Cob Cannon

**Cob Cannon** is a attacking plant that is available for Plants vs. Bloons.

## **Tower Info**

**Cob Cannon** fires powerful explosive corncobs that do massive damage in a huge area of effect. However, you can aim his position where he will fire a devastating corncob at the location, but does have very strong upgrades to add even more explosivity to his attack! However it requires using his ability to fire a explosive corncob.

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases AOE from 250 to 275 for the corncob explosion and for Corn Missiles AOE per mini corncob is increased from 50 to 60.

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** Increases AOE from 275 to 300 for the corncob explosion and for Corn Missiles AOE per mini corncob is increased from 60 to 70.

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** When Cob Cannon's explosive corncobs hits a bloon, it'll start splitting into thirty-two explosive corn kernels in a wide circle which does ten layers worth of bloon damage per kernel which has a small AOE but moves slowly and has limited cut-off distance. For Corn Missiles, each mini corncob starts splitting into eight explosive corn kernels that does 50% less damage than the Cob Cannon's giant corncob ones do!

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** AOE of corncob explosion is increased to 350 from 300 which now affects up to five hundred Bloons with the initial explosion, does three hundred and fifty damage with the humongous explosion and explosive corn kernels has more blast radius and more AOE pierce which does fifty layers worth of bloon damage now. Corn missiles do thirty damage per mini corncob, has more AOE and pierce and explosive kernels deal twenty-five layers of bloon damage. However, both giant corncob and corn missiles have +50% more explosive corn kernels inside.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Decreases corncob recharge time from 30 seconds to 25 seconds. For Corn Missiles, now fires every 2.5 seconds instead of 3 seconds.

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** Decreases corncob recharge time from 25 seconds to 20 seconds. For Corn Missiles, now fires every 2 seconds instead of 2.5 seconds.

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Damage of corncobs is increased to two hundred and fifty from sixty. For Corn Missiles, they now deal twenty-five layers of bloon damage per missile.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Damage of corncobs is increased to three thousand from two hundred and fifty and now recharges corncob attack every 15 seconds instead of 20 seconds! For Corn Missiles, they now deal three hundred damage to bloons per missile and is fired every 1.5 seconds instead of 2 seconds!

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Cob Cannon plays as a powerful cannon plant whose attack does immensely high damage to Bloons. He had a powerful attack which takes thirty seconds to recharge after using it, but getting the reload upgrades can make it recharge faster. His upgrades are capable of allowing Cob Cannon's corncobs to be devastatingly powerful against even MOAB class bloons, so he does need some micro required if you want to make some plays happen with him.

### **Tips**

* **Cob Cannon** can be microed if necessary with the buy/sell and then ability trick. Since the 3.5 update, he was given an new attack which allows for additional defence against minor Bloon rushes. The mini corncobs can also pop Black and Zebra Bloons at base, but upgrading Cob Cannon to the left path allows for grouped Bloon popping power since the explosive kernels can actually help out a little. For insane MOAB damage, you should go for the Corninator upgrade which massively increases the corncobs' damage inflicted to bloons.

## **Version History**

Strangely, Cob Cannon had a pretty low usage rate when PvB was released. V2.0 has buffed his main attack damage to help against MOAB class bloons a little more and has base camo detection instead of getting Unpredictable Cobs for it, however he is a difficult plant to use but it does require some micro for him to be worthwhile, but 3.5 gave him an additional attack which allows Cob Cannon to defend even without his giant corncob.

V2.0

* Corn Cobs from Cob Cannon can now pop Camo Bloons instead of getting Unpredictable Cobs for it.
* Corn Cob explosive damage increased from 50 → 60
* Cost of Corn Is Explosively Unstable decreased ($30,000 → $28,000).
* Cost of The Corninator decreased ($35,000 → $33,000).

V3.5

* New Attack: Corn Missiles! Fires out 2 seeking mini-corncob missiles that do 5 layers of damage with a small AOE. Attacks every 3 seconds.
* Upgrades now benefit Cob Cannon's new Corn Missiles attack
* **[bug fix]** Cob Cannon's Corny Blasts no longer stacks corn kernels when the explosion hits/affects too many Bloons.

V5.0

* Unpredictable Cobs price increased ($3,750 → $4,500).
* The Corninator price increased ($33,000 → $37,500).
* Corn Is Explosively Unstable corn kernels from giant cob and mini corn cob missiles was increased by 50%.
* **[bug fix]** Cob Cannon's Giant Corncob now correctly has a bigger hitbox radius.

## **Trivia**

* Cob Cannon is a plant from the PvZ series, who requires 2 Kernel-Pults in order to be planted for the price of 500 sun. After that, he can be used to target zombies in an manual-active way.