Pea-nut

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Pea-Nut (PvZH).

Pea-nut
Pea-nuts can shoot peas and block zombies.
Statistics
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	15 seconds
Toughness	4000 damage
Damage	20 damage
Range	Straight
Family	Reinforce-mint
Plant Food effect	Heals to full health, gains an armor helmet and shoots a barrage of peas.
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	20 seconds
Toughness	4000 damage
Damage	20 damage
Attack Rate	1.3 seconds
Range	Whole Lane to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Tough
Quality	Common
Tags	Defensive, damage
Plant features	Brown plant, offensive and defensive
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(deflects projectiles) (stops projectiles)
Unlocked	Spending 100 gems
Unlocked (China)	Obtaining 10 Pea-nut Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Code name	peanut
Pea-nut knows that some folks have an aversion to him. He tries to be sensitive to their concerns and give them the space they need. Still, he can't help but miss the good old days - back when he was the most popular nut around.

Pea-nut is an offensive and defensive gemium plant that appears in Plants vs. Zombies 2 while also being tied to Dark Ages Part 2. He was released on June 22, 2014, and was available for purchase for $2.99 (although there was a discount where he cost $0.99 starting July 20th). He can now be purchased for 100 gems permanently.

Pea-nut is a combination of Peashooter and Wall-nut: he can shoot peas at zombies that deal as much damage as a pea while absorbing damage like a defensive plant. However, if Pea-nut suffers from too much damage and has reached his second degrade, his fire rate is halved (except in the Chinese version).

Origins

Pea-nut is based on the real life Arachis hypogaea, a grain legume commonly known as peanut in English. His name is also related to his ability: "Pea" refers to Pea-nut's ability to shoot peas like Peashooter, while "nut" relates to Pea-nut's similarity to Wall-nut, as both are defensive plants.

His description is a reference to the fact that some people are allergic to peanuts.

Almanac entry

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

Pea-nut
	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 15 TOUGHNESS 4000 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Straight Reinforce-mint Plant Food: Heals to full health, gains an armor helmet and shoots a barrage of peas. Pea-nuts can shoot peas and block zombies. Pea-nut knows that some folks have an aversion to him. He tries to be sensitive to their concerns and give them the space they need. Still, he can't help but miss the good old days - back when he was the most popular nut around.

Pea-nut

SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 15 TOUGHNESS 4000 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Straight Reinforce-mint Plant Food: Heals to full health, gains an armor helmet and shoots a barrage of peas. Pea-nuts can shoot peas and block zombies. Pea-nut knows that some folks have an aversion to him. He tries to be sensitive to their concerns and give them the space they need. Still, he can't help but miss the good old days - back when he was the most popular nut around.

Chinese version  (China only)

花生射手可以阻挡僵尸的前进并可以喷射花生米。 植物特征：褐色植物、攻守兼备 花生射手知道有些人对他挺"过敏"。他试着了解他们的顾虑,并且给予对方足够的空间。即便如此,他仍然会情不自禁地怀念以前的时光-回到那个人人爱花生的时代。 In English: Pea-nut can block zombies and shoot peanuts. Plant feature: brown plant, offensive and defensive Pea-nut knows that some folks are "allergic" to him. He tries to learn about their concerns and give them the space they need. Still, he can't help but miss the good old days - back when everyone loved peanuts.

Overview

Pea-nut absorbs 4000 damage and his appearance changes upon at 1000, 2000 and 3000 damage before being eaten at 4000 damage. Pea-nut's fire rate is halved when it reaches its second degrade. Pea-nut attacks every 1.30166-1.333 seconds normally.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

Plant Food ability  (China only) (animated)

When given Plant Food, Pea-nut will act similarly to both Peashooter and Wall-nut: he will shoot 60 peas rapidly, restore his health, and gain a metal Viking helmet that can absorb up to 4000 damage or a smash from a Gargantuar.

Reinforce-mint effect

When boosted by Reinforce-mint, Pea-nut can absorb an additional 12000 damage, his peas will do an additional 110 damage, and his Plant Food effect will activate.

