Primal Peashooter

Primal Peashooter is the first plant obtained in Jurassic Marsh in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Every three seconds, it shoots rock-like peas that either immobilize a zombie for half a second or send it back two tiles. It is the primal and improved version of the Peashooter.

Almanac entry
Sun cost: 175

DAMAGE: Normal

RANGE: Straight

RECHARGE: Fast

SPECIAL: Primal peas occasionally knock zombies back

Primal Peashooters shoot heavy stunning peas at zombies.

Primal Peashooter may be primitive, but that doesn't stop him from enrolling and excelling in several software development correspondence courses.

Plant Food upgrade
When fed Plant Food, it shoots five heavy stunning peas. These peas do huge damage to the zombies, can push back zombies when grouped and always pushes them back.

Strategies
Primal Peashooter is a powerful plant to take out single zombies, regardless of their health, as they almost can't move due to the stunning effect of their peas. However, their slow attack speed makes large groups of zombies destroy your defenses easily. Plant lots of columns of this plant to use it's maximum power.

Don't combine this plant with Celery Stalker or lobbed plants, since it is possible that the peas knock back the zombies and make Celery Stalker vulnerable or the lobbed projectiles will miss the target zombie.

The Plant Food ability of this plant is weak in terms of power, but it's great to knock zombies back to the beginning of the lawn.

Trivia

 * It is the fourth plant that can send zombies backwards without Plant Food, the first being Hurrikale, the second being Chard Guard and the third being Thyme Warp.
 * It is the first offensive plant to send zombies backwards.
 * It is the second plant that can temporarily stop zombies, the first being Kernel-pult.
 * It is the slowest pea-shooting plant in the franchise.
 * If the zombie is affected by Stunion and it's knocked back, it will no longer be paralyzed.
 * Its Plant Food effect is similar to Peashooter's costumed Plant Food from the Chinese version and Pea Pod's Plant Food ability.