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Olive Pit is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that was introduced in the 8.2.1 update. When played, Olive Pit buries itself in the ground, and acts as a pitfall trap, swallowing any zombie that step on it. After burying itself, every 7 seconds, Olive Pit spits out olive oil in front tile of itself, lasting 6 seconds. Zombies that step on it will have their speed and bite attack reduced by 33.3%. After the chew, the Olive Pit will spit out 3 puddles of olive oil that is in three tiles in front of itself.
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Origins

Olive Pit is based on the olive, the fruit of the Olea europaea tree native to the Mediterranean primarily harvested for its vegetable oil, a key ingredient in Mediterranean cuisine.
Olive Pit's name is a pun on its function as a pitfall trap and on the real-life pit that is the seed of an olive.
Almanac entry
Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.
Olive Pit
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Olive Pit
SUN COST: 175
RECHARGE: 7
Special: Pit Capacity
Special: 20
FAMILY: Contain-mint
Olive Pits drill into the ground and wait to consume zombies foolish enough to walk over them.
Usage: can swallow multiple zombies at a time
Special: spits out zombie-slowing olive oil
Olive Pit lies buried deep underground, thinking furiously. What about? Hard to say. Maybe airplanes? Do helicopters count as airplanes?
Upgrades

Olivepit's Plant Food ability (animated)
When fed with Plant Food, Olive Pit will swallow zombies and spit out 8 puddles of olive oil in a 3x3 area, lasting 6 seconds.
Contain-mint effect
When boosted by Contain-mint, Olive Pit's pit capacity is increased by 6 zombies and its chew speed is reduced to 10 seconds.
Level upgrades
Level | Seed Packets | Coins | Upgrades | ||||
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Sun Cost | Recharge | Toughness | Pit Capacity | Chew Speed | |||
1 | 0 | 0 | 175 | 7 seconds | 300 dps | 2 | 20 seconds |
2 | 50 | 6.5 seconds | 350 dps | 3 | |||
3 | 100 | 6 seconds | 400 dps | 18 seconds | |||
4 | 200 | 150 | 5.5 seconds | 450 dps | 4 | ||
5 | 300 | 5 seconds | 550 dps | 16 seconds | |||
6 | 400 | 4.5 seconds | 600 dps | 14 seconds | |||
7 | 500 | 125 | 4.25 seconds | 650 dps | 5 | ||
8 | 600 | 4 seconds | 700 dps | 12 seconds | |||
9 | 800 | 3.75 seconds | 800 dps | 10 seconds | |||
10 | 1,000 | 100 | 3.5 seconds | 900 dps | 6 |
Strategies
Olive Pit can be seen as a much more flexible Chomper, as it can devour more zombies before chewing, cannot be destroyed by most zombies, and spits out olive oil which slows approaching zombies in a similar fashion to Sap-fling. The trade-off is that Olive Pit is slightly more expensive, recharges a little slower, and cannot affect zombies that don’t walk over it. Olive Pit also does no continuous damage to targets it can’t swallow, unlike Chomper.
Due to Olive Pit's insta-kill nature, it makes an excellent plant for thinning out dangerous zombies from hordes. Its immunity to most zombies makes it a great option to plant in the right-hand columns, nearest to where the zombies spawn. A fully upgraded olive pit can consume six zombies before it needs to chew and then only spends 10 seconds chewing - this can be enough to significantly thin large hordes of zombies with very little drawback, as Olive Pit is safe from most harm whilst its chewing.
However, Olive Pit does have some weaknesses. Flying enemies are completely immune to both the pit and the olive oil, and it is completely useless against Gargantuars, who are also one of the only zombies that can destroy it. Olive Pit is also incapable of dealing with consistent zombie hordes, as it must eventually stop to chew. As such, bringing another offensive plant is essential, so as to not overwhelm the Olive Pits.
Olive Pit, much like Chomper, also belongs to a fairly underwhelming mint family. Contain-mint doesn’t have that much utility within its family, and the only direct attack plant in it is Dazey Chain.
Olive Pit makes a great guard against plants vulnerable to direct attack, such as Electric Currant or Phat Beet. Should your defenses not be adequate against all threats that approach them, Olive Pits are a great last ditch (literally) to stop any zombies that might crawl through.
Olive Pit is an excellent plant to use in Arena because it can devour most of the zombies that show up, but the player should beware of Gargantuars and machines.
Gallery
Plants vs. Zombies Wiki has a gallery for Olive Pit.
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Trivia
- Some zombies cannot be swallowed by Olive Pit when they're walking on it, for example, Far Future vehicle zombies (due to their sizes).
- Its animation when planted is reused from Intensive Carrot.
- Despite being a ground plant, it can be planted on Lily Pads as well as the planked lanes in the Pirate Seas. This is likely an oversight.
- This was later fixed in the 8.3.1 update.
- It is the second plant based on an olive, the first being Oil Olive.
- Of these two, Olive Pit is the only one available in the international version of Plants vs. Zombies 2.
- Olive Pit cannot be planted on wooden planks in Pirate Seas. It shares this trait with Potato Mine, Bamboo-shoot, Cactus, Celery Stalker, Primal Potato Mine, Escape Root, Radish, Bambrook and Lotus Root.
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