Snow Pea

*Snow Peas fire frozen peas making it hard for zombies to advance.*

**Is immune to frost**

**As a professional table tennis player, in the off-season he also enjoys skiing, playing the bongos, and spelunking.**

**Snow Pea** is the fifth plant available in Ancient Egypt in *Alternate UniverZ*. He shoots icy peas that slow down zombies. He is also able to extinguish Explorer Zombie's torch and Prospector Zombie's and Short-fused Prospector's dynamites. He deals the same damage and has the same attack rate as Peashooter, and additionally can chill zombies.

Snow Pea is unlocked after beating AE-VIII.

## Almanac entry

**Snow Pea**

SUN COST: 175

RECHARGE: 15

TOUGHNESS: 300

DAMAGE: 20

SHOT COOLDOWN: 1.4

RANGE: Straight

Snow Peas fire frozen peas making it hard for zombies to advance.
Special: chills zombie on impact

As a professional table tennis player, in the off-season he also enjoys skiing, playing the bongos, and spelunking.

## Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Snow Pea sends an ice trail down the lane, chilling all zombies on it for 10 seconds, and then shoots 60 frozen peas in two seconds.

## Costumes

* Current
* Pre 1.5

## Strategies

Despite being a strong plant in the original *Plants vs. Zombies*, Snow Pea faces challenges here: The increased amount of enemies that can block or deflect direct shots now poses a serious challenge to Snow Pea as well as other straight-shot plants. All is not lost, though; the player can still find good use from Snow Pea in his long range and its ability to extinguish Explorer Zombie's, along with Prospector Zombie's and Short-fused Prospector's dynamites, as well as being a generally effective stalling plant.

While almost twice as expensive as a Peashooter, Snow Pea is capable to halving the speed of the incoming zombies, effectively doubling the damage capability of all its allies and giving the player more reaction time. This can be insanely useful as your plants like Repeater and Threepeater can damage zombies more often, making them defeat zombies easily. Good synergies can also be made with this plant. For example, Snow Pea and Zoybean Pod will make the zombies be more susceptible to damage against the Zomboids while chilled. However, he lacks crowd control, so he can be used with plants that are more effective in area damage, such as Melon-pult. Also, only a single column of Snow Peas should be used in any level, as additional columns will not provide any more suppression capability while costing more sun.

Snow Pea may suffer from outside options, as Winter Melon can chill in a larger area while dealing hefty damage, Sap-fling will not remove the chilling effect in case of using fire-based plants as well, as well as stalling zombies more effectively, and Kernel-pult having a chance to stun zombies as well as slowing zombies down. However, as the first option for stalling, Snow Pea does its job practically with rather few weaknesses.

Snow Pea is a decently effective plant in Neon Mixtape Tour, since his chilling effect can slow down zombies affected by jams quite effectively, such as the punk jam. Zombies like Punk Zombies and MC Zom-Bs and even Hair Metal Gargantuars will take longer to close in on plants, letting plants defeat them more easily, as long as the situation doesn't get out of control. With the Boombox Zombie while he won't work when his music is playing for obvious reasons, he can make him take longer to play or not at all.

Poncho Zombie can be a nuisance, as they are immune to chill, and are usually accompanied by Prospector Zombies and Short-fused Prospectors. If you do not want to use a Split Pea to defeat the zombies from the back, try and use an Electrici-tea on the Poncho Zombie so that he instantly dies and you can chill the Prospector Zombies and Short-fused Prospectors behind him.