Mecha-Football Zombie

* Future
* Spring

*Pushes plants across the lawn.*

Now past his prime, Mecha-Football Zombie is ready to be put back into the game. Until he gets some brains, concussions aren't a concern.

**Mecha-Football Zombie** is the fourth special zombie encountered in Far Future in *Alternate UniverZ*. He possesses elevated health and pushes plants to the left or out of the lawn while skipping obstacles, dealing significant damage to unaffected targets otherwise.

## Egg-o-Matic 2K21

*Pushes your plants to the left in a stylish and speedy fashion.*

## Almanac statistics

### Special

Freezing is much less effective against him

### Damage

Pushes an entire row of plants 1 tile to the left instead of eating

## In-game statistics

### First seen

TS-IV

Step aside, ponchos and camels. The new mech is in town, ready to wreck all sorts of crap and be an extreme nuisance to everyone, anytime.

**Egg-o-Matic 2K21** is the fourth special zombie encountered in The Springscapade in *Alternate UniverZ*. He possesses high health and pushes plants to the left or out of the lawn while skipping obstacles, dealing significant damage to unaffected targets otherwise. He is also resistant to freezing.

## Update History

### Version 1.2.1

* Health: 1450 > 1500
* Now has an immunity to freeze

## Almanac entry

* Future
* Spring

**Mecha-Football Zombie**

TOUGHNESS: Machined

SPEED: Stiff

Pushes plants across the lawn.

Health: 3000
Speed: 0.7
Damage: pushes an entire row of plants 1 tile to the left instead of eating

Now past his prime, Mecha-Football Zombie is ready to be put back into the game. Until he gets some brains, concussions aren't a concern.

**Egg-o-Matic 2K21**

TOUGHNESS: Hardened

SPEED: Basic

Pushes your plants to the left in a stylish and speedy fashion.

Health: 1500
Speed: 1.13
Damage: pushes an entire row of plants 1 tile to the left instead of eating
Special Ability: freezing is much less effective against him

Step aside, ponchos and camels. The new mech is in town, ready to wreck all sorts of crap and be an extreme nuisance to everyone, anytime.

## Overview

Mecha-Football Zombie absorbs a total of 3000 damage, and his appearance changes upon absorbing 480, 900, 1120, 1680, 2190 and 2610 damage before dying. Meanwhile, Egg-o-Matic 2K21 absorbs a total of 1500 damage, and his appearance changes upon absorbing 240, 450, 560, 840, 1095 and 1305 damage before dying.

## Encounters

### Mecha-Football Zombie

* Player's House: Piñata Party

* Far Future: FF-VII, FF-IX, FF-X, FFX-I, FFX-V, FFX-VI, FFX-VIII and FFX-IX

* Lost City: LCX-III

* Summer Splashdown: SS-III

* Green Gold Rush: GGR-III

* Heroic Showdown: HS-VIII and HS-X

* The Breakroom: TB-VI

* Plant Showcase: Lightning Road, Power Trip and Dynamite Man

* Timeless Avenue: Roguelike Hunt and Illusion of Choices

* Invaded Levels: Invaded PSX-VIII, Invaded FF-VII and Invaded FFX-VI

* Endless Zones: Terror from Tomorrow

* Veteran Quests: Defuse Chaos and Supply Drops

### Egg-o-Matic 2K21

* Player's House: Piñata Party

* The Springscapade: TS-IV and TS-V

* Green Gold Rush: GGR-V

* Birthday Bashers: BB-IV and BB-VIII

* Heroic Showdown: HS-III, HS-VIII and HS-X

* Seasonal Eggbreaker: EB-III

* Timeless Avenue: No Fakers, Solstitial Egghunt and When Push Comes to Shove

* When Worlds Flourish: 14 and 15

* Endless Zones: Celebratory Carousel Crash

## Strategies

Because he has high health, does not eat, and pushes most plants across or out of the lawn, traditional defensive plants are useless. Your priority against him would be to eliminate him from range, preferably before he can close on your formations and disrupt them easily.

The Spring Bean is an accessible option useful for tossing him back permanently, but if there is another zombie that comes with him, it might get overwhelmed.

Spikeweed and Spikerock are good at chipping him down. They are ignored by him and most other zombies, and become even more effective if plants with good crowd-control capabilities are included, such as Sap-flings or Winter Melons, which could easily slow them to a crawl, giving these grounded plants time to take their stabs while also extending E.M.Peach's paralysis duration.

Most plants with good area damage such as Cherry Bomb and Jalapeño can also be efficient, as they can cripple, if not completely obliterate him and most others around. As most short plants can't be directly pushed, Potato Mine and Escape Root can safely arm themselves as the Mecha-Football Zombie walks over them and possibly get exploded.