Mountain Goat Zombie

Mountain Goat Zombie is the eighth new zombie encountered in Blizzard Peaks in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World, first appearing on Level 17A. Mountain Goat Zombie, unlike all other zombies, enters the lawn by hopping from the bottom of the screen to the bottom-most lane onto a random column from the 6th to 8th column. Upon taking more damage, Mountain Goat Zombie will continue to hop up the next couple lanes before finally exiting the lawn by jumping to the top of the screen, where, for every 100 DPS of health lost, Mountain Goat Zombie will hop up the next lane (where he finally exits the lawn through the top when all of his health is depleted). If Mountain Goat Zombie gets hit by an attack that does more than 100 DPS of damage, they will jump up the number of lanes that corresponds to the amount of damage they took. If Mountain Goat Zombie gets diverted by anything in the game (e.g. from biting on a Garlic or being moved by Paraglider Zombie), Mountain Goat Zombie will attempt to jump back to the lane they were meant to be on.
For every 6 bites of a plant that Mountain Goat Zombie takes, he will gain energy to charge down their lane to headbutt the first plant they encounter, knocking them off the lawn. This charging can be interrupted if Mountain Goat Zombie takes enough damage that they need to hop up to the next lane.
Mountain Goat Zombie also has a corrupted form, and is the second zombie in the game to have a corrupted form, which only appears in the boss battle and some of the levels in level path E whose reality rift involve Mountain Goat Zombie (more about level paths here). In this form, Mountain Goat Zombie will look more humanoid and zombie-like rather than goat-like. To know about his abilities in his corrupted form, see the boss level and the levels in level path E that he appears in on the respective area pages.
==Almanac entry==
Mountain Goat Zombie
Toughness: Protected
Speed: Hungry
Enters from the bottom of the lawn and gradually hops to the upper lanes when it takes more damage.
Has a corrupted form.
Special: Charges to headbutt a plant off the lawn after eating enough
She did it. Immorticia brought the Goatman to life.
==Encounters==
Blizzard Peaks: Levels 17A, 18A, 20A, 21A, 24A, 25A, 1B, 2B, 4B, 3D, 5D, 3E, 4E and 5E.
The Sanctuary: Levels 4A, 10A, 2B, 4B, 3E, 31A, 12C and X.
==Strategies==
As a zombie that tries to traverse every lane before finally getting defeated and is able to headbutt your plants off the lawn, you'll need to make sure that your defenses are prepared enough to be able to deal with this zombie on every single lane, and quick enough so that they are not given the opportunity to reach your defenses to feed on your plants before headbutting some of them. Defenses that use lane diversion as a strategy will not work very effectively against this zombie, especially when they can move back onto lanes they were originally at if they were forcefully diverted by Garlic or something else. Any defense that uses either high-damage firepower (with area-of-effect attacks if possible so Mountain Goat Zombie can be attacked within a horde of zombies) or stalling (e.g. using a defense that utilises ice plants that can slow zombies) that is equally distributed amongst all the lanes is the most reliable way for dealing with this zombie. If they are, you could try to prevent this zombie from getting too close to your defenses by using a Hurrikale to push them back, minimising the risk of getting any of your plants headbutted.
When in their corrupted form, Mountain Goat Zombie's ability can vary between levels, albeit the main strategy to counter this zombie is more or less the same: make sure that your defenses are prepared enough to be able to deal with this zombie on every single lane, and quick enough so that they are not given the opportunity to reach your defenses to feed on your plants before headbutting some of them. In one level, however, Mountain Goat Zombie notably enters the lawn in an "upside-down" manner, where they enter from the top of the lawn from the 2nd to 4th column and progress to the right rather than going for the player's house, acting somewhat like a Digger Zombie. In order to circumvent this problem, your defense will have to be specialised to deal with Mountain Goat Zombie. One good way you could deal with them is setting up a defense that can attack zombies from different lanes and leaving the top lane empty, e.g. defenses that utilise Starfruit or Rotobaga as the main offensive plant (and only planting them in the 2nd-most top lane to the bottom-most lane). This kind of defense enables being able to deal Mountain Goat Zombie alongside other zombies that may arrive at the top lane. Do be wary that overwhelming Mountain Goat Zombie with damage, however, can cause him to jump to the bottom lanes quicker and end up headbutting your other plants in these lower lanes.
==Gallery==
Mountain Goat Zombie.png|Mountain Goat Zombie (HD)
Corrupted Mountain Goat Zombie.png|Corrupted Mountain Goat Zombie (HD)
Mountain Goat Zombie's degrade.png|Mountain Goat Zombie's degrade
Corrupted Mountain Goat Zombie's degrade.png|Corrupted Mountain Goat Zombie's degrade
==Art credits==
*Credits to Rugbi for the final design.
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