Rocket Science

Statistics
Strength	Health	Cost
-	-	3

Set

Premium

Rarity

Super-Rare

Class

Tribe

Science Barrel Trick

Abilities

Destroy a Plant that has 4

or more.

Turns out, it IS rocket science.

Rocket Science is a premium super-rare zombie trick card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the

Brainy class.

It costs 3 to play, and its ability instantly destroys a selected plant with 4 or more. Its plant counterpart is Shamrocket.

Origins

It is based on a rocket, a missile, spacecraft, aircraft, or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.

Its name and description are a play on the phrase and common idiom, "It's not rocket science," meaning that something is not as hard as rocket science, the primary field of aircraft and spacecraft more properly called aerospace engineering, which is generally considered to be very complicated.

Statistics

Class: Brainy
Tribes: Science Barrel Trick
Ability: Destroy a Plant that has 4 or more.
Set - Rarity: Premium - Super-Rare

Card description

Turns out, it IS rocket science.

Update history

Update 1.2.11

Set - Rarity change: Basic - Common → Premium - Uncommon

Update 1.10.22

New sound effects when Rocket Science is played.

Update 1.10.23

New animation when Rocket Science is played.

Update 1.14.13

Rarity change: Uncommon → Rare

Update 1.16.10

Rarity change: Rare → Super-Rare

Update 1.30.4

▲ Tribe added: Barrel

Strategies

With

Rocket Science has a simple ability to help you remove any high strength plant instantly, meaning its usefulness increases as you go later into the match, when the Plant Hero will usually play stronger plants that this trick can target. However, Rocket Science isn't very viable compared to other removal options thanks to its tendency to brick the user's deck. As useful as it could be, if your opponent doesn't have eligible plants for it to destroy, it will clog your hand and severely limit avaliable options. For these reasons, other options like Exploding Fruitcake, Cakesplosion, Zombot's Wrath or Extinction Event are generally more useful, as they don't have any restrictions to their abilities and in some cases, are also cheaper for the same task.

Against

Relying on only a few high-strength plants when playing against a Brainy hero is very risky, as they can play Rocket Science to destroy one and put you in a bad situation. The only sure way to combat Rocket Science is to use Untrickable cards like Umbrella Leaf (however, it is vulnerable to tricks and will be likely taken out quickly due to the ability hindering the zombie hero greatly) and Apotatosaurus.

If you don't have such cards, try to get the most out of a hard-hitting plant by making it do bonus attacks, use fighters with 3 strength or less, or get many high-strength plants out on the field and force the zombie hero into a dilemma with distribution.

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Name	Description
English	Rocket Science
Simplified Chinese	火箭发射
Traditional Chinese	火箭科學
French	Physique-chimie
German	Raketenwissenschaft
Italian	Scienza missilistica
Japanese	ロケット
Korean	로켓 공학
Brazilian Portuguese	Ciência Espacial
Russian	Китайская грамота
Spanish	Ciencia aeronáutica

Trivia

A rocket similar to this one is found in Wall-Knight's and Z-Mech's comic strip.
The face on the rocket is the same as the face on Kite Flyer's kite, Rolling Stone, Balloon Zombie's balloon, and Toxic Waste Imp's barrel.
It had the most rarity changes out of all cards in the entire game, from Common to Uncommon, then to Rare, and finally to Super-Rare.
The Simplified Chinese translation of the description is entirely different. It reads: "Nobody knows how could this rocket strike its target". Additionally, the name is translated to "Rocket Launch".

Unobtainable
Tokens	Zombie · Returned Octo Zombie
Superpowers	Flick-a-Plant · Get Well · Motivate