Threepeater (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Threepeater (disambiguation).

Threepeater
Threepeaters shoot peas in three lanes.
Statistics
Sun Cost	300
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Range	Multi-Lane
Plant Food Power	14.29%
Family	Appease-mint
Plant Food effect	Shoots a spread of peas in multiple directions, dealing damage.
Damage Details	Normal (for each pea)
Range Details	Three lanes
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	300
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Attack Rate	1.4 seconds
Range	Three Lanes to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Ranged
Quality	Green
Tags	Damage, pea
Plant features	Green plant, pea family
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Beating Pirate Seas - Day 14
Unlocked (China)	Formerly purchase for 400,000 coins, daily rewards, collecting its 10 Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Code name	threepeater
Threepeater loves playing multiplayer in video games, but split-screen never works because the left head always cheats.

Threepeater is a peashooting plant appearing in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Threepeater shoots peas in three lanes: the one in which it is planted, the lane above it, and the lane below it.

If a Threepeater is planted on the top or bottom row, it will only shoot peas in two lanes instead of the usual three due to no lanes being above or below its position. Its attack is triggered when a zombie or obstacle appears anywhere within its area of effect (i.e. in any one of the three lanes).

About

For more information about this character, see Threepeater.

Threepeater is unlocked after completing Pirate Seas - Day 14. It has its price reduced to 300 sun, but otherwise performs identical to its appearance in Plants vs. Zombies.

When any zombie comes to close to it, it is known for the 3 peas to hit that zombie with in close range.

Almanac entry

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

Threepeater
	SUN COST 300 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 RANGE Multi-Lane PLANT FOOD POWER 14.29% Appease-mint Plant Food: Shoots a spread of peas in multiple directions, dealing damage. Threepeaters shoot peas in three lanes. Threepeater loves playing multiplayer in video games, but split-screen never works because the left head always cheats.

Chinese version  (China only)

三重射手可以在三条道上同时射出豌豆。 伤害：中等（每颗） 范围：三线 植物特征：绿色植物、豌豆家族。 三重射手热爱多人电玩，但分屏总是不管用，因为左边的射手爱耍小手段。 In English: Threepeater can shoot peas on three lanes simultaneously. Damage: normal (for each pea) Range: three lanes Plant feature: green plant, pea family Threepeater loves multiplayer games, but split-screen usually doesn't work because the shooter on the left often cheats.

Upgrades

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When fed Plant Food, Threepeater shoots 30 peas in each of three directions: front, up (changing from 0°~90°) and down (changing from 0°~90°).

Costumed (China only)

Its Plant Food ability has double duration.

Appease-mint effect

When boosted by Appease-mint, Threepeater gains an additional 120 damage on his peas.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage* (Normal)	Projectile Velocity	Plant Food Power (Duration)	Range
1	0	0	300	5 seconds	300 damage	20 damage	Normal	2 seconds	Multi-Lane
2	3	50	300	4.5 seconds	350 damage	25 damage		2 seconds
3	10	200	300	4.5 seconds	400 damage	30 damage		2.25 seconds
4	25	1,500	300	4.5 seconds	450 damage	35 damage		2.25 seconds
5	50	2,000	300	4 seconds	500 damage	40 damage	+1.6x	2.25 seconds
6	75	3,000	300	4 seconds	550 damage	45 damage		2.5 seconds
7	100	4,000	275	4 seconds	600 damage	50 damage		2.5 seconds
8	125	5,000	275	4 seconds	650 damage	55 damage		2.5 seconds
9	175	6,000	275	4 seconds	700 damage	60 damage		2.75 seconds
10	225	8,000	250	3.5 seconds	750 damage	65 damage		2.75 seconds
11	300	10,000	250	3.5 seconds	800 damage	70 damage		2.75 seconds
12	350	15,000	250	3.5 seconds	850 damage	75 damage		3 seconds
13	350	20,000	225	3.5 seconds	900 damage	80 damage	+2.2x	3 seconds
14	400	25,000	225	3.5 seconds		85 damage		3 seconds
15	450	30,000	225	3 seconds		90 damage		3.25 seconds
16	500	35,000	200	3 seconds		95 damage		3.25 seconds
17	550	40,000	200	3 seconds		100 damage		3.25 seconds
18	600	45,000	200	3 seconds		105 damage		3.5 seconds
19	700	50,000	200	3 seconds		110 damage		3.5 seconds
20	800	55,000	175	2.5 seconds		110 damage		3.5 seconds

*Applies to both normal and Plant Food states.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Double Strike 双重打击	25% chance to fire two projectiles in each lane. 攻击时有25%的概率一次连续发射两轮豌豆。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Threepeater gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Vital Capacity Training 肺活量训练	50% chance to fire two projectiles in each lane. 双重打击的技能触发概率提升100%，攻击时有50%的概率一次连续发射两轮豌豆。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Threepeater gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Threepeater may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Threepeater gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Bullet Enhancement 子弹强化	30% chance to fire ice peas, 30% chance to produce flaming peas and 10% chance to fire plasma peas 攻击时有30%概率发射寒冰豌豆子弹，有30%概率发射赤火豌豆子弹，有10%概率发射蓝火豌豆子弹。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Threepeater gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Plants vs. Zombies Online  (China only) (Archived content)

In Adventure Mode

Attacks up to 3 targets at once, one for each row.

