Gunpepper

Gunpepper is a pepper plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that was introduced in the 11.7.2 update along with Split-shroom. Gunpepper shoots bullets to zombies in his lane. When Gunpepper’s projectiles hit a zombie they’ll deal heavy damage and also splash damage around the impact area. Zombies on the bullet’s impact area are covered in gunpowder, which makes these zombies explode whenever they make contact with a with a fire attack. The explosion deals 800 damage in a 3x3 area.
Gunpepper has a low firing rate, but the damage he deals compensates it. He fires a bullet every 3.5 seconds, dealing 75 damage on impact and 20 splash damage.
==Origins==
Gunpepper’s name is a portmanteau of the words “Gunpowder” and “Pepper”. Gunpowder is an exploding chemical which has been widely used as a propellant in firearms, artillery, rocketry, and pyrotechnics. This is where his ability comes from.
His appearance is based on siling labuyo, a small chili pepper cultivar that developed in the Philippines belonging to the species Capsicum frutescens.
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food effect===
When fed with Plant Food, Gunpepper will cause 3 explosions around all the lawn. All of these explosions deal 750 damage in a 3x3 area.
===Bombard-mint effect===
When Bombard-mint is on the lawn, Gunpepper will deal 100 additional damage and 60 additional splash damage.
==Strategies==
Gunpepper can be used in a lot of different scenarios. Being mostly useful against big groups of zombies. Gunpepper will shoot his bullet and cover survivors in gunpowder, here, the player can use fire plants to make zombies covered in gunpowder explode! You can use this strategy in Frostbite Caves to tie even more advantage of fire plants, since they will also heat near plant.
You shouldn’t use Gunpepper against zombies that swarm attack your plants like chickens or weasels. Because of Gunpepper’s slow firing rate, they will easily swarm and kill him! I don’t think you want that, considering he is a bit expensive.
Due to Gunpepper’s expensive cost and slow recharge, you’ll want to plant Gunpepper behind your other defenses. You should do this with most heavy attackers such as Melon-pult or Winter-melon. I know many people like to plant the sunflowers at the very left, but it’s better to plant them around the 3rd or 4th column. This is because it’s better to lose a sun producer (which are usually cheap) rather than a heavy attacker (which are very expensive).
You can use Gunpepper’s explosive power to deal with groups of zombies strong like Bucketheads. Any sort of fire attack will trigger the explosion on zombies covered in gunpowder. You can use Torchwoods, as they deal small amounts of fire damage to near zombies, this way, if you manage to get several zombies in one area, with plants like Hot Date or Sweet Potato, you can detonate a zombie covered in gunpowder by having a Torchwood near them.
In levels where you are given a limited amount of sun, I wouldn’t recommend using Gunpepper, it has a high sun cost, and his ability isn’t usually useful in these kind of levels. Instead, you can use plants like Laser Bean, which costs 50 sun less, and his attack can also pierce through an entire lane of zombies. If you use him it’s not my problem m you decided to do so.
==Gallery==
File:Gunpepper.png|‘HD’ Gunpepper
File:Gunpepper Costume.png|‘HD’ Costumed Gunpepper
==Trivia==
*This page is made by SKULL EMOJI the king of aberrations!
**This is his second page!
*I made the image using a process commonly known as ‘Sprite Stitching’
**I used Jalapeno’s body and eyes, Coconut Cannon’s fuse, Chinese Gatling Pea’s guns, and drew the mouth on my own.