Template:Plantpic Zoybean Pod is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that was introduced in the 7.3.1 update. It grows bean pods from its head, which then open up to release a zombie plant hybrid known as "Zomboids" that function similarly to Hypno-shroom's and Caulipower's hypnotized zombies, walking to the right of the lawn and attacking zombies.
Zoybean Pod is currently available in the "Zoybean Pod's Birthdayz Season". To unlock it, the player must accumulate 200 crowns. Every 50 crowns after that will reward the player with 100 more Zoybean Pod seed packets.
Upgrading Zoybean Pod will also upgrade the Zomboids' level. This works similarly to the Chinese version's zombies upgrades, multiplying the Zomboids' health and damage.
Origins
Zoybean Pod is based on the soybean (Glycine max), a type of bean, with a "Z" in its name to reference the zombie fighters it makes. Its ability is based on the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where an invading alien species called Pod People (which the Zomboids are based on) creates human replicates from plant-like pods. The fact that the imitation Zomboids explode into tofu when defeated is a reference to how soybeans are used to make imitation meat in the form of tofu.
Almanac entry
Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.
Zoybean Pod
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Zoybean Pods grow from sprouts to full pods, then split open to release helpful plant "zomboids" which attack zombies. "Developing plant zomboids in eerie mimicry of zombie life is well within the boundaries of human experience," Zoybean Pod insists with a calm, unvarying steadiness. |
Upgrades
Plant Food effect
When fed Plant Food, Zoybean Pod will instantly grow a Gargantuar Zomboid, which will continue to the right, attacking any zombies it encounters.
Enchant-mint effect
When boosted by Enchant-mint, Zoybean Pod will produce Melonhead Zomboids instead of regular ones, the zomboid level will be increased to level 3 (with the Plant Food Gargantuar Zomboid being increased to level 4), and the amount of time it takes to produce a zomboid will be shortened to eight seconds.
Level upgrades
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Sun Cost | Recharge | Starting Recharge |
Toughness | Grow Time | Zomboid Type |
Zomboid Level | ||||||||||||
Normal | Plant Food | Normal | Plant Food | |||||||||||||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 20 seconds | 5 seconds | 300 damage | 18 seconds | Lettucehead Zomboid |
Gargantuar Zomboid |
1 | 1 | |||||||
2 | 50 | 200 | 19 seconds | 5 seconds | 350 damage | 18 seconds | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
3 | 100 | 175 | 19 seconds | 4.5 seconds | 400 damage | 17 seconds | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
4 | 200 | 175 | 18 seconds | 4.5 seconds | 450 damage | 16 seconds | Carrothead Zomboid |
1 | 2 | |||||||||
5 | 300 | 150 | 18 seconds | 4 seconds | 550 damage | 16 seconds | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
6 | 400 | 150 | 18 seconds | 4 seconds | 600 damage | 16 seconds | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
7 | 500 | 150 | 17 seconds | 3.5 seconds | 650 damage | 15 seconds | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
8 | 600 | 150 | 16 seconds | 3.5 seconds | 700 damage | 14 seconds | Melonhead Zomboid |
1 | 3 | |||||||||
9 | 800 | 150 | 15 seconds | 3 seconds | 800 damage | 14 seconds | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
10 | 1,000 | 125 | 14 seconds | 3 seconds | 900 damage | 13 seconds | 3 | 4 |
Strategies
Zoybean Pod is a good plant to use at the beginning of a level, since it can deal with lower health zombies quite efficiently. Zoybean Pod is best used in combination with slowing plants such as Sap-fling and Stallia since they give the Zomboids more time to eat.
Zoybean Pod is also highly effective with Enchant-mint, because of Enchant-mint's effect making Zoybean Pod produce up to two Melonhead Zomboids. This is very effective at clearing out lanes, or pushing the line of zombies back, allowing the player to set up more of a defense.
Avoid placing Zoybean Pod in plankless rows in the Pirate Seas, as the Zomboids it produces will simply fall into the water, making them ineffective. The Zomboids also can interact with graves in Ancient Egypt and Dark Ages, which should be accounted for when using Zoybean Pod.
As the Zomboids it produces can't be transformed, Zoybean Pod can also serve as a decent counter to the Wizard Zombie and the Octo Zombie if there aren't a large number of zombies on screen. For this reason, it's best to pair Zoybean Pod with powerful area of effect plants such as Winter Melon.
