Battery Bomb Zombie

Battery Bomb Zombie is a Zombie in Plants vs. Zombies 2, encountered in Penny's Pursuit, Arena, and Piñata Parties, arriving on the lawn wearing his battery-wired helmet. Whenever he takes damage, whether it be direct, splash, chain, or anything else, the battery on his back receives power. Every instance of damage is one point of electricity. Every five times he takes damage, his appearance changes according to the battery on his back, where another bar fills up and a power line on his helmet glows yellow with electricity.
After taking 20 instances of damage, Battery Bomb Zombie releases a powerful electric discharge attack. The attack first instantly destroys the closest plant in his lane, then arcs to adjacent lanes, above and below, diagonally. Adjacent arcs deal 1000 damage each, but the first strike will always destroy the plant it hits. After firing this electric discharge, Battery Bomb Zombie will go idle for a moment, then start walking again, with battery power back at zero. Diagram of this down in the gallery because it was fun to make. Woo!
Due to his nature, and as a fun little side bonus, Battery Bomb Zombie is also immune to all electric plants (except two). Any attacks by electric plants that attempt to damage him fill up his battery power by two instead of one. Some electric plant attacks, such as Electric Blueberry's storm cloud and Lightning Reed's Plant Food, instantly fill up his battery power and lets him use an immediate discharge. However, also due to his nature, he is strongly affected by Magnet-shroom, which instantly takes away all his battery power if he enters its range, and affected even more powerfully by Magnet-shroom's Plant Food and E.M Peach, which both kill him instantly.
==Origins==
Battery Bomb Zombie is based off of batteries, containers consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power. You put them in your TV remotes and RC car controllers. Go figure.
His ability to discharge is based off Lightning Reed's attack, which chains off zombies to deal extra damage to hordes.
==Overview==
In total, Battery Bomb Zombie Zombie absorbs 1000 damage per shot before defeat. At 500 damage per shot, one of his arms fall off. At 1000 damage per shot, his head falls off and he dies.
His battery changes appearance every fifth instance of damage he takes. At five, one bar on the battery is yellow and one line on his helmet is also yellow. At ten, two bars on the battery are yellow, and half of the lines on his helmet are yellow. At fifteen, three bars on the battery are yellow, and more lines turn yellow on his helmet. Finally, at twenty, all bars on the battery are yellow, all lines on the helmet are yellow, and electricity zaps between the top of his helmet before he discharges at a particularly unlucky plant.
==Almanac==
==Strategies==
Battery Bomb Zombie is a pretty dangerous zombie. He's very durable, with 1000 HP to tank damage reliably, and his discharge can arrive very easily depending on if your defense relies more on splash damage or sheer projectile numbers. Self explanatory, never use electric plants against him unless you want to have an early end. Ultimately, the best way to deal with him is to bring either Magnet-shroom or E.M Peach with you to reliably counter him and his charging mechanic. If you don't want to use slots on them, it could help to bring plants that aren't as reliant on splash damage like Melon-pult or shoot many weak projectiles like Repeater or Mega Gatling Pea. Instead, bring plants like Citron, Coconut Cannon, or Magnifying Grass, plants that do lots of damage with singular shots. Hitting Battery Bomb Zombie with quality over quantity assures that he never uses his ability and rips through your defense.
If you ignore this advice and decide to use splash or rapid damage plants anyway and now he's at full charge, dig up your most expensive plants in the line of fire and salvage as much sun as possible. His attack is very brutal if your defense is packed together like a tin of sardines. Saving that sun can help you rebuild and also realize the mistake you made not bringing Magnet-shroom. Alternatively, you can try to chump block his shot early by planting a cheap plant in front of him when he's about to fire, like a Puff-shroom or Sunflower, but it's pretty risky and not advised because he fires his shot off fairly quickly after he gets it. If you're playing riskily, it could be worth it to try and stomp out Battery Bomb Zombies with three bars of power before they get to four and obliterate everything you hold dear. This can be pretty easily done with old reliable instas, or done somewhat harder with a risky Plant Food. 
==Trivia==
*His appearance uses sprites from Future Zombie and Kongfu Zombie.
*Battery Bomb Zombie was originally made for the 2022 Shoktoberfest contest.
==Gallery==
BatteryBombHD.png|Battery Bomb Zombie in HD
BatteryBombTile.png|Battery Bomb Zombie as he appears in the almanac, as well as in Far Future for some reason
BatteryBomb1charge.png| Battery Bomb Zombie at one bar of charge
BatteryBomb2charge.png|Battery Bomb Zombie at two bars of charge
BatteryBomb3charge.png|Battery Bomb Zombie at three bars of charge
BatteryBombfinalcharge.png|Battery Bomb Zombie ready to fry your defense
Very detailed and professional diagram of the battery bomber zombies discharge attack angles.png.png|A very detailed and professional diagram of Battery Bomber Zombie's discharge attack angles
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