Chomper (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other versions, see Chomper (disambiguation).

Chomper
Plants vs. Zombies 2
Sun cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Area	Single
Reload time	17 seconds
Special	Moderate delay between chomps
Family	Enforce-mint
Direct damage	200 damage per shot every 1.5 seconds (against inedible enemies)
Reload time	17 seconds
Strengths	(can devour them without dropping obstacles or ignores armor)
Rarity (China)	Rare
Unlocked	NA: $4.99 · EU: €5.49 · UK: £4.99
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Chomper Puzzle Pieces Daily log-in rewards
Costumes
Everyone appreciates what Chomper does. His appetite has saved them on numerous occasions. But truth be told, Chomper's friends think that eating zombies is gross. And his breath! No one has the heart to tell him, and he never gets the hint when you offer him a mint.
Plants vs. Zombies Online
食人花(translation: Man-eating Flower)

Chomper is a multi-use instant-kill plant appearing in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He can eat zombies whole, killing them instantly, but is vulnerable to attacks when chewing.

About

For more information about this character, see Chomper.

Chomper was released on October 7th, 2014 along with the Big Wave Beach Part 1 teaser Piñata Parties, and was available for purchase at $4.99, but was reduced to $0.99 in 8.3.1 due to lack of use/power.

Chomper can devour most types of zombies, instantly killing them in the process. However, after eating an enemy, Chomper will require a large amount of time to devour the victim, making him vulnerable, exposing itself to other zombies' attacks in the process. When faced with inedible targets such as tombstones, mechanical threats, and Gargantuars, Chomper will instead attempt to damage them with his bites.

Its digest time was reduced to 17 seconds from the original game, and he can now bite certain targets to deal damage, dealing 200 damage per shot worth of damage each. It can also eat two zombies now.

It is featured for free in Big Wave Beach - Days 3, 14, 16, and Modern Day - Day 44.

Chomper cannot devour, but can damage the following zombies:

• Gargantuar variants
• Barrel Roller Zombie's barrel.
• Imp Cannon
• Zombie Bull and Rodeo Legend Zombie
• Pianist Zombie
• Mecha-Football Zombie
• Robo-Cone Zombie
• Disco-tron 3000
• Zombie King
• Cavalry Zombie
• Fisherman Zombie
• Zombie Chicken and Ice Weasel
• Solar Car Zombie
• Treasure Yeti
• Cardio Zombie
• Z-Mech
• #caketank
• Zcorpion Zombie
• Roman Caesar Zombie
• All bosses

Almanac entry

Chomper	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 5 SUN COST: 150 RECHARGE: 5 TOUGHNESS 300 SPECIAL Chew Speed TOUGHNESS: 300 SPECIAL: Chew Speed RANGE Close FAMILY Enforce-mint RANGE: Close FAMILY: Enforce-mint Chompers can devour a zombie whole, but they are vulnerable while chewing. Special: moderate delay between chomps Everyone appreciates what Chomper does. His appetite has saved them on numerous occasions. But truth be told, Chomper's friends think that eating zombies is gross. And his breath! No one has the heart to tell him, and he never gets the hint when you offer him a mint.

Chomper

		SUN COST 150			RECHARGE 5

SUN COST: 150
RECHARGE: 5

		TOUGHNESS 300			SPECIAL Chew Speed

TOUGHNESS: 300
SPECIAL: Chew Speed

		RANGE Close			FAMILY Enforce-mint

RANGE: Close
FAMILY: Enforce-mint

Chompers can devour a zombie whole, but they are vulnerable while chewing.

Special: moderate delay between chomps

Everyone appreciates what Chomper does. His appetite has saved them on numerous occasions. But truth be told, Chomper's friends think that eating zombies is gross. And his breath! No one has the heart to tell him, and he never gets the hint when you offer him a mint.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When fed with Plant Food, Chomper will unleash a high intensity wind that will drag the three nearest zombies to it and then push the surviving zombies away by releasing a burp.

If it pulls in any inedible zombies, it will deal 1000 damage per shot to those zombies. In the Chinese version, it will pull in only two zombies instead of three.

Costumed (China only)

Chomper now does a longer burp.

