Dolphin Rider Zombie

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Dolphin Rider.

Dolphin Rider Zombie
Dolphin Rider Zombies use dolphins to exploit weaknesses in your pool defense.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Medium
Speed	Fast, then slow (after jump)
Special	Jumps over the first plant he runs into
In-game statistics
Damage	500
Weakness	(Drags him normally and can't be vaulted over) (Can't be vaulted over) (Can hit him from behind) (kills him when he tries to jump over)
First seen	Level 3-8
Only appears in the pool
The dolphin is also a zombie. The carp is also a zombie.

Dolphin Rider Zombie is a zombie seen in Plants vs. Zombies. He is the 15th zombie encountered in Adventure Mode and the last zombie encountered in the Pool stage. He can be considered to be an aquatic variant of the Pole Vaulting Zombie as he can vault over the first plant he encounters with his dolphin, with the exceptions being that he moves significantly faster and ignores any plant in the rightmost squares of the water lanes, including Tall-nuts, that he can't leap over normally.

Audio

Sound	Description
	The sound that the dolphin makes before jumping.
	The sound that the dolphin makes that signal his arrival at the lawn.

Suburban Almanac entry

Dolphin Rider Zombie
Dolphin Rider Zombies use dolphins to exploit weaknesses in your pool defense. Toughness: medium Speed: fast, then slow (after jump) Special: jumps over the first plant he runs into Only appears in the pool The dolphin is also a zombie.

鲤鱼僵尸骑士
鲤鱼僵尸骑士善于利用你水池防御的弱点。 强度： 中等 速度： 快，而后慢（跳跃后） 特点： 跃过他所碰到的第一株植物 只在水池关卡出现 那鲤鱼其实也是僵尸。

In English: Carp Rider Zombie Dolphin Rider Zombie is good at exploiting weaknesses in your pool defense. Toughness: medium Speed: fast, then slow (after jump) Special: jumps over the first plant he runs into Only appears in the levels The carp is also a zombie.

Overview

The Dolphin Rider Zombie absorbs 500 damage. If he does not have his dolphin, his appearance changes upon absorbing 250 damage before dying at 500 damage. If he has his dolphin, he does not visually degrade. He loses his dolphin after he jumps over a plant.

Encounters

• Adventure Mode: 3-8, 3-9, 3-10, 4-4
• Mini-games: Invisi-ghoul, Zombie Nimble Zombie Quick, Last Stand, Buttered Popcorn, Dark Stormy Night
• Puzzle Mode: Last Stand: Pool, Last Stand Endless
• Survival Mode: All Pool and Fog Survival Mode levels (except Survival: Pool)
• Co-op Mode: Co-op Pool, Co-op Hard Pool, Co-op Endless

Strategies

Before this zombie appears on the screen, a dolphin-like sound can be heard. This will help alert you to set up your defenses if you have not already. The best strategy for dealing with this zombie is to use Tall-nuts to block them, just as one might do for a Pole Vaulting Zombie. If you do not have a Tall-nut available, plant a Lily Pad in front of them to make them lose their dolphins, slowing them down. However, make sure you don't place it in the rightmost square, since the zombie will simply ignore it. If you have it, the Tangle Kelp is the fastest and the most economical way to defeat him, since he does not jump over them and therefore can be targeted normally.

Note: If the player has already planted a Lily Pad or other aquatic plant in the rightmost square, the Dolphin Rider Zombie will not jump over it, as the dolphin enters the pool partway into the second column. The player should plant one in the second or third column from the right, instead.

Related Achievement

	The Complete Zombie You've won every trophy, climbed every mountain, defeated every zombie, planted every plant. Congratulations!

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Dolphin Rider Zombie
Simplified Chinese	海豚僵尸骑士 鲤鱼僵尸骑士 in Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition
Traditional Chinese	海豚殭屍騎士
Dutch	Dolfijnzombie
French	Zombie dauphin
German	Delfinreiter-Zombie
Italian	Zombi cavalcadelfini
Japanese	イルカに乗ったゾンビ
Russian	Зомби на Дельфине
Spanish	Zombi con delfín	"Zombie with dolphin"

Trivia

• He will carry his dolphin into the Player's House with it if he does not encounter any plants.
• He is the only vaulting zombie that goes in the Pool.
• His sprite is only a fraction of the size of those of other zombies. It is too small to be completely ensnared by a Tangle Kelp.
• He does not degrade while on a dolphin (in the pool), like a Bungee Zombie or Snorkel Zombie (when underwater).
• He has a tiny image of a brain on his swimsuit, that is noticeable if one looks close enough.
• He has the shortest Almanac entry of all plants and zombies in Plants vs. Zombies, with only six words, second shortest being the Ladder Zombie.
• He is unaffected by all plants when jumping into the water. However, Instant Kills and Pool Cleaners can still kill him.
• In the video "Zombies on Your Lawn", his dolphin says, "We are SO the undead" instead of just "We are the undead".
• There is a glitch in iOS versions of the game that when he should be about to come out of the pool, he does not and instead goes through the ground and swims in place, never going into the house and forcing the player to restart the game.
  • Another glitch in the iOS version of the game lets the Dolphin Rider Zombie to walk on water. It occurs when the device is turned off when he has not jumped into the pool yet and then the device is turned on again.
    • Yet another glitch is that on some iOS versions, he will disappear instantly when his head falls off.
• In the Nintendo DS version of the game, the zombie covers the dolphin's eyes.
• His dolphin makes a cameo appearance in a cutscene of Octogeddon (an online game from the creators of Plants vs. Zombies). In the cutscene, the dolphin somehow won the award for best octopus, this being the reason Octogeddon retaliated against Paris where the awards were held.
• If he is spawned outside of a pool lane using hacks, he will walk past the plants instead of eating them.

See also

• Vaulting zombies

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