Chum Champion (PvZ2)

Chum Champion is a Roman zombie encountered in Penny's Pursuit in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Chum Champion can spawn a storm cloud which flies to a random target on your defenses in a similar way to Zombie Parrot and then, here comes the thunder strike that kills a plant instantly and leave a scorched tile afterwards in a similar fashion to Jurassic Rockpuncher's ability.
The thunder can be absorbed by electric plants, for example an Electric Blueberry, and has a capability of boosting them. Additionally, he can attack plants within two tiles away from his with a trident, and if the player plant nearby him, he will swing his trident and smash them with it, meaning that he cannot eat them.
== Origins ==
Chum Champion is based on a zombie card from Plants vs. Zombies Heroes with the same name and appearance.
His ability is based on Zeus, as his ability to raise his trident to summon storm cloud.
== Overview ==
Chum Champion has a same health of Buckethead Zombie and its variants, which is 1300 (1100 for his helmet, 200 for the zombie). The storm cloud he summon deals 1800DPS to a single plant.
== Strategies==
Chum Champion is similar to Pirate Captain Zombie, as he release storm clouds which can threatening random plants on random tiles, much reminiscent to Zombie Parrot. However, instead of taking away those plants, the thunder storm instantly kills them. But unlike him, Chum Champion takes a longer time to move a thunder cloud to a random tile, which is super lucky for the players to set up more defenses. But if he appear in groups, things get a little more messy.
You can use the same strategy yo use to defeat Pirate Captain Zombies, but here's the short recap of it:
* Blow away the thunder cloud by using Blover, Hurrikale, or Draftodil.
* Use plants like Kernel-pult or Iceberg Lettuce to prevent him from creating a storm cloud for a temporary time.
* Use Dartichoke to prioritize it.
* Absorb the thunder's energy by using electric plants on your defenses, like Lightning Reed, Electric Peashooter, etc.
But unlike Pirate Captain Zombie, he still using his ability when being shrunk by Shrinking Violet or Enforce-mint, however using these plants can reduce his toughness. You can also use Magnet-shroom which steals his helmet away to reduce his toughness.
== Gallery ==
Chum_ChampionPvZ2.png|HD Chum Champion
== Trivia ==
* His appearance somehow a little bit different from Plants vs. Zombies Heroes.
** He has golden arm-plate instead of grey ones, the one that Chum Champion uses in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes. Also, it wears in both shoulders instead of one in his left shoulder.
* There is a glitch where upon being shrunk by Shrinking Violet or Enforce-mint, the thunder cloud was slightly smaller than it should be. Sometimes, it was replaced by a sun, similar to Balloon Zombie's case with his electrified sprite. This was fixed in a 9.2.5 update.
* This is Melvin2007's second Penny's Pursuit zombie, the first being Lotion Zombie.
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