Peashooter

**Peashooter** is an attacking plant that is available for Plants vs. Bloons.

## **Tower Info**

**Peashooter** shoots peas at attacking bloons which does mediocre damage, but deserves as a good starting plant with some good upgrades to feed off the bloons from your lawn and area.

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases attack range and projectile distance by 25.

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** Increases the pierce of Peashooter's main attack and ability peas from one to two.

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Every 3 attacks performs the Pea Combo which shoots out five peas in quick succession as long Bloons aren't popped too quickly whilst attacking. Also pea attacks are granted +3 more pierce.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Further increases attack range and projectile distance by 25 and peas are enlarged dealing four layers of damage and having twice as much pierce. Also all pea attacks can pop Lead and Frozen bloons.

**Tier:** 4

**Effect:** Becomes Primal Peashooter and shoots out primitive peas which do three inital-hit damage and knocks back non-MOAB bloons in a distance of 3.75. MOABs & BFBs are knocked back slightly of a distance of 0.5. Has an area splash range of fifty and pierce is ten, but does two layers of damage and knocks back 50% less than initial hit.

**Tier:** 5

**Effect:** Doubles damage of initial and splash and attacks 0.25s faster. Attacks gain +1 pierce with a 33% more effective knockback.

**Tier:** 6

**Effect:** Doubles damage of initial and splash and attacks 0.25s faster. Attacks gain +1 pierce with a 66% more effective knockback.

**Tier:** 7

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Shoots peas 0.35 seconds quicker.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Machine Gun ability for Peashooter. When activated, Peashooter shoots out 60 peas continuously at the Bloons which does three layers worth of bloon damage each with two pierce, total damage from all peas hit on a bloon is 180. Peashooter's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 17.5 seconds after use.

**Tier:** 4

**Effect:** Becomes Green Shadow and main attack peas are shot 0.375s faster, has +4 more pierce and does seven layers of damage and being capable of popping Lead and Frozen bloons. Ability's recharge cooldown is reduced to fifteen seconds, and ability peas deal fifteen damage each whilst having the ability to pop Frozen and Lead bloons.

**Tier:** 5

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Peashooter plays as a peashooting plant who fires peas at atrocious Bloons. His main role is to help you defend early game bloons and help against mid-game with his powerful upgrades. Even though he can't pop Lead Bloons, he needs support against Lead Bloons in order to defend. Peashooter has fair stats, but has a very good ability to help you take down even MOAB class bloons. Since the introduction of his upgrade counterparts (left path) and his PvZH counterpart (right path), he can be a somewhat strong late game plant with pretty good stats and support capabilities.

### **Tips**

* **Peashooter** is a good starting plant to help you hold the Bloons off. It's low piercing peas can help out during the early rounds whilst farming with Sunflowers to actually earn additional sun. Puff-shroom and Repeater are better otherwise, but they can be used and Peashooter has a relatively good attack range.
* **Peashooter** has a lead weakness, so his peas and his active ability cannot pop them unless you get the Super Peas upgrade or his variants, which excels at them or his PvZH counterpart, Green Shadow. Use plants like Dandelion to pop lead bloons so you can defend. Peashooter's ability can be good against Ceramics and early MOABs if timed/used right.
* **Peashooter** falls off late game due to lack of MOAB popping power. Peashooter is outclassed by his counterparts Repeater and Threepeater etc. because they perform better than him early late game. They are better options for the late game over Peashooter such as the aforementioned Threepeater and others such as Gatling Pea. But with the introduction of his upgrade variants in the 8.5 update, Peashooter is no longer useless late game.
* Since Torchwood got added, Peashooter might have some decent synergies with him. This allows Peashooter's attack to increase damage twofold for all peas including his Ability which allows betterment for Peashooter's kit. However, as of the 10.0 update, Torchwood got removed and Peashooter now heavily relies on his upgrade variants to do most of the job.
* Getting Primal Peashooters at the back of the map is essential to prevent the insides of MOABs from killing you, all thanks to his knockback capabilities.
* You can use Peashooter as a support plant if you get his Primal Pea upgrade or his Goo Pea upgrade after the former. It's worth to note that the former can knock bloons up to BFBs slightly whilst the latter can not just only poison Bloons for massive damage, but also slows them down which makes it a great late game utility for ZOMGs.

