Cabbage-pult

*Cabbage-pults hurl cabbages at the enemy.*

**Cabbage-pult received his doctorare in pulting from Harvest University. He knows a thing or two about launching his way to the top. He also makes a mean soup.**

**Cabbage-pult** is a plant in *Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished* and the first plant obtained in Ancient Egypt. He is unlocked after beating Ancient Egypt - Day 2.

Cabbage-pult lobs cabbages at just over half the fire rate of a normal Peashooter (one cabbage per 2.75-2.9s), but deals twice as much damage for each cabbage. This means in practice, Cabbage-pult deals slightly more damage per second than Peashooter does.

His projectiles can bypass tombstones in Ancient Egypt and Dark Ages, as well as certain types of shields employed by the zombies and submerged Snorkel Zombies in Big Wave Beach.

## Almanac entry

**Cabbage-pult**

Cabbage-pults hurl cabbages at the enemy.

Cabbage-pult received his doctorare in pulting from Harvest University. He knows a thing or two about launching his way to the top. He also makes a mean soup.

## Plant Food effect

If given Plant Food, Cabbage-pult will launch big cabbages to every zombie and obstacle on the lawn, dealing 200 damage to each zombie or obstacle. These cabbages cannot be deflected by the Jester Zombie but can still bounce off of Parasol Zombie.

## Strategies

Cabbage-pult is unchanged from his Vanilla counterpart; as such, standard vanilla tactics apply. Being a lobbed counterpart to the straight-shooting Peashooter, the two plants have subtle differences that may make one more desirable over the other.

Having a different mode of fire helps Cabbage-pult better handle obstacles such as tombstones and presents, attacking zombies directly to avoid wasting damage. Cabbage-pult can also directly attack targets like Barrel Roller Zombie, Snorkel Zombie, Hunter Zombie and Excavator Zombie, whose abilities can shield them from straight-shot projectiles. On the other hand, Peashooter's straight shots and more frequent attacks make him better for dealing with targets like Chicken Wrangler Zombie and Parasol Zombie, and may be more useful when wishing to damage obstacles directly. As a pea plant, he is also capable of dealing more damage through Torchwood, while having marginally lower DPS by default due to differences in firing rate.

Each plant's Plant Food effect also serves a different function, with Cabbage-pult splattering the entire horde while Peashooter deals capped damage in his lane. Cabbage-pult's Plant Food effect can thus be used for clearing out low health zombies and weakening all other targets to ease the zombie threat - notably, the damage dealt is much like that of Melon-pult's effect, minus the splash damage. In contrast, Peashooter's effect is best for taking on a Buckethead-level threat or a small horde that can't be handled with his main attack, albeit dealing limited damage unless assisted by Torchwood. In both cases, these effects should only be used if unable to access other plants that have more impactful Plant Food effects.

Ultimately, both Cabbage-pult and Peashooter are cheap plants that, although less effective than the many other plants on offer, can be easily spammed to take on basic zombie threats. Which of the two to use will depend on the needs of the level: Peashooter being best for straight shots with easy damage output, or Cabbage-pult for the utilities of lobbed firing and a crowd control Plant Food effect.

## Balance changes

### Version 1.1.4

* Fire Rate: 2.85-3s -> 2.75-2.9s
* Target audience: Beginners
	+ Developer note: Even for one of the first unlocked plants who's meant to fall off later, Cabbage-Pult was hilariously undertuned. A small fire rate was determined to be in order to truly be a lob shot version of Peashooter, and more importantly, to match most of the fire rates of other pults that we’ve buffed in this update. We wanted to keep the sort of “baseline” role that Cabbage has with the pult family, as he does in vanilla. The change made sense on that level as well as on the level of making him more comparable to pult Peashooter, and also just not making him as pathetic as he used to be.