Zombieel

Zombieel is a General zombie in Plants vs. Zombies: Kingdom of Taco encountered in Riverside Kingdom. He only advance to the 9th column and having several different stages of attacks, just like other general zombies.
He has 2 main abilities, first is "Lightning Chain", where Zombieel fires electricity from his arm. This ability only deal 10 damage to a plant, but it can chain onto other plants nearby, similar to Lightning Reed. It has the added function to stun plants for 2 seconds, preventing them from performing any abilities or attacks, however plants with ability when destroyed, defensive plants without any unique ability and electric plants will not be affected by this, electric plants specifically can absorb the lightning, making them no longer chain.
The second ability is "Thunderstruck", where Zombieel fire electricity from his arm into the air instead, before they land back down as lightning strike to deal damage by 25% of the plant's max health, meaning 4 strikes will destroy any plants. Unlike most overhead attack, Umbrella Leaf is unable to block this as the lightning is not a physical object. Within 3x3 of the lightning strikes, if any zombies is nearby, they will be "super charged" by electricity, causing them to walk at 1.75 times speed and immune to electric plants' attack, this will last for 5 seconds.
As a General zombie, he is immune to most effect, such as hypnotize, transform, knockback, stunning, freezing and more.
== Origins ==
Zombieel is based on an eel, more specifically an electric eel. His name is a portmanteau of "zombie" and "eel", the two things that he is based on. Zombieel's abilities is based on electric eel's ability to generate electricity to stun their prey, which also explain why the Lightning Chain ability is able to stun plants.
His second ability, Thunderstruck is based on a few things. Firstly, the name is based on a song with the same name by AC/DC. Secondly, the ability to super charge zombies come from Minecraft, where Creeper in that game has the ability to become charged when hit by lightning, giving it a strong explosion. While in this game, they gain the ability to be faster, which is a reference to The Flash, who can create lightning with his speed, as well as how generally lightning is paired with quick speed due to how fast they travel.
His almanac entry is a reference to Electro from Marvel, who in the movie The Amazing Spider-Man 2, gain the ability to control electricity after falling into a pool of electric eels, which is where Zombieel found and stole from to create his origin story.
== Almanac entry ==
== Encounter ==
Riverside Kingdom: Day 15, Day B1, Day B2, Day B3
== Strategies ==
As with all general zombies, Zombieel supports other zombies by causing chaos, either to help the zombies or destroy plants, Zombieel is the balancing between the two, as he can both support and damage at the same time.
Zombieel's main attack, "Lightning Chain" is very annoying to deal with. Since it can disable most plant's attack, making it harder to focus your fire onto him or other zombies. You can't put plants in front to block it either, as it will chain to more plants nearby. The only plants immune are quite weak against Zombieel, such as plant with ability on death, as most of these aren't good at dealing burst damage. Alternatively there is the option of electric plants, which will not only be unaffected, but also absorb it from stunning other plants. The biggest problem is that you don't have a electric plant for the first time you fight Zombieel, so you will have to deal with his stun first. It is recommended to at least get Lightning Reed from the same world before attempting the side path featuring Zombieel, as Lightning Reed can also be planted on water, solving the fact that you have to fight Zombieel with a lot of water lanes in the side path.
Zombieel's second attack, "Thunderstruck" will make this fight even harder. While his first attack is weak to electric plants, this one is the direct opposite, as it can boost zombies to be immune to electric attacks for a bit. It is highly recommended to bring another attacker alongside Lightning Reed during the side path, such as Repeater, Bloomerang or Snapdragon. Since Thunderstruck can damage any plants by their max health, defensive plants are not effective enough to block damage, so you should plant electric plants in front of your other plants in order to protect them from Lightning Chain first, as Thunderstruck's damage to a regular plant isn't that much compared to a zombie biting. What you need to look out for is the boosted zombies, which can reach your defensive quickly and force you to use another attacker. As all zombies are boosted in an radius, you should use group damager like Bloomerang and maybe even give them a taco to deal with not just the zombies, but Zombieel himself as well.
Of course, Zombieel also gain great advantage from the battlefield. He mostly appear in lanes with water, so using Guacodile can prove helpful since it will charge forward when hurt, allowing you to put multiple Guacodiles before Zombieel appears, and unleash them when the Guacodile is damaged by Lightning Chain. Most General zombie strategy is to kill them quickly using Cherry Bomb, as they can't survive for long, however this became troublesome when you realize you can barely put down a Lily Pad for that in levels like B1 and B3. Instead, Tangle Kelp might be more useful, their faster recharge and still good damage output allows you to use Zombieel's reliance on water into a weakness, maybe even use taco on Tangle Kelp to deal massive damage when Zombieel is weaken, quickly removing him as a threat.
== Gallery ==
File:Zombieel HD KoT.png|HD
File:Zombieel Seed Packet KoT.png|Seed Packet
File:Zombieel Medal KoT.png|Medal
== In other languages ==
== Trivia ==
* He is the first Kingdom of Taco exclusive zombie to receive a standalone page afterward.
** He is voted on the Discord to be a page first, winning against Unicorn Rider, Heavy Metal Zombie and Puzzle Blocks Zombie.
* His almanac actually contain an error, as Electro's origin is not from eels in the comic.
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