Spikerock (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Spikerock (disambiguation).

Spikerock
Spikerocks destroy multiple rolling zombies and damage zombies that walk over it.
Statistics
Sun Cost	250
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Area	Tile
Family	Spear-mint
Plant Food effect	Metal spikes push all zombies in its lane onto itself, damaging them in the process.
Special	Can't be eaten by zombies
Weakness	Can take three hits from rolling zombies
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	250
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Attack Rate	0.5 seconds
Range	Own Tile
Area	AoE within Range
Class	Special
Quality	Uncommon
Tags	Short, damage, control, area of effect
Plant features	Short
In-game statistics
Other special	Takes three instant-kills
Other weakness	(pushed objects crush Spikerock) (digs up Spikerock) (treadmill crushes Spikerock)
Unlocked	Beating Pirate Seas - Day 18
Unlocked (China)	Formerly purchased for 300000 coins; collect 10 Spikerock Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Code name	spikerock
Being the most metal plant, Spikerock has decided to hold his ultimate metal plant concert at Madison Rock Garden. Tickets have been sold out for many harvests.

“	Spikerock destroy multiple rolling zombies that walk over it.	”
—Penny

Spikerock is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He does double the damage of a normal Spikeweed and can be punctured/smashed up to three times. He is a passive attacking plant, dealing high damage to any zombie that walks on him. He usually deals five attacks to every normal speed zombie that passes unimpeded over him. Since the Spikerock attacks from below, he bypasses shields.

About

For more information about this character, see Spikerock

In this game, Spikerock is no longer an upgrade plant and is unlocked after finishing Pirate Seas - Day 18. He now costs 250 sun and can only absorb three rolling objects, losing one of his large spikes each time he's rolled over before finally being defeated. Like Spikeweed, he can now be planted on Lily Pad unlike most other underground plants in the Big Wave Beach, but only function properly if there is no water under its tile; otherwise zombies are going to eat the Spikerock and then Lily Pad.

He will damage zombies at 200 damage per a Basic Zombie's speed. He will automatically destroy a barrel from a Barrel Roller Zombie and kill a Pianist Zombie by destroying them. Also, when a Gargantuar smashes a Spikerock, he also degrades. It takes three smashes for a Gargantuar to kill him.

Almanac entry

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

Spikerock
	SUN COST 250 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 AREA Tile Spear-mint Plant Food: Metal spikes push all zombies in its lane onto itself, damaging them in the process. Spikeweeds destroy multiple rolling zombies and damage zombies that walk over them. Being the most metal plant, Spikerock has decided to hold his ultimate metal plant concert at Madison Rock Garden. Tickets have been sold out for many harvests.

Spikerock

SUN COST 250 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 AREA Tile Spear-mint Plant Food: Metal spikes push all zombies in its lane onto itself, damaging them in the process. Spikeweeds destroy multiple rolling zombies and damage zombies that walk over them. Being the most metal plant, Spikerock has decided to hold his ultimate metal plant concert at Madison Rock Garden. Tickets have been sold out for many harvests.

Chinese version  (China only)

钢地刺可以摧毁多个滚桶僵尸，并对踩到他的僵尸造成伤害。 特点：不会被僵尸吃掉 弱点：承受滚桶僵尸3次攻击 植物特征：矮个子 钢地刺是具有金属气质的植物，所以它决定在麦迪逊摇滚公园开一场重金属摇滚演唱会，消息一经发布，门票立即抢售一空。 In English: Spikerock can destroy multiple Barrel Roller Zombies and damages zombies that step on him. Special: won't be eaten by zombies Weakness: withstands 3 hits from Barrel Roller Zombie Plant feature: short Spikerock is the most metal plant. Therefore, it decided to hold a heavy metal rock and roll concert in Madison Rock & Roll Park. Once the news was announced, all tickets were sold.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When fed Plant Food, he temporarily fills the row with other spikes poking up from the ground and pulls zombies to where the Spikerock is. This does 1440 damage for 4.5 seconds. Like the Spikeweed, the secondary spikes can destroy rolling objects and damage zombies being pulled towards the Spikerock. When in effect, if the Spikerock is in a minecart, the minecart cannot be moved.

Spear-mint effect

When boosted by Spear-mint, Spikerock will receive an additional 100 damage on his attack.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Normal)	Area (Tile)
1	0	0	250	5 seconds	300 damage	20 damage	Tile
2	10	1,000	225		350 damage	30 damage
3	75	5,000	200		400 damage	40 damage
4	200	10,000	175		450 damage	50 damage
5	400	20,000			550 damage	60 damage
6	750	30,000	150		600 damage	70 damage
7	1,000	40,000			650 damage	80 damage
8	1,250	50,000	125		700 damage	90 damage
9	1,500	60,000			800 damage	100 damage
10	2,000	75,000	100		900 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Paralyze 麻痹	20% chance to stun zombies for 1 second. 从地下发动的突然攻击有 20%概率造成1秒定身效果。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Spikerock gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Improved Piercing 突刺改良	40% chance to stun zombies for 1 second. 从地下发动的突然攻击时有40%概率造成1秒定身效果。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Spikerock gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Spikerock may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Spikerock gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

His Plant Food ability can now stun zombies.

Strategies

Using slowing plants like Snow Pea, Winter Melon, or Sap-fling can provide a great damage increase to ones Spikerocks, because zombies will be walking over them for twice the amount of time. Kernel-pult can also be a good option because of his stun. Using other immobilizing plants like Stunion, Chili Bean and Iceberg Lettuce, then planting Spikerock under the affected zombies is also very effective.

