Zomboni

The Zomboni is a zombie riding a Zamboni (according to the Almanac, it's actually closer related to a space ogre), an ice resurfacer with a red Z on it that leaves an ice trail on which nothing can be planted. It is the thirteenth zombie to appear in Adventure Mode.

Zombie Bobsled Teams will appear after the Zomboni leaves an ice trail behind. The ice trail usually disappears after a while. However, a single Jalapeno is enough to both destroy the zombie and machine, and also melt the ice trail.

Suburban Almanac Entry
 Zomboni 

The Zomboni applies ice, steam and pressure to your plants.

Toughness:  High

Special:  Crushes plants, leaves an ice trail

Often mistaken for a zombie driving an ice machine, the Zomboni is a totally different life-form more closely related to a space ogre than a zombie.

GOTY version
 Zomboni 

Toughness:  High

Special:  Crushes plants, leaves an ice trail

Not to be mistaken with a Zamboni brand ice resurfacing machine. Zamboni and the image of the ice-resurfacing machine are registered trademarks of Frank J. Zamboni & Co., Inc., and "Zomboni" is used with permission. For all your non-zombie related ice resurfacing needs, visit www.zamboni.com!

Overview
Absorbs 58 Normal Damage''' Shots. Appearance changes upon absorption of 23, 46, and 58 Normal Damage Shots with heavy shaking at 58 Normal Damage''' Shots before exploding. Crushes plants and leaves a trail of ice that can't be planted on.

Strategy
An engine sound is audible before the Zomboni enters your lawn. Wall-nuts and Tall-nuts cannot stop the Zomboni. Magnet-shrooms are also useless against the Zomboni. Zombonis are also immune to the movement-inhibiting effect of Snow Peas, Winter Melons, Ice-shrooms, and Kernel-pults. Spikeweed or Spikerock can be used to pop its tires. Any instant kill will destroy it. Since the Zomboni will leave an ice trail which nothing can be planted on, the Jalapeno can be used to melt the ice trail and kill the zombie simultaneously. If you kill the Zomboni but do not melt the ice trail, the Zombie Bobsled Team may appear and when their bobsled goes over the ice, it will melt. Piling on damage, just like any other Zombie, will destroy a Zomboni, though this can be difficult, due to the Zomboni's immunity to freezing and its high health. Strangely, a Chomper can devour the entire machine.

Bobsled Bonanza
During this level, the ice trail left by the Zomboni will not disappear. The Jalapeno is the best weapon against Zombonis. Setting a Potato Mine, Squash, Spikeweed, or Chomper early in anticipation of a Zomboni helps significantly. Once a Jalapeno removes the Zomboni's ice trail, then planting Spikerock prevents any more ice trails from being set.

Survival: Endless
In Survival: Endless, dozens of Zombonis may spawn stacked on top of each other. Already given the problem of Giga-Gargantuars and Catapult Zombies, using Spikerock might seem tempting, but don't use it. Instead, Area of Effect plants, like Gloom-shrooms, that may be able to destroy Zombonis. Cob Cannons also help significantly, since they can fire corn cob missiles on the Zomboni's ice trail. Placing a Spikeweed underneath many Zombonis will pop all of their tires before disappearing. Explosives with a large blast radius, like the Cherry Bomb and Doom-shroom can destroy Zombonis in multiple rows

Trivia

 * The Zomboni, the Zombie Bobsled Team, the Catapult Zombie and the Catapult Baseball Zombie are the only zombies that ride in vehicles, unless you count Dr. Zomboss and his Zombot.


 * If a Zomboni appears on Survival: Roof, Survival: Roof (Hard) or Survival: Roof (Endless), then it will stop laying an ice trail after it reaches the slanted portion of the roof.
 * This also occurs on Dr. Zomboss's Revenge, Survival: Roof (Night), Survival: Roof (Night) (Hard), and Survival: Roof (Night) (Endless).


 * The Zomboni, Bungee Zombie, Dolphin Rider Zombie, Balloon Zombie, Jack-in-the-Box Zombie, and Pogo Zombie are the only zombies that make noises before entering.
 * A small Zomboni can crush plants about half a square away. This is because while the sprite becomes smaller, the hitbox remains the same.


 * So far, the Zomboni is the only zombie except the Dancing Zombie that has a changed description in the Suburban Almanac for some versions.
 * The Zomboni, Dr. Zomboss, Imp, Gargantuar, Giga-Gargantuar and the Backup Dancer are the only zombies that don't have the word "zombie" in their names.
 * The Zomboni will not appear in Survival: Night or its harder variant because of the presence of graves; it would not make sense for the Zomboni to leave an ice trail on the grave but have the grave still be standing.
 * The Zomboni's Almanac Entry is cut off in the DS Version because of lack of space.
 * Sometimes, when the Zomboni tire is popped by Spikeweed or Spikerock, it will flip backwards and explode.
 * After a while, the ice trail left by a Zomboni can disappear after 30 seconds by itself, except in Bobsled Bonanza.
 * A glitch allows daisies on the lawn to appear on top of the ice-trail once the Zomboni has passed (in the GOTY edition).
 * In the HD version, Zombonis are a lot bigger than most other zombies and Zombonis in other versions.
 * The Zomboni appears in music video Wabby Wabbo behind the fence without a Zamboni and a Beanie along with Snorkel Zombie, regular Zombie, Digger Zombie and Zombie Yeti.