Primal Wall-nut

For other uses, see Wall-nut (disambiguation).

Primal Wall-nut
Primal Wall-nuts cost a bit more than typical Wall-nuts, but they can be planted much more quickly.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	75
Recharge	Fast
Toughness	4000 damage per shot
Family	Reinforce-mint
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(destroys it instantly) (pushed obstacles destroy it instantly) (can push/pull it around) (ignores it) (renders him useless)
Unlocked	Beating Jurassic Marsh - Day 4
Costumes
"Grunt," explains Primal Wall-nut. "Grunt oog grunt-grunt," he goes on to say. "Ook-urg grunty grunt grunt," he concludes. A nut of many opinions, is Primal Wall-nut.

Primal Wall-nut is the second plant obtained in Jurassic Marsh in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He is the primal version of Wall-nut. He costs 25 sun more than the modern Wall-nut, but has the same toughness and recharges much faster. He also has the ability to withstand instant kills from zombies such as Gargantuar Smashes, Zombot Missiles, and their lasers. The mentioned instant kills will only deal 1500 damage to him, except for smashes from Gladiator Gargantuar, which deals 1875 damage to him instead.

Origins

A real-life Juglans regia in which Primal Wall-nut is based on

Like his modern counterpart he's based on Juglans regia known as walnut.

Almanac entry

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

Primal Wall-nut	SUN COST 75 RECHARGE 5 SUN COST: 75 RECHARGE: 5 TOUGHNESS 4000 PLANT FOOD POWER Armor TOUGHNESS: 4000 PLANT FOOD POWER: Armor FAMILY Reinforce-mint FAMILY: Reinforce-mint Primal Wall-nuts cost a bit more than typical Wall-nuts, but they can be planted much more quickly. "Grunt," explains Primal Wall-nut. "Grunt oog grunt-grunt," he goes on to say. "Ook-urg grunty grunt grunt," he concludes. A nut of many opinions, is Primal Wall-nut.

Primal Wall-nut

		SUN COST 75			RECHARGE 5

SUN COST: 75
RECHARGE: 5

		TOUGHNESS 4000			PLANT FOOD POWER Armor

TOUGHNESS: 4000
PLANT FOOD POWER: Armor

		FAMILY Reinforce-mint

FAMILY: Reinforce-mint

Primal Wall-nuts cost a bit more than typical Wall-nuts, but they can be planted much more quickly.

"Grunt," explains Primal Wall-nut. "Grunt oog grunt-grunt," he goes on to say. "Ook-urg grunty grunt grunt," he concludes. A nut of many opinions, is Primal Wall-nut.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Primal Wall-nut gains a rock armor with a drawing of a Wall-nut on itself. It takes 8000 damage, but does not have the ability to resist smashes, so it only takes another additional smash to destroy.

Reinforce-mint effect

When boosted by Reinforce-mint, Primal Wall-nut can absorb an additional 11000 DPS, and his plant food effect will activate.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (High)	Plant Food Power (Armor)
1	0	0	75	5 seconds	4000 dps	8000 dps
2	10	1,000		4.5 seconds	4500 dps	8000 dps
3	50	2,000		4.5 seconds	5000 dps	8000 dps
4	100	4,000		4 seconds	5500 dps	8000 dps
5	125	6,000		4 seconds	6000 dps	12000 dps
6	175	8,000		4 seconds	6500 dps	12000 dps
7	250	10,000		4 seconds	7000 dps	12000 dps
8	350	15,000		3.5 seconds	7500 dps	12000 dps
9	450	20,000		3.5 seconds	8000 dps	12000 dps
10	800	60,000		3.5 seconds	8500 dps	16000 dps
11	1,000	75,000		3 seconds	9000 dps	16000 dps
12	1,250	100,000		3 seconds	9500 dps	16000 dps
13	1,500	150,000		3 seconds	10000 dps	16000 dps
14	1,750	200,000		2.5 seconds	10500 dps	16000 dps
15	2,000	250,000		2.5 seconds	11000 dps	20000 dps

Level upgrades  (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Young Nut	When Primal Wall-nut is eaten, leave a small version of it on the tile which have some health.
	Combat Training	Primal Wall-nut gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Powerful Small Nut	The small Primal Wall-nut has more health.
	Cell Activation	Primal Wall-nut gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken	Primal Wall-nut may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power	Primal Wall-nut gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Crazy Growing	When not at full health, grow a fruit once in a while and consume the fruit to heal health. Then, spit out the seed to deal damage to a zombie.
	Fighting Power	Primal Wall-nut gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Costumed  (China only)

Primal Wall-nut now gains a golden armor that absorbs more damage.

Strategies

In most situations, Primal Wall-nut can be considered a straight upgrade to Wall-nut. While he costs 25 sun more than the latter plant, the increased sun cost is usually worth the greatly shortened recharge rate, which will allow the player to secure lanes much more easily early on, as well as repair defenses as the level progresses. Primal Wall-nut is particularly useful in halting the advance of Gargantuar in normal levels, due to his resistance to his smash attacks, even though it might be worth placing two or three Primal Wall-nuts in a row due to the Gargantuar's high health. Primal Wall-nut can also indefinitely stall a single Gargantuar, due to his recharge speed being faster than how fast a Gargantuar could destroy him.

Primal Wall-nut functions well in choke points naturally occurring in Frostbite Caves, or generated by Sweet Potato and/or Garlic, as his relatively fast recharge rate allows him to be replaced more easily to handle pressure from multiple lanes. In Neon Mixtape Tour, Primal Wall-nut is a good choice for stalling MC Zom-B as he'll require 3 swings to get rid of him. The recharge rate also makes Primal Wall-nut a decent choice for blocking Hair Metal Gargantuars' shockwaves, although it should be kept in mind that Primal Wall-nut is not completely invulnerable to the sound blast, and will eventually be overwhelmed at higher levels in Greatest Hits. Primal Wall-nut is especially useful in his homeworld for stalling zombies and preventing them from being flung by a stegosaurus. Consider using him against the Jurassic Rockpuncher, as he takes multiple smashes to destroy and will not leave a crater. In Modern Day, Primal Wall-nut is useful against All-Star Zombies as the charge attack is also an instant kill that he can ressist.

However, be aware that in Last Stand levels without Gargantuars, it is generally more worthwhile to bring his modern variant  in order to save sun.

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Trivia

• Thanks to his damage limit ability, he is the only defensive plant that can survive instant kills without plant food. However, the game makes no mention of this attribute.
  • The ability is absent in the Chinese version.
• His description references the way that cavemen supposedly spoke when they were alive.
• After an update, Primal Wall-nut's upgrade is stuck on Level 9.

See also

• Wall-nut
• Wall plants

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