Grave Buster (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Grave Buster (disambiguation).

Grave Buster
Grave Busters consume graves they're planted on.
Statistics
Sun Cost	0
Recharge	10 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Bust Speed	4 seconds
Usage	On Gravestone
Family	Contain-mint
Usage	Single use, must be planted on graves
Special	Removes graves
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	0
Recharge	10 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Class	Special
Quality	Common
Tags	Insta
Plant features	Green plant, sharp teeth
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Beating Ancient Egypt - Day 9
Unlocked (China)	Beating Ancient Egypt - Day 8; collecting 10 Grave Buster Puzzle Piece
Costumes
Code name	gravebuster
He may appear spiky or ill-tempered, but Grave Buster just wants to give you a big hug. Unless you're a puppy. He's terrified of those.

“	Grave Buster will eat a gravestone, quickly destroying them.	”
—Penny

Grave Buster is an instant-use plant and environment modifier appearing in Plants vs. Zombies 2. His only use is to destroy tombstones, freeing up space for planting and preventing ambush zombies from spawning from them.

About

For more information about this character, see Grave Buster

Grave Buster is now unlocked by finishing Ancient Egypt - Day 9. Aside from great changes in aesthetic, which changed him from a wooden like plant to a vine, Grave Buster has also received modifications in functionality: he is now a free plant, his recharge rate has been increased, and the time to fully destroy a tombstone has been reduced to four seconds.

On the other hand, Grave Buster will no longer leave behind a consumable after destroying tombstones. He is unlocked in Ancient Egypt to show the player its ability in clearing tombstones. Instead of popping back when the Grave Buster is eaten, the grave slides back up quickly like how it spawns at the beginning of each level when you briefly preview the lawn.

Almanac entry

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

Grave Buster
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 10 TOUGHNESS 300 Special Bust Speed Usage On Gravestone Contain-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Grave Busters consume graves they're planted on. He may appear spiky or ill-tempered, but Grave Buster just wants to give you a big hug. Unless you're a puppy. He's terrified of those.

Grave Buster

SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 10 TOUGHNESS 300 Special Bust Speed Usage On Gravestone Contain-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Grave Busters consume graves they're planted on. He may appear spiky or ill-tempered, but Grave Buster just wants to give you a big hug. Unless you're a puppy. He's terrified of those.

Chinese version  (China only)

噬碑藤会吃掉墓碑。 用法：一次性，只对墓碑有效 特点：吃掉墓碑 植物特征：绿色植物、伶牙俐齿 尽管看上去外表凶恶，脾气暴躁，但噬碑藤其实只是想给你个温柔的拥抱。除非你是一只小狗，没错，他怕狗。 In English: Grave Buster consumes graves. Usage: single use, only works on graves Plant feature: green plant, sharp teeth Though having a scary look and a bad temper, Grave Buster just wants to give you a calming hug, unless you are a puppy. Yes, he is scared of dogs.

Upgrades

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Contain-mint effect

When boosted by Contain-mint, Grave Buster can absorb an additional 900 damage and destroys graves in one second. He will always produce an explosion that does 1900 damage upon destroying a grave.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Mediocre)	Toughness (Typical)	Special (Bust Speed)	Damage*	Area*
1	0	0	0	10 seconds	300 damage	4 seconds	None	None
2	10	1,000			400 damage	3.5 seconds
3	75	5,000		9 seconds	500 damage	3 seconds
4	200	10,000			600 damage	2.5 seconds
5	400	20,000		8 seconds	700 damage	2 seconds
6	750	30,000			800 damage		1800 damage	Tile
7	1,000	40,000			900 damage
8	1,250	50,000		7 seconds
9	1,500	60,000
10	2,000	75,000		6 seconds			1900 damage

*The Grave Buster after reaching Level 6 can explode after finishing eating a grave.
Note: At level 4, Grave Buster gains the ability to eat Surfboard. At level 9, it can eat Tent.

Mastery upgrade

• Damage Pierce

Costumed (China only)

Produce sun after eating a grave.

Plants vs. Zombies Online (China only) (Archived content)

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Upgrade 1	Consuming every two graves will drop 25 sun.

Strategies

Grave Buster continues to find its use in Ancient Egypt, Dark Ages, and Modern Day as a tool for destroying tombstones, preventing them from blocking straight shots, and in Dark Ages' and Ancient Egypt's case, summoning zombies through ambushes. However, the task of removing tombstones, while being much more important, has been greatly decentralized - since tombstones can now be destroyed by other offensive plants. The player can instead utilize area-of-effect plants instead of Grave Buster to quickly destroy multiple graves. Tomb Tangler, while less accessible, also has persistent effects. Still, Grave Buster remains as a specialized option to clear the field of obstructions, and will prove to be useful in both normal levels and Endless Zones, especially when gravestones are spawned in inaccessible areas that your plants can't simply hit, or in Arena for those massive durable tombstones.

Grave Buster is best used at the start of the level when there are barely any plants or zombies on screen so it will go largely unopposed. While it generally best to destroy the tombstones closest to the house, making way for sun producing or offensive plants, clearing graves closer to the zombies to make room for offensive plants like Cherry Bomb and Spikerock is another viable option.

Gallery

Grave Buster has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Grave Buster
Simplified Chinese	噬碑藤	lit. "Grave-devouring Vine"
French	Éclateur de tombes
German	Grabfresser
Italian	Mangiatombe
Brazilian Portuguese	Come-cova	Portuguese for "eat grave"
Russian	Могильный разрушитель
Spanish	Comepiedras

Trivia

• If transformed into a sheep by a Wizard Zombie, the tombstone will recede to its normal phase, but if the grave is destroyed, the sheep will remain there. If transformed back the regular animation still plays.
• It is the first plant in this game that went through a major redesign. The other plants that were redesigned are Spikeweed, Threepeater, Starfruit, and Tangle Kelp.
• Instead of kicking Grave Buster when its jam is playing, a Punk Zombie will bite the Grave Buster.
• Despite having a sun cost of 0, it is available in some Last Stand levels, namely the ones in every world but Ancient Egypt, Dark Ages, and Modern Day.
  • In the three mentioned worlds, it is because there are tombstones in said worlds.
    • It is unnecessary to use Grave Buster in the other worlds, as there are no tombstones, resulting in a waste of a seed slot.
• Its explosion ability reuses assets from Potato Mine.
• Grave Buster was the only plant from the original Night world to come to Plants vs. Zombies 2 before the release of Dark Ages.
• Unlike the first game, he no longer gives the player coins, gems or a sprout.
• His Almanac entry, which revealed Grave Buster is afraid of puppies, may refer to Tomb Raiser Zombie and its ability to create tombstones, something he was meant to counter.
  • Coincidentally, both Grave Buster and Tomb Raiser Zombie are encountered in Ancient Egypt.
  • Tomb Raiser Zombie wears an Anubis headdress, which resembles a jackal, a wild dog native to sub-Saharan Africa, including parts of Europe and Asia.
  • Tomb Raiser Zombie's Almanac entry also stereotypically mentions dogs.

See also

• Tombstone
• Tomb Raiser Zombie
• Ancient Egypt
• Dark Ages
• Tomb Tangler

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