Shadow Peashooter

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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.

Not to be confused with Shadow of the Peashooter, a mission in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes.

Shadow Peashooter
Shadow Peashooters are shadow plants that fire piercing shadowy peas at zombies.
Statistics
Sun Cost	125
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	70 damage
Plant Food Power	10%
Powered Swallows	2
Family	Conceal-mint
Plant Food effect	Summons a bomb that increases its area effect for every adjacent Moonflower plant.
Special	Fires piercing, slowing bolts when powered
Special	Hides and swallows zombies that approach
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	200
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	30 damage
Attack Rate	1.4 seconds
Range	Whole Lane to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Ranged
Quality	Purple
Tags	Damage, slowing, shadow, pea
Plant features	Green plant
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(hides underwater from attack) (block or deflect non-powered shots) (can instantly crush it) (can't get destroyed by power swallow)
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Unlocked (China)	Collecting 10 Shadow Peashooter Puzzle Piece 1 Gatling Pea statue (Chinese version)
Costumes
Costumes (China)
"Phoot," Shadow Peashooter says, emitting a shadowy, ah, hmmm, I guess you could call it a pea, at a distant zombie. "Uph!" gasps the zombie in the evident surprise. There's a lot going on under the surface between these two.

Shadow Peashooter is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He attacks by shooting peas at zombies (every 1.35 - 1.5 seconds). He can also pull a zombie into the ground when they get close, similar to Grimrose.

When powered by a Moonflower, Conceal-Mint, Gloom Vine, or Noctarine, he shoots piercing bolts (every 2 - 2.5 seconds) that do 70 damage and slow down zombies similar to Stallia and with zombies closer to the Shadow Peashooter being stalled for longer than ones further from it.

In the international version, he was added to the 6.9.1 update. In the Chinese version, he was added to the 2.3.7 update. To unlock Shadow Peashooter, players need to collect 250 of his seed packets during Shadow Peashooter's Summer Vacation event. These seed packets can be obtained by buying special Piñatas from the Store for 25 gems or from the reward streak in Arena.

Origins

Like most other peashooting plants, he is based on the pea plant (Pisum sativum).

Shadow Peashooter is a cross between a Peashooter and a will-o'-the-wisp, as seen by his "flaming" top and bluish color scheme when powered by a Moonflower.

Almanac entry

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

Shadow Peashooter
	SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 70 PLANT FOOD POWER 10% SPECIAL Powered Swallows Conceal-mint Plant Food: Summons a bomb that increases its area effect for every adjacent Moonflower plant. Shadow Peashooters are shadow plants that fire piercing shadowy peas at zombies. "Phoot," Shadow Peashooter says, emitting a shadowy, ah, hmmm, I guess you could call it a pea, at a distant zombie. "Uph!" gasps the zombie in the evident surprise. There's a lot going on under the surface between these two.

Chinese version (China only)

暗影豌豆近战可以把僵尸拖入地下 特点：暗影形态，可以攻击一直线的僵尸并且造成中毒效果 植物特征：绿色植物，暗影家族 暗影豌豆总觉得有光才有影子是一件极度不科学事情。因为他就是影子，不需要光也能存在~ In English: Shadow Peashooter can drag nearby zombies into the ground Feature: Shadow form, can attack an entire lane of zombies and cause a poison effect Plant characteristics: green plant, Shadow family Shadow Peashooter has always felt that light is how shadows can exist is an extremely unscientific thing. Because he himself is a shadow, and he doesn't need light to exist.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Shadow Peashooter's Plant Food effect depends on the number of Moonflowers there are in the lawn.

If there are up to two Moonflowers, he will throw a small projectile at the nearest zombie in his lane and explodes on contact, dealing small amounts of damage to the zombies caught in the blast. The projectile gets bigger once there are two Moonflowers in the lawn.

Once there are three or more Moonflowers in the lawn, he will make a giant smiling bomb (known as the Spirit Bomb) at the middle of the screen, which does massive amounts of damage to all zombies onscreen, as well as slowing them down.

In the Chinese version, he will throw 3 projectiles rather than one.

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  Plant Food ability (when there are fewer than 2 Moonflowers)

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  Plant Food ability (when there are 2 Moonflowers)

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  Plant Food ability (when there are 3 or more Moonflowers)

Costumed (China only)

When costumed, he now throws 4 projectiles.

