Archmage Zombie

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Archmage Zombie (大法师僵尸; pinyin: dà fǎshī jiāngshī) is a zombie encountered in Dark Ages in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2. He shoots projectiles from his staff at the player's plants every 12 seconds to cause them to fall asleep, rendering them useless. The attack affects plants in a 3x3 area. Sleeping plants can be dug up to make room for other plants. Using Plant Food on the sleeping plant will wake that plant up. Coffee Bean also counters the ability, waking the plants up in a 3x3 radius. He’ll also hit plants with his staff instead of eating them.

Origins

His attire and power allude the Disney villain Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, and the 2014 live action film with the same name as the character.

Almanac entry

TOUGHNESS Average SPEED Stiff	大法师僵尸 Archmage Zombie
使一块区域内的植物陷入沉睡。 大法师僵尸最讨厌别人看他的帽子，他最经常做的事情就是使于敢注视他的路人陷入沉睡。后来有一天他经过了一面巨大的镜子旁边……

大法师僵尸 (Archmage Zombie)

TOUGHNESS: Average
SPEED: Stiff

使一块区域内的植物陷入沉睡。

大法师僵尸最讨厌别人看他的帽子，他最经常做的事情就是使于敢注视他的路人陷入沉睡。后来有一天他经过了一面巨大的镜子旁边……

In English: Can make all plants in an area go to sleep. Archmage Zombie hates it the most when other people look at his hat, the thing he does most is making people who dare to look at him go to sleep. One day he walked past a huge mirror...

Overview

Archmage Zombie absorbs 600 damage and degrades at 300 damage.

Encounters

Dark Ages: Nights 13, 14, 15, 23, 24, and Ultimate Challenge

Lost City: Boss event

Modern Day: World Cup

Fairy Forest: Days 6 (Part 1) (hard mode only), and 7 (Part 1) (hard mode only)

Strategies

This is an extremely dangerous zombie that must be defeated as soon as possible, as he will make your plants fall asleep in a 3x3 area. These plants do not wake up on their own, unlike Wizard Zombie whose magic fades upon his destruction. Use a Coffee Bean to awaken plants that are put to sleep by this zombie, but you may not always have enough slots for one if you do not have the 8th slot, and large numbers of this zombie can put your plants to sleep faster than you can awaken them. Like the Wizard Zombie, he is very slow as well which gives time for him to bombard your plants, and also ensures that faster zombies will protect it. If in problem, use an instant kill such as a level 2 or higher Jalapeno to kill all of the zombies in a column. Quickly dig up your plants or wake them up with Plant Food if you did not bring Coffee Bean.

Due to his slow speed, close range plants such as Snapdragons are ineffective against them and will be neutralized before he can come into their range.

Oak Archery

Use Lv 2 arrows to take them out. He has higher toughness and deals more damage than Wizard Zombie.

Gallery

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  Almanac entry
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  Almanac icon
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  HD Archmage Zombie
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  Another HD Archmage Zombie
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  Archmage Zombie in-game
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  Archmage Zombie figure
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  Carrying Plant Food
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  Archmage Zombie losing his arm
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  A defeated Archmage Zombie
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  Shooting projectile
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  About to whack a Pea-nut
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  Archmage Zombie's sprites and textures
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  A shrunken Archmage Zombie
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  Archmage Zombie plush

Trivia

• There is a glitch when an Archmage Zombie puts a Fire Gourd to sleep and the player taps him, Fire Gourd will still breathe fire, but it does not deal any damage.
• He appears to have a bone sticking out from his left arm.
  • This is possibly due to a sprite error, as the sprite of the arm without a bone is behind the sprite of the arm with bone.
• He doesn't do his eating animation once he reaches the player's brain. He just keeps walking instead.
• Since the 1.8 update, plants that fell asleep by Archmage Zombie now have "Z" inside a wordbubble next to the plants. Pre-1.8 update sleeping plants had bubbles floating above the plants similar to hypnotized zombies.
• Even when he's hypnotized, he'll still put plants to sleep. It's unknown if this is unintentional or not.
• He, Mirror Queen Zombie, and Talisman Zombie are the only zombies who specialize in putting plants to sleep

See also

• Wizard Zombie
• Octo Zombie
• Oak Archery

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