Upgrades (in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2) are obtained when the player levels up characters. They are obtained every time when the character is level 5 and the first three times the character is level 9. Each character has eight Upgrades total, but not all characters obtain the same eight Upgrades.
When a character receives an Upgrade, it is not automatically applied; rather, the player needs to apply the Upgrade to the character themselves. Each character can only have three Upgrades applied to them at one time.
List of upgrades
| Upgrade | Level | Function | Exclusive to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Regeneration Delay Upgrade | Level 5 | This upgrade decreases the time period before your health starts regenerating! | All |
| Zoom Upgrade | Level 9 | This upgrade increases your zoom! | All, except melee characters, like almost all Chompers and Chemist. |
| Health Regeneration Upgrade | Specialist Level 5 | This upgrade makes your health regenerate faster! | All |
| Speed Upgrade | Specialist Level 9 | This upgrade increases your movement speed! | All |
| Reload Upgrade | Advanced Level 5 | This upgrade decreases your reload time! | All, except overheat and infinite ammo characters, like Chompers and Super Brainz. |
| Ammo Upgrade | Advanced Level 9 | This upgrade increases your ammo capacity! | All, except Roses, Chompers, All Stars, some Soldiers, etc. |
| Damage Upgrade | Elite Level 5 | This upgrade increases your primary weapon damage! | All, except fire and ice characters, some toxic characters, etc. |
| Health Upgrade | Super Elite Level 5 | This upgrade increases your overall health! | All |
| Overheat Penalty Upgrade | Advanced Level 5 | This upgrade decreases the time of how long your weapon needs to cool down for! | All-Stars Citrons Super Brainz (Note: Beam Only) General Supremo |
| Overheat Upgrade | Advanced Level 9 | This upgrade increases the amount of shots you can fire before you overheat! | All-Stars Citrons Super Brainz General Supremo |
| Digestion Upgrade | TBC | This upgrade decreases your digestion time! | Chompers |
| Super Meter Upgrade | Elite
Level 5* |
This upgrade decreases the amount of enemies that need to be vanquished to fill up your meter! | Iron Citron Disco Chomper Toxic Brainz Computer Scientist |
| Fire Upgrade | Elite Level 5* | This upgrade increases the amount of fire damage your primary weapon deals! | Fire Pea Fire Chomper Fire Flower Fire Cactus Fire Rose BBQ Corn Centurion Welder Paleontologist Cricket Star Lil' Drake Captain Flameface |
| Ice Upgrade | Elite Level 5* | This upgrade decreases the amount of shots needed for an enemy to freeze! | Ice Pea Yeti Chomper Ice Cactus Frozen Citron Frost Rose Arctic Trooper AC Perry Goalie Star |
| Toxic Upgrade | Elite Level 5* | This upgrade increases the range of your toxic aura! | Toxic Pea Toxic Chomper Toxic Citron Dr. Toxic Toxic Brainz Captain Squawk |
| Penetrate Upgrade | Advanced Level 9 | This upgrade allows your shots to penetrate through more enemies! | Mob Cob Captain Flameface Camo Cactus |
| Vampiric Upgrade | Elite Level 5 | This upgrade increases the amount of health you gain from vampiric attacks! | |
| Explosion Life Upgrade | Advanced Level 9 | This upgrade increases the amount of time your primary weapon's explosions linger! | |
| Damage Radius Upgrade | Elite Level 5 | This upgrade increases the size of the lingering clouds your weapon leaves! | Alien Flower Park Ranger Toxic Citron |
| Homing Upgrade | Advanced Level 9 | This upgrade increases the homing functionality of your primary weapon! | All Roses |
Tips
- Zoom Upgrade is for characters suited at medium/long range such as: Commando Pea, Camo Cactus, Camo Ranger, Astronaut, Pops Corn, and Agent Pea as it lets them zoom faster/farther and improves accuracy.
- Fire Upgrade is exclusive to Fire Variants such as: Fire Pea, BBQ Corn, Lil' Drake, and Cricket Star as it lets them deal more fire damage. The fire effect without the upgrade deals 5 damage per second until 3 seconds after last being hit by a fire based attack on average, but the fire upgrade makes the fire effect deal more damage per second/increase the duration of the fire effect.
- Ice Upgrade is exclusive to Ice Variants such as: Ice Pea, Frost Rose, Yeti Chomper, Frozen Citron, AC Perry, and Goalie Star. The Ice Pea without the upgrade takes 3 direct hits on a zombie to freeze it on average, but the ice upgrade makes the enemy freeze faster/increase duration of the chill effect after last being hit by an ice based attack.
- Toxic Upgrade is exclusive to the Toxic Variants such as: Toxic Pea, Dr. Toxic, Toxic Brainz and Toxic Chomper. The Toxic Chomper's aura of toxicity deals 2 to 5 damage every second depending on how close the enemy is to the Chomper on average, and the other Toxic Variants are similar in that department. They deal 2 toxic damage to an enemy hit by their attacks per second until 3 seconds after last being hit by a toxic based attack. The toxic effect spreads to other enemies, but the toxic upgrade increases the aura size/increases damage or duration of the toxic effect.
- Vampiric Upgrade is exclusive to Vampire Flower. Without the upgrade, she can heal herself from attacking zombies 3 HP on average, but with the vampiric upgrade she can heal 4 HP.
- Super Meter Upgrade is exclusive to Legendary Characters. The Iron Citron without upgrades takes 5 vanquishes to enter his Legendary Mode on average, but with the super meter upgrade, Legendary Characters require less vanquishes to enter their respective Legendary Modes (including Party Characters, though Shared Vanquishes now count towards Party Time).
Gallery
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