Snorkel Zombie (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Snorkel Zombie (disambiguation).

Snorkel Zombie is the first special zombie introduced in Big Wave Beach. The Snorkel Zombie is able to submerge and progress underwater in the ocean, avoiding most attacks, emerging once a plant or the shoreline is reached, allowing all attacks to hit.

Description

Snorkel Zombie went through a major redesign along with his animation. The Snorkel Zombie now wears an intact snorkeling mask with a white colored outlining. The color of the sides of the snorkeling mask is orange. His whistle snorkel is colored yellow on the upper part and white on the lower part respectively.

He does not wear anything on his torso and he wears a red colored shorter version of the swimming shorts of his first variation, except he now has white linings on its sides. His snorkeling foot fins are now colored yellow.

Almanac entry

Snorkel Zombie
	TOUGHNESS Protected SPEED Basic Snorkel zombies can swim underwater. Special: submerges to avoid attacks Snorkel Zombie has a hard time getting the Bikini Zombies. He's tried offering them flowers, jewelry, and even chocolate-covered brains. But nothing seems to work. They just can't seem to see past the snorkel on his face.

Overview

The Snorkel Zombie absorbs 350 damage per shot, and his appearance changes upon absorbing 175 damage per shot when his arm falls off, before dying.

Audio

Snorkel Zombie rising.

Encounters

• Player's House: Piñata Party
• Big Wave Beach: Days 6 to 32, Tiki Torch-er, "Beghouled Blitz" Epic Quest - Step 3, and Piñata Party
• Modern Day: Days 23, and 33
• Arena: Pokra's Tournament, Pokra's Boosterama Tournament

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version)  (China only)

• Big Wave Beach: Days 5 to 7, Days 9 to 13, Day 14 (hard mode only), Day 15, Days 17 to 19, Days 21 to 24, Ultimate Challenge, and Tiki Torch-er.
• Modern Day: Day 26, and Highway to the Danger Room (portal only)

Strategies

The Snorkel Zombie acts the same way as he does in the first game, but is now stronger. They can be dealt with by using lobber plants, forcing them to resurface with defensive plants, or using instant kill plants. However, there are exceptions, so be aware that some plants may not be able to properly counter them. Snorkel Zombie generally forces the player to use strategy with lobber plants.

Plants with splash damage like A.K.E.E. and Melon-pult are good to deal with multiple zombies at once, but due to the fast pace in Big Wave Beach levels, it's best not to completely rely on expensive plants because zombies will quickly overwhelm the players before the lawn can be properly set up.

Using defensive plants like Wall-nut allows the players to expand the strategy using any other plants. This is, however, countered by Octo Zombies and Fisherman Zombies at later levels, who will incapacitate defensive and close-ranged plants. Eventually the players may not be able to fully rely on stalling these zombies.

Some plants can still counter Snorkel Zombies while not shooting lobbed projectiles. These plants include Phat Beet and Kiwibeast thumping damage, flame trails from Jack O' Lantern, Hot Date, Jalapeno, & Plant Food effect of Fire Peashooter; Homing Thistle, Electric Blueberry thunder, Ghost Pepper, and Witch Hazel transformation. Again, there are exceptions to these rules.

Finally, as a last resort, certain plants can damage Snorkel Zombies by using Plant Food. These plants include Snapdragon & Cold Snapdragon, rushing attack from Guacodile & Parsnip, explosions from Ultomato, Shadow Peashooter, & Dandelion; Laser Bean, Fume-shroom, Lightning Reed, and Coconut Cannon.

In the Chinese version, Lotus Pod can be used to kill Snorkel Zombies easily, as its projectile will float on top of water and will damage it.

Note: Avoid using Magnifying Grass against this zombie as he can avoid all of her projectiles unharmed while submerged, especially if the tide line is at the leftmost columns. If you attempt to spam shots at these zombies, they can drain your sun counter very quickly.

Exceptions

While some plants that counter submerged Snorkel Zombies follow general rule, there are exceptions to this. When Snorkel Zombies are submerged:

• Despite being lobber plants, Sling Pea, Turkey-pult, and Stickybomb Rice will not target these zombies on their own. The splash damage from rice and turkey will still damage them, though.
• Any Mints will not affect them, such as flame burst from Pepper-mint.
• Explosions from Bombegranate, Explode-o-nut, and Explode-o-Vine will not affect them.
• The flame trail from Pyre Vine and Torchwood is harmless to them.
• Other instant plants, i.e. Solar Tomato, Stallia, Ice Bloom, and Puffball will not affect them.
• Caulipower cannot hypnotize them.

Balance changes

Update 6.3.1

• ▼ Health decreased from 490 health to 350 health

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Snorkel Zombie
German	Schnorchel-Zombie
Spanish	Zombi buzo
French	Zombie tuba
Italian	Zombi sommozzatore
Brazilian Portuguese	Zumbi Mergulhador
Simplified Chinese	浮潜僵尸 Fúqiǎn Jiāngshī	From fúqiǎn and jiāngshī

Trivia

• In the 8.3.1 update, there was a glitch with the encounter between the Snorkel Zombie and the Tangle Kelp in which the Tangle Kelp could not kill the Snorkel Zombie unless he surfaced long enough to eat a plant or was at the edge of land and water. In open water, the Snorkel Zombie would approach the Tangle Kelp and resurface in attempt to eat it, causing the Tangle Kelp to go under to attack which caused the Snorkel Zombie to go back under since he no longer sensed a plant which then caused the Tangle Kelp to resurface again. This interaction would normally repeat 3 times before the Snorkel Zombie got behind the Tangle Kelp. This glitch greatly limited the usefulness of the Tangle Kelp in Big Wave Beach levels. The glitch was fixed in an unknown update.
  • A similar glitch occurred in the 6.9.1 update, where if a Tangle Kelp targeted a submerged Snorkel Zombie, the zombie would remain motionless. Furthermore, the zombie could not be damaged by any way, forcing the player to restart the level.
• Before the 6.7.1 update, a boosted Spring Bean and Blover combination could not kill the zombie if he was submerged (although he would still be blown to the right of the screen).
• Compared to the original game:
  • Both of his eyes are shown.
  • He is not pigeon-toed.
  • His swim mask is no longer cracked.
  • He does not have to jump before submerging because he is already in the water when he enters the lawn.
• He, along with Ducky Tube and its armored variants are the only Pool zombies to return in this game.
• He shares Prospector Zombie's animation except he is slightly faster.
  • This makes him the first zombie to reuse another special zombie's animation (not taking into account regular zombie walks, event zombies, and the like.)
  • This is not true if one counts Frostbite Caves zombies like Troglobite or Weasel Hoarder as being the first, since the world order was switched around.
• When he is frozen, he cannot trigger a Tangle Kelp.
• Bloomerangs cannot hit him when he is in the water, even when he is eating.
• Electric Peashooter also can't hit him when he is in the water.
• His snorkel is no longer attached to his mouth, even when submerged in water.
• So far, he is the only returning zombie not to be introduced in neither Player's House or Modern Day nor Thymed Events.
• He is the only zombie that flirts with others, as shown in his Almanac entry.

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