Strategies

Compared to other peashooting plants, Threepeater has an high amount of shots possible per tile, beaten only by a Pea Pod with four or more heads or Mega Gatling Pea. Threepeater will also shoot enemies on adjacent lanes, and this allows the plant to stay helpful even when there is nothing on the lane it is planted on. These advantage however is offset by a great amount of drawbacks that may reduce Threepeater's efficiency in the battlefield.

Firstly, Threepeater's attack pattern heavily restricts the player's planting option, as planting Threepeater on the edge lane will reduce the plant's power by a third. Secondly, the firing pattern also means that Threepeater is exceedingly poor at guarding the edge lanes, due to firepower being concentrated at the central lanes and reduced on the edge lanes. Finally, the steep price tag means that Threepeater will find issue being used effectively in the early-game, as well as compete with more powerful plants who can more efficiently guard the corner lanes, such as Melon-pult and Strawburst.

In this game, Threepeater faces competition from two lobber plants, Dusk Lobber and Apple Mortar, the former being capable of Threepeater's ability with splash damage for only 200 sun when including Moonflower and the latter being 50 sun cheaper with a light stun. Of these three, Threepeater has the advantage of being boostable by Torchwood, Pea Vine and/or Appease-mint, but this sadly isn't usually enough of a reason to run Threepeater over them. However, if Threepeaters reach high level, they can easily deal great damage, overwhelming their two competitors, if cooperating with the three plants mentioned above (due to Pea Vine's damage boost can be stacked).

Although Threepeater only has the firepower of a Peashooter, it can be somewhat useful in levels where zombies come in several different lanes in the beginning, as a single Threepeater can provide ammunition for three lanes. However, because of its high sun cost, this is only recommended when paired with high sun-producing plants like Gold Bloom. Threepeater is also particularly useful in levels where there is a limit to how many plants the player can place on the lawn, because only two Threepeaters are needed to fend the whole lawn, compared to at least five for Peashooters.

Because of its low firepower, Threepeater is not recommended for the main offensive plant for dealing with tougher zombies like Jurassic Fossilhead or Robo-Cone Zombie. It can also be easily overwhelmed by zombies like Zombie Chicken and Ice Weasel because of its lack of area of effect. Threepeater will also not fare well in levels with Excavator Zombies, Jester Zombies, Shield Zombies, Barrel Roller Zombies, Troglobites, Arcade Zombies, or levels with high zombie density, like Neon Mixtape Tour - Day 13.

In Pirate Seas, Threepeater can be considered as a supplementary plant because of its multi-lane firing range. Threepeater shoots peas on the lane without planks no matter whether it is planted on, above, or below the lane without planks, and that makes it a good choice when that lane is occupied with other necessary plants. Therefore, Threepeater is useful against Swashbuckler Zombie.

In Arena, Threepeater is powerful with Pea Vine, Torchwood, Tile Turnip and Appease-mint.

Pirate Seas - Day 25

A maximum of five Threepeaters can be fielded, and replacements will be given on the conveyor-belt if one of them is eaten. They could be useful for fending off Imp Pirate Zombies if Coconut Cannon or Snapdragon is not provided immediately, as Zombot Plank Walker tends to fire a barrage of Imps at the beginning of the battle. This is rarely the case however, and Threepeater's firepower will prove to be of little importance compared to the other plants.

Frostbite Caves - Day 30

Threepeaters are provided in this conveyor-belt level, and it is recommended to plant them so every row gets ammunition. However, because Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC can also pull freezing winds, it is recommended to have Pepper-pult or Fire Peashooter around them to heat them up.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Threepeater
Simplified Chinese	三重射手	lit. "Triple Shooter"
French	Triple pisto-pois
German	Triplinator
Italian	Tripla sparasemi
Brazilian Portuguese	Triplervilha	Portmanteau of triplo and ervilha
Spanish	Tripitidora

Trivia

• In some preview shots of Plants vs. Zombies 2, Threepeater and Melon-pult were originally going to cost the same amount of sun that is used to plant them in the original game. In Threepeater's case, he would have costed 325 sun. However, when the game released, they swapped sun costs.

One of the preview shots with Threepeater costing 325 sun like in the original game.

• Its costume seems to resemble Crazy Dave's pot hat.
• A texture glitch related to its eyes occurred in the 1.9 update of the game, along with Snow Pea, Wall-nut, and Twin Sunflower.
• If a zombie gets very close to Threepeater, all three peas will hit that zombie.
• Dusk Lobber's powered ability and Apple Mortar are similar to Threepeater, as they can attack three lanes at once.
• Its Plant Food effect forms a leaf shape out of peas.
• If the player puts a Torchwood directly in front of a Threepeater, the Threepeater's top and middle pea will be fire peas, but the bottom pea will be a normal pea. However, if they activate the Threepeater's plant food power, all of the peas will be ignited.

See also

• Peashooting plants
• Pea
• Peashooter
• Dusk Lobber
• Apple Mortar

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