Pea Spartan

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Pea Spartan is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It is a seasonal plant, tied to Pea Spartan's Hybrid Season in . Pea Spartan is a shadow plant who has two completely different forms depending on whether it is powered or not. When unpowered, Pea Spartan is more of a ranged fighter, but when powered he'll turn into a close-range powerhouse. Pea Spartan is also incredibly frail, sporting only a single point of Toughness.
In his unpowered form, Pea Spartan starts off by throwing his shield down the lane until it hits a zombie or has traveled 5 tiles, dealing 100 damage to zombies hit along the way as well as stunning them for 3 seconds. When the shield hits its mark, it'll push all zombies in a 1x3 area around it back 2 tiles and remain in the ground as a grid item able to resist up to 6000 zombie damage before breaking. Note that you can't plant on the shield, but you can shovel it up if you very desperately need to plant something there. Shoveling up the shield will destroy it.
He'll then start throwing spears as a ranged attack, traveling through the air fairly slowly and following a heavy lobbed arc that means they can be deflected by . Each spear does a hefty 80 damage, meaning your average will go down in just three hits. However, he only throws a spear once every 1.85-2 seconds, just a little bit slower than a but not as slow as a or . Zombies that are standing still, whether they're eating or frozen or whatever, will take an extra 50% damage from each spear.
When powered, Pea Spartan recalls his shield (or if planted into a shadow aura he'll just keep it on him) and deals once again 100 damage and 3-second stun to all zombies in the way. He'll then use it as his own personal defensive shield as he switches to a melee attack with the spear that deals 40 damage every 0.85-1 seconds. The melee spear attack has just 1 tile of range and stuns zombies hit by it for 0.25 seconds each time. The melee attack can't hit more than a single zombie at a time.
If Pea Spartan's shield is destroyed, he'll get a new one after 45 seconds.
==Origins==
	Pea Spartan is based on , which in turn is based on the bamboo, an evergreen perennial flowering plant in the subfamily Bambuseae of the grass family Poaceae.
	Pea Spartan is personally based off a Pea, the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the flowering plant species Lathyrus oleraceus. Each pod contains several peas, which can be green or yellow. Botanically, pea pods are fruit, since they contain seeds and develop from the ovary of a (pea) flower.
	Pea Spartan is also based on a Spartan soldier. Subjected to military drills since early manhood, the Pea Spartans became one of the most feared and formidable military forces in the ancient Leek world, attaining legendary status in their wars against Peppersia. At the height of Sparta's power – between the 6th and 4th centuries BC – other Leeks commonly accepted that "one Pea Spartan was worth several Peas of any other state."
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food Effect===
When fed Plant Food, there are two different things that can happen. If in his unpowered form, Pea Spartan will throw a giant spear that travels down three lanes and deals 400 damage to all zombies hit while also stunning them for 10 seconds. If in his powered form, Pea Spartan will slam his spear into the ground, dealing 800 damage in a 3x3 area around himself and pushing any zombies that get hit back 4 tiles. No matter which form he's in, using Plant Food on Pea Spartan will regenerate/full restore his shield.
===Conceal-mint Effect===
When boosted with , Pea Spartan ranged and melee damage are increased by 200% for the duration of the mint.
==Upgrade Levels==
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Shield Durability	Ranged Damage	Melee Damage	Shield Recovery	Thrown Shield Stun	
1 	0 	0 	225 	15 sec 	1 	6000 	80 	40 	45 sec 	3 sec 	
2 	10 	1,000 	225 	15 sec 	1 	6500 	90 	45 	43 sec 	3 sec 	
3 	100 	5,000 	200 	15 sec 	1 	7000 	100 	50 	41 sec 	3 sec 	
4 	200 	10,000	175 	15 sec 	1 	7500 	110 	55 	39 sec 	4 sec 	
5 	400 	20,000	150 	15 sec 	1 	8000 	120 	60 	36 sec 	4 sec 	
6 	750 	30,000	150 	15 sec 	1 	9000 	140 	70 	33 sec 	4 sec 	
7 	1,000 	40,000	125 	15 sec 	1 	10000 	160 	80 	30 sec 	5 sec 	
8 	1,250 	50,000	125 	15 sec 	1 	12000 	190 	95 	25 sec 	5 sec 	
9 	1,500 	60,000	100 	15 sec 	1 	14000 	220 	110 	20 sec 	5 sec 	
10 	2,000 	75,000	75 	15 sec 	1 	16000 	250 	125 	15 sec 	6 sec 	
===Mastery upgrades===
* Chance to Boost 
*Damage Pierce
==History==
===December 7th, 2023===
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==Strategies==
Pea Spartan is a very flexible plant with the ability to be both a powerful long-range artillery plant with a similar damage output to a hypothetical single-target , as well as a mighty short-range plant with a similar damage output to or . No matter which form you choose to base your strategy around, it's important to make sure his shield stays in tip-top shape. As a grid item, it can be uniquely healed by - there's a special sort of scent that lets Aloe know it means well.
In his long-range form, Pea Spartan sort of sustains himself by giving himself a wall with his shield throw that he can get the 50% damage boost from. If the shield goes down, or you decide to shovel it up because it's not working for you, use something like a or that can take a beating and keep zombies still for a while. Even if zombies are slowed down tremendously from something like a , the damage bonus won't apply unless they aren't moving at all.
In his short-range form, Pea Spartan can protect himself with his shield as he pokes at zombies up close for major damage. Like with most melee plants, you want to bring some sort of stalling plant that can keep zombies from moving around, such as the aforementioned or . Pea Spartan's melee attacks also stun zombies for a moment per hit, meaning that if you also had a long-range Pea Spartan going at it at least some of the ranged attacks would get the damage bonus applied to them, making some nice synergy there with itself.
Above all else, remember that Pea Spartan has functionally no Toughness of its own and needs to be handled carefully.
==Demonstration==
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==Costumes==
==Gallery==
PeaSpartanHD.png|Pea Spartan HD
PeaSpartanDegraded1.png|Pea Spartan's first shield degrade
PeaSpartanDegraded2.png|Pea Spartan's second shield degrade
PeaSpartanDegraded3.png|Pea Spartan's third shield degrade
PoweredPeaSpartanHD.png|Powered Pea Spartan
PoweredPeaSpartanDegrade1.png|Powered Pea Spartan's first shield degrade
PoweredPeaSpartanDegrade2.png|Powered Pea Spartan's second shield degrade
PoweredPeaSpartanDegrade3.png|Powered Pea Spartan's third shield degrade
CPS1.png|Pea Spartan's costume
CPS2.png|Pea Spartan's first shield degrade with costume
CPS3.png|Pea Spartan's second shield degrade with costume
CPS4.png|Pea Spartan's third shield degrade with costume
CPS5.png|Powered Pea Spartan with costume
CPS6.png|Powered Pea Spartan's first shield degrade with costume
CPS7.png|Powered Pea Spartan's second shield degrade with costume
CPS8.png|Powered Pea Spartan's third shield degrade with costume
BuriedShield1.png|Pea Spartan's shield in the ground
BuriedShield2.png|Pea Spartan's shield in the ground at first degrade
BuriedShield3.png|Pea Spartan's shield in the ground at second degrade
BuriedShield4.png|Pea Spartan's shield in the ground at third degrade
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