Costumed (China only)

Pea-nut gets additional body armor that increases his health.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Mediocre)	Toughness (High)	Damage* (Normal)	Plant Food Power (Damage)*	Projectile Velocity	Range
1	0	0	150	15 seconds	4000 damage	20 damage	20 damage	Normal	Straight
2	10	1,000		14 seconds	4500 damage	30 damage
3	25	2,500		13 seconds	5000 damage	40 damage	25 damage	+ 1.6x
4	50	5,000	125	12 seconds	6000 damage	50 damage
5	100	10,000		10 seconds	7000 damage	60 damage
6	200	20,000		9 seconds	8000 damage	70 damage
7	400	30,000	100	8 seconds	9000 damage	80 damage	30 damage	+ 2.2x
8	800	50,000		7 seconds	10000 damage	90 damage
9	1,200	75,000		6 seconds	11000 damage	100 damage
10	1,600	100,000	75	5 seconds	12000 damage	110 damage

*Per hit.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Salvo 齐射	25% chance to fire two projectiles at once. 花生上下两个脑袋可以一起攻击，有25%几率同时射出两个花生。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Pea-nut gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Vertidexterity 上下开弓	50% chance to fire two projectiles at once.. 花生的默契程度更上一层楼，有50%的几率同时射出两个花生。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Pea-nut gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Pea-nut may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Pea-nut gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

Pea-nut is a special plant that has both offensive and defensive capabilities, costing and doing a similar job as a Peashooter and Wall-nut set. While neither its offensive nor defensive capabilities are stellar for its price tag of 150 sun, Pea-nut is a useful plant if the player wishes to combine offense and defense into a single plant. Pea-nut also benefits from its relatively fast recharge for a defensive plant, allowing the player to set up defensive lines more quickly earlier in the level, as well as repair defense later on. Furthermore, it takes up less space than a Peashooter and a Wall-nut, therefore allowing more space for other defensive plants.

Thanks to his health, Pea-nut is useful against ambushes that can send zombies deep into the player's defenses, as well as Imps deployed by Imp Cannons and Gargantuars. Torchwood can also be used to boost Pea-nut's offensive potential, although this is often counterproductive as Torchwood will have to be placed on the front line to utilize his ability, and Torchwood itself isn't the most durable plant without using Pumpkin. Using Aloe with this plant can also help, since Aloe gets to exploit his healing and uphold your defense for much longer.

However, many zombies can overwhelm this plant due to him only shooting a single relatively weak projectile at a time, so relying solely on this plant for offensive pressure is a really bad idea. Additionally, Kiwibeast does a much better job at both defending from and attacking large groups than Pea-nut. Even Endurian does slightly better as he does direct damage to all zombies attacking him. More often than not, you would prefer using dedicated walls to stop threats and other strong offensive plants to eliminate them.

Pea-nut can be surprisingly useful when paired with Reinforce-mint, as Reinforce-mint activates Plant Food abilities for all plants in his family and Pea-Nut is the only one of them with a proper ranged attack. Even at just level 1, one of these salvos will deal a whopping 7800 damage (enough to kill 2 Gargantuars at once) per Pea-nut which can easily decimate zombie hordes in a matter of seconds if enough Pea-Nuts are present. There's also the synergy with Torchwood to boost damage and Blover to remove as many small targets as possible, allowing them to focus on Zomboss or other threats in Penny's Pursuit or Arena. Just beware this strategy might not be as viable depending on circumstances.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Pea-nut
Simplified Chinese	花生射手	lit. "Peanut Shooter"
French	Noix à pois
German	Erbs-Nuss
Italian	Seme di noce
Brazilian Portuguese	Nozervilha	From noz and ervilha
Russian	Горох-орех
Spanish	Cacahuete

Trivia

• In its third and last degrade he appears to drop himself slightly to his left then right himself up again.
• Before the 3.2 update, he could only absorb 20 bites before dying, degrading at 5, 10 and 15 bites.
• He and Pea Pod are the only peashooting plants that can shoot at shrunken zombies while they are in the water, because he can fire projectiles in their relative elevation.
• He is the first peashooting plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that does not resemble anything related to peas, the second being Board Beans in the Chinese version.
• Prior to version 2.8, Wall-nut First Aid would not work on his second degrade.
• In the Chinese version, his pea projectiles are replaced with peanuts, complete with their own sprites and animations. Peanuts behave identically to normal peas and can be ignited by Torchwood. This change was made as the pun in his name doesn't translate well beyond English.
• He is featured for free in Dark Ages - Nights 13, 18, and 20.
• His costume is similar to Fisherman Zombie's rubber ring.
• On March 16, 2017, he became one of 5 premium plants to be permanently purchasable with 100 gems, along with Squash, Jalapeno, Hypno-shroom and Shrinking Violet.

See also

• Peashooter
• Wall-nut

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