Imp Pear

*When zombies eat Imp Pears, they become Giant Imps that drop gems when defeated. When small Imps eat Imp Pears, they are destroyed instead.*

## Almanac statistics

### Weakness

Has no effect on Gargantuars and certain giant zombies

*Imp Pear impairs zombies. Or does it really?*

**Imp Pear** is a Tier Misc plant. It transforms the zombie that eats it into a Giant Imp, as long as the zombie isn't a Gargantuar or a Mech. Imps that eat it are killed; the effect will be similar to eating a Chili Bean, with the imp releasing stunning gas.

## Obtaining

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Imp Pear seed packets can be obtained as bonus from the 30 Common Packets, 100 Common Packets, 30 Rare Packets and 100 Rare Packets. The odds of finding Imp Pear seeds from the packets are listed below, alongside how many Imp Pear seeds you can obtain.

Theoretically you can hit the jackpot with all of the packs and get 1 Imp Pear seed per packet, but that's very unlikely. You can also hit the bad luck jackpot and get no Imp Pear seeds per packet, which depends on what pack you're buying.

The min/max values are the values you'd usually get from opening these packs. The average was calculated from the amount of Imp Pear seeds received from opening 100 of these packs. There are other packets that can give you Imp Pear as a bonus, but most of the time they're update exclusive.

## Plant Food effect

Imp Pear converts up to 3 of the closest zombies into Giant Imps, as long as the zombie isn't a Gargantuar or a Mech. Imps are killed instead of being transformed, as if they ate a chili bean. The amount of zombies affected increases with leveling.

## Strategy

Imp Pear is a unique plant in that it makes levels harder when it is used. Not only are you losing a slot and the sun spent on Imp Pears, you also have to deal with the Giant Imps spawned in order to net the increased rewards. Thus, it is only advisable if you are confident in beating the level under the self-imposed handicaps. Of course, you are free to adjust the number of Imp Pears planted depending on how well you are defending. Generally, it is best to hold off on using Imp Pear until you have a sound defense and reliable sun production.

Despite Imp Pear's inherent nature as a plant working against you, there are ways to effectively play around it, and potentially even benefit from its effect. Despite their high health and fast movement speed, Giant Imps are very susceptible to gimmicks. One-hit kill plants like Chili Bean, Chomper or Witch Hazel can be effective answers to Giant Imps. You may also wish to consider Sun Bean, as a zombie infected with Sun Bean that eats Imp Pear will drop all of the sun it can, still based on the Zombie's health.

Even with a 100 Imp Pear, you are still are still in profit with 100 overall by infecting a Giant Imp with a Sun Bean. You can also use Hypno-shroom to deal with Giant Imps and turn them into very quick and relatively tanky shredders. In longer levels, your choice of heavy plant also affects how easily you can spam Imp Pear in the late game - heavy plants with limited range such as Rotobaga or Pokra may make it easier to get zombies to eat Imp Pear in the rightmost columns before they are killed. As far as worlds are concerned, worlds with special zombies that avoid eating Imp Pear directly (such as Neon Mixtape Tour or Big Wave Beach) are unfavorable.

## Level Changes

* Normal
* PoTW

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## Trivia

* Imp Pear used to be affected by the chili bean bug: it may fail to kill an imp which eats it.
	+ This bug used to happen before GT updated to the more modern version of PvZ (which has the bug fixed). Safe to say, this bug will **NOT** occur in the current versions of GT.
* A Holohead which consumes Imp Pear while far offscreen may not transform.
* Hypnotised Giant Imps don't drop a Gem if they walk off the lawn.
	+ If they die, they do drop a Gem.
* From March 12th 2022 till March 20th 2022, Imp Pear was featured in the Plant of the Week event.

**Imp Pear**

SUN COST: 100

RECHARGE: 60

STARTING RECHARGE: 15

HP OF IMP (%): 100

When zombies eat Imp Pears, they become Giant Imps that drop gems when defeated. When small Imps eat Imp Pears, they are destroyed instead.

Weakness: has no effect on Gargantuars and certain giant zombies