Planting defensive plants behind Spikerock is another good idea, as zombies will stop to eat the defensive plant while taking damage from the Spikerock.

One example of a scenario in Dead Man's Booty.

Spikerocks are a great way to stop the zombie horde as peashooting plants alone are only capable of dealing with zombies that are in the front lines. This, along with the Winter Melon or Melon-pult, Coconut Cannon, and Tall-nut or Wall-nut can immediately hold off massive zombie incursions, especially in Dead Man's Booty because he will stop Imp Cannons from detonating. However, it is not advised to bring him when Gargantuar Pirates or Barrel Roller Zombies come into greater concentrations.

Spikerocks in Dead Man's Booty - Level 129. There are Spikerocks placed at the edge where the Imp Cannons are.

It is advised to use Spear-mint to generate Spikerock as it generates higher level Spikerock for free, while also temporarily boosting it.

In Neon Mixtape Tour, Spikerock is a good choice against Punk Zombies, Glitter Zombies, MC Zom-Bs and Boombox Zombies, since they all have low health and can get whittled down by Spikerock quite easily, but beware of Arcade Zombies and Hair Metal Gargantuar.

In Endless Zones, Spikerock is a good way to deal with Imps thrown from Gargantuars. One can place Spikerocks in the third column, and when a Gargantuar throws his Imp, they'll land on the Spikerocks, only to take damage and get defeated. Spikerocks can also be used to hold off hordes of early zombies while ones sun production is being built up.

In Big Bad Butte, the player can use Spikerocks to stall Wild West Gargantuars by placing them in minecarts through the use of dragging up or down. Also, it serves as a temporary block-off against Zombie Chickens (although this may have to require manipulating more than one minecart).

Spikerock is by far the most effective counter to Hamsterballs, as it can instantly destroy three of them before needing to be planted. It is also very useful with Imp Pear, as Imp cannot survive a single Spikerock.

It is not advised to use Spikerocks against Troglobites, Arcade Zombies and Excavator Zombies, as the former can instantly kill him by pushing ice blocks or arcade machines onto his square, and the latter will shovel him up without stepping on him.

Spikerock is very useful for levels where you have to not let zombies trample the flowers, as planting them on the flowers will make it so that the zombies can't trample the flowers. However, the flowers have to be on the tile for this to work, instead of being in between columns. The same thing occurs with Spikeweed, Celery Stalker, and Cactus.

Spikerock is very helpful when dealing with Zcorpion Zombies, as they can withstand the exploding vases the machine throws. Try putting next to the zombie and then they will continuously throw vases at the plant, making it useless to destroy plants with it vases.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Spikerock
Simplified Chinese	钢地刺	lit. "Steel Ground Thorn"
French	Pierre épineuse
German	Stachelstein
Italian	Rovo di pietra
Brazilian Portuguese	Pedra-espinho	From pedra and espinho
Russian	Каменные колючки	From Каменные and Колючки
Spanish	Pinchorroca

Trivia

• His Almanac entry says his body is made of metal, even though he is called the Spikerock. Plus, his health has changed from nine times being rolled over and/or smashed by a Gargantuar to three times being rolled over and/or Gargantuar smashes. This is actually ironic because metal is normally more resistant than rocks (nine times). The Almanac also says his toughness is Typical, despite the fact that he can't be eaten by zombies in normal way (bite). Additionally, he can take three hits from a Gargantuar, much higher than most other plants, including some whose their toughness can be stated as Elevated, High or Very High.
• He makes a different sound when stepped on by a zombie. The sound is similar to air being leaked out of a bag.
• Before the 2.7 update, exiting and entering a level would allow all Spikerocks on screen to become almost indestructible and be able take repetitive smashes from Gargantuars.
• He cannot pop Imp Cannon's wheels or Shield Zombie's treads, but can normally damage them, as long as they are stepping on the Spikerock.
  • This is because they are made of wood & metal not rubber like regular car tyres.
  • He also cannot destroy Cardio Zombie's treadmills because they are made of metal. The treadmill will crush the spikerock instantly.
  • He cannot destroy ice blocks or arcade machines. He will be crushed by them.
• Unlike Spikeweed, his costume disappears when he hurts a zombie normally. However, this was fixed in the 4.6 update.
• He can instantly destroy pianos, despite the fact that they do not have any visible wheels. This also happens to Spikeweed and Cactus.
• Hair Metal Gargantuar's shockwave can instantly kill him, regardless of his current degrade level.
• Using Plant Food on him will not replenish his spikes, this could be a glitch.
• He is voiced by Taz the Dog according to the credits.
• The Travel Log quest for unlocking him incorrectly calls him Spikeweed.
• He and Stunion are the only Adventure Mode plants that require 100 seed packets to unlock.
• His eyes appear to be slightly bigger than he did in the first game.
• His Plant Food had the ability to instakill most non-boss zombies, including Gargantuars, but it was a bug fixed in the version 12.1.1.
• He can be eaten on a lily pad.
• Formerly, there was a visual glitch with his seed packet where the lightning bolt is always brown no matter what level he is. He shares this trait with Spikeweed. This was fixed in the recent update.
  • However, this problem still occurs with Chilly Pepper.

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)

• His costume will affect his Plant Food by making the duration of the Spikerock bringing zombies to him longer, and when the zombies are pulled to the Spikerock, he will make the zombies dizzy and confused and eat their allies, similar to Hypno-shroom and Spikeweed's Chinese costume effect.
• He cannot be healed by Heavenly Peach.

See also

• Spikeweed
• Spear-mint

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