Smashing Pumpkin

For other uses, see Pumpkin (disambiguation).

Smashing Pumpkin
Statistics
Strength	6
Health	5
Cost	6
Set	Basic
Rarity	Common
Class
Tribe	Squash Plant
Traits	None
Abilities	None
Sure, he and Squash are pals. But there's always an undercurrent of competition between them.

Smashing Pumpkin is a basic common plant card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the Solar class.

He costs 6 and has 6/5. He does not have any traits or abilities. His closest zombie counterpart is Copter Commando.

Origins

He is based on a pumpkin, a round fruit with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and deep yellow to orange coloration. His mouth looks like one found in a jack-o-lantern, which is made by carving a pumpkin.

His name is a combination of "smashing," referring to the way he attacks, and "pumpkin," the real-life plant he is based on. It could quite possibly also be a reference to an American alternative rock/post grunge band with a very similar name.

Statistics

• Class: Solar
• Tribe: Squash Plant
• Traits: None
• Abilities: None
• Set - Rarity: Basic - Common

Card description

Sure, he and Squash are pals. But there's always an undercurrent of competition between them.

Update history

Update 1.2.11

• ▼ Strength change: 7 → 6
• ▼ Health change: 6 → 5

Strategies

With

Compared to other 6-sun plants, Smashing Pumpkin has no traits or abilities, but makes up with sheer strength. You can mass up more sun to play and play more Smashing Pumpkins more quickly.

However, the positive aspects end there. Unlike many other 6-cost plants, Smashing Pumpkin does not benefit from any synergy cards due to his tribes (other than being conjurable by Mayflower), so he's usually on his own. Even in cases where tribes don't matter, he simply doesn't have meaningful abilities, being outclassed by Cob Cannon,Three-Headed Chomper, Gravitree (Wall-Knight), and Super-Phat Beets (Chompzilla).

Against

Smashing Pumpkin hits very hard and is quite bulky, destroying or heavily damaging you or your zombies. It is best to destroy him with a trick like Rocket Science, Cut Down to Size, Locust Swarm, or B-flat, or use cheap Deadly zombies such as Toxic Waste Imp.

If he is in an environment or on the heights lane, Alien Ooze can destroy him. You can also make zombies with 5 strength or more do a bonus attack (such as Trickster).

Gallery

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  Smashing Pumpkin's statistics

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  Smashing Pumpkin's card

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  Smashing Pumpkin's grayed out card

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  Smashing Pumpkin's card image

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  HD Smashing Pumpkin

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  Smashing Pumpkin attacking

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  Smashing Pumpkin destroyed

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  Smashing Pumpkin as the profile picture for a Rank 39 player

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  Smashing Pumpkin in the Multiplayer menu

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  Smashing Pumpkin shrunken by Shrink Ray

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  Bubble Up being played on Smashing Pumpkin

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  Smashing Pumpkin with the Double Strike trait

Old

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  Smashing Pumpkin's statistics before update 1.2.11

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  Smashing Pumpkin's silhouette

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  The player receiving Smashing Pumpkin from a Basic Pack

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  The player having the choice between Smashing Pumpkin and Nibble as a prize for completing a level

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  Smashing Pumpkin on the title screen

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  Smashing Pumpkin as the profile picture for a Rank 39 player

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Smashing Pumpkin
Simplified Chinese	千斤南瓜	lit. "Thousand-Jin Pumpkin"
Traditional Chinese	非凡南瓜	lit. "Extraordinary Pumpkin"

Trivia

• He became the most expensive basic card after update 1.14.13.
  • Prior to that update, Knight of the Living Dead was the most expensive basic card.

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