Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-5760976-20160407214636/@comment-25982947-20160414184314

As far as I know, Garlic works like this: As soon as a zombie comes into contact with Garlic, that zombie will get a timer of around half a second, and when said timer runs out, the zombie will get stunned for a second and then switch lanes. That means that if you just let Garlic sit there normally, with zombies going at him one by one, he can only divert 4 normal speed zombies before dying. However, if there are multiple zombies in the same place, most commonly after being bunched up by a defensive plant, and you place a Garlic on top of said mass of zombies, each one of them will come into contact with him, since zombies take a moment before biting a plant they touch, and since they all came into contact with Garlic, they all get the timer and eventually switch lanes, no matter how many zombies there were.

Bottomline, if you use Garlic like in the first game, he only diverts around 4 zombies, but if you were to use him like an instant in conjuction with defensive plants, he can divert an infinite numbers of zombies per use.