After launching five vases, it will self-destruct.
In the Chinese version, it has an Elite variant that can occasionally launch 10 vases at once. Vases launched by it have a chance to release a Zombie Chicken.
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
Normal
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?
The driver of this zcorpion often behaves quite differently even when he was small. He lacks understanding of humour and sarcasm, and prefers showing off his high IQ. Though the zcorpion he modified can launch multiple vases at once, not many zombies are willing to enter the vases due to how bad he is at getting along with others. Because of this, he could only stuff a lot chickens into the vases as replacement.
Oh my, these explosive vases also have chickens instead of just zombies inside them! That's quite sad.
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.
Zcorpion Zombie on the official Plants vs. Zombies Tmall store
In other languages
Language
Name
Description
English
Zcorpion Zombie
Simplified Chinese
罗马攻城车
French
Zombie Zcorpion
German
Zkorpion-Zombie
Italian
Zombi zcorpione
Brazilian Portuguese
Zumbi Zcorpião
Spanish
Zombi ezcorpión
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. Much like them, 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.
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