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.

Kernel-Pult is a Common Lobber plant in Plants vs. Zombies 3. It lobs kernels and butter at zombies

About

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

It costs 5 sun, and it attacks zombies by lobbing weak kernels and has 25% chance to lob butters that briefly stun zombies.

Origins

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

Its Plant Food name is named after one of Kernel Corn's ability 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 is named Butter Barrage, in which Kernel-Pult will lob five butters at random zombies.

Tacobility

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

Strategies

TBA

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)

• My favorites insect? No, not the European Corn Bored. It's the butterfly!
• I know it's corny, but higher-level plants chill, stun, and push back zombies ever better!(Generic tips only)
• I can't believe it's not... my butter pats that you're using to stun powerful zombies!
• I turn Jetpack Zombies into Jet-Puffed corn cereal!(Jetpack Zombie's tip)
• 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)

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Trivia

• Kernel-Pult's projectiles can be lobbed backwards despite the animation suggesting otherwise. This is can be observed when it attacks a Jetpack Zombie while flying over the plant.

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