Gatling Pea

**Gatling Pea** is a attacking plant that is available for Plants vs. Bloons.

## **Tower Info**

**Gatling Pea** shoots a stream of peas like a Gatling gun, wreaking havoc and has powerful upgrades and utility to destroy the atrocities which makes it the best upgrade for Peashooters etc.

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Decreases the attack spread angle to ten from twenty for better accuracy.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Allows lead popping power and peas do twice as much damage to bloons.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Increases pea damage to fifteen from six and increases the pierce by five for them for insane bloon poppage.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Increases pierce of peas by three and damage of them is increased by one.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Mega Gatling ability for Gatling Pea. When activated, Gatling Pea fires out a wall of 80 peas in three initial bursts which does eight layers worth of bloon damage each, total damage from all peas hit on a bloon is 1,920. Gatling Pea's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 20 seconds after use.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Gatling Pea is overall a powerful plant which is expensive to get up in the first place, but his peas can pop Blue Bloons whilst other Peashooters can't unless they are upgraded. Gatling Pea can be used as a very powerful plant during the early game, but it's not worth getting because the player has to heavily rely on Sunflowers to get sun to plant stronger plants. Gatling is nonetheless strong during the mid/late game rounds when spammed.

### **Tips**

* **Gatling Pea** is a good starting plant, but the downside that he's expensive. The expensiveness of him and his upgrades are altered together, so the best way to get him during the early game rounds is you farm excessively with Sunflowers whilst holding the Bloons off with a versatile plant for the early game like Peashooter and Puff-shroom.
* **Gatling Pea** can be combined in conjunction with Torchwood for devastating results. The Torchwood will buff the Gatling Peas whilst they shred through Bloons even if Torchwood is upgraded to have more powerful fire.
* **Gatling Pea** can only pop Lead Bloons if you have the Laser Peas upgrade bought or buffed him with Torchwood. However, taking advantage of focusing his shots can lead you to popping Bloons accurately.

## **Version History**

Gatling Pea is a very strong plant overall, since when **Torchwood** came out, Gatling Pea felt meta because of the ability to deal prodigious damage to even ZOMGs which was very overpowered. As of 3.0 update, Gatling has received a few nerfs, mainly the price of his upgrades and the bottom path upgrades such as his Tier 1 and 2 upgrades were swapped around for early camo detection instead of pierce and another nerf has dropped into him in 3.5 which is increasing the fire rate time for every pea he shoots.

V3.0

* Cost of Laser Peas increased ($4,000 → $4,500).
* Cost of Ultra Peas increased ($20,000 → $22,500).
* Cost of Powerful Peas increased ($3,000 → $3,500).
* Gatling Pea's x-1 and x-2 upgrades were swapped.

V3.5

* Base attack speed increased (0.1s → 0.15s).

V4.1
* Purple Fire Torchwood (4-x) interaction plasma pea damage reduced from x5 → x4. Ability remains untouched, does x5 damage still for every plasma pea.

V4.5

* Better Peas also increases the pierce from Mega Gatling Pea ability peas from 1 → 2.

## **Trivia**

* Gatling Pea is a plant from the PvZ series, who is a upgrade plant for Repeater which shot four peas at a time for more additional damage against zombies. Torchwood makes it stronger overall in there.