Bonk Choy (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Bonk Choy (disambiguation).

Bonk Choy
Bonk Choys rapidly punch nearby enemies that are ahead or behind them.
Statistics
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	15 damage
Plant Food Power	5%
Range	Close
Family	Enforce-mint
Plant Food effect	Rapidly punches in a 3x3 around it, dealing heavy damage.
Special	Can attack ahead or behind
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	15 damage
Attack Rate	0.4 seconds
Range	1 Tile to the Left and Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Vanguard
Quality	Blue
Tags	Damage
Plant features	Green plant, buck-toothed boy, martial arts master
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Beating Ancient Egypt - Day 13
Unlocked (China)	Collect 30 stars Buy him for 50 gems for a limited time Collect 10 Bonk Choy Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Code name	bonkchoy
A freelance dentist on the side, he's offering a special this month - he'll knock two of your teeth out for the price of one!
Plants vs. Zombies Online
菜问(translation: Bonk Choy)
Unlocked	Beating Ancient Egypt - Level 2-1

Bonk Choy is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2, obtained after beating Ancient Egypt - Day 13. He attacks by punching the closest zombie one tile in front of or behind it. He punches once every 0.4 seconds, dealing 15 damage per punch.

Origins

Bonk Choy is based on the bok choy, a type of Chinese cabbage. Its name derives from bok choy and bonk, one of the onomatopoeic words usually used to define punching sounds.

Bonk Choy's official Chinese name is 菜问, which is likely based on Yip Man (叶问), Bruce Lee's teacher.

Almanac entry

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.

Bonk Choy
	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 15 PLANT FOOD POWER 5% RANGE Close Enforce-mint Plant Food: Rapidly punches in a 3x3 around it, dealing heavy damage. Bonk Choys rapidly punch nearby enemies that are ahead or behind them. A freelance dentist on the side, he's offering a special this month - he'll knock two of your teeth out for the price of one!

Chinese version (China only)

菜问能够迅速痛打身前或身后的敌人。 特点：可前后攻击 植物特征：绿色植物、龅牙小子、武艺高强 来自中国广东的功夫高手，精通东方和西方拳术。 他现在正在全世界范围修行，学习新奇的拳法或者教一些学生。说起学生，也许有几个比他本人有名得多。 In English: Bonk Choy can rapidly punch enemies in front or behind him. Special: Attacks ahead and behind Plant feature: green plant, buck-toothed boy, martial arts master Coming from Guangdong, China with mastery in Oriental and Western martial arts, he travels worldwide in search for exotic tactics or to take a few apprentices, some reputed far higher than himself.

Upgrades

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When given Plant Food, Bonk Choy rapidly punches in a 3x3 area around him, dealing 1500 damage over a few seconds.

Enforce-mint effect

When boosted by Enforce-mint, Bonk Choy will do an additional 75 damage per punch, and his Plant Food effect does an additional 345 damage per tick.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Heavy)	Plant Food Power (Damage)*	Range
1	0	0	150	5 seconds	300 damage	15 damage	60 damage	Close
2	3	50	150	4.5 seconds	350 damage	20 damage	75 damage
3	10	200	150	4.5 seconds	400 damage	25 damage	90 damage
4	25	1,500	150	4.5 seconds	450 damage	30 damage	105 damage
5	50	2,000	150	4 seconds	500 damage	35 damage	120 damage
6	75	3,000	150	4 seconds	550 damage	40 damage	135 damage
7	100	4,000	125	3.5 seconds	600 damage	45 damage	150 damage
8	125	5,000	125	3.5 seconds	650 damage	50 damage	165 damage
9	175	6,000	125	3.5 seconds	700 damage	55 damage	180 damage
10	225	8,000	125	3 seconds	750 damage	60 damage	195 damage
11	300	10,000	125	3 seconds	800 damage	65 damage	210 damage
12	350	15,000	125	3 seconds	850 damage	70 damage	225 damage
13	350	20,000	100	3 seconds	900 damage	75 damage	240 damage
14	400	25,000	100	3 seconds			255 damage
15	450	30,000	100	3 seconds			270 damage
16	500	35,000	100	2.5 seconds			285 damage
17	550	40,000	100	2.5 seconds			300 damage
18	600	45,000	75	2.5 seconds			315 damage
19	700	50,000	75	2.5 seconds			330 damage
20	800	55,000	75	2.5 seconds			345 damage

*Per hit. Its Plant Food effect deals a total of 25 hits.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Uppercut 上勾拳	Bonk Choy can perform an uppercut every 15 attacks, causing the zombie to float in the air for a short time. 菜问每攻击15次可以使出一次上勾拳，使僵尸短暂浮空。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Bonk Choy gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Boxing Training 拳击训练	Bonk Choy can perform an uppercut for every 7 attacks, causing the zombies to float in the air for a short time. 菜问每攻击7次可以使出一次上勾拳，使僵尸短暂浮空。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Bonk Choy gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Bonk Choy may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Bonk Choy gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Earthshaker 撼地拳	After two uppercuts, Bonk Choy will add an earth-shaking punch, which will cause 145 points of damage to a single zombie within 1 square to the right, and 45 points of splash damage to other zombies within the single square. 使出两次上勾拳之后菜问将追加一次撼地拳，对右侧1格范围内的单个僵尸造成145点伤害，并对单格范围内其它僵尸造成45点溅射伤害。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Bonk Choy gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

