Fire Peashooter (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Fire Pea (disambiguation).

Fire Peashooter
Fire Peashooters are immune to frost, can heat up nearby ice blocks, and shoot flaming peas down the lane.
Statistics
Sun Cost	175
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	40 damage
Range	Straight
Family	Pepper-mint
Plant Food effect	Creates a fire trail, unfreezing plants and damaging zombies in the row.
Special	Immune to frost
Special	Warms nearby plants
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	175
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	40 damage
Attack Rate	1.4 seconds
Range	Whole Lane to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Ranged
Quality	Uncommon
Tags	Damage, ash, pea
Plant features	Orange plant, pea family, full of fiery aura, full of anger
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(reignites the torch and dynamite) (deflects or blocks projectiles) (immune to fire peas)
Unlocked	Spending 100 gems
Unlocked (China)	Beating Frostbite Caves - Day 11, Collect 10 Fire Peashooter Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Costumes (China)
Code name	firepeashooter
Fire Peashooter knows that what she does looks exciting. But working with an open flame is serious and, more importantly, dangerous business. That's why, in her spare time, she talks to children about the importance of fire safety. "I'm a trained professional," she explains. "Don't try this at home, kids."

Fire Peashooter is a peashooting gemium plant that was first added in the 3.2.1 update of Plants vs. Zombies 2. She was first confirmed in the Frostbite Caves Part 1 developer diary, and was available for purchase since February 18, 2015 for 109 gems along with the first Frostbite Caves Part 2 teaser Piñata Parties. She costs 100 gems. Fire Peashooter shares the same attributes with Peashooter, but she is also a thawing plant, capable of emitting heat every 6 seconds that gradually thaws out frozen or chilled plants in a 3x3 area surrounding her, as well as being immune to all freezing effects herself. She does 40 damage to zombies every 1.35-1.5 seconds.

Origins

For more information about this character, see Fire Peashooter.

Like other pea-shooting plants, Fire Peashooter is based on the pea plant (Pisum sativum). She may also be based on other fiery pea-shooting plants like Flaming Pea from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures and the plant of the same name from Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare.

The "fire" part comes from her being on fire and shooting flaming peas.

Almanac entry

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

Fire Peashooter
	SUN COST 175 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 40 RANGE Straight Pepper-mint Plant Food: Creates a fire trail, unfreezing plants and damaging zombies in the row. Fire Peashooters are immune to frost and shoot flaming peas down the lane. Fire Peashooter knows that what she does looks exciting. But working with an open flame is serious and, more importantly, dangerous business. That's why, in her spare time, she talks to children about the importance of fire safety. "I'm a trained professional." she explains. "Don't try this at home, kids."

Fire Peashooter

SUN COST 175 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 40 RANGE Straight Pepper-mint Plant Food: Creates a fire trail, unfreezing plants and damaging zombies in the row. Fire Peashooters are immune to frost and shoot flaming peas down the lane. Fire Peashooter knows that what she does looks exciting. But working with an open flame is serious and, more importantly, dangerous business. That's why, in her spare time, she talks to children about the importance of fire safety. "I'm a trained professional." she explains. "Don't try this at home, kids."

Chinese version  (China only)

火焰豌豆射手喷射火焰豌豆。 特点：对冰冻免疫 特点：冰释其附近的植物 植物特征：橙色植物、豌豆家族、浑身浴火、满腹怒火 火焰豌豆射手清楚当她激动起来会是什么样子。但是和“喷火”打交道可不是闹着玩的，更重要的是，这是危险的工作。所以她闲暇时，总是对孩子们说用火安全。“我是受过专业训练的”，她解释说。“孩子们，别在家里玩火。” In English: Fire Peashooters shoot flaming peas. Special: immune to freezing Special: melts ice on nearby plants Plant feature: orange plant, pea family, full of fiery aura, full of anger Fire Peashooter knows what she looks like when she gets excited. But working with an open flame is serious and, more importantly, dangerous business. That's why, in her spare time, she talks to children about the importance of fire safety. "I'm professionally trained," she explains. "Don't play with fire at home, kids."

