Peashooter (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

Peashooter
Peashooters are your first line of defense. They shoot peas at attacking zombies.
Statistics
Sun Cost	100
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Attack Damage	20 damage
Range	Straight
Plant Food Power	100%
Projectile Velocity	1.5 seconds
Damage per Second	13.333
Family	Appease-mint
Plant Food effect	Shoots a barrage of peas.
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	100
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	Common
Tags	Damage, pea
Plant features	Green plant, pea family
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Available at the beginning
Costumes
Costumes (China)
Code name	peashooter
"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.

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 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Straight PLANT FOOD POWER 100% Appease-mint Plant Food: Shoots a barrage of peas. 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 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Straight PLANT FOOD POWER 100% Appease-mint Plant Food: Shoots a barrage of peas. 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."

Chinese version  (China only)

豌豆射手，你的第一道防线，发射豌豆攻击僵尸。 植物特征：绿色植物、豌豆家族 “问我成功的滋味如何？”豌豆射手慢悠悠地啜了一口热茶。“这个我现在不能告诉你，我正在整理我的商业合同。这是我的外套，保管好！” In English: Peashooters are your first line of defense, which shoot peas to attack zombies. Plant feature: green plant, pea family "What is it like being successful you ask me?" Peashooter unhurriedly sipped his hot tea, "I can't tell you about it right now, I'm sorting my business contracts. Here's my coat, hold it well!"

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 pea, dealing a total of 1200 damage.

Appease-mint effect

When boosted by Appease-mint, Peashooter will do an additional 150 damage per pea.

Level upgrades

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

*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 豌豆连发	When Peashooter attacks, there is a 10% chance to fire 5 peas in a row. 豌豆射手攻击时有10%的概率连续发射5颗豌豆子弹。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Peashooter gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Quick Loading 快速上膛	The trigger probability of Pea Combo is increased by 100%, and there is a 20% probability of firing 5 peas in a row when attacking. 豌豆连发的触发概率提升100%，攻击时有20%的概率连续发射5颗豌豆子弹。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Peashooter may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Super Pea 超级子弹	Peas fired by Peashooter are upgraded to super peas, and the damage is increased to 210. 豌豆射手发射的豌豆子弹升级为超级豌豆子弹，子弹伤害提升至210。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	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).
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. His moderately cheap price, decent damage and firerate makes him an efficient choice for early game. However, he is overshadowed by other more useful early game plants like even in the tutorial you can use Cabbage-pult (PvZ2) over Peashooter as he can launch projectiles over graves and obstacles.

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.

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 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
• Mega Gatling Pea can shoot four peas, and has a random chance to activate its plant food ability.

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

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version)  (China only)

Although Peashooter is unassuming at first glance and is outclassed by many others, the fact that he's easier to upgrade evens out the odds. A level 2+ Peashooter can randomly perform a five-round burst, and upon reaching level 5, Peashooter gains a dramatic damage boost, making it a worthwhile upgrade for such an accessible plant, especially if you don't think you have other alternatives. It’s also not recommended to use this plant against Hammer, Nunchaku, or Jester unless he’s at level 5.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Peashooter
Simplified Chinese	豌豆射手	"Pea shooter"
French	Pisto-pois	From pistolet and pois
German	Erbsenkanone
Italian	Sparasemi	"Seedshooter"
Japanese	ピーシューター
Korean	완두콩 슈터
Brazilian Portuguese	Disparervilha	Portmanteau of disparo and ervilha
Russian	Горохострел
Spanish	Lanzaguisantes

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 visible. 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.
• There is a bug where when a player skips the first few tutorial levels, the Peashooter will remain locked. This will skip the level upgrade tutorial.

See also

• Repeater
• Primal Peashooter
• Peashooting plants
• Pea

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