Damage per shot

Damage per shot (often shortened to DPS) is used officially in every game of the main Plants vs. Zombies series to express the damage plants / zombies deal and the amount of health zombies / plants have. It is not to be confused with the term "Damage per Second", which is used in many games and is used to calculate how much damage is done to a single target every second.

Explanation

Damage per shot is the basic measurement of damage in the Tower defense games. A pea deals 20 damage per shot, while each bite from most zombies (the damage counted by each second the zombie attacks, except for Plants vs. Zombies 3) deals 100 damage per shot. Most plants can take 300 damage before being eaten.

Some projectiles from plants can do more than just 20 DPS, and can do up to about 80 DPS, such as Cabbage-pult, Melon-pult, and peas ignited by a Torchwood. The projectile with the most damage output is Citron's charged plasma ball created during its Plant Food effect, dealing up to 4000 DPS (at level 10).

Instant kills deal a heavy amount of damage, most dealing about 1800 DPS except for Primal Potato Mine, which deals 2400 DPS. However, in ZomBotany 2, a full-health Tall-nut Zombie can be killed by a corn cob, Cherry Bomb, Jalapeno or Doom-shroom, even though Tall-nut Zombies have 2400 health. A single Potato Mine or Squash cannot kill a full-health Tall-nut Zombie, despite dealing the same damage as the aforementioned explosive plants. Chompers deal 40 DPS (200 in the sequel) to any zombie it cannot devour. Likewise, Grimroses do 600 DPS to any zombie they cannot kill.

Gallery

Plants vs. Zombies

Peas deal 20 damage per shot

Frozen peas deal 20 damage per shot and slow down hit zombies

Fire peas deal 40 damage per shot along with no more than 13 splash damage (excluding Plants vs. Zombies 2)

Spores deal 20 damage per shot

Spikes deal 20 damage per shot and pop balloons

Stars deal 20 damage per shot

Cabbages deal 40 damage per shot

Kernels deal 20 damage per shot

Butter deals 40 damage per shot and temporarily paralyzes hit zombies

Melons deal 80 damage per shot along with no more than 26 splash damage

Frozen melons deal 80 damage per shot and slow down hit zombies along with no more than 26 splash damage

Corn cobs deal 1800 damage per shot in a 3x3 area

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Note: The stats below only apply to Level 1 plants.

Peas deal 20 damage per shot

Bloomerangs deal 20 damage per shot

Cabbages deal 40 damage per shot

Big cabbages deal 200 damage per shot

Bonk Choys deal 15 damage per shot

Frozen peas deal 20 damage per shot and slow down hit zombies

Big peas deal 600 damage per shot

Kernels deal 30 damage per shot

Butter does 40 damage per shot and temporarily paralyzes zombies hit

Fire deals 30 damage per shot

Spikeweeds deal 10 damage per shot

Coconuts deal 900 damage per shot

Giant coconuts deal 1200 damage per shot

Spikerocks deal 20 damage per shot

Giant peas deal 400 damage per shot

Lightning Reeds deal 10 damage per shot with 10 damage per shot splash damage

Melons deal 80 damage per shot with 40 damage per shot of splash damage

Frozen melons deal 80 damage per shot and slow down hit zombies with bonus 40 splash damage

Lasers deal 40 damage per shot

Big lasers deal 1800 damage per shot

Plasma deals 800 damage per shot

Big plasma does 2500 damage per shot to zombies it can't kill

Magnifying Grass deals 550 damage per shot when being tapped by the player

Stars deal 20 damage per shot

Big stars deal 400 damage per shot

Spores deal 20 damage per shot

Fume-shrooms deal 40 damage per shot

An Aquamarine bulb deal 40 damage per shot

A blue bulb deals 120 damage per shot

An orange bulb deals 180 damage per shot

An exploding bulb deals 600 damage per shot, with bonus 30 splash damage

Prickles deal 40 damage per shot

Power prickles deal 240 damage per shot

Pits deal 20 damage per shot

Bananas deal 1200 damage per shot in a 1x3 area

Flaming peppers deal 50 damage per shot and additional 10 splash damage in 3x3 area

Rutabagas deal 10 damage per shot

Big rutabagas deal 70 damage per shot

Explosive seeds deal 50 damage per shot in a 1x1 square

Akee seeds deal 60 damage per shot to the first zombie it hits, then decreases 10 damage per shot each time

Endurians deal 20 damage per shot per 1.5 seconds

Stingers deal 15/30 damage per shot

A small berry deals 200 damage per shot

A medium strawberry deals 400 damage per shot

A giant strawberry deals 900 damage per shot

Phat Beets do 15 damage

Celery Stalkers do 100 damage

Spikes deal 30 damage per shot

Power spikes deal 60 damage per shot

Spores from Spore-shrooms deal 50 damage per shot

Pea boulders deal 50 damage per shot

Leaves deal 100 damage per shot (long range) or 200 damage per shot (close range)

Powered leaves deal 600 damage per shot

Explosive buds deal 30 direct damage per shot and 25 splash damage per shot

Hearts deal 40 damage per shot per hit and stack up to 90

Electric peas deal 5 direct damage per shot and 20 splash damage per shot

Voltaic arcs deal 40 damage per shot

Electric Currants deal 80 contact damage

Apple Mortar's projectiles deal 30 damage per shot and stuns zombie

Apple Mortar's Plant Food projectiles deal 50-100 damage per shot and stuns zombie

Wasabi Whips do 40 damage per shot

Bombegranate seeds do 200 damage per shot

Parsnip does 80 damage per shot

Fila-mint does 150 damage per shot

Arma-mint projectiles do 1200 damage per shot

Pepper-mint flames deal 100 damage per shot per hit

Appease-mint does 10 damage per shot per pea

Shadow peas do 30 damage per shot

Shadow Peashooter lasers do 70 damage per shot

Spirit Bombs do 500 damage per shot

Blastberry Vines do 15 damage per shot

Pokras do 60 damage per shot

Pyre Vine flames do 30 damage per shot

Ice Blooms do 50 damage per shot, 200 damage per shot in 3x3 area

Big Ultomatoes do 1600 damage per shot

darts do 75 damage per shot, critical darts do 225 damage per shot

Shine Vine does 5 damage per shot

Tumbleweed does 15 damage per shot

Tofu turkey does 10 landing damage per shot and 65 damage per shot, pumpkin turkey does 20 landing damage per shot and 85 damage per shot

Boingsetta does 1000 damage per shot to gird items

Rice does 40 damage per shot

Hocus Crocus does 100 damage per shot

Headbutter Lettuce does 100 damage per shot

Gloom Vine does 45 damage per shot

Air cannon does 15 damage per shot

Balloon does 575 damage per shot

Doom balloon does 875 damage per shot

Boosted pea does 30 damage per shot

Fire tornados does 22 damage per shot

Laser bolt does 10 damage per shot

Normal gas does 20 damage per shot, powered gas does 40 damage per shot

Dart does 560 damage per shot

Spikes do 10 damage per shot

See also

• Plants

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