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

Fire Peashooters using their Plant Food ability at once

When given Plant Food, Fire Peashooter blows a fire trail for three seconds that affects all tiles in front of her, destroying ice blocks and dealing a total of 1800 damage to every zombie on the trail.

Pepper-mint effect

When boosted by Pepper-mint, Fire Peashooter will have an additional 240 damage added to to her fire peas. In addition, she will have a 25% chance to shoot a plasma pea, with said plasma peas receiving an additional 330 damage (or deal 330 damage if she is not at level 5+) while boosted. Finally, her plant food attack will deal an additional 300 damage per damage tick over the duration of the Plant Food.

Costumed (China only)

Her Plant Food ability now summons pillars of fire on each tile, burning any zombie in her path and deals more damage.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Moderate)*	Projectile Velocity	Plant Food Power (Damage)**	Special (Plasma Pea)***		Range
									Chance	Damage
1	0	0	175	5 seconds	300 damage	40 damage	Normal	225 damage	0%	N/A	Straight
2	10	1,000			350 damage	60 damage
3	25	2,500		4.5 seconds	400 damage	80 damage	+ 1.6x	250 damage
4	50	5,000			450 damage	100 damage
5	100	10,000		4 seconds	550 damage	120 damage			5%	180 damage
6	200	20,000	150		600 damage	140 damage		275 damage		210 damage
7	400	30,000		3.5 seconds	650 damage	160 damage	+ 2.2x		10%	240 damage
8	800	50,000			700 damage	180 damage			15%	270 damage
9	1,200	75,000		3 seconds	800 damage	200 damage		300 damage	20%	300 damage
10	1,600	100,000	125		900 damage	240 damage			25%	330 damage

*Per projectile.
**Per hit. The Plant Food effect does a total of 8 hits on all zombies on the trail.
***After reaching level 5, Fire Peashooter will have a chance to shoot plasma peas.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Consecutive Fire Peas 连珠火豆	Each attack of Fire Peashooter has a 10% chance of firing bullets in a continuous attack (continuous attacks can also be triggered). 火焰豌豆射手每次攻击有10%的概率连续攻击发射子弹（连续攻击也可以触发）。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Fire Peashooter gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	High-speed Bursts 高速连发	Fire Peashooter has a 20% chance of firing bullets with each attack (continuous attacks can also be triggered). 火焰豌豆射手每次攻击有20%的概率连续攻击发射子弹（连续攻击也可以触发）。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Fire Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Fire Peashooter may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Fire Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

While Fire Peashooter initially deals similar damage to Repeater and has a lower sun cost, the fact that Repeater can work in tandem with Torchwood for a total cost of 375 sun at level 1 makes Fire Peashooter a less desirable choice in longer levels outside Frostbite Caves. Additionally, Fire Peashooter does not function well in tandem with ice-based plants, and can reignite Explorer Zombie/Torchlight Zombie's torch and Prospector Zombie's dynamite stick.

The main use of Fire Peashooter is in Frostbite Caves as a heating plant, as most other heating choices such as Pepper-pult, Lava Guava and Jack O' Lantern have a longer recharge time. This does not come for free however, as Fire Peashooter does not have as much damage potential as other heating choices. Fire Peashooter should be planted in the center of the defenses where she can help other plants quickly recover from the freezing winds. On the other hand, placing a line of Fire Peashooters on the front line can prevent Hunter Zombies from being able to freeze other plants. However, Snapdragon may be more suited to the front lines.

Do not use Fire Peashooter against Imp Dragon Zombies as they are completely immune to fire damage. Therefore, she is not a viable option for Arthur's Challenge, as in addition to the Imp Dragon Zombies, Jester Zombies can also deflect the fire peas. Jester Zombie, however, cannot deflect Fire Peashooter's Plant Food effect.

Her plant food effect is outstripped by the Jalapeno, as their damage is the same and both affect the whole lane. In fact, the Fire Peashooter only attacks forward during its Plant Food effect, thus making Jalapeno a much more desirable choice. However, the Fire Peashooter's Plant Food actually does damage over time, whereas the Jalapeno's is instant. Consequently, a Fire Peashooter would be able to fry one of Sloth Gargantuar's Yeti Imps. If you have the Jalepeno, a better alternative is to instant-recharge it.