## **Version History**

Peashooter when he was released ended up being power crept by the OP plants, but has received countless buffs during the release of PvB and the later updates for his utility. Ever since the v8.5 update, Peashooter became significantly better than he used to be because of his new upgrade variants which can provide great value late game, especially if combined with Torchwood. But that's not the case anymore in the v10.0 update, but has received more upgrde counterparts after Primal Peashooter in later updates past v8.5 which made him incredibly strong in the meta. Still nowadays, Peashooter is a fantastic plant to bring in your PvB battles.

v1.0
* Giant Pea number of attacks required to shoot the Giant Pea attack decreased from 4 → 3.
* Ferocious Peas number of attacks required to shoot the Giant Pea attack decreased from 3 → 2.

v2.0

* Long Range Peas price decreased ($100 → $90).
* Piercing Peas price decreased ($200 → $150).
* Faster Shooting price decreased ($150 → $120).
* Awesome Eyesight price decreased ($200 → $170).

v3.5

* Ferocious Peas regular pea damage increased from 3 → 4.
* Ferocious Peas giant pea damage increased from 7 → 10.
* Machine Gun Peashooter ability cooldown time reduced from 20s → 17.5s.

v4.0

* Giant Peas attack rate increased from 1.5s → 2s.
* Giant Peas giant pea damage increased from 2 → 3.
* Giant Peas giant pea pierce increased from 10 → 15.
* Ferocious Peas attack speed for pea attacks decreased from 1.5s → 1.35s.
* Ferocious Peas attack speed for giant pea attacks decreased from 2s → 1.8s.
* Ferocious Peas giant pea damage increased from 10 → 15.
* Faster Shooting attack speed decreased from 1.25s → 1.2s (because it now makes Peashooter's attacks for both pea and giant pea 0.3 seconds quicker now).

v4.5

* Piercing Peas also increases the pierce from Machine Gun Peashooter ability peas from 1 → 2.
* The Hybrid Peashooter (3-3) was added, can only be encountered on the map "Cards".

v6.0

* Faster Shooting attack rate reduced from 1.2s → 1.15s.
* Faster Shooting giant pea attack rate reduced from 1.7s → 1.5s.
* Powerful Peas attack rate reduced from 0.95s → 0.875s.
* Powerful Peas giant pea attack rate reduced from 1.55s → 1.15s (Applies to Hybrid Peashooter in Card Battles only!).
* Ferocious Peas giant pea attack rate reduced from 1.8s → 1.7s
* Powerful Peas giant pea damage increased from 4 → 6 (Applies to Hybrid Peashooter in Card Battles only!).

v7.1

* Base price reduced from $200 → $175.
* Long Range Peas price reduced ($90 → $75).
* Piercing Peas price reduced ($150 → $125).
* Faster Shooting price reduced ($120 → $100).
* Awesome Eyesight price reduced ($150 → $125).
* Powerful Peas also grants the Peashooter +1 pierce for his base attack.
* Machine Gun Peashooter ability pea pierce increased from 1 → 2.
* 3-x Giant Peas renamed to Pea Combo and reworked from every 3 attacks the Peashooter would fire out a massive, slow-firing pea which has tons of pierce and damage to every 3 attacks, the Peashooter performs the Pea Combo attack shooting out 5 peas in quick succession. 4-x Ferocious Peas renamed to Super Peas and reworked for increasing the stats of base pea and giant pea attack to making the base attack peas larger and have more pierce and damage that can pop Lead and Frozen bloons.

v7.5

* Pea Combo pea burst attack is much consistent now, allowing the Peashooter to rapid-fire peas by aiming instead of locking in the place it would shoot the five peas at.
* Pea Combo pierce increased from 4 → 5.
* Super Peas pierce increased from 8 → 10.

