Piranha Catcher Zombie

Piranha Catcher Zombie is the fourth new zombie encountered in Lightning Ridge in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World, first appearing on Level 8A. When Piranha Catcher Zombie steps into any individual water body (e.g. a puddle in Lightning Ridge), the entire body of water will be filled with piranhas that will regularly emerge from the surface of the water and attack all plants within the same water body until Piranha Catcher Zombie leaves that water body. Every second, one group of piranhas emerges to attack a random plant in the same body of water for 40 DPS worth of damage (these piranhas cannot attack flying plants). When Piranha Catcher Zombie is defeated in a water body, he will release all of his piranhas, causing 20 groups of piranhas to bite randomly selected plants in the same body of water (cumulatively dealing 800 DPS worth of damage to plants).
==Almanac entry==
Piranha Catcher Zombie
Toughness: Solid
Speed: Hungry
Releases piranhas in bodies of water he walks into. Releases a whole shoal when defeated in water.
Special: Releases a large number of piranhas into any water body he is defeated in.
Weakness: Piranhas cannot attack flying plants on water tiles.
Don’t ask how he managed to even catch all those piranhas, because it’s wrong to say that. He only caught some of them, the rest had, rather, caught him instead.
==Encounters==
Lightning Ridge: Levels 8A, 10A, 11A, 13A, 15A, 16A, 19A, 20A, 3B, 4B, 1C, 3C, 4C, 5C, 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D, 5D, 3E and 5E.
The Sanctuary: Levels 6A, 20A, 6C, 37A, 7B, 10E and X.
==Strategies==
Piranha Catcher Zombie is just like any other Basic Zombie with slightly more health until he starts to enter any bodies of water, in which he then starts becoming a danger. As long as he is still in the water, any plant that is in the same water body as him risks having their health whittled away by his piranhas, and, even worse, if he is defeated in the water, the amount of damage done to plants (especially non-defensive ones) can be devastating.
Some methods to guard against Piranha Catcher Zombie's piranhas include using Pumpkins on your plants to shield them from incoming piranhas. Another smart tactic is to make the water body as populated with plants as possible, because, since only one randomly selected plant is attacked per second in any water body instead of focusing on one plant until they're defeated, it will take more time for piranhas to defeat any plants when there are more for them to attack. These methods, however, can be risky because it cuts down on the damage done rather than preventing it. Doing things like slowing down Piranha Catcher Zombie with chilling plants (e.g. ACkee), knocking him back with Spring Bean or diverting him into other lanes without water with Garlic are all viable options to keep Piranha Catcher Zombie away from water before he is defeated, which is a much better strategy than trying to take on Piranha Catcher Zombie's piranhas. A really good tactic is to also only use flying plants on the water tiles, as piranhas are unable to target flying plants and so even if Piranha Catcher Zombie is in the same puddle as them, it will have no effect.
==Gallery==
Piranha Catcher Zombie.png|Piranha Catcher Zombie (HD)
Piranha Catcher Zombie's degrade.png|Degrade
Piranha Catcher Zombie's piranhas attacking a Bloatus.png|Piranha Catcher Zombie's piranhas attacking a Bloatus in the same puddle
==Art credits==
*Credits to Rugbi for the final design.
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