Feastive Fanatic Zombie

Feastive Fanatic Zombie is a mechanized walker in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that is introduced in Snowballed Effect, a special-type event in Penny's Pursuit, and encountered in Arena. He manueuvers a present-looking zombot that releases snowballs after a short period of time.
These snowballs can grow in size and can chill plants that get hit, but once the snowball becomes medium-sized, it's radius of chilling increases by a tile, and it starts to collect zombies that are in contact with it. The collected zombies will be released when the snowballs hits a plant, knocking them back to two tiles to adjacent lanes or the same lane upon release. The snowballs cannot hit ground plants such as Potato Mine (when it is unarmed), Spikeweed, and so forth, and in terms of collecting zombies, the snowballs will simply ignore environmental modifiers, large zombies such as Gargantuars and Bullies, and large mechanical walkers such as Robo-Cone Zombie.
Feastive Fanatic Zombie is resistant to being chilled, hypnosis, and redirection by both plants and zombies. However, fila-mint family plants have an extra advantage as they deal an extra 25 damage attacking him, though, plants like E.M.Peach, Magnifying Grass, Electric Blueberry, and Electric Currant are not affected.
==Origins==
 
The word Feastive is a portmanteau of Feastivus, a recurring event in Plants vs. Zombies 2, and the word "festive", which means relating to a festival. Feastive Fanatic Zombie's design is based off the christmas elf, they are known in popular culture as short, skinny people that assist Santa Claus in making presents in the toy factory or raising the reindeer. He also has some design elements taken from Regifting Zombie, a feastivus reskin of Swashbuckler Zombie in Plants vs. Zombies 2 and an event card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes.
His zombot's design however, is based on presents, presents are items given to somebody with no expectation of the receiver returning the favor, they can be given at special occasions such as Christmas. Its ability of releasing snowballs is based on the original zombot's ability of releasing fireballs or iceballs, though their mechanics are different.
==Overview==
Feastive Fanatic Zombie absorbs 2000 damage per shot, and it degrades upon absorbing 250, 850, 1400 and 1800 damage before being destroyed after taking 2000 damage. It takes a short period of nine seconds before releasing a snowball, which absorbs 40 damage and only chills the plant that hits it at first, but when it grows into a medium-sized one, it absorbs 60 damage per shot and chills plants in a 1x2 radius. Eventually, it was grow into a massive snowball that absorbs 100 damage per shot and chills plants in a 3x3 plus-shaped radius.
==Almanac Entry==
==Encounters==
*Penny's Pursuit - Snowballed Effect: Days 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10.
*Arena: Missile Toe's Boosterama Tournament
*Epic Quest: Inzanity!
==Strategies==
Feastive Fanatic Zombie's snowball-deploying ability can be threatening, especially when he is rearward a horde of zombies as they can serve as a protective shield while he recharges, as well as snowballs can collect and release them, with some of the zombies spreading to other adjacent lanes, you can use Laser Bean to deal damage to all the zombies that protect him while he recharges to lessen the amount of zombies that his snowball can collect, or you can use instant-plants like Cherry Bomb or Jalapeno to instantly destroy them, the latter is recommended. Since he is considered a mechanical zombie, you can utilize E.M.Peach to disable him, but keep in mind that he has a faster start-up period (specifically, 8 seconds), so using Kernel-Pult's plant food after utilizing E.M Peach may be a good idea to ensure that you have as much time to destroy the zombies protecting him and dealing damage to him. You can use stalling plants like Stallia on Feastive Fanatic Zombie, but you cannot use Bzzz Button or any stalling plant that requires being destroyed, though you can use the closest zombie to affect him, this can be highly situational if the plant has a limited range or area and Feastive Fanatic Zombie is out of it. While he is being stalled, you can utilize fila-mint family plants like Lightning Reed in groups in order to deal more damage.
Once Feastive Fanatic Zombie releases a snowball, destroying it before it grows is necessary, you can use Spikerock to deal with it's measly health or defensive plants like Primal Wall-nut as bait, but if you are in a scenario where you either have not enough sun to plant them or if they're in a recharging phase, you can use sacrificial plants like Puff-Shrooms and Sun-Shrooms as they are cheap and fast-recharging. If you left the snowball unchecked and it turns medium-sized or oversized, prevent it from collecting zombies by pushing or knocking it back or just simply using sacrificial plants, but if it does collect a big amount of zombies and hits one of your plants, you can use any Pepper-mint family plant to speed up the de-chilling process, and to deal with the released zombies, you can use a timed Blover or Hurrikale while they are airborne to blow the zombies out of the lawn, Blover is more recommended as it could blow away every released zombie if timed right.
As it could make a hole in your defenses, destroying Feastive Fanatic Zombie is necessary. Use instant-use plants like Cherry Bomb, Bombard-mint, and Grapeshot, or poisoning plants such as Shadow-shroom or Puffball.
==Gallery==
File:Feastivefanatic1-transparent.png|Feastive Fanatic Zombie HD
File:Feastivefanatic2-alm.png|Feastive Fanatic Zombie w/ Lawn
File:Feastivefanatic3-almicon.png|The Almanac Icon
== In other languages==
==Trivia==
*This is Noxxlmao's first contest entry that is a zombie page.
**This is also Noxxlmao's first zombie article that won a contest.
*Feastive Fanatic Zombie was made for the Jolly Fest contest.
*"All I Want for Feastivus (Is Your Brainz)" is an obvious reference to All I Want for Christmas is You, a song by Mariah Carey.
*The name of the Penny's Pursuit event he is first encountered in (Snowballed Effect), is based off the Snowball Effect. The snowball effect is a process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself, becoming larger, and also perhaps potentially more disastrous, though it might be beneficial instead.
*Feastive Fanatic Zombie used to be a general zombie, but it was scrapped due to it being hard for the creator to make abilities for it.
*Feastive Fanatic Zombie is the first non-general zombie to have their speed incorrectly stated as Stiff.
*Even though Feastive Fanatic Zombie is considered a mechanized walker, it does not walk, or even move at all.
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