All-Star (Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville)

For other uses, see Football Zombie (disambiguation).

All-Star
All-Stars are the go-to zombie for pushing the line forward—however, they’re unsure about the purpose of a football.
Health	200
Weapon	Football Cannon
Ammo	Infinite (can overheat)
Damage	Impact
Special	Cannot jump while firing his Football Cannon
Range	Close - Medium
Role	Defend
Specialty	Suppressive Fire
Abilities
All-Stars are the zombie team defender. They can provide dummy shields for safe firing, or suppressing fire to keep enemies at bay.

All-Star is a playable Zombie class in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. He is a Defend class.

Description

In-game description

All-Stars are the zombie team defender. They can provide dummy shields for safe firing, or suppressing fire to keep enemies at bay.

Primary weapon

“	Fully-automatic football launcher	”
—In-game description

All-Star's primary weapon is the Football Cannon, which fires footballs that deal 7 damage each (8 for crits) and fires at a rate of 570 RPM (rounds per minute). All-Star is slower and cannot jump while firing the Football Cannon. To compensate for this, it has infinite ammo (firing for too long can cause it to overheat though). After overheating, All-Star cannot fire the Football Cannon for a short amount of time. There is a short delay before and after firing as the Football Cannon needs to spin up/stop spinning.

Statistics

Football Cannon

Weapon stats
Internal data
Ammo capacity		Fire mode		Rate of fire	Damage (DPS)
Infinite (overheats)		Full auto		570 RPM	7 (66.5)
Projectile speed		Projectile lifetime	Projectile travel distance		Projectile gravity
480 m/s (1804.46 ft/s)		2.2 s	1056 m (3464.57 ft)		10 m/s² (32.81 ft/s²)
Overheat data
Heat increase per second	Max amount of shots before overheat	Heat drop per second	Heat drop time from full overheat	Heat drop delay	Overheat penalty time
0.135	71	0.4	3.5 s	0.4 s	1 s
Base recoil
Minimum x-axis recoil angle	Maximum x-axis recoil angle	Minimum y-axis recoil angle	Maximum y-axis recoil angle	Minimum z-axis recoil angle	Maximum z-axis recoil angle
0	-3	0	-1	-0.005	0.005
Minimum FOV recoil		Maximum FOV recoil		Recoil recovery time
0		0		0.008
Projectile spread (unzoomed, standing)
Minimum angle		Maximum angle	Increase per shot		Decrease per second
0		0.4	0.0025		25
Projectile spread (unzoomed, moving)
Minimum angle		Maximum angle	Increase per shot		Decrease per second
0.25		1.2	0.008		25
Projectile spread (unzoomed, jumping)
Minimum angle		Maximum angle	Increase per shot		Decrease per second
1.2		2	0.03		20
Sway recoil (unzoomed)
Maximum vertical amplitude	Vertical increase per shot	Maximum horizontal amplitude	Horizontal minimum increase per shot	Horizontal maximum increase per shot	Amplitude decrease factor
10	0.032	10	-0.185	0.185	18
Projectile spread (zoomed, standing)
Minimum angle		Maximum angle	Increase per shot		Decrease per second
-0.15		0.75	0.0025		25
Projectile spread (zoomed, moving)
Minimum angle		Maximum angle	Increase per shot		Decrease per second
0.15		1.85	0.008		25
Projectile spread (zoomed, jumping)
Minimum angle		Maximum angle	Increase per shot		Decrease per second
0.85		2	0.03		20
Sway recoil (zoomed)
Maximum vertical amplitude	Vertical increase per shot	Maximum horizontal amplitude	Horizontal minimum increase per shot	Horizontal maximum increase per shot	Amplitude decrease factor
10	0.035	10	-0.25	0.25	18

Abilities

Left abilities
Imp Punt	Kick an explosive Imp who detonates after a short delay.
Center abilities
Sprint Tackle	Dash forward to send enemies flying. A vanquish with Sprint Tackle reduces ability refresh.
Right abilities
Dummy Shield	Protect your team by placing a dome-shielded dummy.

Upgrades

	Refreshing Revive		● 1
	Faster refresh time for all abilities by reviving an ally. Reduces ability cooldown by 5x for 2 seconds (10 seconds total) when a teammate is revived.

	Rough Patch		● 1
	Spawn with more health after suffering multiple vanquishes in a row. After dying three times in a row, spawn with the maximum amount of overhealth for the currently used class after respawning or being revived.

