Sling Pea

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Sling Pea
Sling Peas fire 5 peas in a burst, targeting the zombies closest to your house each time.
Statistics
Sun Cost	125
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Family	Arma-mint
Plant Food effect	Shoots 3 bursts of stunning peas at zombies.
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	250
Recharge	8 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Attack Rate	4.5 seconds
Range	From Leftmost Third Column to Right
Area	AoE within Range
Class	Ranged
Quality	Purple
Tags	Damage, pea
Plant features	Green plant, pea family
In-game statistics
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Costumes
Costumes (China)
Sling Pea keeps a keen eye on the whole battle space. He's alert and attentive. "If something slips through," he muses quietly, "it would be my fault. And I just couldn't forgive myself if that happened."

Sling Pea is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2, that was first introduced in the 7.0.1 update. He fires five peas every 4 - 5 seconds, targeting the five zombies closest to your house each time, similar to Homing Thistle. These peas do 20 damage, and have 5 damage worth of splash damage on the tile they land on.

Sling Pea requires 250 seed packets to unlock for free. The player can do so by replaying Dark Ages levels (if the Piñata Tracker is available) or going to the store to buy piñatas that contain Sling Pea seed packets or play piñata parties in Food Fight Event. There is also a Sling Pea bundle in the store that'll give the player 250 seed packets to unlock automatically.

Origins

A real-life example of peas, the plant that Sling Pea is based on

Like most other peashooting plants, he is based on the Pisum sativum, commonly known as the pea.

His name is a combination of "sling" and "pea" and possibly a portmanteau of "sling" and "string pea."

Audio

Sound	Description
	Launching Peas (version 1)
	Launching Peas (version 2)
	Launching Peas (version 3)
	Plant Food effect

Almanac entry

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

Sling Pea
	SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 Arma-mint Plant Food: Shoots 3 bursts of stunning peas at zombies. Sling Peas fire 5 peas in a burst, targeting the zombies closest to your house each time. Sling Pea keeps a keen eye on the whole battle space. He's alert and attentive. "If something slips through," he muses quietly, "it would be my fault. And I just couldn't forgive myself if that happened."

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability

When fed Plant Food, Sling Pea will fire 5 massive peas at the each closest zombie to the house three times on each lane, launching 75 peas in total.

Costumed (China only)

When costumed, Sling Pea shoots fire peas or napalm peas.

Arma-mint effect

When boosted by Arma-mint, Sling Pea will have an additional 65 damage added to its peas, its splash damage will have an additional 30 damage added on to it, its Plant Food attack will receive an additional 75 damage, it will receive a splash damage of 30 damage on its Plant Food attack, and the stun duration on its plant food attack will be increased to 1.5 seconds.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Damage^	Splash Damage*	Plant Food Power (Damage)^	Plant Food Power (Stun Duration)^
1	0	0	125	5 seconds	300 damage	20 damage	5 damage	30 damage	0.5 seconds
2	10	1,000	125	5 seconds	350 damage	25 damage	5 damage	35 damage	0.5 seconds
3	25	2,500	125	4.5 seconds	400 damage	30 damage	10 damage	40 damage	0.5 seconds
4	50	5,000	125	4.5 seconds	450 damage	35 damage	10 damage	45 damage	1 second
5	100	10,000	125	4 seconds	550 damage	40 damage	15 damage	50 damage	1 second
6	200	20,000	100	4 seconds	600 damage	45 damage	15 damage	55 damage	1 second
7	400	30,000	100	3.5 seconds	650 damage	50 damage	20 damage	60 damage	1 second
8	800	50,000	100	3.5 seconds	700 damage	55 damage	20 damage	65 damage	1.5 seconds
9	1,200	75,000	100	3 seconds	800 damage	60 damage	25 damage	70 damage	1.5 seconds
10	1,600	100,000	100	3 seconds	900 damage	65 damage	30 damage	75 damage	1.5 seconds

*Applies to both normal and Plant Food statess.
^Per projectile.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Bouncy Peas 弹力豌豆	There's a 50% probability of firing elastic peas with 150 damage. After hitting zombies, it will have an ejection effect. Up to 2 zombies can be ejected. After each ejection, the damage of elastic peas will be weakened. 有50%的概率发射150点伤害的弹力豌豆，在命中僵尸后会有弹射效果，最多弹射2个僵尸，每次弹射后弹力豌豆的伤害会衰弱。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Sling Pea gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Strong Peas 强力豌豆	The effect of Bouncy Peas is increased to 100%. Damage increased to 200 points. 弹力豌豆的触发概率提升至100%，并且伤害提升至200点。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Sling Pea gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Sling Pea may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Sling Pea gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Exploding Peas 爆炸豌豆	There's a 50% probability of firing a bomb pea that deals 1500 damage to a single square zombie when attacking. 攻击时有50%的概率发射对单格僵尸造成1500点伤害的炸弹豌豆。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Sling Pea gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Strategies

