Kernel-Pult (Plants vs. Zombies 3)

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Kernel-Pult
Lobs corn kernels, with a chance to lob butter that stuns zombies. Corny!
Sun cost	5
Rarity	Common
Type	Lobber
Health	300
Attack Damage	20
Attack Speed	3s
Damage per Second	6.7
Chance to Butter	25%
Butter Damage	40
Butter Duration	5s
Cooldown	7s
Getting hit by Kernel-Pult is like having ten movie theatre popcorn machines land on you before getting thrown in a hot tub full of piping-hot butter-like flavor-topping.
Plant Food
Butter Barrage
Butter Dmg. Boost	+200%
Volleys Lobbed	1
Butter per Volley	5
Instantly lobs butter at many random zombies, damaging and stunning them.
Tacobility
Extra Butter
Chance to Butter	35%
Butter Duration	5s
Increases chance of lobbing butter and butter duration.

“

Just the Corn for the Cob

”

Kernel-Pult was a Common Lobber plant obtainable in the pre-2021 version of Plants vs. Zombies 3. It lobbed kernels and butter at zombies

About

Kernel-Pult was a Common plant that was unlocked alongside Snapdragon after beating Floor 3 of Devour Tower. Its seed packets were more likely to be dropped in Taco Park breakout battles.

It costed 5 sun, and it attacked zombies by lobbing weak kernels with a 25% chance to lob sticks of butter that briefly stunned zombies.

Origins

It was based on the plant of the same name from the original game and its sequel.

Its Plant Food name was named after one of Kernel Corn's abilities in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.

Almanac entry

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

Kernel-Pult
Normal Common
Air-Guard Ballistic Stun
Lobs corn kernels, with a chance to lob butter that stuns zombies. Corny! 5 Health 300 Attack Damage 20 Attack Speed 3 s Damage per Second 6.7 Chance to Butter 25% Butter Damage 40 Butter Duration 5 s Cooldown 10 s Effective against:
Getting hit by Kernel-Pult is like having ten movie theatre popcorn machines land on you before getting thrown in a hot tub full of piping-hot butter-like flavor-topping.

Upgrades

Plant Food

Kernel-Pult's Plant Food ability was named Butter Barrage, in which Kernel-Pult would lob five sticks of butter at random zombies.

Tacobility

Kernel-Pult's Tacobility was Extra Butter, which increased its chance to lob butter.

Balancing changes

March 24th, 2020 Patch

• ▼ Base butter effect duration has been reduced from 8 to 5 seconds
  • ▼ Tacobility butter duration per upgrade level has been reduced slightly across all levels
    • ▼ Levels 1-5: TBA
  • ▼ Tacobility butter chance per upgrade level has been reduced slightly at higher levels
    • ▼ Level 3: From 45% -> 40%

Breakout Tips (Quotes)

• I can't believe it's not...my butter pats that you're using to stun powerful zombies!
• My favorite insect? No, not the European Corn Borer. It's the butterfly!
• I know it's corny, but higher-level plants chill, stun, and push back zombies even better! (Generic tips only)
• I'll extinguish those Flaming Riders no prob! Oh they're Flamingo Riders? Uh, I guess I'm good against them too! (Flamingo Rider's tip)
• I turn Jetpack Zombies into Jet-Puffed corn cereal! (Jetpack Zombie's tip)

Gallery

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Trivia

• Kernel-Pult's projectiles could be lobbed backwards despite the animation suggesting otherwise. This could be observed when it attacked Jetpack Zombies that were flying over it.