Repeater (PvZ)

For other uses, see Repeater (disambiguation).

Repeater (PvZ)
Plants vs. Zombies
Repeater fires two peas at a time.
Sun cost	200 150 (Versus Mode)
Recharge	Fast
Damage	Normal (for each pea)
Toughness	Normal
Direct damage	40 damage per shot every 1.5 seconds
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.
Plants vs. Zombies 2
Repeater fires two peas at a time.
Sun cost	200
Recharge	5 seconds
Damage	Moderate (normal for each pea)
Range	Straight
Family	Appease-mint
Direct damage	40 damage per shots every 1.5 seconds
Rarity (China)	Rare
Unlocked	After beating Ancient Egypt - Day 19
Unlocked (China)	Purchase for 100000 coins; collect 10 Repeater Puzzle Pieces
Costumes	File:Repeater Costume.pngFile:Scout Repeater.pngFile:Dracula Repeater Costume.png
Costumes (China)	File:Repeater Costume China.png
"Everyone always asks me if we've met before." says Repeater. "Everyone always asks me if we've met before. Wait, did I just say that?"

Repeater is a peashooting plant appearing in both main series Plants vs. Zombies series games and spin-offs. He costs 200 sun, and fires two peas at the same rate as a normal Peashooter.

Origins

Pisum sativum

Like most other pea-shooting plants, the Repeater is based on the plant Pisum sativum. Repeater's name is related to the term repeating rifle, a rifle that incorporates the reloading and re-cocking actions into a single lever. His name also refers to the fact that he shoots two peas at once, repeating himself, and also repeats his own speech in Plants vs. Zombies 2's Almanac entry. Plus, his name has the word "pea" in it, referring to how he's a peashooting plant.

History

Plants vs. Zombies

Repeater is obtained after beating Level 1-8, and is the last non-mushroom plant received in the Day stage, along with being the last plant obtained 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.

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Repeater is obtained after beating Ancient Egypt - Day 19. He remains unchanged from his incarnation in the first game. In Beghouled, the Repeater is the upgrade of Peashooter. He costs 2000 sun. The repeater can be further upgraded into stronger plants.

In the Chinese version, he can be purchased with 100,000 coins.

Almanac entry

File:New repeater almanac.png

Almanac entry of Repeater

Plants vs. Zombies

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

Plants vs. Zombies 2

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

Repeater
	SUN COST 200 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Sraight PLANT FOOD POWER 33.33% Appease-mint Plant Food: Shoots two volleys of peas at zombies in its row. Repeaters fire two peas at one time. "Everyone always asks me if we've met before." says Repeater. "Everyone always asks me if we've met before. Wait, did I just say that?"

Repeater

SUN COST 200 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Sraight PLANT FOOD POWER 33.33% Appease-mint Plant Food: Shoots two volleys of peas at zombies in its row. Repeaters fire two peas at one time. "Everyone always asks me if we've met before." says Repeater. "Everyone always asks me if we've met before. Wait, did I just say that?"

Chinese version  (China only)

植物特征：绿色植物、豌豆家族 如果你对双重射手好，他会加倍报答。如果你惹了他，那你可能会得到加倍的反击。当然他的人际关系相当好，大家最愿意做的就是借钱给他。 In English: Plant feature: green plant, pea family If you treat Repeater well, he will treat you with double the respect; if you anger him, he will respond with double the pain. He has very good connections with people, but that's probably because everyone loves lending him money.

Upgrades

Plants vs. Zombies

Gatling Pea is Repeater's upgrade, capable of shooting four peas at a time.

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Plant Food effect

When fed Plant Food, Repeater will temporarily turn into a Gatling Pea, like Peashooter, but with a blue spiked corporal helmet. Repeater will then shoot 90 peas, and then after turning red for a second, it fires a giant pea that deals 600 damage.