Fire Peashooter is somewhat better than the Pepper-pult, as she fires twice as fast, costs less and deals more damage in total. However, she can't shoot over ice blocks and let the Hot Potatoes do their job unlike the Pepper-pult, and does not deal splash damage. Furthermore, due to being a gemium, it will be hard to obtain seed packets for her. All in all, it simply depends on the type of level it is.

In Kongfu World, be careful when using her against Hammer and Nunchaku Zombies, since they can also deflect their peas, albeit they can’t deflect her Plant Food effect.

Balance changes

Update 9.1.1

• ▲ Can now turn zombies to ash when defeated

Update 11.5.1

• ▲ Plant Food Attack Fire is now a grid item. The damage is calculated in tiles, a zombie can take multiple damage per second.
• ▼ Plant Food Damage deals to Gargantuar, General zombies and Zomboss is reduced by 25%.
• ▲ Plant Food deals multiple damage to Zomboss.

Related achievement

	So Thawful Thaw 13 ice blocks in a single level

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Fire Peashooter
Simplified Chinese	火焰豌豆射手	"Flaming peashooter"
French	Pyro-pisto-pois
German	Feuer-Erbsenkanone
Italian	Sparasemi focosa
Brazilian Portuguese	Disparervilha de Fogo	From Disparervilha and fogo
Spanish	Lanzaguisantes de fuego

Trivia

• Her Almanac entry references the importance of fire safety.
• Fire Peashooter and Chilly Pepper are the only plants from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures to be carried over into Plants vs. Zombies 2.
  • Coincidentally, they are both elemental derivatives of pre-existing plants.
• If she is watered in the Zen Garden, her flames will be extinguished, revealing that her body is exactly identical to Peashooter's.
  • If she has her costume on, the stab on the fork handle will appear before turning back into Fire Peashooter.
• If the player watches closely, they will notice that when it is fed Plant Food, its fire burns zombies before it can even get to them in a similar fashion to Jalapeno.
• Despite the fact she is listed as female in the Almanac, notifications for the Frostbite Caves Part 2 Piñata Parties and an advertisement for getting her seed packets in a Fire Piñata refer to her as male.
• If Plant Food is used on her when a Piñata Party ends, the fire will stay on the lawn until the event is exited. The same happens with Red Stinger's laser.
• She, Laser Bean, and Bowling Bulb are the only plants to have their damage output changed in a subsequent update.
• Her Almanac entry stated that she dealt normal damage. However, its actual damage was moderate.
• If she shoots a fire pea and a Jester Zombie deflects it, when the pea destroys a plant there will be a burning animation.
• Prior to the Frostbite Caves Part 2 update, Fire Peashooter's Plant Food effect dealt 3500 damage and had a range of only 5 tiles.
• In Fire Peashooter's Tournament during June 19, 2023 to June 26, 2023 there are two frozen Fire Peashooters on the lawn, which is impossible to happen under normal circumstance as Fire Peashooter is immune to freeze effects.
  • This is the third freeze-immune plant that got frozen during Arena, the first being Jack O' Lantern, the second being Pyre Vine.
• Fire Peashooter is one of the nine plants that have a food-related costume, the others being Spring Bean (if you count the coconuts), Citron, Hot Potato, Guacodile, Gold Leaf, Buttercup, Snapdragon, and Cold Snapdragon.
• Coincidentally, its price is the same as a Peashooter and Torchwood's price combination in the first game.

Specific to Chinese version (China only)

• In a teaser for the Chinese version, there is a frozen Fire Peashooter when it should be impossible for a Fire Peashooter to be frozen since she is a thawing plant.
• She is the first plant imported from the international version to have her costume (a campfire wood) original to this version. The said costume was never found in the international version's sprite sheet.

See also

• Flaming Pea
• Fire Peashooter (Spawnable)
• Torchwood
• Peashooter
• Frostbite Caves

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