Pogo Zombie

The Pogo Zombie is a kind of vaulting zombie that does multiple jumps over your plants. It takes about 20 normal damage shots before dying, but because of its speed, it's hard to hit him that much. However, Tall-nuts will stop them from jumping and Magnet-shrooms will steal their pogo sticks. They are first encountered during the Fog levels.

Overview
Absorbs 21 normal damage shots. Appearance changes upon absorption of 7 and 14 normal damage shots before dying.

Strategy
Tall-nuts will stop these zombies cold, and Magnet-shrooms will take away their pogo stick, causing them to act like a normal zombie. Squash are a good final line of defense, as they will take the Pogo Zombie out even as it tries to jump over it.

The Split Pea, Starfruit and the Gloom-shroom are also useful against the Pogo Zombie, as the Split Pea and Starfruit shoot behind themselves after the Pogo Zombie jumps over them, and two Gloom-shrooms deal enough damage to kill them while the zombies are attempting to jump. This can be more effective than Tall-nuts or Magnet-shrooms, as Magnet-shrooms must recharge before being used again, and Tall-nuts will be eaten after enough zombies bite it. When Pogo Zombies lose their stick, their movement will be very similar to a regular Zombie. However, they move slightly faster than a normal Zombie would walk, approximately the same as a Flag Zombie.

Like most other Zombies, Pogo Zombies can also be destroyed by plants such as Cherry Bombs, Jalapenos, and Doom-shrooms. They will never appear in a pool lane, but can appear in any setting (Day, Night, Pool, etc).


 * Note: Butter and Ice-shrooms cannot stop Pogo Zombies with pogo sticks. Chompers will attempt to eat it but it will jump over the chomper before it can eat it.



Pogo Party Mini-game
In this Roof level, you will encounter mostly Pogo Zombies. You will probably need Tall-nuts and Imitater Tall-nuts, and possibly Squash and Jalepano, but just use a regular Roof level strategy aside from that.

Trivia

 * The Pogo Zombie is one of the three zombies (along with Dr. Zomboss and the Zomboni) that aren't affected by Butter.
 * It also cannot be frozen solid by Ice-shrooms while it has its pogo stick, but can be slowed down.
 * The Pogo Zombie is the only Vaulting Zombie that can jump over plants more than once.
 * The Pogo Zombie is one of the four zombies to have a minigame exclusively about them, as it is featured in the Pogo Party minigame, while the other three being the Zombie Bobsled Team in Bobsled Bonanza, Dr. Zomboss in Dr. Zomboss Revenge and the Snorkel Zombie in Zombiquarium.
 * The Pogo Zombie, Jack-in-the-Box Zombie, Flag Zombie, Pole Vaulting Zombie, Gargantuar and the Digger Zombie are the only zombies that carries something that is not a shield.