Appease-mint effect

When boosted by Appease-mint, Repeater's peas deal an additional 120 DPS.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage* (Moderate)	Projectile Velocity	Plant Food Power (Damage)*	Plant Food Power (Duration)	Range
1	0	0	200	5 seconds	300 damage	20 damage	Normal	20 damage	2.5 seconds	Straight
2	3	50	200	4.5 seconds	350 damage	25 damage			2.5 seconds
3	10	200	175	4.5 seconds	400 damage	30 damage			2.5 seconds
4	25	1,500	175	4.5 seconds	450 damage	35 damage			2.5 seconds
5	50	2,000	175	4.5 seconds	500 damage	40 damage	+1.6x		2.5 seconds
6	75	3,000	175	4 seconds	550 damage	45 damage			2.5 seconds
7	100	4,000	175	4 seconds	600 damage	50 damage		25 damage	2.75 seconds
8	125	5,000	175	4 seconds	650 damage	55 damage			2.75 seconds
9	175	6,000	175	4 seconds	700 damage	60 damage			2.75 seconds
10	225	8,000	150	3.5 seconds	750 damage	65 damage			2.75 seconds
11	300	10,000	150	3.5 seconds	800 damage	70 damage			2.75 seconds
12	350	15,000	150	3.5 seconds	850 damage	75 damage			2.75 seconds
13	350	20,000	150	3.5 seconds	900 damage	80 damage	+2.2x		3 seconds
14	400	25,000	150	3 seconds		85 damage			3 seconds
15	450	30,000	150	3 seconds		90 damage			3 seconds
16	500	35,000	125	3 seconds		95 damage		30 damage	3 seconds
17	550	40,000	125	3 seconds		100 damage			3 seconds
18	600	45,000	125	3 seconds		105 damage			3.25 seconds
19	700	50,000	125	3 seconds		110 damage			3.25 seconds
20	800	55,000	100	2.5 seconds		110 damage			3.25 seconds

*Per projectile

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	File:Repeater (PvZ) Upgrade 1.png Colorful Peas	Repeater gains a 12.5% chance to shoot a frozen pea, and a 16.667% chance to shoot a burning pea.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Repeater (PvZ) gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	File:Repeater (PvZ) Upgrade 2.png Elemental Charge	Repeater's probability to shoot a frozen pea or a fire pea increases. In addition, it is now capable of shooting napalm peas.
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Repeater (PvZ) gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Repeater (PvZ) may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Repeater (PvZ) gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

Any peas fired by Repeater with his Plant Food ability has a chance to be a fire, napalm or frozen pea.

Strategies

Plants vs. Zombies

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, Repeater is unique in that it will only appear as a backward facing variant, just like the back head of a Split Pea. Therefore, it should be planted to the right, instead of to the left side of the levels. Backward Repeater is particularly useful against fighting vase Gargantuars, as it can avoid being in their course and can shoot them with relative safety.

However, one should always be careful; since the Repeater is firing backwards, it's actually firing its peas slower at the zombies, since its peas are not going against the zombies and in the opposing direction, but instead goes along with them in the same direction. Because of this, one should always use caution when using the reverse Repeaters.

Plants vs. Zombies 2

While Repeater has not changed much during the transition to the new game, the loss of fire peas' splash damage capability has put a significant dent in Repeater's usefulness, as well as other peashooting plants'. This is only worsened by the increased amount of enemies that can either block or deflect straight shooting projectiles, and the fact that Repeater faces competition from Fire Peashooter, which deals identical damage at a slightly cheaper price tag, can thaw nearby plants in Frostbite Caves, but does not benefit from Torchwood but cannot deal damage to Imp Dragon Zombies. In conclusion, while Repeater may have retained its profile through the games, it has failed to catch up with the changing environment and consequently dropped in usability.

A Repeater's Plant Food upgrade with the help of Torchwood's fire can kill a normal Gargantuar (90*2=180), and if it is helped with Torchwood's napalm fire can even kill a Jurassic Gargantuar.

Note that the Chinese upgraded effects for this plant can be seen as contradictory, since it shoots fire, ice, and napalm peas at the same time, making the ice peas useless.

Related achievements

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

	Morticulturalist Collect all 49 plants.

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Trivia

General

• He looks almost identical to Peashooter, with the differences being the multiple leaves on the back of his head and eyebrows that give off an angry or annoyed appearance.
• Even though the Peashooter from Garden Warfare 2 is supposed to be a reincarnation of the Peashooter from the phone games, he more resembles the Repeater.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies

• Sometimes, a newly planted Repeater shoots one pea before shooting two peas.
• In the iOS version, his leaves at the back are different from the original version.
• In some Vasebreaker levels, a backwards Repeater will come out of vases. He works similar to a regular Repeater, but kills zombies from behind, similar to the Split Pea.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies 2

• The helmet seen during Repeater's Plant Food ability is a Stahlhelm, a steel helmet used by the German military in the two World Wars.
• In the Chinese version, his Almanac entry is different. It is a reference to the fact that he was a money premium plant.

See also

• Pea
• Peashooting plants
• Gatling Pea

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