If your Zoybean Pod is at a very high level, it becomes more effective when picked in correlation to the Tile Turnip. It is recommended to place a row of Zoybean Pods on the 2nd column.
In Explode-O-Nut's Boosterama Tournament, the Zoybean Pod was very powerful as it was Zen Garden boosted, meaning that every time one was planted a gargantuar zomboid would be spawned.
If you happen to boost your Zoybean Pod in any Last Stand levels, you will spawn a Zomboid Gargantuar everytime you plant them. Also you can shovel it back and planting it again and again before you start the level.
Gallery
Plants vs. Zombies Wiki has a gallery for Zoybean Pod.
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Trivia
- The Gargantutar Zomboid resembles the Green Giant mascot: Jolly Green Giant.
- When an Octo Zombie throws the octopi and hits the Zoybean Pod as he summons a Zomboid, he will freeze and not do anything. This is a glitch.
- When a Zomboid dies, a word spells out โTO-FWUMP.โ
- The Zomboids can also be tossed by Power Toss, but it won't send them off the screen.
- If the Zomboid crosses the flowers, the player wonโt lose the level because they are counted as plants.
- Despite being counted as plants, the Zomboids still be chilled when frozen projectiles (frozen melons and frozen pea) that were deflected by Jester Zombies (because the plants can't be chilled by that activity)
- It is the first non-Power Mint plant which costs no coins to level up.
- Zoybean Pod is the first new plant since Holly Barrier to be neither a Peashooter nor a Power Mint.
- The Zomboids coming out of the pod nearly resembles the Adventurer Zombie coming out of tent summoned by Imp Porter.
See also
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Pool | Lily Pad ยท Squash ยท Threepeater ยท Tangle Kelp ยท Jalapeno ยท Spikeweed ยท Torchwood ยท Tall-nut |
Fog | Sea-shroom ยท Plantern ยท Cactus ยท Blover ยท Split Pea ยท Starfruit ยท Pumpkin ยท Magnet-shroom |
Roof | Cabbage-pult ยท Flower Pot ยท Kernel-pult ยท Coffee Bean ยท Garlic ยท Umbrella Leaf ยท Marigold ยท Melon-pult |
Upgrades | Gatling Pea ยท Twin Sunflower ยท Gloom-shroom ยท Cattail ยท Winter Melon ยท Gold Magnet ยท Spikerock ยท Cob Cannon |
Others | Imitater ยท Explode-o-nut ยท Giant Wall-nut ยท Reverse Repeater ยท Giant Sunflower ยท Giant Marigold ยท Sprout ยท Tree of Wisdom |
Plants vs. Zombies: Social Edition | |
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Normal | Peashooter ยท Sunflower ยท Cherry Bomb ยท Wall-nut ยท Potato Mine ยท Chomper ยท Repeater ยท Puff-shroom ยท Scaredy-shroom ยท Snow Pea ยท Sun-shroom ยท Fume-shroom ยท Grave Buster ยท Lily Pad ยท Squash ยท Spikeweed ยท Tangle Kelp ยท Torchwood ยท Sea-shroom ยท Jalapeno ยท Coffee Bean ยท Tall-nut ยท Pumpkin ยท Magnet-shroom ยท Blover ยท Melon-pult ยท Cactus |
Premium | Pickled Pepper ยท Icy Fume-shroom ยท Fire-shroom ยท Flamewood ยท Vine-nut ยท Gatling Pea ยท Twin Sunflower ยท Gloom-shroom ยท Winter Melon ยท Super Chomper ยท Future Star ยท Calm Chuck |
