Fire Peashooter

*Fire Peashooter shoots flaming peas down the lane.*

**Fire Peashooter knows that what she does looks exciting. But working with an open flame is serious and, more importantly, dangerous business. That's why, in her spare time, she talks to children about the importance of fire safety. "I'm a trained professional." she explains. "Don't try this at home, kids."**

**Fire Peashooter** is a plant in *Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished* and the seventh plant obtained in Frostbite Caves. She is unlocked at Frostbite Caves - Day 37.

Fire Peashooter shares the same attributes with Peashooter, but she is also a thawing plant, capable of emitting heat every 6 seconds that gradually thaws out frozen or chilled plants in a 3x3 area surrounding her, as well as being immune to all freezing effects herself.

Fire Peashooter fires flaming peas every 1.35-1.5 seconds that do 40 damage, plus 10 splash damage to zombies in a 1x1 area. Each shot has a 15% chance of instead firing a plasma pea, which deals 60 damage and 10 splash damage.

## Almanac entry

**Fire Peashooter**

Fire Peashooter shoots flaming peas down the lane.

Special: 25% chance to shoot a plasma pea
Special: immune to frost
Special: warms nearby plants

Fire Peashooter knows that what she does looks exciting. But working with an open flame is serious and, more importantly, dangerous business. That's why, in her spare time, she talks to children about the importance of fire safety. "I'm a trained professional." she explains. "Don't try this at home, kids."

## Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Fire Peashooter blows a fire trail for three seconds that affects all tiles in front of her, destroying ice blocks and dealing a total of 1800 damage to every zombie on the trail.

## Strategies

Fire Peashooter can no longer be used as a more economical Repeater like her Vanilla counterpart. To make up for this is the addition of splash damage, making her much less reliant on purely single target damage by improving her handling of small crowds. To take advantage of the splash damage, consider using plants such as Sap-fling, Hot Date, Chard Guard and Thyme Warp to bunch zombies together.

As she is a fire plant, Fire Peashooter can be used to thaw plants in Frostbite Caves, although this ability is difficult to take advantage of in a single playthrough, due to how late she is unlocked in said world. Her splash damage also nullifies any chilling and freezing effects applied by ice-based plants like Snow Pea and Iceberg Lettuce, so avoid using them with Fire Peashooter. Instead, consider using plants like Sap-fling, who slows zombies without ice-based effects, or Iceweed, who chills zombies frequently enough to keep up with Fire Peashooter's fire.

Beyond Frostbite Caves, Fire Peashooter's fiery traits make her great for ashing zombies. Ashed zombies are unable to trigger on-death effects, making it possible to prevent zombies like Imp Porter, Rock Carrier Zombie and Kid Zombies from dropping a grid item, for example. Fire Peashooter's style of attack is particularly reliable for this purpose, but mind what other plants are being used to deal damage - any zombie that is defeated without being ashed cannot be ashed afterwards.

A combination of Repeater and Torchwood is capable of the same single target and splash damage as Fire Peashooter, but with the former firing twice as many peas. If seeking to maximise pea-based damage, using Torchwood with Repeater or most other pea plants is usually recommended over using Fire Peashooter.

## Balance changes

### Initial launch

* ▲ +10 splash damage in a 1x1
* ▼ +75 sun

### Version 1.1.2

* ▲ Sun Cost: 250 -> 225
	+ Developer Note: Fire Peashooter's higher price has resulted in her not being picked outside of Frostbite Caves often. A slight price reduction should give a nice consideration to use her elsewhere!

### Version 1.1.4

* ▲ Chance to shoot Plasma Peas: 0% -> 15%
* ▼ Sun Cost: 225 -> 250
* Target audience: General
	+ Developer note: Fire Peashooter was often criticized for being too similar to Repeater, with the only difference being that Fire Peashooter warms and has minor splash damage. In order to help differentiate them, we have upped Fire Peashooters cost and given it a small chance to shoot a Plasma Pea instead of a regular Fire Pea. This addition also makes for quite a funny interaction with the newly rebalanced Torchwood. Two paragraphs down everything will be clear.

### Version 1.2.1

* ▲ Plasma Pea Chance: 15% -> 25%
	+ Developer Note: While we're happy with Fire Peashooter's new ability, upping the chance for it to happen will better justify the price gap between her and Repeater.