Pea Pod

For the Plants vs. Zombies Heroes version, see Pea Pod (PvZH).

Pea Pod
Pea Pods can be planted in the same space for up to 5 times the destruction.
Statistics
Sun Cost	125
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Range	Straight
Plant Food Power	20%
Family	Appease-mint
Plant Food effect	Summons a giant Peashooter that shoots five giant peas.
Damage Details	Normal (for each pea)
Special	Increases rate of fire with multiple plantings
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	125
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Attack Rate	1.4 seconds
Range	Whole Lane to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Ranged
Quality	Uncommon
Tags	Damage, pea
Plant features	Green plant, pea family, brothers galore
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(blocks or reflects straight-shot projectiles) (blocks incoming projectiles when force field is up) (immune to straight shots while submerged)
Unlocked	Beating Wild West - Day 6
Costumes
Code name	peapod
Having studied Quantum Spatial Mechanics in Clown College, Pea Pod has been amusing families of all ages.

“	Pea Pod can be placed in the same position up to 5 times. Strategic distribution in different places will be key to victory.	”
—Penny

Pea Pod is the third plant obtained in the Wild West in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It is a peashooting plant, and the number of peas it shoots at a time corresponds to the number of heads it has at that moment. Each Pea Pod starts out with one head, and repeated dupes planted on the same pod can add up to a total of five heads, increasing the amount of overall damage they deal.

Origins

A real-life example of Pea Pods

Like most other pea-shooting plants, Pea Pod is based on the plant Pisum sativum.

Almanac entry

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

Pea Pod
	SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Straight PLANT FOOD POWER 20% Appease-mint Plant Food: Summons a giant Peashooter that shoots five giant peas. Pea Pods can be planted in the same space for up to 5 times the destruction. Having studied Quantum Spatial Mechanics in Clown College, Pea Pod has been amusing families of all ages.

Pea Pod

SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Straight PLANT FOOD POWER 20% Appease-mint Plant Food: Summons a giant Peashooter that shoots five giant peas. Pea Pods can be planted in the same space for up to 5 times the destruction. Having studied Quantum Spatial Mechanics in Clown College, Pea Pod has been amusing families of all ages.

Chinese version  (China only)

堆叠种植多棵豌豆使威力升至5倍！ 伤害：中等（每颗） 特殊：通过多重种植方式加强火力 植物特征：绿色植物、豌豆家族、兄弟成群 豌豆荚毕业于职业小丑学院的空间量子力学专业，他是家族中的的开心果，大家都爱他。 In English: Stack multiple Peas to quintuple the power! Damage: normal (for each pea) Special: increases firepower through planting multiple times Plant features: green plant, pea family, brothers galore Pea Pod studied spacial quantum mechanics and graduated from Professional Clown Academy. As a barrel of laughs in the family, everyone loves him.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

Fires five big peas that deal 400 damage each.

Appease-mint effect

When boosted by Appease-mint, Pea Pod's peas will do an additional 150 damage.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage* (Normal)	Projectile Velocity	Plant Food Power (Damage*)	Range
1	0	0	125	5 seconds	300 damage	20 damage	Normal	400 damage	Straight
2	10	1,000		4.5 seconds	325 damage	25 damage
3	50	2,000			350 damage	30 damage		450 damage
4	100	4,000			375 damage	35 damage	+1.6x
5	125	6,000		4 seconds	400 damage	40 damage
6	175	8,000			450 damage	45 damage		500 damage
7	250	10,000	100		500 damage	50 damage
8	350	15,000			550 damage	55 damage
9	450	20,000			600 damage	60 damage
10	800	60,000		3.5 seconds	650 damage	65 damage	+2.2x	550 damage
11	1,000	75,000			700 damage	70 damage
12	1,250	100,000	75		750 damage	80 damage
13	1,500	150,000			800 damage	90 damage
14	1,750	200,000			850 damage	100 damage
15	2,000	250,000		3 seconds	900 damage	110 damage		600 damage

*Per projectile

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade  (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Automatic Growth 自动生长	Pea Pod grows a head every minute. 使豌豆荚种下后每隔60秒长出一颗小豌豆。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Pea Pod gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Crazy Growth 疯狂生长	Pea Pod grows a head every 40 seconds. 强化自动生长效果，使其所需的时间间隔缩短20秒。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Pea Pod gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Pea Pod may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Pea Pod gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Costumed  (China only)

Fires five big fire peas.

Strategies

Pea Pod is a strong plant, for its sheer power is only rivaled by Mega Gatling Pea, but to get one to the maximum strength, you can end up spending up to 625 sun. This is enough to afford three Repeaters or six Peashooters along with one plant that costs 25 sun (Potato Mine, Stunion, Sun-shroom, Buttercup, etc.). Additionally, both Peashooter and Repeater are a bit stronger than one Pea Pod (Pea Pod has five heads, the combinations mentioned before have six peas). However, while weaker, this plant has a space advantage over the previous two combinations, taking only one space on the lawn. In Wild West, Pea Pod is exceptionally useful when placed on a minecart, where it can move to other lanes and take out multiple zombies at once, saving sun. Imitating this plant is a good option as you can set up Pea Pods faster. Pea Pod is useful with Torchwood, since it makes the peas do double damage and triple damage with Plant Food. Pea Pods are not useful in some objective levels, such as "Never have more than X plants" because upgrading a Pea Pod counts as a new plant.

