Sunbather Zombie (PvZ2)

Sunbather Zombie is a zombie in Plants vs. Zombies 2 encountered in Big Beach Brawl Thymed Event. She holds a sunscreen that steals suns and blocks damage until it was destroyed, in which she gains a speed boost and release all the sun she stole, similar to Newspaper Zombie. Unlike Newspaper Zombie however, her sunscreen was slightly tougher than a newspaper and absorbs Magnifying Grass' projectile. 
With her sunscreen, she is immune to some sun-producing plants, such as her not producing any sun after eating a single Sun Bean, immune to stun effects produced by Solar Tomato, Enlighten-mint, and Shine Vine, and cannot be transformed into Enlightened Zombies by Solar Sage. 
==Origins==
Her name and abilities are directly taken from a zombie with the same name from pre-2021 version of Plants vs. Zombies 3. Her ability to steal sun is a reference on how sunscreens reflect sunlight.
==Almanac entry==
==Overview==
Sunbather Zombie absorbs 1300dps as a whole, 1000 for the sunscreen and 300 for the zombie. The sunscreen changes after absorbing 290, 640, 900 (when her sunscreen was destroyed), 1080 (when she lost her arm), until she dies after absorbing 1300dps.
==Encounters==
*Thymed Events: Big Beach Brawl
==Strategies==
Once she appears on your seed selection screen, never bring Magnifying Grass as your main attacker, as she can absorb them without taking any damage. Luckily, she only resists from stun effects produced by Enlighten-mint's family plants, so other stun plants can work properly as usual. Other than that, tough, Sunbather Zombie has mechanics similar to Ra Zombie and Newspaper Zombie, so similar strategies are optionally advised. 
As she only appears in Big Beach Brawl Thymed Event, which is a timed event involving around Big Wave Beach zombies, Sunbather Zombie is quite difficult to deal with since there are other dangerous zombies accompanied with her such as Surfer Zombie, Octo Zombie, and Deep Sea Gargantuar. Surfer Zombie has a surfboard that not only crush plants, but blocks projectiles as well. Octo Zombie has octopi carried on his body that able to capture your plants and acting like an obstacle. These will made her a potential threat, unless the player can bring lobbed-shot plants into the party like Cabbage-pult. There are also several exotic counters to the aforementioned three, such as Guacodile, Laser Bean, a leveled-up Hot Potato, and many more. Puffball is a very effective choice that destroys all zombies in 3x5 area, eventually damage and poisons zombies in that area as well. 
==Gallery==
===General===
File:HDSunbather Zombie.png|HD Sunbather Zombie
File:Sunbather 1 Deg.png|1st degrade
File:Sunbather 2 Deg.png|2nd degrade
File:HDSunbather Zombie (no sunscreen).png|Without her sunscreen
==Trivia==
*Her almanac entry is recycled from her appearance in Plants vs. Zombies 3 (pre-2021 build).
*In the seed selection screen, there is a low chance where Sunbather Zombie can appear without her sunscreen.
*Most of her animations are recycled from Newspaper Zombie and Pharaoh Zombie.
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