Cricket Star

Cricket Star
Health	200
Weapon	Flaming Cricket Blaster
Abilities
Variant of
Rarity	Super Rare
Health	200
Weapon	Flaming Cricket Blaster
Abilities
Variant of	All-Star
Rarity	Super Rare

Cricket Star is a Super Rare fire variant of the All-Star in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.

Descriptions

Stickerbook description

Although he'll claim otherwise, the Cricket Star doesn't actually know how to play cricket.

In-game description

The Flaming Cricket Blaster ignites Plants, dealing fire damage over time.

AI Health

Easy: 120

Normal: 160

Hard: 200

CRAAAAZY: 240

Primary weapon

The Cricket Star uses the Flaming Cricket Blaster as his primary weapon. This is the fire version of the Football Cannon. It inflicts burns upon enemies in exchange for a lower damage output. It deals three to five normal and five to seven critical damage depending on how far the target is, and the burning effect deals five damage overtime.

Abilities

Imp Punt

With Imp Punt, the All-Star punts an Imp that rolls forward and explodes after a short time, dealing 150 damage to plants within its blast radius.

Sprint Tackle

With the Sprint Tackle, the All-Star rushes forward, dealing 75 damage and knocks plants into the sky. This can serve as a short-ranged attack.

Dummy Shield

Dummy Shield is a shield that the All-Star places to protect himself.

Long Bomb

An alternate ability of Imp Punt, Long Bomb allows the All-Star kicks an Imp up very high, which explodes when he lands and deals 150 damage.

Ultra Tackle

An alternate ability of Sprint Tackle, Ultra Tackle does 90 damage but has a longer recharge time.

Shield Decoy

An alternate ability of Dummy Shield, the player can have four Shield Decoys, but it is weaker.

Future Dummy

An alternate ability of Dummy Shield, the Future Dummy is stronger than the default Dummy Shield, but only one Future Dummy can be placed down at a time. When the Future Dummy is destroyed, it explodes (dealing up to 75 damage to nearby Plants).

Weapon upgrades

Rounder Cricket Ball Enhancements

The cricket balls are given a good polish to make them more round resulting in less overheat friction.

Overheat Fans

The overheat fans provide a gentle breeze and reduce overheat time.

Superheated Flaming Cricket Balls

These superheated flaming cricket balls will cause extra damage.

Strategies

With

The Cricket Star's fire abilities are better suited at taking on groups of plants. The Cricket Star should never focus on one target for too long, as it ruins the point of having fire damage, instead, the Cricket Star should spread around its damage letting the fire vanquish weakened plants or leaving it to teammates. However, if the situation arises, the Cricket Star is great for taking on most singular targets, as your high health and fire damage should do the trick. in addition, even if you get vanquished, the fire damage will likely finish off most plants.

Against

Out of all the other All-Star characters, the Cricket Star is definitely an extremely dangerous variant. Its fire abilities can also make it a very annoying opponent to deal with, since you would always be taking fire damage from it from all ranges (this applies to all fire-variant characters). In just a few shots, it can take away about 15-25 HP from your health. If in the hands of an expert All-Star player, Cricket Star could burn down several or more plants in his way in a short amount of time. The best way to deal with it is to take advantage of its slow movement speed and its lowered damage by taking pot-shots at it with the Peashooter. Cacti can also take advantage by staying back and lowering its already lowered damage and snipe it from a distance. The best way is for a Chomper to simply eat him instantly but be careful as he can shoot it down easily.

Balancing changes

Trouble in Zombopolis: Part Two DLC

• ▼ Effectiveness of overheat upgrade was decreased.

Gallery

Appearance in Garden Warfare

Appearance in Garden Warfare 2

Stickerbook

Trivia

• The maximum number of shots it can fire from its weapon before the weapon overheats is 77.
• Its weapon now emits fire in Garden Warfare 2.
• Cricket Stars appears alongside with regular All-Stars on Garden Ops, on Crazy mode.

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