill them because you can only choose four plants against it. A good choice against them would be the Chomper as they kill them in one bite. Wall-nuts would be okay, but they would probably be eaten by the time the Giga-Football Zombie dies, so if you want to use them, you should be sure to plant them close to the right of the screen.

Trivia

 * See Football Zombie for more trivia.


 * The Giga-Football Zombie is one of five zombies that can take more than one instant kill before dying, with the others being the Gargantuar, Giga-gargantuar, Tall-nut Zombie, and Dr. Zomboss.
 * It does not appear in any versions except for the online version; however, swapping its images with a Football Zombie's images can make a Giga-Football Zombie in the PC and Game of the Year versions. For more information, go to Modify Plants vs. Zombies.
 * The Giga-Football Zombie takes up five Wall-nuts or two Explode-o-nuts before dying in Wall-nut Bowling.
 * The Giga-Football Zombie is black and white in color, but its socks are still red.
 * The Giga-Football Zombie does not lose any arms before it dies.
 * The Giga-Football Zombie is one of three zombies to have face paint, the others being the Football Zombie and the Gatling Pea Zombie.
 * This zombie, with a columnpoint of 75, has the highest columnpoint of all zombies.
 * The Giga-Football Zombie is the third strongest zombie in the game, only seconded by Giga-gargantuar and Dr. Zomboss. It is also the strongest zombie that eats plants instead of crushing them.
 * There is a mistake that, when moving the mouse to the Giga-Football Zombie, (on the seed selection part of the level) it says Football Zombie. This may be because the normal Football Zombie does not appear in the online version, so the Giga-Football Zombie would be an unusual name if the player does not face the weaker version, or because, at the time, its name was conjectural.
 * The Giga-Football Zombie is a recolored (with added spikes) Football Zombie because PopCap Games made this zombie exclusively for the online version and they might not have wanted to spend much time on creating this zombie.
 * The Giga-Football Zombie is one of the two zombies that wear black headwear, the other one being the Gatling Pea Zombie.
 * This zombie only appears in night levels (except when playing the hacked version of Plants vs. Zombies).
 * It was certainly made in the online version for making the Vasebreaker Endless and Survival: Endless very hard, to encourage the player to buy the full version.
 * Technically, only the helmet is giga, since the shots needed to destroy it doubles from 70 to 140, but the zombie itself will still take ten shots before dying.
 * When hit by a Squash, it does not degrade as it is supposed to.
 * It is seen with its official name "Giga-Football Zombie" in the Plants vs. Zombies: Official Guide to Protecting Your Brains book.
 * In the seed selection screen, the Giga-Football Zombie is mistakenly animated with its final degrade mouthgear behind its fresh one.