Repeater (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Repeater (disambiguation).

Repeater
Repeater fires two peas at a time.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	200
Recharge	5 seconds
Damage	Moderate (normal for each pea)
Range	Straight
Family	Appease-mint
In-game statistics
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
"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 Plants vs. Zombies 2. He costs 200 sun, twice the amount of a normal Peashooter and fires twice as many peas.

About

For more information about this character, see Repeater.

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. He can be further upgraded into stronger plants.

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

Almanac entry

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

Repeater	SUN COST 200 RECHARGE 5 SUN COST: 200 RECHARGE: 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 TOUGHNESS: 300 DAMAGE: 20 RANGE Straight PLANT FOOD POWER Duration RANGE: Straight PLANT FOOD POWER: Duration FAMILY Appease-mint FAMILY: Appease-mint Repeaters fire two peas at one time. Damage Details: normal (for each pea) Firing Speed: 2x "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

SUN COST: 200
RECHARGE: 5

		TOUGHNESS 300			DAMAGE 20

TOUGHNESS: 300
DAMAGE: 20

		RANGE Straight			PLANT FOOD POWER Duration

RANGE: Straight
PLANT FOOD POWER: Duration

		FAMILY Appease-mint

FAMILY: Appease-mint

Repeaters fire two peas at one time.

Damage Details: normal (for each pea)
Firing Speed: 2x

"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

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

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 (60 in the Chinese version) peas, and then after turning red for a second, it fires a giant pea that deals 600 (400 in the Chinese version) 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 dps	20 dps	Normal	20 dps	2.5 seconds	Straight
2	3	50	200	4.5 seconds	350 dps	25 dps			2.5 seconds
3	10	200	175	4.5 seconds	400 dps	30 dps			2.5 seconds
4	25	1,500	175	4.5 seconds	450 dps	35 dps			2.5 seconds
5	50	2,000	175	4.5 seconds	500 dps	40 dps	+1.6x		2.5 seconds
6	75	3,000	175	4 seconds	550 dps	45 dps			2.5 seconds
7	100	4,000	175	4 seconds	600 dps	50 dps		25 dps	2.75 seconds
8	125	5,000	175	4 seconds	650 dps	55 dps			2.75 seconds
9	175	6,000	175	4 seconds	700 dps	60 dps			2.75 seconds
10	225	8,000	150	3.5 seconds	750 dps	65 dps			2.75 seconds
11	300	10,000	150	3.5 seconds	800 dps	70 dps			2.75 seconds
12	350	15,000	150	3.5 seconds	850 dps	75 dps			2.75 seconds
13	350	20,000	150	3.5 seconds	900 dps	80 dps	+2.2x		3 seconds
14	400	25,000	150	3 seconds		85 dps			3 seconds
15	450	30,000	150	3 seconds		90 dps			3 seconds
16	500	35,000	125	3 seconds		95 dps		30 dps	3 seconds
17	550	40,000	125	3 seconds		100 dps			3 seconds
18	600	45,000	125	3 seconds		105 dps			3.25 seconds
19	700	50,000	125	3 seconds		110 dps			3.25 seconds
20	800	55,000	100	2.5 seconds		110 dps			3.25 seconds

*Per projectile

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	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	Repeater gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	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	Repeater gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken	Repeater may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power	Repeater 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

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 number 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, and cannot deal damage to Imp Dragon Zombies, and the Pea Vine which, when in max level, deals higher damage than a max level Repeater on top of being able to be planted on other plants, despite having down to half the sun cost. In conclusion, while Repeater may have retained his profile throughout the games, he 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 he is helped with Torchwood's napalm fire, he 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.

Gallery

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Trivia

• 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.
• Formerly 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
• Peashooter
• Peashooting plants
• Appease-mint

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