Pea Pod can be also very useful when dealing with Zombie Chickens, due to their fast cooldown. You can choose it as an alternative to Lightning Reed for a more easy-to-use and powerful plant but beware of Zombie Chickens in large numbers as only one five-headed Pea Pod may sometimes be insufficient. Pea Pods are also excellent in dealing with fast zombies such as Explorer Zombie, Seagull Zombie, Jetpack Zombie, Surfer Zombie, Dodo Rider Zombie, Bug Zombie, Punk Zombie and Balloon Zombie, especially at maximum damage as they are able to destroy them quickly before they reach your backmost defenses, especially Explorer Zombie, Surfer Zombie and Punk Zombie case where they instantly destroy or move around plants that they encounter.

If you plan on saving enough sun to get a five-headed Pea Pod, make sure that you have an adequate defense to protect yourself until you save up 625 sun (e.g. Potato Mine, Iceberg Lettuce, Chili Bean, etc.). Once you do get the Pea Pod to its maximum power, it is an effective counter to many high health zombies, such as Buckethead Zombies, Pharaoh Zombies, Barrel Roller Zombies, Pianist Zombies, Robo-Cone Zombies, Knight Zombies, Blockhead Zombies, Jurassic Bully and Jurassic Fossilheads due to its high damage output. A five-headed Pea Pod also works well against Pirate Captain Zombies, Disco-tron 3000 and Octo Zombies as they can destroy a released Zombie Parrot within range with 3 shots and Disco Jetpack Zombie or thrown octopi with 4 shots. If there are groups of them, these zombies will hardly cause any problems that will overwhelm them.

Like all other straight shooting-based plants, Pea Pod is ineffective against Shield Zombie (when force field is up), Jester Zombie, Snorkel Zombie (while submerged) and Excavator Zombie, even if fed with Plant Food as the peas deal no damage against them (except for Jester Zombie).

However, remember to not rely on it in higher levels of Endless Zones, since it lacks an area of effect and can only hit one zombie at a time. And with the high zombie density in Endless Zones, Pea Pod can be easily overwhelmed. Even with Torchwood, the number of zombies may be too much because flaming peas do not deal splash damage. If you intend to use Pea Pod in Endless Zones, it is advised to take an area of effect plant too, such as Laser Bean or Fume-shroom. AOE plants can take out weaker zombies so Pea Pod gets to take down stronger ones.

When upgraded in the Chinese version, Pea Pod is able to grow slowly, such as one doesn't have to spend too much sun. This advantage is only apparent in longer levels where Pea Pod has the chance to grow safely, otherwise additional investment is necessary for it to achieve full value.

Related achievement

	Pod Squad Max out a Pea Pod on a mine cart

Gallery

Pea Pod has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Pea Pod
Simplified Chinese	豌豆荚	"Pea pod"
French	Cosse de Pois
German	Erbsenhülse
Italian	Baccello
Korean	콩 꼬투리
Brazilian Portuguese	Vagem	"Pod" in portuguese
Russian	Стручок Гороха
Spanish	Vaina

Trivia

• Before version 6.6 its flavor text was "Having studied Quantum Spatial Mechanics in Clown College, the peapod has been amusing families of all ages."
• It is one of the six plants seen in the trailer of Plants vs. Zombies 2 while fighting the zombies; the other five are Bonk Choy, Bloomerang, Peashooter, Wall-nut, and Sunflower.
• In the trailer, if one looks carefully when the zombies come onto the lawn, it has all its heads. But when shown close-up, it has one head, then it regrows all the heads it already had.
• The heads are planted in this order: middle-bottom, left, right, middle-center, middle-top.
• There was a glitch in Last Stand where if the player rapidly plants Pea Pods on top of each other, they will shoot a couple of peas, even though there are no zombies. This can be used to clear tombstones before the level starts.

  

  Using the Pea Pod glitch to clear the tombstones in the Chinese version

Pea Pod Glitch

Present in update 7.0.1

• Each pea will be shot at different heights; for example, the middle and the left side, the middle will shoot it higher. This is because the heads are in different places in the pod.
• It, Pea-nut, Threepeater, and Split Pea are the only peashooting plants to have more than one head.
  • Technically, Split Pea's back head is a head-like growth.
• It, Pea-nut, and Sling Pea are the only peashooting plants without a stem.
• It, Threepeater, Peashooter, Snow Pea, Fire Peashooter, and Primal Peashooter are the only plants that shoot peas equal to the number of heads they have.
  • However, Split Pea shoots two peas when there is a zombie behind it, and none are in front of it.
• It always shoots five big peas when it is fed Plant Food, regardless of how many heads it has.
• It has the fastest firing rate among all the peashooting plants if it is maxed out.
• It and Primal Peashooter shoots the lowest number of peas of any peashooting plant when using Plant Food (five).
  • This applies if Fire Peashooter's Plant Food effect is not counted, as she shoots no peas during the effect.
• If the player maxes out Pea Pod on a cart, the Pod Squad achievement will be earned.
• Before the 2.3 update, if the player had a Pea Pod boost and planted it on an already existing Pea Pod, the Plant Food upgrade would not activate.
• It only has one head in the Zen Garden, in the level selection, in its Endless Zone card, and when it is first planted.
• If it is damaged and the player plants another one on it, its health will be fully restored.
  • This is similar to Wall-nut First Aid in a way.
• Regardless of what stage it was in when defeated, Intensive Carrot will always revive the Pea Pod with one head. The same applies to Potato Mine, Sun-shroom, Strawburst, Primal Potato Mine, Escape Root, and Kiwibeast.
• Despite being obtained before Tall-nut, it is positioned after it on the seed selection screen and the almanac.
  • However, before the 1.7 update, it was obtained after Tall-nut.
• The player cannot plant more Pea Pods on an endangered Pea Pod.
• It and Pea-nut are only peashooting plants can shoot shrunken zombies in water tiles

See also

• Pod Squad
• Peashooting plants
• Pea

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