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>Normal | Peashooter ยท Sunflower ยท Aspearagus ยท Wall-nut ยท Cherry Bomb ยท Popcorn ยท Beet ยท Snow Pea ยท Jalapeรฑo ยท Magnet Plant ยท Flaming Pea ยท Shamrock ยท Bamboo Shoot ยท Repeater ยท Chilly Pepper ยท Twin Sunflower |
VIPs | Sweet Pea ยท Beeshooter ยท Hard-nut ยท Acespearagus ยท Power Flower ยท Beetboxer ยท Ice Queen Pea ยท Shamrockstar ยท Bamboom |
Others | Trees |
Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) | |
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Ancient Egypt | Peashooter ยท Sunflower ยท Wall-nut ยท Cabbage-pult ยท Bloomerang ยท Iceberg Lettuce ยท Grave Buster ยท Bonk Choy ยท Repeater ยท Twin Sunflower ยท Snow Pea ยท Cherry Bomb ยท Torchwood |
Pirate Seas | Kernel-pult ยท Snapdragon ยท Power Lily ยท Spikeweed ยท Spring Bean ยท Coconut Cannon ยท Spikerock ยท Lightning Reed ยท Tall-nut |
Wild West | Threepeater ยท Squash ยท Split Pea ยท Chili Bean ยท Jalapeno ยท Pea Pod ยท Melon-pult ยท Winter Melon ยท Imitater |
Kongfu World | Resistant Radish ยท Fire Gourd ยท Heavenly Peach ยท Bamboo Shoot |
Far Future | Laser Bean ยท Blover ยท Citron ยท E.M.Peach ยท Infi-nut ยท Magnifying Grass ยท Tile Turnip ยท Starfruit |
Dark Ages | Hypno-shroom ยท Sun-shroom ยท Puff-shroom ยท Fume-shroom ยท Sun Bean ยท Pea-nut ยท Magnet-shroom ยท Oak Archer ยท Coffee Bean ยท Plantern |
Big Wave Beach | Acid Lemon ยท Lotus Pod ยท Lily Pad ยท Bowling Bulb ยท Banana Launcher ยท Guacodile ยท Tangle Kelp ยท Homing Thistle |
Frostbite Caves | Hurrikale ยท Fire Peashooter ยท Hot Potato ยท Pepper-pult ยท Chard Guard ยท Stunion ยท Rafflesia ยท Whirlwind Acorn |
Sky City | Rotobaga ยท Loquat ยท Asparagus ยท Saucer ยท Horsebean ยท Groundcherry ยท Anthurium ยท Pineapple |
Lost City | Lava Guava ยท Red Stinger ยท A.K.E.E. ยท Stallia ยท Gold Leaf ยท Toadstool ยท Jackfruit |
Neon Mixtape Tour | Morning Glory ยท Phat Beet ยท Thyme Warp ยท Celery Stalker ยท Spore-shroom ยท Garlic ยท Intensive Carrot ยท Cactus |
Jurassic Marsh | Primal Peashooter ยท Primal Wall-nut ยท Perfume-shroom ยท Primal Sunflower ยท Primal Potato Mine ยท Primal Rafflesia ยท Dino-Roar Grass ยท Timid Thorns ยท Sugarcane Master |
Modern Day | Shadow-shroom ยท Caulipower ยท Moonflower ยท Grimrose ยท Nightshade ยท Dusk Lobber ยท Blooming Heart |
Steam Age | Gold Bloom ยท Flat-shroom ยท Maypop Mechanic ยท Lotus Shooter ยท Wind-Blowing Vanilla ยท Lily of Pharmacy ยท Mulberry Blaster |
Renaissance Age |
Aloe ยท Bearberry Mortar ยท Wax Gourd Guard ยท Oily Olive ยท Jeweler Pomegranate ยท Dartichoke |
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Fairytale Forest | Ents ยท Heath Seeker ยท Hat Mushroom ยท Hocus Crocus ยท Princess Spring Grass ยท Bamboo Trooper |
