Barrel Roller Zombie is the eighth zombie encountered in Plants vs. Zombies 2’s Pirate Seas. He crushes plants using his barrel, which can block many projectiles. When the barrel is destroyed, two Imp Pirate Zombies will jump onto both adjacent lanes. If the zombie himself is defeated before the barrel, the barrel stops moving.
While rolling, the Barrel does extreme damage to plants. It is destroyed upon absorbing enough damage, upon hitting Spikeweeds/Spikerocks/Bamboo Shoots/Cacti/Bramble Bush, or if it is left idle for a while after it is separated from the zombie. Certain damage sources, such as Jalapeno, will prohibit it from releasing Imps.
His rolling barrel crushes plants and provides excellent protection.
Damage: crushes plants with barrel Special: imps thrown from barrel when destroyed
Barrel Roller Zombie is part of a super underground secret awesome club. You probably haven't heard about it. Also, his left arm is slightly longer than his right arm.
Barrel Roller Zombie
TOUGHNESS
Hardened
SPEED
Basic
His rolling barrel crushes plants and provides excellent protection.
Damage: crushes plants with barrel Special: imps thrown from barrel when destroyed
Barrel Roller Zombie is part of a super underground secret awesome club. You probably haven't heard about it. Also, his left arm is slightly longer than his right arm.
Overview[]
The barrel absorbs 1100 damage. It degrades upon absorbing 380, 740, and 1100 damage. After absorbing 1100 damage, two Imp Pirate Zombies will come out adjacent to the row where the barrel is on or into the water.
The Barrel Roller Zombie absorbs only 190 damage and change his appearance upon absorbing 95 damage. When he dies, the barrel will stop moving and after a while, it will pop by itself and release its two Imps.
Modern Day: Days 2, 17, and 25 (via portal only in Days 2, and 17)
Strategies[]
This zombie is particularly dangerous in groups, as they can easily destroy your Spikeweed and Spikerock specialized in countering it and absorb massive amounts of damage for dangerous zombies. Because of this, plants with pierce such as Laser Bean, Fume-shroom, and Electric Peashooter are all very effective at taking out large amounts of these zombies, as the Barrel Roller Zombie himself is not all that durable and when the Barrel stops moving it becomes a much easier target. Lobber plants, particularly those with area of effect damage, also do very well against these zombies since their shot lob over the barrel, and they're also effective at taking out the imps inside the barrels.
Great plants for this purpose include Melon-pult, Winter Melon, and Strawburst. Using Spring Bean can be somewhat good, as it throws the barrel into the water, however the Imps will still be released from the barrel and the Barrel Roller Zombie will eat the Spring Bean unless killed quickly. You can also place a Split Pea or any plant that attacks backward behind the zombie, as the Barrel Roller Zombie is vulnerable from behind. However, this is not recommended as other zombies can very easily defeat these plants. Magnifying Grass also is a good plant to counter this zombie, as it can destroy the barrel in two hits.
Using a Jalapeno is a decent idea as it kills the zombie and destroys the barrel alongside any Imps inside. Chard Guard can also fling the barrel away, thus preventing the zombie from rolling it. However, it will not toss the barrel into water. Primal Peashooter and Holly Barrier's knock-back effect can push the barrel behind the Barrel Roller Zombie, also preventing it from rolling the barrel. Additionally, Blover can be abused to destroy the barrel if it becomes airborne while Blover's winds are active, or be used to neutralize the Imps. Shrinking Violet and Enforce-mint can also be used, as a shrunken Barrel Roller Zombie will be unable to push it.
Note: Avoid using Hot Date or Sweet Potato as both are unable to attract them. Although Hot Date's explosion can easily deny lots of them in his lane, Sweet Potato gets destroyed easily without additional effects.
When the Barrel Roller Zombie rolls over any defensive plant, he will take a little longer to kill them. This trait is shared with Pianist Zombie.
Technically, Pianist Zombie and Barrel Roller Zombie deal a lot of damage to the plants to "crush" them, unlike like how instant kills work for Gargantuars or All-Star Zombies. They deal 4000 damage to plant each second, which is enough to make any plant except most defensive plants instantly killed.
The player can hear the sound of a plant completely eaten when they destroy the plant.
If Barrel Roller Zombie makes it to the Player's House with his barrel, only the barrel is shown when the screen goes black to display the game over screen, and the barrel rolls in place, as the zombie himself does not eat if the barrel is still with him.
When a Barrel Roller Zombie's barrel remains after all other zombies are destroyed, the level will not end until the Imp Pirate Zombies inside it are killed.
Incendiary attacks do not inflict bonus damage against the barrel.
He is the only zombie that can appear in another world besides the Player's House in the Chinese version of the game. The other location the Barrel Roller Zombie is located in the Chinese Version is the Wild West, along with Imp Pirate Zombie.
This may be due to difficulty, since Spikeweed is very important in Wild West against Zombie Chickens. This zombie is used in conjunction with Pianist Zombies to break through Spikeweeds.
The player can see the Imp Pirate Zombie's eyes through the hole in a barrel. However, they are hidden in the 5th Anniversary costume.
Spikeweed, Spikerock, or Cactus planted under a barrel will not be crushed if the Barrel Roller Zombie pushing it dies, is frozen, or is buttered.
His face in his Almanac icon is different than in actual gameplay.
As of the 2.9 update, no matter how the barrel gets destroyed, it will always release Imp Pirate Zombies. Only the Jalapeno and lawn mowers can completely kill the Barrel Roller Zombie without the Imps coming out.
Just like the Barrel Zombie, the barrel that he pushes has three X's (XXX), representing a container of an alcoholic beverage.
Troglobite, Arcade Zombie, and Zombie Medusa are very similar to this zombie, except that this zombie rolls its barrel constantly while the Troglobite/Arcade Zombie/Zombie Medusa push their objects one tile at a time.
While all of these zombies can be separated from their objects to prevent them from pushing any further, Barrel Roller Zombie will permanently stop pushing if his barrel was knockedback. Troglobite, Arcade Zombie, and Zombie Medusa cannot push their objects if forcedto switch toanother lane.
His barrel is the only pushable object that can be moved by plants.
When the Zombot Plank Walker is defeated, if there are any barrels left on the lawn that have the Imps in them, they will despawn instantly.
When the Barrel Roller Zombie is summoned from the Zombot Plank Walker's mouth or the portal, only the zombie is summoned, while the barrel will instantly appear in front of the zombie.
Barrel Roller Zombie, Robo-Cone Zombie and Imp are the only zombies that sit down when they die.
In the Big Brainz Piñata Party event, his barrel spawns normal Imps upon destruction, not Imp Pirate Zombies.
If the barrel is modded to appear in an Endless Zone by itself, the barrel will only appear in the final wave and will shatter instantly.
The same also happens to the Zombie Hamsterball, except it won't shatter instantly.
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