The Arctic Trooper spent last winter assigned to the Zomboss Arctic H.Q. where he learned survival tricks and ate a bunch of snow.
In-game description
The Arctic Trooper's icy shots slow, and eventually freeze Plants in their tracks!
AI Health
Easy: 75
Normal: 100
Hard: 125
CRAAAAZY: 150
Primary weapon
The Frozen Z-1 Assault Blaster is the primary weapon of the Arctic Trooper. The facts below apply to a fully upgraded weapon.
In GW1, his damage is 5-7.2 and his critical damage is 6-8.6, which means that his DPS varies between 45.83 and 78.83. In GW2, his damage is 4.6-6.6 and his critical damage is 5.5-7.9, which means that his DPS varies between 42.17 and 72.42.
The weapon has an ice effect; when a hit is made it slows the target. If around 12 (GW1) or 10 (GW2) hits are dealt, the target will be frozen.
The ammo in a clip is 30 (or 35 in GW2).
The reload time is 2.025 seconds (Or 1.8s in GW2).
Zombie Stink Cloud arcs a gas grenade in front of the zombie; any plants inside the gas suffer damage. The gas is also extremely helpful for cover. It requires a 20-second recharge after use.
An alternate ability of Rocket Jump, the Foot Soldier will go a further distance, but will not jump as high. Rocket Leap also has two uses. This ability is good if you want to get around places faster.
Zombie Stink Cloud arcs a gas grenade in front of the zombie; any plants inside the gas suffer damage. The gas is also extremely helpful for cover. It requires a 20-second recharge after use.
An alternate ability of Rocket Jump, the Foot Soldier will go a further distance, but will not jump as high. Rocket Leap also has two uses. This ability is good if you want to get around places faster.
An alternate ability of ZPG, the Foot Soldier will launch four rockets to attack plants upon using the Multi-Rocket.
Upgrades
Garden Warfare
Less Frozen Reloader
The reloader sometimes gets iced up, but the less frozen one is great! The reload time has reduced for sure!
Arctic Ammo Pouch
Ammo capacity increased through clever use of arctic pockets.
Harder Ice Pellets
Harder Ice Pellets naturally do more damage.
Garden Warfare 2
Health Regeneration Delay Upgrade
This upgrade decreases the delay before health regeneration begins!
Zoom Upgrade
This upgrade increases the zoom distance of your primary weapon!
Health Regeneration Upgrade
This upgrade increases how quickly your health regenerates!
Speed Upgrade
This upgrade allows you to move faster!
Reload Upgrade
This upgrade decreases your reload time!
Ammo Upgrade
This upgrade increases the number of times you can fire before reloading!
Ice Upgrade
This upgrade allows you to freeze enemies faster!
Health Upgrade
This upgrade increases your maximum health!
Strategies
The Arctic Trooper is good for players that can reliably stay focused on one target as landing around 12 or 10 consecutive hits with the Arctic Trooper will freeze the enemy solid, fully immobilizing them and rendering them unable to use any abilities.
Arctic Trooper benefits from being a full-auto ice variant, and due to the nature of ice, your hits on the enemy do not have to be especialyl consistent since every hit counts towards the freezing. Once you do freeze them, it gives you enough time to do one thing, this can be, for instance, reloading your weapon so you have a full magazine ready by the time your opponent unfreezes, activating the ZPG and trying to shoot it before they get free or use the time given to escape if you are severely injured. Do not try to do more than one thing while your opponent is frozen though, as you will run out of time, since three seconds (or 2.1s in GW2) is very short.
Arctic Trooper lacks group control due to his middling damage output. His main weakness are Sunflowers, as they can remove his ice effect with healing.
In the Great White North map, near the first garden, there are ice blocks which have Arctic Troopers in them.
An Arctic Trooper can also be found frozen in an ice sculpture by the second objective point.
In fact, there are multiple Arctic Troopers found stuck inside of the ground in various different maps. Some of these maps include the Great White North, Frosty Creek and the academy in Zomburbia.
In Garden Ops, Arctic Troopers usually appear during a Super Yeti Wave, serving as support enemies.
On Crazy difficulty however, they can spawn in place of a normal Foot Soldier.
His appearance is greatly reminiscent to that of an Inuit.
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