Pole Vaulting Zombie

For the form in Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars, see Pole Vaulting Zombie (PvZ: AS)

Pole Vaulting Zombie
Pole Vaulting Zombie vaults with a pole.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Medium
Speed	Fast, then normal (after jump)
Special	Jumps the first plant he runs into
Damage	500
In-game statistics
Sun cost	75
Brain cost	100
Weakness	(cannot be jumped over) (attacks him from behind) (kills him when he tries to jump over)
First seen	Level 1-6
PvZ PvZ:GWE Some zombies take it further, aspire more, push themselves beyond the normal into greatness. That's Pole Vaulting Zombie right there. That is so him. TBA

Pole Vaulting Zombie is a zombie with a pole appearing in Plants vs. Zombies. He vaults over the first plant he runs into, with the exception of Tall-nuts, Spikeweeds, and Spikerocks, by using his pole. He is the fourth zombie the player will encounter in Adventure Mode, and the first special zombie the player will encounter. He resembles an athlete of an Olympic event of the same name. His pool counterpart is Dolphin Rider Zombie.

Suburban Almanac entry

• PvZ
• PvZ:GWE

Pole Vaulting Zombie
Pole Vaulting Zombie vaults with a pole. Toughness: medium Speed: fast, then normal (after jump) Special: jumps the first plant he runs into Some zombies take it further, aspire more, push themselves beyond the normal into greatness. That's Pole Vaulting Zombie right there. That is so him.

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棒子僵尸
棒子僵尸能够轻易跃过眼前的敌人 强度： 中等 速度：快，而后慢（跳跃后） 特点：跃过他所碰到的第一主植物 “我们来切磋一下，看看你的打狗棒法厉害还是我的醉八仙棍法占上风…”棒子僵尸很喜欢这句台词。

In English: Pole Zombie Pole Zombie can easily jump over the enemy in front of it. Toughness: medium Speed: fast, then normal (after jump) Special: jumps the first plant he runs into Let's compete and see if your dog beating pole is better or my drunken immortal pole is better..." Pole Zombie likes this line very much.

Description

Pole Vaulting Zombie is a blonde-haired, jersey-wearing track star zombie. He wears a blue sweatband on his head and wears a blue wristband on each of his wrists. His jersey is red with a white "0" imprinted on it, which is half visible. He also wears striped socks and red shoes.

Overview

Pole Vaulting Zombie absorbs 500 damage and he degrades upon absorbing 250 damage before dying at 500 damage. When he approaches a plant, Pole Vaulting Zombie will vault over the plant, then he will abruptly lose his pole. His speed will become normal upon losing the pole.

Encounters

• Adventure Mode: 1-1 (Android TV version), 1-4 (Android TV version), 1-6, 1-7 and Android TV version, 1-9 and Android TV version, 1-10 and Android TV version, 2-4 and Android TV version, 3-3 (Android TV version), 3-4 and Android TV version, 3-5 (Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSiWare version), 3-9, 5-2, 5-10
• Mini-games: Wall-nut Bowling, Zombie Nimble Zombie Quick, Last Stand, Wall-nut Bowling 2, Dr. Zomboss's Revenge, Buttered Popcorn, Heavy Weapon, Heat Wave, Sunny Day
• Puzzle Mode: Scary Potter, Me Smash!, ZomBoogie, All your brainz r belong to us, I, Zombie Endless, all Last Stand (Puzzle Mode) levels except Last Stand: Fog
• Survival Mode: all levels
• Co-op Mode: all levels
• Others: Versus Mode

Strategies

Use Tall-nuts to block Pole Vaulting Zombie or cheap plants (such as a Puff-shroom) to make him lose his pole. Squash also works great as it can kill a Pole Vaulting Zombie that vaulted over it, but its slow recharge time will not let you kill every Pole Vaulting Zombie. Using Magnet-shrooms does nothing, as the pole isn't made of metal.

If there are two Peashooters in a row or a Repeater when a Pole Vaulting Zombie has just entered, they will be able to take him down before he gets to the end of the row (Snow Peas are effectively the same). Chompers try to eat the zombie after he jumps and end up missing the zombie and biting the air. If the Pole Vaulting Zombie is slowed down via Snow Peas, Ice-shrooms or Winter Melons, Chomper is able to eat him before he can vault. The left-facing head of Split Pea can easily shoot down a Pole Vaulting Zombie after he vaults. Placing a Wall-nut and then a Potato Mine on either side of it will be an effective strategy, as it is cost-efficient.

