Spikerock

*Spikerocks destroy multiple rolling zombies and damage zombies that walk over them.*

## Almanac statistics

### Unlocked by beating

PSX-III

**Being the most metal plant, Spikerock has decided to hold his ultimate metal plant concert at Madison Rock Garden. Tickets have been sold out for many harvests.**

**Spikerock** is the second plant available in Pirate Seas Extra in *Alternate UniverZ*. He does double the damage of a normal Spikeweed and can be punctured/smashed up to three times. He is a passive attacking plant, dealing high damage to any zombie that walks on him. He usually deals five attacks to every normal speed zombie that passes unimpeded over him. Since the Spikerock attacks from below, he bypasses shields.

Spikerock is unlocked after beating PSX-III.

## Almanac entry

**Spikerock**

SUN COST: 250

RECHARGE: 7.5

TOUGHNESS: 300

DAMAGE: 20

ATTACK SPEED: 0.5

AREA: Tile

Spikerocks destroy multiple rolling zombies and damage zombies that walk over them.
Special: can't be eaten by zombie
Weakness: can take three hits from rolling zombies

Being the most metal plant, Spikerock has decided to hold his ultimate metal plant concert at Madison Rock Garden. Tickets have been sold out for many harvests.

## Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Spikerock drags all zombies on his lane to him, stunning them and doing 320 damage in total in the span of 4 seconds.

## Costumes

* Current
* Skins
* Pre 1.5

## Strategies

Using slowing plants like Snow Pea, Winter Melon, or Sap-fling can provide a great damage increase to ones Spikerocks, because zombies will be walking over them for twice the amount of time. Kernel-pult can also be a good option because of his slow and stun. Using other immobilizing plants like Stunion, Chili Bean and Iceberg Lettuce, then planting Spikerock under the affected zombies is also very effective.

Planting defensive plants such as Wall-nut or Tall-nut behind Spikerock is another good idea, as zombies will stop to eat the defensive plant while taking damage from the Spikerock.

Spikerocks are a great way to stop the zombie horde as straight-shooting plants alone are only capable of dealing with zombies that are in the front lines. This, along with the Winter Melon or Melon-pult, Coconut Cannon, Citron and defensive plants can immediately hold off massive zombie incursions, especially in Dead Man's Booty because he will stop Imp Cannons from detonating. However, it is not advised to bring him when Gargantuar Pirates or Barrel Roller Zombies come into greater concentrations.

In Neon Mixtape Tour, Spikerock is a good choice against Punk Zombies, Glitter Zombies, MC Zom-Bs and Boombox Zombies, since they all have low health and can get whittled down by Spikerock quite easily, but beware of Bassist Zombies, Arcade Zombies and Hair Metal Gargantuars.

In Endless Zones, Spikerock is a good way to deal with Imps thrown from Gargantuars. One can place Spikerocks in the third column, and when a Gargantuar throws his Imp, they will land on the Spikerocks, only to take damage and get defeated. Spikerocks can also be used to hold off hordes of early zombies while one's sun production is being built up.

In Big Bad Butte, the player can use Spikerocks to stall Wild West Gargantuars by placing them in minecarts through the use of dragging up or down. Also, it serves as a temporary block-off against Zombie Chickens (although this may have to require manipulating more than one minecart), as well as defeating Pianist Zombies that come in slowly.

It is not advised to use Spikerocks against Troglobites and Excavator Zombies, as the former can instantly kill him by pushing ice blocks or arcade machines onto his square, and the latter will shovel him up without stepping on him.

Spikerock is very useful for levels where you have to not let zombies trample the flowers, as planting them on the flowers will make it so that the zombies can't trample the flowers. However, the flowers have to be on the tile for this to work, instead of being in between columns. The same thing occurs with Spikeweed, Celery Stalker, and Cactus.

Spikerock is very helpful when dealing with Lucky Zcorpion Imps, as they can withstand the exploding vases the machine throws. Try putting next to the zombie and then they will continuously throw vases at the plant, making it useless to destroy plants with its vases.