Conceal-mint effect

When boosted by Conceal-mint, Shadow Peashooter will have an additional 115 damage added to his bolts, and his Plant Food attack will have an additional 950 damage added to him, regardless of how many Moonflowers there are on the lawn. He will also be powered even if he's not near a Moonflower.

Level Upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Damage		Plant Food Power (Damage)	Powered Swallows*	Stall Duration	Stall Duration (Minimum)	Stall Decay^
						Pea	Laser
1	0	0	125	5 seconds	300 damage	30 damage	70 damage	500 damage	2	5 seconds	1	2
2	10	1,000		5 seconds	350 damage	35 damage	75 damage	550 damage		5 seconds
3	25	2,500		4.5 seconds	400 damage	40 damage	80 damage	600 damage		5 seconds
4	50	5,000		4.5 seconds	450 damage	45 damage	85 damage	650 damage		6 seconds
5	100	10,000		4 seconds	550 damage	50 damage	90 damage	700 damage	3	6 seconds
6	200	20,000	100	4 seconds	600 damage	55 damage	95 damage	750 damage		6 seconds
7	400	30,000		3.5 seconds	650 damage	60 damage	100 damage	800 damage		6 seconds
8	800	50,000		3.5 seconds	700 damage	65 damage	105 damage	850 damage		7 seconds
9	1,200	75,000		3 seconds	800 damage	70 damage	110 damage	900 damage	4	7 seconds
10	1,600	100,000		3 seconds	900 damage	75 damage	115 damage	950 damage		7 seconds

*The number of zombies a powered Shadow Peashooter can drag.
^Shadow Peashooter has a decay for zombie stalls depending on how far away they are from the house.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Shadow Bullet 影流弹	10% chance to fire a bolt/beam that does 180/315 damage. 暗影豌豆攻击时有10%的概率发射180点伤害的影流弹或315点伤害的影流光束。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Shadow Peashooter gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Shadow Bomb 影爆弹	20% chance to fire a bolt/beam that does 240/420 damage. 暗影豌豆攻击时有20%的概率发射240点伤害的影流弹或420点伤害的影流光束。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Shadow Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Shadow Peashooter may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Shadow Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Shadow Stream 追光流影	80% chance to fire a beam when unpowered. When powered, 30% chance to generate a black hole for 4 seconds upon killing the first zombie in the current lane, which either does damage or devours small and medium zombies. 普通状态下，有80%发射出暗影光束。暗影状态下，有30%的概率使第一个被击杀的僵尸化作黑洞，造成伤害或是吞噬经过的中小型僵尸，持续4秒。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Shadow Peashooter gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Strategies

Without Moonflower, this plant shoots shadowy peas that do slightly more damage than a normal pea. However, there are other straight shooters that do a better or just as well as a job, some just being a little bit cheaper in sun. On the other hand, this plant shines a lot when powered by Moonflower. Instead of a shadowy pea that hits the closest zombie in the lane, it fires a laser that damages all zombies in the lane, topped with a stalling effect. The laser can help defeat zombies grouped in lanes much quicker and the stalling effect of course slows zombies down.

This plant also has the ability to hide when a zombie gets close and then drag that zombie underground, acting like a Tangle Kelp, though he will despawn soon after. When powered by Moonflower, he can drag down more zombies. There are benefits to this such as being able to deal with some of the high-health zombies, as well as being a saver when a zombie is going through your defenses. This can also have Shadow Peashooter be used as a substitute for Grimrose. The primary differences are that Grimrose has far superior range, can target foes behind it, and can inflict some damage to ineligible targets, while Shadow Peashooter can actually devour several mechanical zombies from Far Future. For obvious reasons, if you wish to take full advantage of his zombie-dragging ability, don't select him whenever there's a plant-loss limit. Shadow Peashooter's pulling effect also doesn't work against backward zombies, so it can't counter zombies carried by a Pterodactyl or zombies such as the Prospector Zombies. Another weakness of Shadow Peashooter is Imp Cannon since the imps may cause it to hide unless quickly taken out with its laser.

