Gatling Pea (PvZ)

*For other uses, see Gatling Pea (disambiguation).*

## **Gatling Pea**

Gatling Peas shoot four peas at a time.

Gatling Pea's parents were concerned when he announced his intention to join the military. "But honey, it's so dangerous!" they said in unison. Gatling Pea refused to budge. "Life is dangerous," he replied, eyes glinting with steely conviction.

**Gatling Pea** is an upgrade plant in *Plants vs. Zombies*. It is available for purchase from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies for $5000 after beating Level 3-4, and is one of the first upgrade plants available in the game, along with the Twin Sunflower. It upgrades from the Repeater and as such, must be planted on top of a Repeater. Each pea he fires deals 20 damage per shot, but he fires twice as fast as a Repeater and four times as fast as a Peashooter, resulting in four peas shot per round of fire.

## Suburban Almanac entry

 Damage: normal (for each pea)
Firing Speed: 4x

## Strategies

Gatling Pea shoots four peas at a time. Although the two alternatives, two Repeaters (400 sun) or a Repeater and a Torchwood (375 sun), are cheaper than the Gatling Pea, the Gatling Pea saves space. Of course, it is also possible to use two Gatling Peas and a Torchwood, which is even more space-efficient, but will cost more. Gatling Peas are also very powerful in Survival: Day. Using a Torchwood doubles a pea's damage and provides minor splash damage, so placing a Torchwood in front of two Gatling Peas, in theory, is equal to 16 Peashooters with splash damage, making him a very strong plant. In fact, without Torchwood, he is the most limited upgrade in terms of area of attack (if one of the most concentrated), due to the fact that unlike Cattail, he can only shoot a straight line, and unlike Spikerock and Gloom-shroom, he can only kill one zombie at a time, again, without the Torchwood (also, he is more expensive than any of the plants above). In Survival: Endless, however, there may be so many zombies that even a Torchwood in front of four Gatling Peas is not enough to kill a wave of zombies quickly enough, especially when zombies with shields (including Zombonis) or Giga-gargantuars are present. Winter Melons may be a better choice for this. A good strategy, otherwise, could be two columns of Twin Sunflowers, three of Gatling Peas, Torchwood, Tall-nuts, then Spikerocks, and leave a blank column. This may be costly, but it is a good idea if you want to save space and keep good defense in some situations, such as Marigold farming.

An alternative strategy could be to upgrade Repeater later on in the game, instead concentrating on getting Torchwoods in each lane, and then upgrading to provide extra firepower.

### Air Raid

In the DS exclusive mini-game known as Air Raid, Dr. Zomboss is on its Zombot flying in the air, and you have to destroy it using a Gatling Pea riding on an Flower Pot airplane. Try to upgrade your Gatling Pea as much as possible (like getting a Pumpkin), and try to dodge Dr. Zomboss's attacks.

## Gallery

HD Gatling PeaAnother HD Gatling PeaAlmanac entry in the iOS versionGatling Pea seed packet in PC versionGatling Pea seed packet in the iOS and Android versionsGatling Pea seed packet in the iPad versionGatling Pea's helmetGatling Pea's downgrade, the RepeaterAnimated Gatling PeaGatling Pea in the DS versionA Gatling Pea from the Nintendo DS and DSi versions of *Plants vs. Zombies*The Flower Pot Plane with a Gatling Pea in itThe Flower Pot plane with a Pumpkin around the Gatling PeaA lawn full of Gatling PeasGatling Peas shooting peas that are passing through a TorchwoodCrushed Gatling PeaGatling Pea in a PumpkinGatling Pea in an Imitater PumpkinGatlingpeaplush.jpgA Gatling Pea plush
## Trivia

* His appearance just like a Repeater, just with facepaint, a gatling gun, and an army helmet.
* He and Twin Sunflower are the only upgrades that cost $5000.
* This is the only upgrade plant that is used as a zombie in ZomBotany, more specifically ZomBotany 2.

* He is the slowest recharging peashooting plant due to the fact that he is an upgrade plant.
* If the player looks closely, his gatling gun moves a little bit to its left, then back to the positioning of where it originally was.
* Sometimes, a newly planted Gatling Pea shoots three peas before shooting four peas.
	+ This is also like the Repeater and Cattail, as they will sometimes shoot one projectile before two.
* He, Imitater, and Cattail are the only plants with headwear, specifically a helmet, beret, and bonnet. His helmet does not increase his health.
* His peas are too large to fit through the gatling gun's holes.
* His face paint, gatling gun, and helmet suggest that he is from the "Plant Army," which is relevant to the Suburban Almanac entry.
* In Air Raid, Gatling Pea can be upgraded to a Threepeater, which shoots four peas in three directions, for a total of 12 peas.
* He, Plantern, Magnet-shroom, Gold Magnet, Cob Cannon, Cattail, and Imitater are the only plants that have non-plant accessories on them.
* While playing Air Raid, if the player's Threepeater without Pumpkin gets hit, they will revert to a Gatling Pea.
* He leans a bit closer to the zombies with every pea it fires, then it will rear back to get ready to fire again.
* He is seen flying a plane in Air Raid.
* He is currently the only plant that is both an upgrade plant and an upgradeable plant.
* He is the only peashooting plant that has an object sticking out of its mouth.

## See also

* Gatling Pea Zombie
* Air Raid
* Repeater
* Pea
* Torchwood

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