Monthly special | Pyro-shroom ยท Carrotillery ยท Cryo-shroom ยท Dandelion ยท Strong Broccoli ยท Machine Gun Pomegranate ยท Chomper ยท Sweet Potato ยท Landlord Bamboo ยท Sap-fling ยท Ghost Pepper ยท Chestnut Squad ยท Bamboo Bro ยท Rose Swordfighter ยท Magic-shroom ยท Electric Blueberry ยท Mischief Radish ยท Endurian ยท Pumpkin Witch ยท Sunflower Singer ยท Snow Cotton ยท Agave ยท Kiwifruit ยท Pretty Plum ยท Dragonfruit ยท Angel Starfruit ยท Gatling Pea ยท Banksia Boxer ยท Flame Flower Queen ยท Cattail ยท Grapeshot ยท Cold Snapdragon ยท Shrinking Violet ยท Cob Cannon ยท Apple Mortar ยท Witch Hazel ยท Escape Root ยท Electric Currant ยท White Melon Sumo Wrestler ยท Wasabi Whip ยท Explode-O-Nut ยท Parsnip ยท Missile Toe ยท Kiwibeast ยท Electric Peashooter ยท Hot Date ยท Icy Currant ยท Tulip Trumpeter ยท Eggplant Ninja ยท Banana Dancer ยท Dual Pistol Pinecone ยท Narcissus Shooter ยท Alarm Explosive Arrowhead ยท Holly Barrier ยท Shadow Peashooter ยท Snap Pea ยท Crystal Orchid ยท Sling Pea ยท Thunder Snapdragon ยท Electrici-tea ยท Imp Pear ยท Strawburst ยท Egret Flower Plane ยท Goo Peashooter ยท Elaeocarpus-pult ยท Water Chestnut Brothers ยท Pokra ยท Dollarweed Drummer ยท Ultomato ยท Shadow Vanilla ยท Splendens Blade ยท Stickybomb Rice ยท Gumnut ยท Olive Pit ยท Earthstar Nuclear Silo ยท Headbutter Lettuce ยท Dazey Chain ยท Boom Balloon Flower ยท Celebration Soda Palm ยท Claw Gloriosa ยท Impatiens Shooter ยท Turkey-pult ยท Hammer Flower ยท Fishhook Grass ยท Mangosteen ยท Inferno ยท Tigerstool ยท Gardener Grass ยท Draftodil ยท Buttercup ยท Byttneria Meteor Hammer ยท Laser Crown Flower ยท Zoybean Pod ยท Orchid Mage ยท Jack O' Lantern ยท Twin Year of the Rabbits ยท Pea Pharmacist ยท Pike Hoya ยท Vamporcini ยท Burdock Batter ยท Pumpkin ยท Capaci-cone ยท Cranesbill Fencer ยท Meteor Flower ยท Gorgon Pitcher ยท Power Vine ยท Parkour Mandrake ยท Abyss Anemone ยท Abyss Devil's Claw ยท Hoya Heart ยท Pea Vine ยท MayBee ยท Oilseed-pult ยท Leaf-Blade Dracaena ยท Bamboo Spartan ยท Shine Vine ยท Sunshine Leek ยท Nightcap ยท Pyre Vine ยท Gluttonous Snapdragon ยท Bun Chi ยท Heliconia Gunner |
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Ancient Egypt | Bloomerang ยท Bonk Choy ยท Grave Buster ยท Iceberg Lettuce ยท Cabbage-pult |
Pirate Seas | Snapdragon ยท Spikeweed ยท Spring Bean ยท Kernel-pult ยท Coconut Cannon ยท Narcissus ยท Endurian ยท Spikerock ยท Pineapple-pult ยท Threepeater |
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East Sea Dragon Palace | Oxygen Algae ยท Garlic ยท Bubble Flower ยท Electric Sea Pine |
Upgrades | Twin Sunflower ยท Repeater |
VIPs | Winter Melon |
Power Ups | Cherry Bomb ยท Jalapeno |
Premium | Squash ยท Snow Pea ยท Tall-nut |
Adventure Mode only | Magic Vine ยท Split Pea ยท Chili Bean ยท Lightning Reed ยท Pea Pod ยท Melon-pult ยท Starfruit ยท Chomper ยท Fire Peashooter ยท Cattail ยท Rose Swordfighter ยท Clivia ยท Sap-fling ยท Acid Lemon ยท Magic-shroom ยท Ghost Pepper ยท Guacodile ยท Hurrikale ยท Plantern ยท Oak Archer ยท Homing Thistle ยท Pepper-pult ยท Resistant Radish ยท Toadstool ยท Blooming Heart ยท Red Stinger ยท Electric Blueberry ยท A.K.E.E. ยท Moonflower ยท Agave ยท Asparagus ยท Pumpkin Witch ยท Mine Fruit ยท Sea Anemone ยท Lychee Drill ยท Sea Starfruit |
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Lost Keys Lake | Lily Pad ยท Tangle Kelp ยท Squash |
Mt. Quesogrande | Chili Bean ยท Silversword ยท Cabbage-Pult |
Power-Ups | Grapes of Wrath ยท Chilly Pepper ยท Jalapeรฑo ยท Cherry Bomb ยท Blover |
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