	Spin Class		● 2
	Football Cannon spins up faster. Reduces Football Cannon's spin up time by 67%.

	Best Defense		● 3
	Briefly reduce incoming damage by earning a critical vanquish. Can stack 3 times. Reduces incoming damage by 10% for 10 seconds upon vanquishing an enemy. Stacks up to 3 times for a total of 27.1% damage resistance.

	Long Bomb		● 2
	Imp Punt flies farther. Imp Punt flies 22.5% further.

	Follow Through		● 3
	Enemies are knocked away farther when dealing damage with Sprint Tackle. Sprint Tackle knocks enemies 9m (29.53 ft) upward and backward and Sprint Tackle refreshes after a vanquish with it.

	Shoot The Gap		● 2
	Travel further when using Sprint Tackle.

	Health Regeneration		● 2
	Faster health regeneration. Doubles health regeneration rate.

	Health Regeneration Delay		● 2
	Reduced time between taking damage and when health regeneration activates. Reduces the time required to start health regeneration by half (4 seconds).

	Leveling Up		● 2
	Earn XP faster. Increases the amount of XP earned by 10%. Does not affect the XP Machine in Giddy Park.

	Critical Blow		● 3
	Faster refresh time for all abilities by earning a critical vanquish. Reduces ability cooldown by 5.5 seconds upon critically vanquishing an enemy.

	Tennis Skills		● 3
	Move faster when aiming or firing. Remove speed penalty and can jump while aiming or firing.

	Star Struck		● 3
	Deploying Tackle Dummy knocks enemies away. Deploying Dummy Shield knocks enemies 10m (32.80 ft) upward and 7m (32.80 ft) backward and the Shield refreshes in 4 seconds.

	Fallback		● 3
	Move faster when at low health. Increases movement speed by 20% upon reaching 20% HP or below.

	Speedy		● 3
	Move faster, except when sprinting. Increases walking speed by 12.9032%.

	Supercharged Football Coolant		● 3
	Reduce overheat for Football Cannon by earning a vanquish. Vanquishing enemies reduces the overheat percentage by 30 percentage points.

	Applying Pressure		● 3
	Near misses with Football Cannon reduce enemy vision. Reduces enemy vision by 7.5% for every near misses. Effect decays at a rate of 50% per second.

	Injury Time		● 2
	Allies get revived faster when inside Tackle Dummy shield. Reduces the time to revive an ally by 50% when inside the Dummy Shield.

	Huge Fuse		● 4
	Deal additional damage when directly hitting an enemy with Imp Punt. Deal an additional 50 damage by directly hitting an enemy with Imp Punt.

	Adrenaline Rush		● 3
	Move faster for a short time by earning a vanquish. Increases movement speed by 40% for 3 seconds upon vanquishing an enemy.

Strategies

With

All-Star is the zombie team tank, as he has the most health out of all the zombies (besides a Z-Mech or a docked Space Station). All-Star excels at defending objectives, teamates and winning 1-on-1s with his Dummy Shield and high health and power. The Football Cannon can do excellent damage, especially at a close to mid-range, but do remember that it takes about a second for All-Star to charge the cannon and begin firing. All-Star functions great on his own or with a group.

Combining the upgrades Health Regeneration and Health Regeneration Delay makes for a great combo on All-Star. With them, if he starts to become injured, he can quickly hide or take cover in a Dummy Shield and regenerate all of his health very quickly, allowing him to swiftly get back into action. Supercharged Football Coolant is also a good choice, especially in Graveyard Ops, as it allows him to take out hordes of enemies without worrying about the weapon overheating as quickly.

All-Star performs exceptionally well in Graveyard Ops as a defender of the Grave-O-Matic. His high rate of fire and damage output allows him to easily take out groups of weaker enemies and can put heavy pressure on larger singular enemies such as bosses. Dummy Shield can defend the Grave-O-Matic from ranged attacks, though it is ineffective against Weeds as they will attack the Dummy itself, destroying the shield rather quickly. Imp Punt can do large damage to groups, such as those attacking the Grave-O-Matic. Sprint Tackle is effective in knocking back singular strong threats such as Citrons. Overall, All-Star performs best when he sticks close to the Grave-O-Matic to defend.

