Fire Peashooter (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Fire Pea (disambiguation).

Fire Peashooter
Fire Peashooter shoots flaming peas down the lane.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	175
Recharge	5 seconds
Damage	40 damage per shot
Range	Straight
Special	Immune to frost Warms nearby plants
Weakness	(Immune to fire)
Family	Pepper-mint
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(reignites the torch and dynamite) (deflects or blocks projectiles) (immune to fire peas)
Rarity (China)	Uncommon
Unlocked	Spending 100 gems
Unlocked (China)	Beating Frostbite Caves - Day 11, Collect 10 Fire Peashooter Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Costumes (China)
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 DPS to zombies every 1.35-1.5 seconds.

Origins

For more information about this character, see Fire Peashooter.

Fire Peashooter is based on Pisum sativum like other pea-shooting plants. 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

Fire Peashooter		SUN COST 175 RECHARGE 5 SUN COST: 175 RECHARGE: 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 40 TOUGHNESS: 300 DAMAGE: 40 RANGE Straight FAMILY Pepper-mint RANGE: Straight FAMILY: Pepper-mint Fire Peashooters shoot flaming peas down the lane. Special: immune to frost Special: warms nearby plants 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

SUN COST: 175
RECHARGE: 5

		TOUGHNESS 300			DAMAGE 40

TOUGHNESS: 300
DAMAGE: 40

		RANGE Straight			FAMILY Pepper-mint

RANGE: Straight
FAMILY: Pepper-mint

Fire Peashooters shoot flaming peas down the lane.

Special: immune to frost
Special: warms nearby plants

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."

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 per shot to every zombie on the trail.

Pepper-mint effect

When boosted by Pepper-mint, Fire Peashooter will have an additional 240 DPS 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 DPS (or deal 330 DPS if she is not at level 5+) while boosted. Finally, her plant food attack will deal an additional 300 DPS 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 dps	40 dps	Normal	225 dps	0%	N/A	Straight
2	10	1,000	175	5 seconds	350 dps	60 dps		225 dps
3	25	2,500	175	4.5 seconds	400 dps	80 dps	+ 1.6x	250 dps
4	50	5,000	175	4.5 seconds	450 dps	100 dps		250 dps
5	100	10,000	175	4 seconds	550 dps	120 dps		250 dps	5%	180 dps
6	200	20,000	150	4 seconds	600 dps	140 dps		275 dps	5%	210 dps
7	400	30,000	150	3.5 seconds	650 dps	160 dps	+ 2.2x	275 dps	10%	240 dps
8	800	50,000	150	3.5 seconds	700 dps	180 dps		275 dps	15%	270 dps
9	1,200	75,000	150	3 seconds	800 dps	200 dps		300 dps	20%	300 dps
10	1,600	100,000	125	3 seconds	900 dps	240 dps		300 dps	25%	330 dps

*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	Fire Peashooter has a 35% chance to shoot two fire peas at a time.
	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 70% chance to shoot two (to five) fire peas at a time.
	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 275 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.

Its 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 it fires twice as fast, costs less and deals more damage in total. However, it 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 it. All in all, it simply depends on the type of level it is.

Changes

Update 9.1.1

• ▲ Can now turn zombies to ash when defeated

Related achievement

	So Thawful Thaw 13 ice blocks in a single level

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In other languages

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

Trivia

• Her Almanac entry references the importance of fire safety.
• She is similar to Flaming Pea from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, but unlike Flaming Pea, she has yellow eyes instead of black, and the stem is all colored red instead of green.
• When she is watered in the Zen Garden, her flames are 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.
• 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.
• 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 per shot and had a range of only 5 tiles.

See also

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