Torchwood

**Torchwood** is a attacking and supporting plant that is available for Plants vs. Bloons.

## **Tower Info**

**Torchwood** buffs all nearby peashooting plants to shoot fire peas instead of regular peas, dealing double damage than usual. Torchwood can also damage bloons nearby his radius for damage, but can be upgraded to make peashooting peas fire more powerful peas at Bloons and vice versa.

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases attack and buffing radius by 12.5, from eighty-five (85) to ninety seven point five (97.5).

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** Further increases attack and buffing radius by 12.5, from ninety seven point five (97.5) to hundred and ten (110).

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** This upgrade makes Torchwood's initial fire blue instead of orange fire, which makes peas stronger by turning them into napalm peas which do threefold as much damage than a regular pea does. Also increases the burning rate slightly and does three layers of damage per tick and pierce increased to sixty.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Makes Torchwood's initial fire purple instead of blue fire, which makes peas stronger by turning them into plasma peas which do fivefold as much damage than a regular pea does. Also further increases the burning rate slightly and does ten layers of damage per tick and pierce increased to hundred and twenty.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Burns bloons 0.2 seconds faster.

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** Burns bloons 0.2 seconds quicker!

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** This upgrade makes Torchwood's initial fire ice instead of orange fire, which makes peas weaker by turning them into snow peas which do the same damage than a regular pea does but can slow Bloons and MOABs down when they hit them but cannot pop White and Zebra bloons. Also Torchwood's burning attack does two layers of damage per tick, pierce increased to sixty and can slow Bloons and MOABs down when affected.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Makes Torchwood's initial fire the same, but it's made out of cryo ice, which makes peas stronger by turning them into cryo peas which do threefold as much damage than a regular pea does but slows Bloons and MOABs down excessively when hit but can also pop White and Zebra bloons due to the pea's absolute zero effect. Also Torchwood's ice burn attack now does five layers of damage per tick, pierce increased to hundred and twenty and even more slowdown effect on Bloons and MOAB class.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Torchwood plays as a powerful support plant whose job is to buff peashooting plants. Not just that he can buff peashooters nearby, he can also damage Bloons in his radius which can help plants like Peashooter to actually not struggle during the early/mid game. He can also hard-carry the mid game with the Bluefire or the Icefire if necessary to mostly help against Bloon rushes, and also the best plants to combine with Torchwood is the Threepeater and the Gatling Pea.

## **Version History**

Strangely, Torchwood hasn't received any balance changes until V3.5. Reason why Torchwood had a high usage rate is because of Gatling Pea being too synergistic with him. He has received a significant range nerf to make it harder to buff Peashooting plants which is a good sign of balance. He is a relatively good/robust plant, but not all-powerful basically.

V3.5

* Torchwood's base attack range decreased (100 → 85)
* Torchwood's base affection radius for buffing Peashooting plants decreased (100 → 85)
* Bigger Radius and Even Bigger Radius range buff when bought decreased from 15 → 12.5

V4.1
* Supercool Fire Torchwood (x-4) cryo peas for Peashooting plants now have White and Zebra popping power (from none).

V5.0

* Base attack now removes Ice and Slow status effects off bloons.
* Blue Fire Torchwood and Purple Fire Torchwood base attacks can also remove Slow status effect of MOAB class bloons.
* Ice Fire Torchwood and Supercool Fire Torchwood can only remove Napalm status effect off bloons.

V5.5

* Base attack AOE pierce has been decreased from 50 → 30.
* Base attack AOE pierce at tier 3 has been decreased from 80 → 60.
* Base attack AOE pierce at tier 4 has been decreased from 150 → 120.

## **Trivia**

* Torchwood is a plant from the PvZ series, who can turn peas into fire peas once they hit on contact. Snow peas beware, but in PvZ2, he can damage zombies nearby and when defeated, does a lane-wide effect just like Jalapeno in the PvZ franchise.

* Strangely, Torchwood can hit Camo Bloons with the torch attack even though if his vision can't detect Camo Bloons.