Goo Peashooter

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This item is only obtainable during certain events. However, it can still be used if you have already obtained it. It is currently available.

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Not to be confused with Toxic Pea, a plant in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare.

Goo Peashooter
Goo Peashooters shoot poison peas at zombies, poisoning them as well as slowing them down.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	125
Recharge	5
Damage	30
In-game statistics
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Goo Peashooter is a goopy shooter. See? See how that works? It's a play on words. Words are often playful, folks!

Goo Peashooter is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that was introduced in the 7.0.1 update. It shoots poison peas at zombies that do damage over time, as well as slowing them.

Like Shadow Peashooter and Sling Pea, Goo Peashooter requires 250 seed packets to unlock it for free. The player can do so by replaying Lost City levels to earn Piñatas from the piñata tracker.

Origins

Like most other peashooting plants, it is based on the Pisum sativum, commonly known as the pea. Its ability and being a peashooting plant is also partially based on Toxic Pea from Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare.

Its Almanac entry points out how its name is a play on the words "goopy shooter," since Goo Peashooter shoots goop at zombies.

Almanac entry

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

Goo Peashooter
	SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 30 SPECIAL Poison PLANT FOOD POWER 10% Ail-mint Plant Food: Summons a large ball of poison that deals damage, knock back, and poison all zombies on the lawn. Goo Peashooters shoot poison peas at zombies, poisoning them as well as slowing them down. Goo Peashooter is a goopy shooter. See? See how that works? It's a play on words. Words are often playful, folks!

Goo Peashooter

SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 30 SPECIAL Poison PLANT FOOD POWER 10% Ail-mint Plant Food: Summons a large ball of poison that deals damage, knock back, and poison all zombies on the lawn. Goo Peashooters shoot poison peas at zombies, poisoning them as well as slowing them down. Goo Peashooter is a goopy shooter. See? See how that works? It's a play on words. Words are often playful, folks!

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed Plant Food, Goo Peashooter will launch a giant ball of poison that poisons all zombies in its lane as well heavily reducing their speed.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Damage	Poison Damage*		Max Stacks	Slowdown Percentage*		Poison and Stall Duration		Plant Food Knockback Distance
							Normal	Plant Food		Normal	Plant Food	Normal	Plant Food
1	0	0	125	5 seconds	300 damage	30 damage	3 damage	75 damage	25	2%	10%	2 seconds	2 seconds	Normal
2	10	1,000	125	5 seconds	350 damage	35 damage		78 damage	26					+10%
3	25	2,500	125	4.5 seconds	400 damage	40 damage		81 damage	27					+20%
4	50	5,000	125	4.5 seconds	450 damage	45 damage		84 damage	28	3%				+30%
5	100	10,000	125	4 seconds	550 damage	50 damage		87 damage	29			3 seconds		+40%
6	200	20,000	100	4 seconds	600 damage	55 damage		90 damage	30					+50%
7	400	30,000	100	3.5 seconds	650 damage	60 damage		93 damage	31					+60%
8	800	50,000	100	3.5 seconds	700 damage	65 damage	4 damage	124 damage	31					+70%
9	1,200	75,000	100	3 seconds	800 damage	70 damage		128 damage	32			4 seconds		+80%
10	1,600	100,000	100	3 seconds	900 damage	75 damage		132 damage	33					+90%

*Per stack.

Strategies

Direct damage-wise, Goo Peashooter is not that impressive. For doing direct damage, there are much better options such as Repeater, Melon-pult, and Laser Bean, as they either do more damage for a similar cost or have better effects.

However, one good aspect of this plant is that Goo Peashooter will also poison the target, essentially making it a reusable Shadow-shroom, allowing it to dispatch armored zombies such as Buckethead Zombies and Knight Zombies easily, although a similar outcome can be reached using a Magnet-shroom.

Another good aspect of this plant is that the target receives Stallia's slowing perfume status effect, which helps it outclass the Snow Pea, including the fact that it can be used in tandem with fire-based plants such as Snapdragon and Pepper-mint. This is espically key in Frostbite Caves levels where Hunter Zombies and cold winds will mean thawing plants are crucial. However, at higher levels the Snow Pea can freeze targets in place, so it really depends on the level of the plants in question and the board situation.

Take note that since it shoots out a solid projectile, Jester Zombie is immune to it and will just reflect it back. The poison will also take time to fully damage the target, meaning faster zombies such as Zombie Chicken and Blastronaut Zombie will easily speed past it before the poison can kill them. It is also a poor choice in later Endless Zone levels and levels that spawn huge waves of zombies as Goo Peashooter will be overwhelmed, since its projectile can only affect the frontmost target. In short the Goo-Peashooter isn’t an effective option for crowd control; a Shadow-shroom given some plant food can poison all targets on screen for an effective amount of time, making it a better option for mass poisoning of all targets, although at the cost of lacking the slowing perfume.

One good thing to note that despite clearly being a projectile shot at the front, Excavator Zombie cannot deflect it with his shovel, allowing Goo Peashooter to dispatch him unlike most other peashooting plants.

Goo Peashooter's plant food effect is useful if the entire lane needs to be poisoned, with an added bonus of knockback. However, it faces competition with Shadow-shroom, as Shadow-shroom's plant food ability can target all on-screen zombies at once.

Gallery

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Trivia

• A post by PopCap representative Haemophilus_EA reveals a few facts about the Goo Peashooter:
  • It is Peashooter's sticky cousin, similar to how Shadow Peashooter is Peashooter's darker cousin.
  • The reason Goo Peashooter bounces around during its idle animation is because it is really happy and friendly.
  • It is recommended that gardeners wash their hands after handling a Goo Peashooter.
• Both Shadow Peashooter and Goo Peashooter fire projectiles that causes Stallia's perfume status effect.
• It is the third plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that can be earned by collecting seed packets, the first being Shadow Peashooter and the second being Sling Pea.
• It is one of the two premium plants that has the Modern Day/Player's House grass background in its Almanac, instead of the blue background with bright squares, the first being Shadow Peashooter.
• There is currently a bug in update 7.0.1 in which Goo Peashooter does not play all of the sounds that it should play, alongside in the regular gameplay.
• Unlike Shadow-shroom, Goo Peashooter doesn't require Plant Food to poison a Gargantuar.

See also

• Peashooter
• Shadow-shroom
• Shadow Peashooter
• Sling Pea
• Stallia

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