Zcorpion Zombie

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Zcorpion Zombie
A ballista from Ancient Rome, the Zcorpion Zombie launches an exploding vase at the nearest plant in its lane.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Machined
Speed	Basic
In-game statistics
Absorbs	2500 damage
Weakness	(when hiding) (prioritizes zombie)
First seen	Penny's Pursuit - Plants vs. Romans - Level 2 Arena - Olive Pit's Tournament Epic Quests - Epic Quest: Murkadamia Nut! - Step 5
Surprise! That exploding vase has a zombie in it! Isn't that surprising?

Zcorpion Zombie is an encountered zombie, who appears in Epic Quests, Arena, and Penny's Pursuit in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It is a machine controlled by a Roman Imp, which is used to launch vases at defenses, which releases Roman Zombies, Roman Coneheads, Roman Bucketheads, Healer Zombies, and Roman Shield Zombie, similar to how Imp Porter uses a tent to release Adventurer Zombies and their variants. Any thrown vase can also instant-kill any non-defensive plant on impact.

After launching five vases, it will self-destruct.

Origins

Zcorpion Zombie is based on the scorpio, a type of Roman torsion siege engine and field artillery piece, with a "Z" in its name to reference it being a zombie.

Almanac entry

TOUGHNESS Machined SPEED Basic	Zcorpion Zombie
A ballista from Ancient Rome, the Zcorpion Zombie launches an exploding vase at the nearest plant in its lane. Surprise! That exploding vase has a zombie in it! Isn't that surprising?

Zcorpion Zombie

TOUGHNESS: Machined
SPEED: Basic

A ballista from Ancient Rome, the Zcorpion Zombie launches an exploding vase at the nearest plant in its lane.

Surprise! That exploding vase has a zombie in it! Isn't that surprising?

Encounters

• Epic Quests
• Arena
• Penny's Pursuit

Strategies

Threepeaters combined with boosted Torchwoods along with Power Lilies and Tile Turnips should be powerful enough to neutralize the threat. If they appear in the Zomboss battles, make sure Zomboss' Zombot isn't blocking it or the vases will continue to launch at it. A max-level Bombard-mint will defeat the zombie easily, too, and a Laser Bean (with or without Plant Food) will go directly past the Zombot and kill the Zcorpion Zombie in the process. Lightning Reed is also very effective too. Try putting Spikerocks in front of Zcorpion Zombies since it will then continuously throw vases at the plant and it will not be damaged. This will make the zombie useless against destroying plants with it vases. Try planting vine plants to the closest plant that is near the zombie, when the vase is launched at the plant it will cause the vine to be destroyed instead of the plant. However, this strategy is not as effective in Spicy or Extra Hot levels, as the increases eating speed of the zombies will render this strategy largely ineffective.

If the player cannot handle the Zcorpion Zombie, simply use the Zom-B-Gone Perk to downgrade this zombie to an Imp Cannon. This can be useful in Spicy and Extra Hot Penny's Pursuit levels, since zombies in these increased difficulties have too much health to be defeated and Zcorpion Zombies are dangerous when combined with too many dangerous zombies with higher health.

Gallery

HD Zcorpion Zombie

Zcorpion Zombies sprites and assests

Almanac entry

Almanac icon

Almanac image

In-game

Lauching a vase

Defeated Zcorpion Zombie

Buttered Zcorpion Zombie

Frozen Zcorpion Zombie

Zcorpion Zombie under Stallia's effect

Poisoned Zcorpion Zombie

Zcorpion Zombie ice block by Ice Bloom

Hypnotized Zcorpion Zombie (possible by using Hypnotize Zombies Perk)

Zcorpion Zombie launching a vase that has a Roman Shield Zombie and reloading (Animated)

Beta animations

Arriving animation of ZCorpion Zombie

Idle animation of ZCorpion Zombie

Animation of ZCorpion Zombie preparing to launch a vase

Animation of ZCorpion Zombie launching a vase (note: The second launch is different from the first)

Reloading vase animation of ZCorpion Zombie

Destruction animation of ZCorpion Zombie

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) (China only)

Zcorpion Zombie reveal image

Other

Zcorpion Zombie on the official Plants vs. Zombies Tmall store

Trivia

• It is similar to Catapult Zombie from the first game and Cardio Zombie where it will crush any plant when approaching the lawn and before going into an idle animation. Even in its idle animation, the machine still has the ability to crush plants.
• Even though Zcorpion Zombie can launch out vases that has: Roman Zombie, Roman Conehead, Roman Buckethead, Healer Zombie, and Roman Shield Zombie. In its code, there is a little to none chance that Centurion Zombie or Gladiator Gargantuar can be spawned by the vases. But this is unlikely.
• The vases fired by the Zcorpion Zombie are from the Vasebreaker mode

See also

• Imp Porter
• Imp Cannon