I, Zombie

Pole Vaulting Zombies are cheap, durable, and non-metallic. Deploy these zombies to overcome obstacles, like Wall-nuts or Garlic or for cases where a fellow zombie will not survive Potato Mines. Pole Vaulting Zombies are useful in many situations, and they are interchangeable with Conehead Zombies, due to their superior speed. Never vault over a Split Pea or a Starfruit, as they can fire backwards. Using a Pole Vaulting Zombie against the Tall-nut in All your brainz r belong to us is also out of the question, since the Tall-nut cannot be vaulted over. A Ladder Zombie is more effective against a Tall-nut, and a Football Zombie can steamroll through Split Peas and Starfruits.

Related achievement

	The Complete Zombie You've won every trophy, climbed every mountain, defeated every zombie, planted every plant. Congratulations!

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Pole Vaulting Zombie
Simplified Chinese	撑杆僵尸 棒子僵尸 in Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition
Traditional Chinese	撐杆 [sic] 殭屍
Dutch	Stokspringzombie
French	Zombie perchiste
German	Stabhochsprung-Zombie
Italian	Zombi atleta
Japanese	棒高跳びゾンビ
Russian	Зомби с Шестом
Spanish	Saltador de pértiga	"Pole vaulter"

Trivia

General

• Pole Vaulting Zombie likes to eat the brains of gold medal winners, as stated in the Plants vs. Zombies: Official Guide to Protecting Your Brains.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies

• When a hypnotized zombie meets a Pole Vaulting Zombie that is still running, he won't stop to attack them.
• There was a glitch in Wall-nut Bowling, Wall-nut Bowling 2 and Co-op Bowling, where the Pole Vaulting Zombie gets to the red line and the player places a Wall-nut or Explode-o-Nut, the Pole Vaulting Zombie will die.
  • This could be because of he has a delay before he jumps.
• In Wall-nut Bowling 2, the Giant Wall-nut is the only Wall-nut which Pole Vaulting Zombies cannot jump over.
• When a Pole Vaulting Zombie tries to jump over a Cherry Bomb, Doom-shroom or Jalapeno or when they explode, he despawns.

Pole Vaulting Zombie's concept design

• As seen in the concept design for the Pole Vaulting Zombie posted on the Plants vs. Zombies Facebook page, Pole Vaulting Zombie was originally going to use a bone to vault over plants.
• In I, Zombie, instead of vaulting over a brain, Pole Vaulting Zombie loses his pole (if he still has it) once he reaches the brain.
• He is shown in the icon for Zombie Nimble Zombie Quick.
• If a Pole Vaulting Zombie dies before he vaults over a plant, his pole will disappear.
• When a Pole Vaulting Zombie vaults over a plant, there is a bounce sound like mustache mode.
• Although the Pole Vaulting Zombie can jump over Chompers, if the zombie is slowed down, the Chomper will be able to eat him before he can do so.
  • Chompers in the online version can eat him before he jumps, even if he is going at maximum speed.
• When a Pole Vaulting Zombie tries to jump over a Tall-nut, stars appear around their head. The same thing happens with Dolphin Rider Zombie and Pogo Zombie.
• There is a glitch that might occur, if a Pole Vaulting Zombie vaults over a Torchwood into a Snow Pea; the peas shot by that plant while it is getting eaten will pass through the zombie.
• In the online version, the Pole Vaulting Zombie loses an arm, but no bone can be seen. However, when he falls down a bone can be seen.
• He is the first vaulting zombie that appears in the game.
• Pole Vaulting Zombie has two obscured visual abnormalities: the right arm does not stick to the body, and the pole is not connected on both ends. This can be seen by replacing files with blank ones, although this is because the idle Pole Vaulting Zombie's arm and pole will not overlap.
• If a Pole Vaulting Zombie jumps over a Chomper in the Nintendo DS version, the Chomper appears to have taken a bite, but a few seconds later, the Pole Vaulting Zombie jumps over it and does not get eaten.
• When faced with a Cob Cannon, Pole Vaulting Zombies can jump over both spaces, but Dolphin Rider Zombies cannot. However, Pogo Zombies require four jumps.
  • Though Pole Vaulting Zombie seems to step past half the Cob Cannon before vaulting over the other half, while Dolphin Rider Zombies cannot jump over two Lily Pads.
• The online Suburban Almanac entry has this zombie's name as "Polevault Zombie" instead of Pole Vaulting Zombie.
• Pole Vaulting Zombie is the only Day-encountered zombie that does not reappear in Plants vs. Zombies 2.
  • He is also the first zombie encountered in Plants vs. Zombies that does not reappear at all in Plants vs. Zombies 2.
• If a Pole Vaulting Zombie vaults over an Explode-o-nut, he will survive the blow, unlike with Cherry Bomb.
• A glitch, that always occurs in the iOS and Android versions, is that a Pole Vaulting Zombie will not make a disgusted face if he takes a bite out of a Garlic. But if he does, his head will be bald.
• There's a glitch that the ribbon in the zombie's pole will be orange, instead of red.

See Also

• Dolphin Rider Zombie
• Pogo Zombie

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