Immediately pull the small and medium-sized zombies in the surrounding 5×5 range to its own position and continue to be stunned, then punches continuously, and uses super fast chain punches on all the surrounding 3×3 zombies, continuously causing multiple boxing damage

Plants vs. Zombies Online (China only) (Archived content)

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Upgrade 1	Bonk Choy can attack zombies behind it. (It can only attack zombies in front without this upgrade.)
Upgrade 2	Bonk Choy has 100% more health.
Upgrade 3	Bonk Choy may deal triple damage to zombies.

Strategies

Compared to other offensive plants unlocked in Player's House and Ancient Egypt, Bonk Choy trades effective range for damage, as while his range only extends to the tile behind and ahead of him, his DPS can eclipse that of 3 Peashooter. His ability to punch backwards means that he can be used to attack stray zombies that get past defenses, as well as to catch Prospector Zombies and any zombies dropped by pterodactyls in Jurassic Marsh.

Bonk Choy is also useful against Mecha-Football Zombie and Punk Zombie as they generally cannot eat him and will push him back, allowing Bonk Choy to punch them continuously. He can also be good against Bug Zombie, since a glitch causes his uppercut to also kill the carried zombie regardless of its durability. On the other hand, Bonk Choy's limited range means that he is greatly vulnerable to swarms, particularly enemies that can instantly kill or neutralize plants from afar. Bonk Choy will also be generally outclassed by Snapdragon and by the extension of Cold Snapdragon later on. These plants have less DPS, but more often than not their AOE attacks prove to be more useful in the long run.

Bonk Choy should ideally be placed behind defensive plants or Infi-nut's force field to protect him from being attacked by zombies. Chard Guard is a notable exception however, as he will push zombies out of range.

Avoid using Bonk Choy behind Explorer Zombie, Torchlight Zombie, Excavator Zombie, MC Zom-B, Torch Kongfu Zombie, Torch Monk Zombie, Archmage Zombie, Wizard Zombie, Octo Zombie and Hunter Zombie, since they have a massive rnage advantage over him.

His fast attacks means that he could deal with Zombie Chickens easily. Chickens come in horde and they could only take 1 damage. Bonk Choy can easily punch them off, while certain other melee plants like Pokra may be overwhelmed in spite of their AOE attacks.

During an incoming zombie wave, it is a good idea to plant him in the middle of the horde, and feed him Plant Food to turn him into a makeshift Cherry Bomb. He will do great damage in the heavily clustered 3x3 area, devastating (if not destroying) the zombies in that area. However, the real Cherry Bomb does much higher damage and doesn't require Plant Food (you can even use instant recharge if necessary), so the effectiveness of this is questionable.

Bonk Choy can be used with in tandem with Sap-fling to slow down zombies, allowing him to attack multiple times and potentially neutralizing hordes of zombies.

If you are using Bonk-Choy as your Primary Attacker, it is important to support it with walls and stalling plants. Melee plants can have a tendency to slow the progress of waves and this allows you to produce more sun. By this, it has great synergy with Magnifying Grass, Spikeweed/Rock, and Endurian especially, as fellow Melee plants that can deal with hordes. Magnifying Grass can deal with the threats that Bonk struggles with, like ones that instakill, remove it, or otherwise show as a threat. Bonk Choy is priceless in Lost City, countering every threat but the Gargantuar and Turquoise Skull.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Bonk Choy
Simplified Chinese	菜问	lit. "Choy-Man", which is based on Yip Man
French	Tape choï
German	Pack Choi
Italian	Cavolbotto
Brazilian Portuguese	Repolho-boxeador	From repolho and boxeador
Spanish	Bonk Choi

Trivia

General

• There is a Bonk Choy named Grrawrr-Bear in the Plants vs. Zombies Comics.
• He is one of the six plants seen in the June 2013 trailer of Plants vs. Zombies 2 while fighting the zombies, the other five are Pea Pod, Bloomerang, Peashooter, Wall-nut, and Sunflower.
• Sometimes, if an ambush zombie comes close to Bonk Choy, he will keep uppercutting it until it dies. This is also true after he destroys an arcade machine.
• He will do a normal punch instead of an uppercut against Zombie Chickens, despite a Zombie Chicken being a one-hit kill. However, the player can still hear the uppercut sound.
• His sound effect is reused from Whack a Zombie.
• According to the beta version of the seed packets, he was originally going to cost 175 sun.
• In a trailer, he uses the sounds of Squash.
• He will make an attempt to attack an incoming octopus launched by Octo Zombie.
• He will make an attempt to attack the prospector zombie that is flying up.
• He appears in the most in Zomboss battles out of any plant in the game, appearing three times.
• He is one of the plants with the most wearable costumes.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies Online (China only) (Archived content)

• He was formerly unlocked after beating Ancient Egypt - Day 7-1.

See also

• Wasabi Whip
• Parsnip

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