Enforce-mint effect

When boosted by Enforce-mint, Chomper's chew time is reduced to 1.5 seconds, and it can devour an additional 6 zombies before chewing.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Special (Chew Speed)	Special (Gobble Capacity)	Range
1	0	0	150	5 seconds	300 dps	17 seconds	2	Close
2	10	1,000	150	5 seconds	350 dps	16 seconds
3	25	2,500	150	4.5 seconds	400 dps	15 seconds
4	50	5,000	125	4.5 seconds	450 dps	14 seconds	3
5	100	10,000	125	4.5 seconds	550 dps	10 seconds
6	200	20,000	125	4 seconds	600 dps
7	400	30,000	100	4 seconds	650 dps
8	800	50,000	100	3.5 seconds	700 dps
9	1,200	75,000	100	3.5 seconds	800 dps	9 seconds
10	1,600	100,000	75	3 seconds	900 dps	7 seconds	4

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Strengthen Teeth	Chomper burps after eating a zombie, pushing any nearby zombies back 1 space.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Chomper gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Strengthen Swallow	Chomper burps after eating a zombie, pushing any nearby zombies back 3 spaces.
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Chomper gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Chomper may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Chomper gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Big Mouth Collapse	Chomper sometimes devour all regular sized zombies 3 tiles in front of him regardless of level
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Chomper gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Strategies

Chomper has received a few buffs, namely its reduced digest time and increased bite damage, which makes it more effective when faced with inedible targets, particularly Zombie Bull and mechanical threats in Far Future. However, poor performance against groups of enemies still remains a problem to Chomper. In addition, Chomper is also generally inferior to Toadstool, which has a greatly increased range and can generate sun after digesting zombies as well as having the ability to devour Rodeo Legend Zombies whereas Chomper does not.

The player can use disabling plants like Stunion, E.M.Peach, and Stallia against inedible targets first to allow Chomper to deal more damage. Tombstones, surfboards, frozen blocks and arcade machines also count as inedible targets, causing the Chomper to bite them, destroying them in a few bites as long as it is not busy devouring zombies. With mechanical zombies or Gargantuars, you could freeze them right in front of the Chomper, will it can repeatedly bite them, doing heavy damage.

In Ancient Egypt, Chomper is useful against Pharaoh Zombies, as it can devour both the zombie and the sarcophagus in one bite. In Wild West and Frostbite Caves, Chomper is useful for stopping Chicken Wrangler Zombies and Weasel Hoarders from releasing their chickens or weasels. It is also useful in Dark Ages since it can eat Knight Zombies easily as well as boosted zombies from Dark Alchemy.

In Big Wave Beach, it is useful against Surfer Zombie as they can devour both the zombie and the surfboard. It is also useful against Octo Zombies as they can destroy the octopi within 3 bites. In Lost City, Chompers are good choices against Imp Porters as they can devour both the imp and the backpack. In Modern Day, it is useful against Newspaper Zombie as they can devour the zombie, ignoring the newspaper.

Avoid using Chomper against Explorer Zombies and Torchlight Zombies as they can easily destroy it without being devoured. The same thing applies to MC Zom-B while his jam is playing. Also, zombies kicked by Breakdancer Zombies or raptors can highly overwhelm Chomper.

Although, Chomper can now eat 2 zombies before chewing in the 9.2 update. It can easily be overwhelmed by groups of zombies, Try stalling the zombies, to allow Chomper to chew up and eat more zombies.

There is a way to get over Chomper's weakness of its long chew time. You may simply dig it up while it is chewing and replace it with a new one due to Chomper's relatively fast recharge time compared to it's slow chewing time. This strategy is great if the player has one to three of the Shovel Boost Upgrades since the player can refund more sun. However, due to the 9.2 update, Chomper can easily chew up zombies faster and eat more zombies

Balance changes

Update 9.1.1

• ▲ Devours 2-4 zombies before chewing instead of 1.
• ▲ Digest time is reduced from 30-10 seconds to 17-7 seconds.

Gallery

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Trivia

• No matter what type of zombie it eats, the arm hanging out of its mouth does not wear any shirt sleeve and look identical to a regular zombie, as with the first game.
• The code for it was in the game until the 1.4 update, but was re-added in the 2.5.1 update as a fully functional plant.
• It was mentioned in Dark Ages - Night 20 dialogue by Crazy Dave. He said: "Phew! Plants shouldn't eat zombies who eat plants. Except Chomper. He has to. Dude needs the fiber." so as to tease Big Wave Beach and its return.
• It sometimes mimics dog-like behavior by scratching its head with its leaves.
  • Impfinity also does this in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes.
  • This is also one of the two Chomper idle animations, the other being Chomper licking his lips.
• It can swallow Chicken Wrangler Zombies without them releasing Zombie Chickens. The same thing happens with Weasel Hoarders.
• It is one of the five plants that make noises in the Almanac, the others being Electric Blueberry, Sweet Potato, Sap-fling, and Chard Guard.
• When it swallows a zombie, it will spew out an eyeball while burping.
  • This is strikingly similar to Pac-Man.
• Its Plant Food effect resembles a vacuum cleaner as it makes the same sounds and its stalk does a pumping animation.
• When fed Plant Food, if a Pianist Zombie is in the draw zone, the zombie is instantly defeated.

See also

• Chomper
• Toadstool