Melon-pult (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Melon-pult (disambiguation).

Melon-pult
Melon-pults do heavy damage to groups of zombies.
Statistics
Sun Cost	325
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	80 damage
Range	Lobbed
Area	3x3
Family	Arma-mint
Plant Food effect	Launches melons at every zombie, dealing both damage and splash damage on impact.
Firing Speed	1/2x
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	325
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	80 damage
Attack Rate	2.9 seconds
Range	Whole Lane to the Right
Area	3×3 AoE
Class	Ranged
Quality	Uncommon
Tags	Damage, catapult, area of effect
Plant features	Green plant
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Beat Wild West - Day 12
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Melon-pult Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Code name	melonpult
"Everyone says my head looks like a melon," said the middle child of the Pult family, "And they would be right." Don't ask him if he's seedless or not though, it offends him and frankly it's none of your business.

“	Melon-pult deals heavy damage to group of zombies.	”
—Penny

Melon-pult is a lobbed-shot plant available in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He is the fifth plant unlocked in Wild West, upon completing Day 12.

He attacks zombies by lobbing melons at the incoming horde at half the rate of a normal Peashooter (2.85-3 seconds), each dealing high damage to the initial target as well as splash damage in an area around it. Though, as with Threepeater, his area of effect covers three lanes.

However, unlike Threepeater, Melon-pult's attack is triggered only when a zombie or a lawn obstacle appears in the lane in which he is planted.

Like with the projectiles from other lobbed-shot plants, the catapulted melons can bypass most shields that can otherwise block straight-firing projectiles such as Barrel Roller Zombie's barrel and Troglobite's frozen block, as well as being capable of targeting submerged Snorkel Zombies in water.

About

For more information about this character, see Melon-pult.

Melon-pult is unlocked by finishing Wild West - Day 12, and he has been significantly changed since the version in the first game: His sun cost has been slightly raised to 325 sun, he can no longer be upgraded into Winter Melon, and the melons' splash damage is slightly stronger, doing 40 damage to all zombies in a 3x3 area.

Almanac entry

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

Melon-pult
	SUN COST 325 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 80 RANGE Lobbed AREA 3x3 Arma-mint Plant Food: Launches melons at every zombie, dealing both damage and splash damage on impact. Melon-pults do heavy damage to groups of zombies. "Everyone says my head looks like a melon," said the middle child of the Pult family, "And they would be right." Don't ask him if he's seedless or not though, it offends him and frankly it's none of your business.

Melon-pult

SUN COST 325 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 80 RANGE Lobbed AREA 3x3 Arma-mint Plant Food: Launches melons at every zombie, dealing both damage and splash damage on impact. Melon-pults do heavy damage to groups of zombies. "Everyone says my head looks like a melon," said the middle child of the Pult family, "And they would be right." Don't ask him if he's seedless or not though, it offends him and frankly it's none of your business.

Chinese version  (China only)

西瓜投手能对成群的僵尸造成巨大伤害。 发射速度：1/2倍速 范围：抛掷 植物特征：绿色植物 “人人都说我的头长得像个西瓜”，投手家族的二把手说。“可能是真的吧。”千万别问它是不是无籽西瓜，它一听就翻脸。 In English: Melon-pult can deal massive damage to grouped zombies. Firing speed: 1/2x Range: lobbed Plant feature: green plant "Everyone says my head looks like a watermelon," says the second chief in command of the Pult family. "I guess so." Don't ask it if it's a seedless melon though, it gets angry immediately whenever he hears that.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When given Plant Food, Melon-pult will turn into a mortar cannon, before unleashing a barrage of giant melons separated into four waves to all zombies on the field; if there is no valid target, a single melon per volley will be fired on a random tile. Each giant melon deals 200 damage to the initial target, but only 20 splash damage in a 3x3 area.

Arma-mint effect

When boosted by Arma-mint, Melon-pult will do an additional 160 damage, (with an additional 80 damage added to his splash damage), and he'll do an additional 400 damage with his Plant Food effect (with an additional 40 damage being added to the splash damage).

