Mega Gatling Pea

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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 not available.

For the version in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, see Mega Gatling Pea.

Not to be confused with Gatling Pea, a plant of the same origins in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2.

“	Plant Mega Gatling Pea to fire 4 peas at a time. Mega Gatling Pea has a chance to spontaneously Plant Food. Once Plant Fooded, Mega Gatling Pea fires 5 peas instead of 4.	”
—Penny

Mega Gatling Pea is a returning peashooting plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 9.8.1 update for the Mega Gatling Pea's Mega Arena season.

He burst-fires 4 peas at zombies every 1.35-1.5 seconds, with a chance to randomly activate his Plant Food ability every time he attacks while on the lawn.

Once his Plant Food ability activated, he burst-fires 5 peas. This upgrade persists until he is destroyed or removed from the lawn with a shovel.

Origins

Mega Gatling Pea is based on the plant from Plants vs. Zombies with a similar name and appearance.

His almanac entry is a reference to his appearance in Plants vs. Zombies and his status as an upgrade plant.

Almanac entry

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

Mega Gatling Pea
	SUN COST 400 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Straight Special Chance to Plant Food Appease-mint Plant Food: Shoots a huge number of peas out, dealing massive damage. Normal attack will fire five peas instead of four, permanently. Mega Gatling Peas fire four peas at a time, and will occasionally Plant Food itself. "I used to be an upgrade," says Mega Gatling Pea with uncharacteristic shyness. "Now I'm my own plant, with my own ambitions, dreams and gym club memberships!"

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Mega Gatling Pea will fire 150 peas in two seconds, dealing a total of 3000 damage.

Appease-mint effect

When boosted by Appease-mint, Mega Gatling Pea will deal an additional 120 damage with his normal peas, an additional 50 damage with his Plant Food peas, his chance to activate Plant Food effect will be increased to 25%, 50% starting at level 3, 75% starting at level 7, and 100% at level 10.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Damage*	Plant Food Power (Damage)*	Plant Food Power (Duration)	Chance to Plant Food
1	0	0	400	5 seconds	300 damage	20 damage	20 damage	2 seconds	2%
2	50		375			30 damage			3%
3	100		350	4.5 seconds	400 damage	40 damage
4	200		325			50 damage	30 damage		4%
5	300		300		500 damage	60 damage			5%
6	400		275	4 seconds		70 damage			6%
7	500		250		600 damage	80 damage	40 damage
8	600			3.5 seconds		90 damage		3 seconds	7%
9	800			3 seconds	900 damage	100 damage			8%
10	1,000		200	2.5 seconds		120 damage	50 damage		10%

*Per projectile

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Strategies

At first appearance, Mega Gatling Pea is just a pea plant that can fire four peas, just like four Peashooters or two Repeaters. It however shines due to it only taking one space for the same amount of firepower, and has a chance to activate its plant food effect that boosts its regular attack.

Some may compare Mega Gatling Pea with Pea Pod or Threepeater. In contrast with Pea Pod, Mega Gatling Pea is more expensive initially, but has a lower total cost. As for Threepeater, Mega Gatling Pea has no problem of uneven suppression but only covers one lane. In short, which plants to use depends on the actual situation.

Mega Gatling Pea can be the most powerful (or highest-fire) plant in the game if he is used with Pea Vine, Torchwood, and Appease-mint. Appease-mint provides a high damage increase and can also boost its Plant Food effect.

Mega Gatling Pea is still vulnerable to Tombstone, Excavator Zombie, and Jester Zombie, just like other peashooting plants. Additionally, after his peas pass through Torchwood, Imp Dragon Zombies can be immune to this attack. Draftodil and Stickybomb Rice can be used as support, as their projectiles can briefly disable Jester Zombies, allowing Mega Gatling Pea's attacks to connect. Draftodil has a chance to instantly kill Imp Dragon Zombies, while Stickybomb Rice has no trouble dealing with Excavators.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Mega Gatling Pea
German	Mega-MG-Erbse
Spanish	Megaguisantralladora
French	Méga-Pois à répétition
Italian	Mega mitragliasemi
Brazilian Portuguese	Megametralhervilha
Russian	Мега Горохомёт
Simplified Chinese	超级机枪射手 Chāojí Jīqiāng Shèshǒu	lit. "Super Machine Gun Shooter"

Trivia

• Mega Gatling Pea's Almanac entry is the only instance the words "Plant Food" are used as a verb.
• Mega Gatling Pea's attack sound reuses those from Peashooter's Plant Food effect.
• Mega Gatling Pea uses the same watering and idle animations as Peashooter's.
• Mega Gatling Pea is currently the only returning upgrade plant from the first game to be a seed packet premium plant as Twin Sunflower, Spikerock and Winter Melon are world plants. Likewise, he is the fourth upgrade plant to return in Plants vs Zombies 2.
• Mega Gatling Pea and Pea Vine are the only plants whose Plant Food effects can be boosted by Appease-mint.
• Mega Gatling Pea's peas are smaller than most other peashooting plants.
• At 400 sun, Mega Gatling Pea is the most expensive seed packet plant exceeding that of Boom Balloon Flower.
• Mega Gatling Pea was the only premium plant that had the Player's House/Modern Day grass background in his almanac instead of the blue background with bright squares. This bug was similar to Shadow Peashooter's, but this has been fixed in the 9.9.1 update.
• Cosmetic-wise, Mega Gatling Pea's helmet has one chevron and one star initially, which usually indicates a rank of private. After activating his plant food ability, the helmet now has three chevrons and three stars, reminiscent of the sergeant rank.
• Mega Gatling Pea's Almanac entry references to his original status being an upgrade of Repeater from the original game and his status being his own plant rather than an upgrade in this game.
• Mega Gatling Pea's ability of being able to activate Plant Food on his own is quite similar to certain premium plants from Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition (i.e. Bonk Choy, Laser Bean, etc...).
• Mega Gatling Pea shooting five peas after activating Plant Food for the first time bears a resemblance to his Plants vs. Zombies Heroes appearance who also shoots five peas.

See also

• Gatling Pea (Chinese version)
• Mega Gatling Pea (Chinese version)

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