v8.0

* Pea Combo price reduced ($600 → $550).
* Powerful Peas price reduced ($500 → $450).
* Peashooter can no longer attack whilst he's using his Machine Gun Peashooter ability.
* Also, Peashooter received attack animations.

v8.5
* Primal Peashooter and Green Shadow were added to the game respectively.

v8.6
* 5-x Primal Peashooter's initial hit knockback power increased from 3 → 3.75.
* 5-x Primal Peashooter's initial hit knockback can affect MOABs & BFBs by 0.5 of its power.
* 5/6/7-x Primal Peashooter's initial hit knockback power now increases if he's buffed by Torchwood, but increases more if he's buffed by a higher-tier Torchwood.
* 6-x Primal Peashooter's initial hit knockback power to MOABs & BFBs increased from 0 → 1.25.
* 7-x Primal Peashooter's initial hit knockback power to MOABs & BFBs remains the same.
* Green Shadow's main attack pierce increased from 5 → 6.

v9.0

* 5-x Primal Peashooter price reduced ($1,000 → $750).
* 6-x Primal Peashooter price reduced ($2,500 → $2,250).
* 7-x Primal Peashooter price reduced ($7,500 → $7,000).

v10.0
* Goo Peashooter was added to the game. It is available after maxing out Primal Peashooter.

v10.5

* Primal Peashooter's primitive pea's AOE can knock Bloons back by 50% of its initial pea power.
* 7-x Primal Peashooter attacks faster (1.25s → 1s).
* 8/9/10-x Goo Peashooter's goo pea pierce increased from 1/2/4 → 2/4/8.
* Also, Shadow Peashooter was added to the game. It is available after maxing out Goo Peashooter.

v10.6
* Goo Peashooter can now poison B.A.Ds & Spamton NEO, but won't slow them down.
* 11-x Shadow Peashooter's shadow pea damage increased from 10 → 12.
* 12-x Shadow Peashooter's shadow pea damage increased from 20 → 24.
* 13-x Shadow Peashooter's shadow pea damage increased from 50 → 60.

v11.0

* Goo Peashooter's goo pea damagetype changed from Plasma → Poison (meaning it cannot damage and pop Ceramic Bloons with the initial hit).

v11.5

* Machine Gun Peashooter price increased ($2,500 → $2,750).
* Peashooter can aim at the Bloons whilst his Machine Gun Peashooter ability is active (carries over to Green Shadow as well!).
* Green Shadow price increased ($15,000 → $16,000).

v12.5
* 8-x Goo Peashooter price decreased ($1,500 → $1,250).
* 9-x Goo Peashooter price decreased ($4,500 → $4,000).
* 10-x Goo Peashooter price decreased ($12,500 → $11,250).
* 11-x Shadow Peashooter price decreased ($3,000 → $2,500).
* 12-x Shadow Peashooter price decreased ($9,000 → $8,000).
* 13-x Shadow Peashooter price decreased ($25,000 → $22,500).
* Green Shadow price increased ($16,000 → $16,500).

v12.7
* 8-x Goo Peashooter poison tick rate increased from 0.2s → 0.25s.
* 9-x Goo Peashooter poison tick rate increased from 0.1s → 0.125s.
* 10-x Goo Peashooter poison tick rate increased from 0.05s → 0.0625s.

v13.1

* Green Shadow price decreased ($16,500 → $15,000).
* 8/9/10-x Goo Peashooter's poison slowdown effectivity reduced by 25%.
* 11-x Shadow Peashooter's shadow pea damage increased from 12 → 15.
* 12-x Shadow Peashooter's shadow pea damage increased from 24 → 30.
* 13-x Shadow Peashooter's shadow pea damage increased from 60 → 70.

## **Gallery**

Five Peashooters attacking a horde of Green Bloons, a notable difference is that Peashooters' peas are golden as of 3.0 update
## **Trivia**

* Peashooter is a plant from the PvZ series, whose job to do is fire peas against the zombie onslaught.

* Peashooter is one of the most liked plants during the PvZ franchise.