Portal Combat

For other uses, see portal.

“	Your garden has become unstable and portals are appearing all over the place! Can you defend your lawn against this ever changing scenario?	”
—Description of Portal Combat in Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies

Portal Combat
Game	Plants vs. Zombies
Statistics
Location	Night
Type	Mini-games, conveyor-belt level
Flags	Two
Plants
Zombies
Rewards
First time	A trophy
Replaying	A money bag
Previous	<<<
Next	>>>

Portal Combat is a Night mini-game in Plants vs. Zombies, Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West, and Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition. It is a conveyor-belt level. Also, like with most Night mini-games, the lawn does not spawn graves.

As the mini-games special gimmick, there are two pairs of connected portals, which act like environment modifiers. Zombies and projectiles enter portals upon contact, then immediately exit through the other portal identical to the one they entered.

Origins

The name "Portal Combat" is a pun based on the video game series Mortal Kombat. The white circular portal is a reference to the latter game series.

It can be also based on the popular game series under the name Portal, given the design of the portals.

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A rectangular portal

Strategies

The player should be careful of the portals, but not base their entire defense around them, as they will frequently shift positions. It is a good idea to get a Cactus in every lane as fast as possible, although it is a good idea to save up at least one in the conveyor belt, in case a Balloon Zombie comes in a lane where there is nothing to stop it. Another good idea is to save up the Cherry Bombs whenever they appear and only use them when you have to (e.g. on Football Zombies, or if a portal appears in the back, behind most of the player's plants). Use Torchwoods wisely, as they do not work on Cacti, and place Wall-nuts in front of particularly vulnerable portals. If a portal is too close to the left end of the lawn, try planting Wall-nuts or any other defensive plants to stop the zombies from entering the house. A good idea is to build a solid defense that would work in any level, then watch the portals and be ready to use Cherry Bomb or Wall-nut on zombies in troublesome locations, always keep at least one of each of those plants in your conveyor belt for emergencies.

A round portal

Related achievements

	Beyond the Grave Beat all the Mini-games.

	Attention Deficit Earn a trophy in each Mini-game.

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

Gallery

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  Finished game

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  The Garden Rake may be in front of a portal, causing the zombie to not get killed by it.

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  A Zombie Yeti in Portal Combat

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  The beginning of Portal Combat

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  By MyNameIsMyName

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  First flag

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  Completed by MyNameIsMyName

Video Walkthrough

• Plants vs. Zombies - Mini Games - Portal Combat (Android Gameplay HD) Ep.82

  By Alex5432000

• Plants vs. Zombies (PC) - Mini-Games - Portal Combat Gameplay Playthrough

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Portal Combat
Simplified Chinese	斗转星移	"Celestial Shifting"
Traditional Chinese	鬥 [sic] 轉星移	"Celestial Shifting"
Dutch	Dolle doorgangen
French	Portail combat
German	Portal Combat
Italian	Zombi, teletrasporto!
Japanese	ポータルの戦い
Spanish	Portal Combat

Trivia

• The first portal relocation occurs 90 seconds after the game begins. After that, the portals relocate every 60 seconds.

The flaming peas are trapped by the portals. Note that the "Future," "Mustache", "Dance", and "Daisy" codes were entered during gameplay.

• Occasionally, portals may appear in positions where, with the same set of portals in a single row, zombies may not be able to walk on a few squares and any projectiles that were fired (or less likely, zombies) before the portals switched may be trapped in an endless circuit, until the portals move away.
• The achievement No Fungus Among Us cannot be achieved in this level, most likely because all the plants available in this mini-game are not mushrooms.
• When a Lawn Mower heads towards a portal, it will teleport to the other portal.
• If a Cherry Bomb is planted horizontally adjacent to a portal, there is an occasional glitch where the explosion will go through the portal. If this glitch occurs, the explosion radius will follow the normal rules for passing through portals, but only on the square directly next to the other portal.
• Along with Zombiquarium and Beghouled Twist, this level is in a mini-game pack for purchase instead of being in the normal mini-games section in the iPad version.
• This is the only level in which the Zombie Yeti can enter the player's house and eat the brains or modify the Lawn Mowers without hacking.
• A glitch in the iPhone and iPad version makes the game crash when the first portal is relocated and the bug wasn't fixed since 2016.
• This is the only mini-game to feature Balloon Zombie.
  • This excludes the hidden mini-games Air Raid PC and High Gravity, both of which have the Balloon Zombie.
• The Portal concept was used again in Plants Vs. Zombies 2, although it was only used to send any time-variant zombies to the present in Modern Day.

See also

• Portal (PvZ)

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