Fire Bonk Choy

#### Costumed (China only)

Along with its regular effect, Bonk Choy can also attract nearby zombies, increasing the power range (5x5).

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## Strategies

Compared to other offensive plants unlocked in Player's House and Ancient Egypt, Bonk Choy trades effective range for DPS, being capable of dealing more than three times as much damage as a regular Peashooter. Its ability to punch backwards means that Bonk Choy can be used to attack stray zombies that get past defenses, as well as to catch Prospector Zombies and any zombies dropped by pterodactyls in Jurassic Marsh. Bonk Choy is also useful against Mecha-Football Zombie and Punk Zombie as they generally cannot eat it and will push it back, allowing Bonk Choy to punch them continuously. It can also be good against Bug Zombie because when Bonk Choy kills the bug, the zombie will be killed as well, instead of getting released. On the other hand, Bonk Choy's limited range means that it is greatly vulnerable to the horde, particularly enemies that can instantly kill or neutralize plants from afar. Bonk Choy will also be generally outclassed by Snapdragon and by the extension of Cold Snapdragon later on. These plants have less DPS, although they trade that with the ability of area splash.

Bonk Choy should ideally be placed behind defensive plants or Infi-nut's force field to protect it from being attacked by zombies. Chard Guard is a notable exception however, as it will push zombies out of range.

Avoid using Bonk Choy behind Explorer Zombie, Torchlight Zombie, Excavator Zombie, MC Zom-B, Torch Kongfu Zombie, Torch Monk Zombie, Archmage Zombie, Wizard Zombie, Octo Zombie and Hunter Zombie they can easily kill him, immobilize him or allow him to be vulnerable to other zombies before he can even have the chance to attack.

During an incoming zombie wave, it is a good idea to plant him in the middle of the horde, and feed him Plant Food to turn him into a makeshift Cherry Bomb. He will do great damage in the heavily clustered 3x3 area, devastating (if not destroying) the zombies in that area. However, the real Cherry Bomb does much higher damage and doesn't require plant food, so the effectiveness of this is questionable.

## Trivia

### General

* There is a Bonk Choy named Grrawrr-Bear in the Plants vs. Zombies Comics.
* He is one of the six plants seen in the June 2013 trailer of *Plants vs. Zombies 2* while fighting the zombies, the other five are Pea Pod, Bloomerang, Peashooter, Wall-nut, and Sunflower.
* Sometimes, if an ambush zombie comes close to Bonk Choy, he will keep uppercutting it until it dies. This is also true after he destroys an arcade machine.
* He will do a normal punch instead of an uppercut against Zombie Chicken, despite Zombie Chicken being a one-hit kill. However, the player can still hear the uppercut sound.
* His sound effect is reused from Whack a Zombie.
* According to the beta version of the seed packets, he was originally going to cost 175 sun.
* In a trailer, he uses the sounds of Squash.
* He will make an attempt to attack an incoming octopus launched by Octo Zombie.
* He appears in the most in Zomboss battles out of any plant in the game, appearing three times.
* He is one of the plants with the most wearable costumes.

### Specific to *Plants vs. Zombies Online* (China only) (Archived content)

* He was formerly unlocked after beating Ancient Egypt - Day 7-1.

## See also

* Wasabi Whip
* Parsnip

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39 comments

DeeFoxy·2/5/2021

Bonk choy? More like Chonk boy.

Ohsnappies·6/13/2020

Fun fact: In my language, bok means sh\*t

BrodyLikesPvZ5ever!·5/14/2020

Really Powerful If You Level it Up.