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Heavy)		Projectile Velocity	Plant Food Power (Damage)		Range	Area
						Direct	Splash		Direct	Splash
1	0	0	325	5 seconds	300 damage	80 damage	40 damage	Normal	200 damage	20 damage	Lobbed	3x3
2	10	1,000		4.5 seconds	325 damage	85 damage	45 damage		210 damage
3	50	2,000	300		350 damage	90 damage	50 damage		220 damage
4	100	4,000			375 damage	95 damage	55 damage	+ 1.3x	230 damage
5	125	6,000			400 damage	105 damage	60 damage		240 damage
6	175	8,000		4 seconds	450 damage	110 damage	65 damage		250 damage	25 damage
7	250	10,000	275		500 damage	115 damage	70 damage		260 damage
8	350	15,000			550 damage	120 damage	75 damage		270 damage
9	450	20,000			600 damage	125 damage	80 damage		280 damage
10	800	60,000		3.5 seconds	650 damage	135 damage		+ 1.6x	300 damage	30 damage
11	1,000	75,000	250		700 damage	140 damage			320 damage
12	1,250	100,000			750 damage	145 damage			340 damage
13	1,500	150,000			800 damage	150 damage			360 damage	35 damage
14	1,750	200,000		3 seconds	850 damage	155 damage			380 damage
15	2,000	250,000	200		900 damage	160 damage			400 damage	40 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Double Throw 双重投掷	When there are 2 or more zombies in the attack range, Melon-pult has a 25% chance to launch two watermelons. 当攻击范围内有2个及以上僵尸时，西瓜投手有25%的概率发射两个西瓜。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Melon-pult gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Proficient Throw 投掷精通	When there are 2 or more zombies in the attack range, Melon-pult has a 50% chance to launch two watermelons. 当攻击范围内有2个及以上僵尸时，西瓜投手有50%的概率发射两个西瓜。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Melon-pult gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Melon-pult may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Melon-pult gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Melon Slices 西瓜片	There is a 25% chance to throw 3 melon slices that does damage to zombies in its lane in a 3x3 area. 有概率投掷出3片西瓜片，对一条直线上的僵尸造成伤害。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Melon-pult gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Costumed  (China only)

It can launch fire melons that deal quadruple the damage of normal melons.

Strategies

Melon-pult retains his role as a well-rounded and reliable offensive choice, useful both in normal levels and in the Endless Zones. This is further cemented by improvements in both splash damage and radius, greatly increasing Melon-pult's crowd control capability in the progress.

On the other hand, Melon-pult's reliability has taken a noticeable hit, as certain zombies can now block or reflect lobbed shots, such as Shield Zombie, Jester Zombie and Parasol Zombie.

Melon-pult can be used in conjunction with Cold Snapdragon, as the latter's chilling effect and high damage makes this combination similar to planting Winter Melons, with a cheaper price of 25 sun. In addition, Cold Snapdragon helps Melon-pult to take out the zombies that he normally can't, such as Jester Zombies, Shield Zombies and Parasol Zombies.

It can be used instead of the Winter Melon on Frostbite Caves, since Ice plants aren't the best option in that world, can be used as a replacement in such world and if you want to use it as if it were a Winter Melon (PvZ2), use Stallia or Sap-fling.

Balance changes

Version 2.5.6  (China only)

• ▲ Melon slices damage area increased from 1x1 to 3x3 area.
• ▼ Melon Slices chance of occurence decreased from 40% to 25%.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Melon-pult
Simplified Chinese	西瓜投手	"Watermelon pitcher"
French	Cata-melon
German	Melonapult
Italian	Cocopulta
Brazilian Portuguese	Melancipulta	Portmanteau of melancia and catapulta
Russian	Арбузопульта	From Арбуз and пульта
Spanish	Melonpulta

Trivia

• If a zombie is in front of him, the zombie will not instantly be hit by the melon, unlike in Plants vs. Zombies. The only time it will be hit by a melon instantly is if he was a zombie taller than the Melon-pult himself.
• His description mentions that he is the middle child of the Pult family. This would make Cabbage-pult the youngest and Kernel-pult the oldest.
• He and Winter Melon both have the same watering animation.
• After he defeats a zombie, the "brick-breaking" sound will not play if his melon hits another zombie.
• In some Last Stand levels, Melon-pult cannot be selected as one of the plants for the level. This is most likely because he could take out hordes of zombies with ease, and the player could afford plenty of them. However, Winter Melon can be used, but he is much more expensive than Melon-pult.
• He and Threepeater were originally going to cost the same amount of sun that is used to plant them in the original game, according to pre-release gameplay footage. In Melon-pult's case, he would have costed 300 sun. However, when the game released, they swapped sun costs.

See also

• Winter Melon
• Lobbed shots
• Lobber plants

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