Against

Proceed against All-Star with extreme caution. He has a decently powerful primary weapon, Imp Punt and Sprint Tackle to devastate Plants at close range, and his Dummy Shield to hold ground and protect himself as well as his teammates from long-range attacks. Essentially, All-Star is a very difficult target, with his powerful tools and higher than average health, but he doesn’t fare particularly well against groups of plants. He relies on his allies to dispel groups, as his Imp Punt isn’t the best at crowd control due to its unpredictable physics. Typically, it’s best to attack an All-Star with a group of plants backing you up, especially if you’re a small, weak plant like Acorn or Nightcap. All in all, All-Star can be quite dangerous to attack head-on, due to his close-range dominance, but his weaknesses become glaring when attacked by a group.

Tips & Tricks

• Sprint Tackle is effective when being hit by Fung Fu. Chances are you will either hit the Night Cap and knock it away (or possibly vanquish it), or you will escape the center of the attack.
• Some of All-Star's upgrades have unmentioned features, such as Thread the Needle allowing several enemies to be hit with a single Sprint Tackle if they are close enough and Huge Fuse making Imp Punt instantly explode should it hit an enemy head-on.

Balancing changes

October 2019 patch

• ▲ Football Canon damage increase 4.75->6.4
• ▲ First connect fuse delay for Imp Punt decreased 0.675->0.4s
• ▲ Blast radius for Imp Punt increase 2.75->3.2m
• ▲ Football Canon priming time reduced 0.9->0.675 after successful connect with Sprint Tackle

December 2019 patch

• ▲ Increase Football Cannon damage 6.4->8
• ▲ Decrease Football Cannon overheat penalty time 2.0->1.0
• ▲ Decrease Football Cannon camera shake
• ▲ Decrease Football Cannon projectile spread when aiming
• ▼ Decrease Football Cannon projectile drag start distance 50m->25m
• ▼ Decrease Football Cannon projectile drag end distance 70m->45m
• ▼ Decrease Football Cannon projectile final speed post drag 500->350

January 2020 patch

• ▼ Decreased velocity and drag distance of Football Cannon
  • Decreased projectile speed from 620 m/s (2034.12 ft/s) to 480 m/s (1574.8 ft/s)
• ▼ Increased recoil of Football Cannon
  • ▼ Increased minimum spread angle from 0.15 to 0.22
  • ▼ Increased maximum spread angle from 2.2 to 2.75
  • ▲ Decreased spread increase per shot from 4.7 to 4.65
  • ▼ Increased minimum horizontal recoil increase per shot while unzoomed from -0.1 to -0.185
  • ▼ Increased maximum horizontal recoil increase per shot while unzoomed from 0.1 to 0.185
  • ▲ Decreased minimum moving gun sway angle while unzoomed from 0.5 to 0.25
  • ▲ Decreased maximum moving gun sway angle while unzoomed from 1.85 to 1.2
  • ▲ Decreased minimum base gun sway angle while unzoomed from 0.25 to 0
  • ▲ Decreased maximum base gun sway angle while unzoomed from 0.75 to 0.4
  • ▼ Increased vertical recoil increase per shot from 0.02 to 0.035
  • ▼ Increased minimum horizontal recoil increase per shot while zoomed from -0.1 to -0.185
  • ▼ Increased maximum horizontal recoil increase per shot while zoomed from 0.1 to 0.185
  • ▲ Decreased first shot recoil multiplier from 2.5 to 1.8
• ▼ Decreased Football Cannon damage from 8 to 7
• ▼ Sprint Tackle refresh doesn’t start until the ability is done
  • ▼  Increased Dummy Shield cooldown time from 25 seconds to 30 seconds

May 2020 patch

• Imp Punt
  • ▲ Increase blast radius 3.2->4.5 m
  • ▼ Decrease shockwave radius 5.5->4.75 m
• Sprint Tackle
  • ▼ Decrease contact explosion 4.25->4.15 m
  • Remove the camera lock after the first couple frames of dash
  • ▼ Shoot the Gap upgrade now recharges after Sprint Tackle ends instead of when the ability starts

Related achievement

	DE-FENCE! CLAP-CLAP! DE-FENCE! Block 1,000 damage with a Dummy Shield as an All-Star.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	All-Star
Simplified Chinese	全明星僵尸
Traditional Chinese	全明星
Dutch	All-Star
French	Sportif
German	All-Star
Italian	Fuoriclasse
Japanese	オールスター
Korean	올스타
Polish	Gwiazda Sportu
Brazilian Portuguese	All-Star
Russian	Звезда
Spanish	All-Star
Latin American Spanish	All-Star

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