If you would rather want to use the plant as a shooter, it should be recommended to place this plant at the back behind other plants; even placing him behind one defensive plant would risk him hiding. Also, don't forget that he can't be given Plant Food when hiding. Speaking of Plant Food, it is recommended to use Plant Food for powered Shadow Peashooters to damage more zombies, especially if you are facing large groups of zombies.

Shadow Peashooter makes for an interesting choice when dealing with large groups of Zombie Chickens and Ice Weasels. The laser he can shoot can do good enough damage to them but the previously said ability of hiding can hurt him when those zombies are too close. You will also notice that his projectiles cannot be reflected or blocked unless Glitter Zombie is present.

Shadow Peashooters placed in the third column to the right of your house can swoop up any Imps thrown at your defense, which will help protect your sun producing and other plants placed in the leftmost tiles. If it is powered up, they can swallow imps without losing a plant itself.

In the Endless Zone, Shadow Peashooter is by far one of the most powerful early game plants available to the player. Considering that the sun producer chosen is the Moonflower while costing only 125 sun (or lower when leveled up), planting it at the far left of the lawn grants the lane it is planted on enough firepower to even deal with high health zombies that appear earlier in the stage. With its fast recharge together with the high sun output of Moonflowers, completing a column full of Shadow Peashooters will be easy. Its slowing effect will also give more time to rack up more sun to plant powerful supports such as Dusk Lobber and Strawburst.

Shadow Peashooter's zombie pulling ability will not work while it is on a Lily Pad and is over water. The zombies will just eat the Lily Pad while the Shadow Peashooter hides doing nothing. If you are planning to use Shadow Peashooter in Big Wave Beach levels, it is advised to place them at the back where there is no water instead.

Overall, Shadow Peashooter should generally be paired with Moonflower. He can sufficiently deal with numerous zombies, but beware of using him in "Don't lose more than X plants" levels, as he will disappear when he pulls a zombie underground, which counts as losing a plant. It is less likely to register as losing a plant when powered up by moonflower (and leveled up), but is always a poor choice if your intention is to simply drag zombies.

Related achievement

	The Shadow Family Complete a level with 20 powered Shadow Plants

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Shadow Peashooter
Simplified Chinese	暗影豌豆	lit. "Shadow Pea"
French	Pisto-pois de l'ombre
German	Schatten-Erbsenkanone
Italian	Sparasemi ombrosa
Brazilian Portuguese	Disparervilha das Trevas
Spanish	Lanzaguisantes sombrío

Trivia

• A Reddit post by PopCap representative Haemophilus_EA reveals a few facts about the Shadow Peashooter:
  • He is a "mysterious plant" that lives in dark places, but occasionally goes on summer vacation.
  • He is Peashooter's darker cousin.
  • His powered Plant Food effect is called the Spirit Bomb.
    • Spirit Bomb shares the same name with an attack from the Dragon Ball series and their functions are similar to each other as both generate an energy sphere above the user. This is especially reflected in its ability to become stronger the more Moonflowers are on the lawn.
• His powered Plant Food effect's explosion is the same as Tactical Cuke's but recolored from green to purple.
  • It is also similar to that of Doom-shroom's.
• A boosted Shadow Peashooter will always use its powered Plant Food effect, whether or not it is powered.
• He is the first plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that can be earned by collecting seed packets.
• He is the only shadow plant to be a peashooting plant.
• He, Scaredy-shroom, and Cactus are the only plants that hide when a zombie gets close to them.
• Even before Conceal-mint was released, Shadow Pea's Almanac entry noted that he belongs in the Conceal-mint Family.
• He reuses Stallia's slowing effect when powered.
• He and Moonflower are the only shadow plants that change their ability depending on how many shadow plants surround them.
• He was the only premium plant that has the Player's House/Modern Day grass background in his almanac instead of the blue background with bright squares. This was later fixed.
• His snout is a different shade than the rest of his head.
• His Plant Food power stays still even when the Moonflowers have already been transformed into sheep, salads, or covered by octopi.
• Since the 8.2.1 update, his Spirit Bomb no longer shocks the screen.
• Shadow Peashooter does gain an additional 75 damage to his peas by Conceal-mint, which does not happen in normal gameplay as Conceal-mint powers all shadow plants, preventing him from actually firing said peas.
• He is the only plant to have his attack effects changed through level upgrades.

See also

• Peashooter
• Grimrose
• Moonflower
• Stallia
• Laser Bean

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