Crispyprata·5/12/2020

b o n k

FrostyLegend1029·10/30/2020

b o n k

AHorseSecereamer·5/9/2020

Bonk Choy? More like Chonk Boy

TheBonkchoy124·9/13/2019

my favorit plant

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DizzyJump·12/14/2019

that's pretty obvious

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Coolishcomet389·6/5/2019

Bonk Choy is actually bok choy

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PrismastebanZ·6/5/2019

Bok choy + Bonk (punching sounds) = Bonk Choy

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Vempire123·1/31/2019

Bonk Choy has two really specific nieces currently. 1.) It is amazing early game. Not only is Bonk Choy a pretty great Chicken-Weasel counter, but it just deals amazing damage when grouped. 2.) It has potential of being a really good counter to Octo Zombie, and this is pratically just because it can hit behind itself. Not much to say, just pretty good early game, and could be a Octo Zombie destroyer.

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Nummer4321·1/10/2020

I think Rotobaga is a better plant for taking out octos that trap plants, since he can shoot in 4 directions, shoot 3 projectiles at a time, and can fly over water.

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Ackmondual·4/12/2018

Only advantages this has over Wasabi Whip:

--doesn't cost real money

--faster punching rate is better against chickens

--doesn't relight torches, nor undo freeze/chill status effect

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Scruz1·9/3/2019

Wasabi whip is faster

Bonk does more of damage.

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Bowser123456·10/23/2017

If there's like 10 of Dr.zomboss how is he still alive  he died in mechasuar and shark sub

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Zippee100·10/12/2017

you forgot to mension the fact that he also breaks graves

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Ka$aJ1zo·2/19/2018

Every offensive plant breaks graves

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SuperInky·6/21/2019

Not every offensive plant, but most do.

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MinecraftJack64·12/30/2020

For example, celery stalker and endurian

Ironcommando·5/10/2017

I realize that Bonk Choy's "finisher" punch does a bit more damage, I think it triggers if the zombie has less than or equal to (Current Damage + 0.75) HP.

My Bonk Choy is at Level 10, dealing 3 NDS per hit (takes 10 punches to destroy 30 HP ice) but it kills a 9.75HP regular zombie in 3 hits. I'm thinking the superpunch deals 3.75 NDS here?

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Luke314·12/7/2018

Mine level 3

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Views06·5/11/2019

Level 7

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Sir Maxamillian, Legend Hunter·7/13/2019

level 5 \*sigh\*

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Scruz1·9/3/2019

Lvl 5

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Pentor2548·1/7/2017

เขาคือ saitama

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Pokpongg·9/27/2018

คนไทยไช่ไหม

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The epick duck·7/9/2016

What if they made a plant that's called a Snap Pea, and it works like a peashooter, but when a zombie gets too close, it starts punching rapidly.

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Gamershawker·12/7/2016

ehh i dont think snap peas exist

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Ka$aJ1zo·2/15/2018

Well duh, he said WHAT IF

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PopkornHUPIKO2·8/25/2018

yall just predicted the future, its an upcoming plant now

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TheBonkchoy124·7/12/2019

they exsist but it's a peashooter/chomper mix

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LIZI video·5/8/2016

yes，I used this plant in our Chinese version.（O(∩\_∩)O）

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Bonjour!U5·2/21/2016

This+Endurian+PF+spikerock+celery stalker=Damage party!

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DatDramaPlant·2/14/2016

I think the hyperlink color is too bright.

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Cat Cupcake·1/21/2016

He's really cool! But sadly useless because of Snapdragon and Celery Stalker.

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Huangben12·3/31/2016

Celery Stalker? Why Celery Stalker, of all things?

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RdHeaven·12/8/2015

Why does Bonk Choy reminds me of "Buchikik"?

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Sindbad494·1/18/2016

Hmm

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Funkydrfireworks8·11/15/2015

Hey. Says Bonk Choy happy. He is Russian and Historian. He likes History as Winter Melon.

So: In Moscow, trained to beat Zombies and anyway continues training to be on Strike.

He Struck 5 times.

He says: Don't betray to Dr. Fireworks 8. All thing that you say: It can be used against you at Wedding. I'll find my Dr. Fireworks 7.

Bonk Choy has 4 directives:

1. Serve to people, 2. Protect the Weakened person. 3. De-obey the law and 4. You're Fired

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