Chilly Pepper (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

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This item is only obtainable during certain events. However, it can still be used if you have already obtained it. It is currently available.

For other uses, see Chilly Pepper.

Chilly Pepper
Chilly Pepper's explosion deals heavy damage to zombies and radius damage to tiles in his lane freezing 3 lanes in the aftermath.
Statistics
Sun Cost	100
Recharge	15 seconds
Damage	1200 damage
Radius Damage	900 damage
Freeze	13 seconds
Chill	6 seconds
Freeze Radius	3
Usage	Single, Instant
Family	Winter-mint
In-game statistics
Unlocked	250 seed packets
"Get up and freeze the day!! Chilly Pepper might look innocent and unassuming but deep down he's cold as ice. Compare him to Jalapeno and watch him EXPLODE!"

Chilly Pepper is an instant-kill plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 10.1.1 update for the Chilly Pepper's Chilling Arena season. Chilly Pepper is able to explode and deal heavy damage to zombies close to him in his lane. He is also able to freeze zombies in the two lanes above and below the lane he's planted in, albeit affecting far less freeze duration than the row he occupies. Zombies are also chilled momentarily when they unfreeze, making them move slower unless attacked by fire attacks.

About

For more information about this character, see Chilly Pepper.

Chilly Pepper returns as a premium plant available for 250 seed packets. Unlike his previous appearances, Chilly Pepper freezes and chills zombies in three lanes.

Almanac entry

Chilly Pepper
	SUN COST 100 RECHARGE 15 DAMAGE 1200 RADIUS DAMAGE 900 FREEZE 13 CHILL 6 FREEZE RADIUS 3 Usage Single, Instant Winter-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Chilly Pepper's explosion deals heavy damage to zombies and radius damage to tiles in his lane freezing 3 lanes in the aftermath. ”Get up and freeze the day!! Chilly Pepper might look innocent and unassuming but deep down he's cold as ice. Compare him to Jalapeño and watch him EXPLODE!”

Upgrades

Winter-mint effect

When boosted by Winter-mint, Chilly Pepper will deal an additional 1800 (2200 starting at level 6) damage with his main attack, an additional 1800 damage with his radius attack.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Starting Recharge	Damage*		Freeze Duration^		Chill Duration
						Normal	Radius	Normal	Radius
1	0	0	100	15 seconds	13 seconds	1200 damage	900 damage	13 seconds	3 seconds	6 seconds
2	50			14 seconds	12 seconds	1300 damage	1000 damage	14 seconds		7 seconds
3	100			13 seconds		1400 damage	1100 damage	15 seconds	4 seconds	8 seconds
4	200				11 seconds	1500 damage	1200 damage	16 seconds
5	300		75			1600 damage	1300 damage	17 seconds	5 seconds	9 seconds
6	400			12 seconds	10 seconds	1700 damage	1400 damage	18 seconds
7	500			11 seconds		1800 damage	1500 damage	19 seconds
8	600				9 seconds	2200 damage		20 seconds
9	800		50	10 seconds			1700 damage			10 seconds
10	1,000				8 seconds		1800 damage		7 seconds	11 seconds

*1x1 and 1x5 respectively.
^For the lane he is planted in and adjacent lanes respectively.

Mastery upgrade

• Damage Pierce

Strategies

Chilly Pepper can be devastating in the right hands. The 13 second freeze duration compared to its 15 second recharge gives its freeze an uptime of roughly 86.67% (100%+ when reaching level 2+), one of the highest in the entire game. This allows it to lock down lanes exceptionally well, making it a viable choice in many of the game's tougher challenges, including Penny's Pursuit and Endless Zones (except for Icebound Battleground, as it can't freeze anything there).

The fact it gets its stalling capabilities via freeze rather than stun is also very important, as while stun will be canceled out by the knockback from plants like Primal Peashooter or Chard Guard, freeze has no such hindrance. Being able to combo with Primal Peashooter is especially notable, as on top of Primal Pea's already phenomenal performance, the higher than average coverage of Chilly Pepper allows it to cover Primal Pea's relative weakness to swarms of zombies.

Speaking of its coverage, the lane-wide nature of its effects are noticeably reminiscent to Jalapeno's, meaning it will share some of its use cases. One of these being in lane diversion strats with Garlic (and to a lesser extent, Sweet Potato and Hot Date). The diversion of zombies into specific lanes allows each use of Chilly Pepper to cover more zombies than it would without the lane diversion. Another of these uses is to combo with Bowling Bulb, as Bowling Bulb will often struggle to clear out zombies in specifically the top and bottom lanes, meaning the lane focused nature of Chilly Pepper will be used to great effect.

Lastly, its damage is surprisingly high, due to its faster than average recharge for an instant plant allowing it to be placed rapidly. It has the potential to output 2.4k damage per zombies in 30 seconds compared to most other instants' (I.E. Cherry Bomb) 1.8k in 35 seconds. However, due to the game's mechanics of spawning the next wave of zombies earlier if the current wave is defeated too quickly, it may be a good idea to hold off on damaging them too much, as to give your sun producers more time to produce sun, your instants more time to recharge, etc. In such situations, one can always place Chilly Pepper farther to the left or right, keeping the zombies out of the range of its attack whilst still getting its freeze in.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Chilly Pepper
French	Piment Givré
German	Frosteroni
Italian	Peperoncino da brrrividi
Brazilian Portuguese	Pimentinha	Diminutive for the Portuguese word pimenta
Spanish	Chile gélido

Trivia

• His animation when exploding somewhat resembles Ghost Pepper's.
• Chilly Pepper could not be boosted by Winter-mint despite being a part of his family. This was a glitch fixed in 10.2.1 update.
• Chilly Pepper and Fire Peashooter are the only plants from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures to be carried over into Plants vs. Zombies 2.
  • Coincidentally, they are both elemental derivatives of pre-existing plants.
• Chilly Pepper's almanac entry is formatted like a quote, despite not being written as such.
• Despite not having a Plant Food ability, he has an animation for being watered in the Zen Garden. The animation can be seen when he is ready to level up.
  • The ice block seen in the leveling up animation is identical to Icy Currant's ice block seen in its Plant Food ability and dancing animation.
• From October 25, 2022 to October 28, 2022, Chilly Pepper's name was falsely attributed to the internal name "CHILLY" in the LawnStrings, resulting in <Missing CHILLYPEPPER> appearing in places such as the Almanac or the Choose Your Seeds screen. This was resolved with a data push.
• At level 1, Chilly Pepper has the longest freeze duration out of all ice plants, lasting for 13 seconds.
• It, Zoybean Pod (plant spawnables), Bzzz Button, Turkey-pult (plant spawnables), Cherry Bomb, most Potato Mine variants are the only plants that have a text animation when they are used or destroyed.

See also

• Jalapeno
• Ice Bloom
• Icy Currant

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