Lightning Gun Zombie

歪比巴卜！

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Not to be confused with the Scientist, a zombie character class in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.

Lightning Gun Zombie
Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version)
闪电枪僵尸(translation: Lightning Gun Zombie)
Uses a lightning gun to attack plants with plasma.
Toughness	Hardened
Speed	Creeper
Health	700
In-game toughness	Dense
Code name	skycity_electric
Other code names	cardgame_electric (Card Clash) cardgame_electric_advanced (Card Clash, advanced variant)
Other weakness	(absorbs its shots)
First seen	Sky City - Day 6
Lightning Gun Zombie has "Frankenstein" as his nickname. He always stays in his lab to invent more powerful lightning guns. But he is obviously troubled by his messy, silver hair. "Sometimes, you need to sacrifice your image for science." Lightning Gun Zombie doesn't care.
精英闪电枪僵尸(translation: Elite Lightning Gun Zombie)
Uses a lightning gun to attack plants with plasma.
Toughness	Hardened
Speed	Creeper
Health	20000 30000
In-game toughness	Undying
Code name	elite_skycity_electric_pvz1_normal
Other code names	elite_skycity_electric_pvz1_normal (Hard Mode)
Other weakness	(absorbs its shots)
First seen	Memory Lane
Lightning Gun Zombie has "Frankenstein" as his nickname. He always stays in his lab to invent more powerful lightning guns. But he is obviously troubled by his messy, silver hair. "Sometimes, you need to sacrifice your image for science." Lightning Gun Zombie doesn't care.

Lightning Gun Zombie (闪电枪僵尸; pinyin: shǎndiàn qiāng jiāngshī) is the eighth zombie encountered in Sky City. He can shoot plasma balls which have an either positive and negative electric charge for each shot that affect plants exactly like the lightning gimmick of Sky City. The shot's effect on the plant depends on what kind of electric charge the plant currently has.

In Memory Lane, a much stronger version of this zombie named Elite Lightning Gun Zombie appears, who shoots plasma balls at every plant on the lawn instead of only at the first plant he sees. After attacking 5 times, he will start to move forwards, ignoring plants and going directly for the player's brains.

Almanac entry

Normal

TOUGHNESS Hardened SPEED Creeper	闪电枪僵尸 Lightning Gun Zombie
使用闪电枪发射电荷攻击植物。 闪电枪僵尸拥有 “科学怪人”的外号，他每天都呆在实验室里尝试研发更强大的闪电枪。不过他显然对于自己满头飞舞的银发而感到十分的苦恼。“有时候，为了科学是需要牺牲一些自己的形象的。”闪电枪僵尸并不在乎这些。

闪电枪僵尸 (Lightning Gun Zombie)

TOUGHNESS: Hardened
SPEED: Creeper

使用闪电枪发射电荷攻击植物。

闪电枪僵尸拥有 “科学怪人”的外号，他每天都呆在实验室里尝试研发更强大的闪电枪。不过他显然对于自己满头飞舞的银发而感到十分的苦恼。“有时候，为了科学是需要牺牲一些自己的形象的。”闪电枪僵尸并不在乎这些。

In English: Uses a lightning gun to attack plants with plasma. Lightning Gun Zombie has "Frankenstein" as his nickname. He always stays in his lab to invent more powerful lightning guns. But he is obviously troubled by his messy, silver hair. "Sometimes, you need to sacrifice your image for science." Lightning Gun Zombie doesn't care.

Elite

Elite Lightning Gun Zombie TOUGHNESS: Protected SPEED: Creeper

In English: Uses a lightning gun to attack plants with plasma. Lightning Gun Zombie has "Frankenstein" as his nickname. He always stays in his lab to invent more powerful lightning guns. But he is obviously troubled by his messy, silver hair. "Sometimes, you need to sacrifice your image for science." Lightning Gun Zombie doesn't care.

Overview

Lightning Gun Zombie absorbs 700 damage and does not degrade.

Encounters

Sky City: Days 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, and 22

Strategies

This is a dangerous zombie and is comparable to Hunter Zombie, only that he needs two hits to neutralize a plant. He shoots positive and negative electric balls, and when his hits connects twice, the effect is dependent on the second hits charge. If there are two positive charges, the plant will take continuous damage and will usually be destroyed. If both are negative charges, it will stun the plant for a while. If the charges are mixed, it will slow down the plant to a crawl and render it almost useless.

Just like the Hunter Zombie, he is slow, which gives him time to attack your plants, as well as ensuring faster zombies such as Flying Gargantuars and Double-Cabin Aircraft Zombies protect him. He can also attack ground plants as well which makes things worse. Ampthurium can help absorb his shots, which could be helpful at the start, but he does not guard the player's aerial plants against him, and it only absorbs nearby charges after being fed Plant Food. Saucer Squash can help stun the zombie for a while and Board Beans can easily destroy it. Spinnapple does not deflect his shots.

Gallery

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  HD Lightning Gun Zombie

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  Almanac entry

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  Almanac icon

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  Level icon

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  About to shoot

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  Shooting a positive-charge plasma ball

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  A positive-charge plasma ball

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  A negative-charge plasma ball

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  A defeated Lightning Gun Zombie

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  Sprites and assets

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  A hypnotized Lightning Gun Zombie

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  Elite Lightning Gun Zombie's almanac icon

Trivia

• His appearance is similar to Scientist.
  • His appearance is even more similar to one of the variants of the Scientist, the Physicist.
• Previously, his appearance in the Almanac for iOS version was a Sunflower. It is now fixed after an update.
• His projectile resembles Citron's Plant Food plasma ball, but it's blue and red colored with positive/negative symbols, depending on which he is shooting.
• The jetpack that he uses resembles two batteries, rather than the other, dieselpunk styled jetpacks that the other Sky City zombies use.
• He can still shoot projectiles when hypnotized. The projectiles do not affect plants though.
• Due to an ongoing bug involving zombie projectiles, his plasma balls do not collide with plants, making him near useless.
  • This also affects his Elite variant.
• Lightning Gun Zombie is the only one of the first four zombies to get an Elite counterpart who'se almanac entries are identical between the two.

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