Functionally, Sling Pea is very similar to Homing Thistle. Both plants target the closest zombies to the house, and both plants are able to circumvent obstacles such as tombstones. However, Sling Pea has a few unique advantages over Homing Thistle. First, Sling Pea is much easier to spam, as it costs half as much sun and has faster cooldown than Homing Thistle's.

Sling Pea is almost much more reliable at hitting Excavator Zombies, since it doesn't have to worry about having its shots blocked by the Excavator Zombie's shovel. Sling Pea also receives a much bigger boost of power under the effect of Arma-mint compared to Homing Thistle under the effect of Spear-mint.

With all of these benefits, you'd think Sling Pea would be by far the superior choice, but there are some rather detrimental quirks with this plant that hold it back. The big one is that Sling Pea is much worse against hordes of zombies compared to Homing Thistle, since if there are multiple zombies on the lawn, Sling Pea will spread out its damage between the zombies, doing minimal damage to each. Homing Thistle only has to worry about dealing damage to the zombie closest to the house meaning, its damage doesn't fall off as hard when multiple zombies enter the lawn.

Sling Pea's slow attack speed can also be a detriment, as Sling Pea's damage can be lacking in the mid-game. Finally, Sling Pea is completely ineffective against both Jester Zombies (except Sling Pea shooting backward) and Parasol Zombies, as they are able to completely nullify this plant. Despite these drawbacks, Sling Pea is still a fantastic plant to use in the early-game.

As Sling Pea is best used in the early-game, it should be planted very quickly after sun production has been set up. As the level progresses, it may be a good idea to shovel Sling Pea in order to plant more late-game oriented plants where Sling Pea once was. Sling Pea is pretty effective in Ancient Egypt due to its immunity to tombstones.

Sling Pea is also highly effective when used with Arma-mint, since Sling Pea gains a very large damage boost, and due to how easy it is to spam Sling Pea, you can get a rather large amount boosted by Arma-mint. It is worth noting that Sling Pea is unaffected by Torchwood, as its projectiles never actually pass through the Torchwood.

As the level progresses, Sling Pea must either be replaced, or at the very least supported by other area-of-effect plants, such as Laser Bean or Winter Melon. Sling Pea is also generally a weak pick in Endless Zones due to its lackluster damage in general.

Avoid picking Sling Pea against high health zombies, such as mechs in Far Future, as Sling Pea simply doesn't have the damage to effectively deal with them. Sling Pea is also ineffective against Chicken Wrangler Zombies and Weasel Hoarders, as it attacks far too slowly to be able to deal with their critters.

Sling Pea is not very useful in Arena because he will only attack the zombies that are closest to the house, resulting in less points from the zombies killed. However, this will only happen when there are groups of zombies or fast-moving zombies, such as All-Star Zombie.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Sling Pea
Simplified Chinese	豌豆迫击炮	lit. "Pea Mortar"
French	Lance-pois
German	Schleudererbse
Italian	Fiondasemi
Brazilian Portuguese	Estilinguervilha
Spanish	Tiraguisantes

Trivia

• In his idle animation, Sling Pea's head detaches from the pod when it leaps into the air.
• He and Pea Pod share a lot of traits:
  • They are both introduced in the second game.
  • They are both peashooting plants.
  • They both cost 125 sun at Level 1.
  • They are capable of shooting 5 peas at a time.
  • Both of them have their head placed inside the pod.
• Moreover, the plant also resembles Board Beans from the Chinese version of the game, as they both shoot peas that move in a different manner from other pea-shooting plants.
• He is currently the only plant in the game capable of attacking zombies in all 5 lanes at once without Plant Food.
  • Dusk Lobber can also do this, through lobbing three projectiles targeting the three middle lanes. Also, for Starfruit, this is also true but only for certain limited circumstances depending on the distribution of targets.
• He is the only peashooting plant to lob peas instead of shooting them straight.
• Despite his English name being Sling Pea, his Chinese name is Pea Mortar.

See also

• Peashooting plants
• Homing Thistle
• Arma-mint
• Lobber plants

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