Oak is a playable plant class in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville as an alternate form for the Acorn. He is a Defend class who specializes in explosive damage and attacks.
He is also capable of carrying up to three Acorn Passengers which act as mounted turrets. Acorn Passengers take reduced damage from all sources while riding an Oak. Said Acorn Passengers can also heal the Oak, but not more than once at a time per Acorn.
Descriptions
In-game description
Oaks intimidate and provide a lot of explosive firepower to defend an area. They just need to be careful because they are a large target.
Primary Weapon
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Abilities
Left ability | |
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![]() Super Sap Trap | Launch a massive sticky knockback explosive. Press [left button] to detonate. |
Center ability | |
![]() Treeject | Transform back into an Acorn. |
Right ability | |
![]() Roll for Damage | Roll a giant damaging log towards opponents. |
Upgrades
![]() | Refreshing Revive
| ● 1
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Faster refresh time for all abilities by reviving an ally.
Reduces ability cooldown by 30% when a teammate is revived. |
![]() | Rough Patch
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Spawn with more health after suffering multiple vanquishes in a row.
After dying three times in a row, spawn with the maximum amount of over-health for the currently used class after respawning or being revived. |
![]() | Log Jam
| ![]() | ● 1
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Cover larger area with Roll for Damage.
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![]() | Molasses
| ![]() | ● 2
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Slow enemies who are near Super Sap Trap.
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![]() | Natural 20
| ![]() | ● 2
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Knock enemy away when hit by Roll for Damage ability.
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![]() | Little Friend
| ● 2
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Hold more Shell Shot and Wood Grief ammo. Treetop Turret overheats more slowly.
Increases Shell Shot ammo to 50 rounds and Wood Grief ammo to 14 rounds. |
![]() | Health Regeneration
| ![]() | ● 2
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Faster health regeneration.
Doubles health regeneration rate. |
![]() | Health Regeneration Delay
| ![]() | ● 2
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Reduced time between taking damage and when health regeneration activates.
Reduces the time required to start health regeneration by half. |
![]() | Slap Back
| ![]() | ● 2
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Knock enemies farther away with Acorn's Sap Trap.
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![]() | Critical Blow
| ● 3
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Faster refresh time for all abilities by earning a critical vanquish.
Reduces ability cooldown by 3 seconds upon critically vanquishing an enemy. |
![]() | Quickdraw
| ![]() | ● 3
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Gain ammo for Shell Shot weapon by using Acorn Dash ability.
Adds 16 rounds to Shell Shot upon using the Acorn Dash ability. |
![]() | Fallback
| ![]() | ● 3
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Move faster when at low health.
Increases movement speed by 20% upon reaching 20% HP or below. |
![]() | Hardened
| ● 3
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Increased max health.
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![]() | Speedy
| ● 3
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Move faster, except when sprinting.
Increases walking speed by 12.9032% |
![]() | Rewind
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Sap Trap refreshes faster if it doesn't deal any damage.
Reduces the cooldown duration of Sap Trap to 12 seconds if it does not hit an enemy. |
![]() | Leveling Up
| ● 2
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Earn XP faster.
Earn 10% more XP. |
![]() | Party Supplies
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Heal yourself and the Oak at faster rate with Lumber Support.
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![]() | Nutty Feedback
| ● 4
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Gain ammo for Shell Shot by dealing damage.
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![]() | Adrenaline Rush
| ![]() | ● 4
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Move faster for a short time by earning a vanquish.
Increases movement speed by 55% for 3 seconds upon vanquishing an enemy. |
Related achievements
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Strategies
With
Oak's Super Sap trap is good for defeating hordes of zombies, so the player should put down a Sap Trap where they know where hordes of zombies are going to come. This is very effective in Garden Ops.
Against
Tips & Tricks
Balancing changes
November 27 2019 Update (Pre-TTK)
- ▲ Increase Wood Grief direct damage 16.8->24
- ▲ Increase Wood Grief splash damage 12->16
Gallery
Trivia
- His primary weapon, Wood Grief, is a pun on the popular idiom "Good Grief".
See also
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