Repeater (Plants vs. Zombies)

For other uses, see Repeater (disambiguation).

Repeater
Repeater fires two peas at a time.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	200 150 (Versus Mode)
Recharge	0.5/7.5
Damage	20 damage (×2) in 1.5s
Toughness	300 health
In-game statistics
Upgrades to	Gatling Pea
Unlocked	After beating Level 1-8
Repeater is fierce. He's from the streets. He doesn't take attitude from anybody, plant or zombie, and he shoots peas to keep people at a distance. Secretly, though, Repeater yearns for love.

Repeater is a peashooting plant appearing in Plants vs. Zombies as well as their Chinese spin-offs. He costs 200 sun, and fires two peas (20×2 pea) at the same rate as a normal Peashooter (1.5 s).

About

For more information about this character, see Repeater.

Repeater is obtained after beating Level 1-8, and is the last non-mushroom plant received in the Day stage. He can be upgraded to the Gatling Pea for 250 sun upon purchasing from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies for $5000.

In Beghouled and Beghouled Twist, Repeater acts as Peashooter's upgrade, costing 1000 sun. A reverse version of Repeater appears in the Vasebreaker mode starting with To the Left, functioning identically to Split Pea's back head.

Almanac entry

Repeater
Repeaters fire two peas at a time. Damage: normal (for each pea) Firing Speed: 2x Repeater is fierce. He's from the streets. He doesn't take attitude from anybody, plant or zombie, and he shoots peas to keep people at a distance. Secretly, though, Repeater yearns for love. Cost: 200 Recharge: fast

Upgrades

Gatling Pea is Repeater's upgrade. Costing $5000 to buy and 250 Sun to plant, Gatling Pea is capable of shooting four peas at a time.

Strategies

Overall, Repeater could be considered as two Peashooters combined into a single plant, with double the firepower and sun cost of the average Peashooter, and the benefit of space conservation, costing less than 2 Peashooters, and a faster recharge rate. This means that while the player will have more difficulty deploying Repeater early, the plant itself will prove to be much more useful as the level progresses. This is further improved by the fact that Gatling Pea, Repeater's upgrade, is capable of the highest damage per second potential in the game under the right condition. However, Repeater continues to suffer from some of Peashooter's weaknesses, namely poor crowd control capability and the inability to bypass Screen Door Zombie and Ladder Zombie's shields.

Like other pea-firing plants, Repeater benefits greatly from the use of Torchwood, as the latter can ignite peas passing through it, doubling their damage and giving them small splash damage. The player should remember however, that flaming peas can remove ice-based effect from their direct target, making plants like Ice-shroom less effective, but not their splash damage targets.

Vasebreaker

In Vasebreaker, the Split Pea never appears, with its role superseded by a Repeater that fires backwards. This variant provides phenomenal support in fighting strong zombies like Gargantuars since it can constantly chip them from behind.

Since the zombies are moving in the same direction as the peas, the Repeater might struggle a bit as the target moves further, speficially when they're dangerously close to the player's house. To avoid them being overwhelmed, try to only have a select number of zombies in the lane until they are all eliminated.

Related achievements

	Don't Pea in the Pool Complete a Daytime Pool level without using Peashooters of any kind.

	Morticulturalist Collect all 49 plants.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Repeater
Simplified Chinese	双重射手 酷豆豆 as nickname in Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West	lit. "Double Shooter" lit. "Cool Beany" as nickname in Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West
Traditional Chinese	雙重射手 酷豆豆 as nickname in Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West
Dutch	Repeulteerder
French	Double pisto-pois
German	Duplinator	lit. "Duplicator"
Italian	Super sparasemi	lit. "Super Seed Shooter"
Japanese	リピーター
Brazilian Portuguese	Duplervilha
Russian	Повторитель
Spanish	Repetidora

Trivia

• Sometimes, a Repeater will shoot one pea once before shooting two peas.
• In the iOS version, his leaves at the back are different from the original version.
• Quite ironically, despite Split Pea being unlocked after passing Level 4-5, the Repeater continues to supersede it in all other Vasebreaker levels.

See also

• Pea
• Peashooter
• Peashooting plants
• Gatling Pea

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