Zombot Grove Ghoul

Zombot Grove Ghoul is the boss in Grove of Gloom in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World, appearing on Level 4B. During the boss fight, all tiles on the lawn are moonlit, but the Zombot will emit a dark fog that covers the whole lawn. This dark fog may occasionally form holes in it at random locations to allow the player to see small parts of the lawn, but only temporarily, as the holes come and go randomly (but there are many of them most of the time). No light-emitting plants are supplied on this level, the only light source you can control is the exact same flashlight that Crazy Dave will supply you from the Lights Out brain buster, working in the exact same way as it would in the brain buster (it interacts with Vimpires and Sleepwalker Zombies in the boss fight the same way as well). This flashlight, if shined upon the Zombot, can scare it off and cause it to switch lanes (the Zombot doesn't switch lanes by itself).
Zombies will frequently walk out of the dark fog that covers the Zombot. If the Zombot is left on the same lanes for too long, you can build up a pile of zombies in those lanes and have difficulty dealing with them, so forcing the Zombot to switch lanes is advisable. The Zombot directly attacks plants by slowly protruding multiple tentacles out from the ground. These tentacles will take 5 seconds to fully wrap around a plant on a selected tile before it pulls the plant into the ground and abducts it. The Zombot can do this at any random time at any random tile where there is a plant. To prevent the tentacles from abducting the plant, you need to shine the flashlight on the individual tentacles for at least 1 second, or you can scare the Zombot off. Every three times that the Zombot is scared off, the Zombot's eyes will turn red and it will attack and unleash six of its tentacles in random directions coming from the Zombot itself, abducting multiple plants at once, so it is not recommended to try scaring off the Zombot too frequently.
What sets this Zombot apart from other Zombots is the fact that plants are unable to target it. The only way to damage the Zombot is to wait for the Sasquash to attack it itself (only in this level will the Sasquash aid the plants instead of landing on random positions on the lawn to create craters). The Zombot needs to be hit by the Sasquash three times in order to be defeated, and everytime it is hit, it loses two of its tentacles and becomes more easily aggravated by scaring it off (the first time it is hit, it unleashes four tentacles every two times it is scared off, then two tentacles every single time the second time it is hit). The Sasquash will take 60 - 75 seconds to arrive each time to attack the Zombot once. Essentially, this boss fight is more of a waiting game, but of course, this Zombot will be spawning zombies more frequently than the other Zombots to pressure on your defenses, so you need to be careful when fighting this Zombot.
==Almanac entry==
Zombot Grove Ghoul
Toughness: Undying
Speed: Hungry
The diabolical creature which lurks in the Grove of Gloom.
Special: Uses tentacles to abduct random plants.
Special: Light scares it and causes it to switch lanes.
The Zombot Grove Ghoul is mysterious. No one but Dr. Zomboss knows what the Zombot actually looks like under that dark fog. Truth be told, there's nothing under that fog. The creator was too lazy to do art for this thing.
==Phases==
Unlike most Zombots, the Zombot Grove Ghoul doesn't perform actions in set intervals; it will spawn zombies and use its tentacles to abduct plants at the same time without having to prepare to perform the action. The zombies spawn by walking out of the dark fog that surrounds the Zombot (excluding Immorticia, who will teleport as normally), and tentacles will slowly emerge from the ground at random tiles with plants at random times, taking 5 seconds to abduct the plant if undisturbed. These attacks remain unchanged for each phase.
Phase*	Summoned zombies
1 	
2 	
3 	
*The phase that takes place is determined by how many times the Zombot has been attacked by the Sasquash, each attack causing the Zombot to advance to the next phase.
==Strategies==
Since you have to wait for the Sasquash to arrive to defeat the Zombot Grove Ghoul, the main objective for this boss fight is to try and survive for as long as you can. What makes this boss fight tricky is the fact that you need to rely on Crazy Dave's flashlight in order to see around the lawn (although you can still take advantage of the holes in the dark fog, but this method is quite unreliable). If you're not checking on the zombies, make sure you use the flashlight as efficiently as possible while you skim the lawn to find any tentacles that may try to be abducting plants, especially the lanes where the Zombot is. Take care though, Immorticia's Vimpires may still drop in at different lanes relative to the Zombot, so make sure your Garlics are at the ready and double-check the other lanes just in case. Unless the two lanes the Zombot is occupying is overwhelmed by the zombies, try to minimise the amount of times you scare away the Zombot, otherwise you can suffer massive losses from your defenses as the Zombot abducts a number of your plants. Be wary of the fact that Bandit Zombies also come about in Phase 3. Due to the lack of lighting during the boss fight, Bandit Zombies can be a problem. Use your flashlight regularly to check for them and make sure the plants have the chance to target them until they're defeated.
==Gallery==
Zombot Grove Ghoul.png|Zombot Grove Ghoul (HD)
File:Zombot Grove Ghoul first degrade.png|First degrade
File:Zombot Grove Ghoul second degrade.png|Second degrade
File:Aggravated Zombot Grove Ghoul.png|Zombot Grove Ghoul aggravated after being scared away too many times (notice how it's aiming its tentacles to begin attacking)
File:Shining light at Zombot Grove Ghoul tentacles.png|The player shining light at abducting tentacles to ward them off
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