Peashooter (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

Peashooter
Plants vs. Zombies 2
Sun cost	100
Recharge	5 seconds
Damage	Normal
Range	Straight
Family	Appease-mint
Direct damage	20 damage per shot every 1.5 seconds
Other weakness	(When submerged)
Rarity (China)	Common
Unlocked	Available at the beginning
Costumes
Costumes (China)
"What is it like being famous?" asked the Peashooter while sipping his bottled water, "I can't talk right now, I'm finishing my merchandising deal. Hold my fir coat."
Plants vs. Zombies Online
豌豆射手(translation: Pea Shooter)
Sun cost	100
Recharge	Fast
Unlocked	Available at the beginning

Peashooter is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He is a peashooting plant that shoots one pea every 1.35-1.5 seconds, dealing 20 damage per shot.

Peashooter is once again the first plant available in the player's seed arsenal, obtained before starting the first level. He is the only regular offensive plant that is available until Cabbage-pult is unlocked after beating Player's House - Day 5.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Peashooter Plant Food.

Almanac entry

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

Peashooter	SUN COST 100 RECHARGE 5 SUN COST: 100 RECHARGE: 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 TOUGHNESS: 300 DAMAGE: 20 RANGE Straight PLANT FOOD POWER Duration RANGE: Straight PLANT FOOD POWER: Duration FAMILY Appease-mint FAMILY: Appease-mint Peashooters are your first line of defense. They shoot peas at attacking zombies. "What is it like being famous?" asked the Peashooter while sipping his bottled water, "I can't talk right now, I'm finishing my merchandising deal. Hold my fir coat."

Peashooter

		SUN COST 100			RECHARGE 5

SUN COST: 100
RECHARGE: 5

		TOUGHNESS 300			DAMAGE 20

TOUGHNESS: 300
DAMAGE: 20

		RANGE Straight			PLANT FOOD POWER Duration

RANGE: Straight
PLANT FOOD POWER: Duration

		FAMILY Appease-mint

FAMILY: Appease-mint

Peashooters are your first line of defense. They shoot peas at attacking zombies.

"What is it like being famous?" asked the Peashooter while sipping his bottled water, "I can't talk right now, I'm finishing my merchandising deal. Hold my fir coat."

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When given Plant Food, Peashooter becomes a fast-shooting Gatling Pea, shooting 60 peas in two seconds.

Costumed (China only)

When given Plant Food, Peashooter now shoots three giant peas that deal 400 damage per shot, dealing a total of 1200 damage.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage per projectile (Normal)	Projectile Velocity	Plant Food Power (Damage*)	Range
1	0	0	100	5 seconds	300 dps	20 dps	Normal	20 dps	Straight
2	3	50		4.5 seconds	350 dps	25 dps
3	10	200		4.5 seconds	400 dps	30 dps
4	25	1,500		4.5 seconds	450 dps	35 dps
5	50	2,000	75	4.5 seconds	500 dps	40 dps	+1.6x
6	75	3,000		4 seconds	550 dps	45 dps
7	100	4,000		4 seconds	600 dps	50 dps		25 dps
8	125	5,000		4 seconds	650 dps	55 dps
9	175	6,000		4 seconds	700 dps	60 dps
10	225	8,000		3.5 seconds	750 dps	65 dps
11	300	10,000		3.5 seconds	800 dps	70 dps
12	350	15,000		3.5 seconds	850 dps	75 dps
13	350	20,000	50	3.5 seconds	900 dps	80 dps	+2.2x
14	400	25,000		3.5 seconds		85 dps
15	450	30,000		3 seconds		90 dps
16	500	35,000		3 seconds		95 dps		30 dps
17	550	40,000		3 seconds		100 dps
18	600	45,000	25	3 seconds		105 dps
19	700	50,000		3 seconds		110 dps
20	800	55,000		2.5 seconds		110 dps

*Per hit. Peashooter's Plant Food effect does a total of 60 hits.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Pea Combo	Peashooter has a 35% chance to do the Pea Combo which shoots five peas at a time.
	Combat Training	Peashooter gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Quick Loading	Doubles the chance of doing the Pea Combo (70% of initial).
	Cell Activation	Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken	Peashooter may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power	Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Super Pea	Peashooter always shoots big powerful peas that deal more damage.
	Fighting Power	Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Plants vs. Zombies Online (China only) (Archived content)

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Upgrade 1	The first Peashooter only requires 50 sun.
Upgrade 2	The first pea shot by Peashooter becomes a large pea (deals 60 damage per shot).
Upgrade 3	Peashooter can be planted on another Peashooter to form a Repeater.
Upgrade 4	When Peashooter kills a zombie, it may drop 25 sun.

Strategies

Peashooter mostly functions in the same way as the first game, being a plant with not too many pros or cons. However, usage of the Zen Garden will allow just one Peashooter to dispatch even a Buckethead Zombie with little trouble. Boosted Peashooters are quite cheap and very effective against zombies. After that, dig it up with Shovel Boost to get some sun refund or leave him to stall zombies.

After the new update, plants may now level up. Once he reaches max level, the Peashooter can kill a Basic Zombie with two shots, and once in level 20 (max level for common plants) only costs 25 sun and gains lime-colored glowing peas trailing magical essence, with an approximate of 110 damage per shot.

A lane of max level Peashooters can easily overwhelm a Gargantuar of any kind. Peashooter can also work with Torchwood, meaning that it could have a damage boost. However, the peas shot by Peashooter and other similar peashooting plants could be easily blocked by Tombstones or Excavator Zombie, or reflected by Jester Zombie. You may consider using other plants to deal with them.

His true potential may be outclassed by many other plants that you obtain later on. Here are some examples:

• Snow Pea can slow down zombies (and has a chance to freeze them at a certain level) at the cost of 50 more sun.
• Fire Peashooter can deal double damage per fire pea (has a chance to shoot napalm peas at a certain level) and can warm nearby plants, as well as being immune to freezing herself at the cost of 75 more sun.
• Primal Peashooter can stun/knockback enemies at the cost of a slower firing rate and 75 more sun.
• Repeater can shoot two peas and has a longer Plant Food effect

However, it is still one of the essential plants in the early game, other than Cabbage-Pult.

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Trivia

• He is one of the six plants seen in the trailer of Plants vs. Zombies 2 being shown fighting the zombies, the other five being Bonk Choy, Bloomerang, Pea Pod, Wall-nut, and Sunflower.
• Even though a Peashooter is the first plant obtained, it is the second seed packet in the seed selection screen and in the Almanac.
• Prior to the the 8.7.1 update, Peashooter, Sunflower and Wall-nut were the only plants whose costumes changed depending on the season.
  • They were also the only plants who do not have permanent costumes. However, in the 8.7.1 update, their costumes are now made to be permanently obtainable.
• The fir coat in his Almanac entries is a play on the words "fur coat" and "fir".
• The player can see a Peashooter's pea going through his stem before he fires.
  • A Peashooter's cheeks also puff up right before shooting, making it look like he actually "regurgitates" a pea and then "spits" it out instead of just shooting it.
  • Its Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars description outright states that he "attacks the enemy by spitting peas".
  • It might be because it seems to get its peas from the ground.
• When Plant Food was used on the Peashooter while he was wearing his 2014 Halloween costume, the mask was still visibe. This is opposed to many other plants, as their costumes disappear during their Plant Food effect.
• He does his Zen Garden watering animation in the Neon Mixtape Tour - Side Trailer, when he finished watching Cactus's performance.

See also

• Repeater
• Peashooting plants
• Pea

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