Goo Peashooter

*Goo Peashooters shoot poison peas at zombies, poisoning them.*

**He's secretly just a normal Peashooter that discovered a new thing. A new thing that's turned into quite an obsession. The rest of the plants can't hear the end of it.**

**Goo Peashooter** is a peashooting premium plant in *Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished*. He costs 75 gems to purchase.

Goo Peashooter shoots poisonous peas at zombies at a rate of every 1.3 to 1.35 seconds. Poison peas do 15 damage and inflict armor-piercing poison that deals 10 damage per second.

The poison lasts for 10 seconds, with the duration resetting whenever another poison pea hits the poisoned zombie. Up to 8 stacks of poison can be applied to a single zombie.

## Almanac entry

**Goo Peashooter**

Goo Peashooters shoot poison peas at zombies, poisoning them.

He's secretly just a normal Peashooter that discovered a new thing. A new thing that's turned into quite an obsession. The rest of the plants can't hear the end of it.

## Plant Food effect

When Goo Peashooter is fed with Plant Food, Goo Peashooter will shoot a giant ball of poison that poisons and knocks back zombies in his lane.

## Strategies

Goo Peashooter has the major upside of being one of the few plants with armor-piercing damage. In any level that is heavily populated with armored zombies such as Buckethead Zombie, Poncho Zombie, Knight Zombie or Newspaper Zombie, a single Goo Peashooter in each lane can be enough to completely shut down these zombies, as they often have much less health than the toughness of their armor. Even Excavator Zombie is affected, with poison able to bypass the shovel. Because of this, worlds that rely on armored zombies such as Dark Ages, Jurassic Marsh and Steam Ages can be greatly mastered with the help of Goo Peashooter.

However, there are also many zombies that are either resistant or have direct immunity to the effects of poison. Mechanised zombies and Gargantuars have incredibly high health while having no armor to speak of, nullifying the armor-piercing benefits of poison damage. Meanwhile, zombies that drop obstacles upon defeat like Kid Zombie, Egg Stealer Imp and Rock Carrier Zombie have complete poison immunity. Poison is also unable to be inflicted on obstacles such as tombstones, surfboards and coal.

Goo Peashooter has very lackluster damage without poison, while also having a limit to the number of poison stacks that can be applied to each zombie. As a result, it is unwise to rely on him as a primary attacker; rather, it is recommended to use Goo Peashooter as a support attacker, taking down armored targets while other offensive plants can deal with poison-resistant targets.

That being said, it is possible for Goo Peashooter's poison to turn the tables on high health zombies. Since poison damage can stack up over time, the poison can eventually build up to be more powerful than five Peashooters - a respectable level of single target power for a plant whose focus is typically on dealing with armor. Pulling this off is best done with the help of stalling plants; options like Snow Pea, Sap-fling and Stunion can be used to keep target zombies back, providing time for Goo Peashooter to stack up poison and start to deal proper damage.

Lily of Alchemy is a notable alternative to using Goo Peashooter. While Lily of Alchemy's armor-piercing potions are tossed at random, her lack of reliance on poison allows her to better deal with the zombies that Goo Peashooter is weak against, while also being able to lob projectiles over obstacles that would otherwise serve to block Goo Peashooter's attacks.

## Balance changes

### Initial launch

* ▲ +7 poison DPS
* ▼ +200 Sun
* ▼ -17 max poison stacks
* ▼ -15 damage for projectile
* ▼ No longer lower's zombie's speed percent

## Trivia

* Goo Peashooter's "Code 23-19" costume is based on the Child Detection Agency, or CDA, from the Pixar film *Monsters, Inc.*
	+ During the film, George Sanderson appears with a white sock, violating the CDA's emergency code 23-19.
* Goo Peashooter's "Mucky" costume is based on Slimeakku's OC Muckayla, who is one of *Reflourished's* developers.