Zombot Sphinx-inator

Zombot Sphinx-inator
The destroyer of plants from the ancient sands.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Undying
Speed	Hungry
Special	Missile attack can create tombstones
In-game statistics
Health	18500 39000 22500 Infinite
Damage	Instant-kill
Weakness	(can withstand up to 3 missiles from him) (all Power Mints and instant-plants) (can block him from charging)
Seen	Ancient Egypt - Day 25 Ancient Egypt - Day 35 Modern Day - Day 32 Arena - Week 63 Arena - Week 95 Penny's Pursuit - Legions of the Undead, Caesar vs Salad, Promoting Zynergy, Cultivating Talent, Technical Difficulties, Later, Irrigator, The Germinator, Hot Seat, A December to Dismember, Pop Your Collards, and Violets are Cute
First seen (China)	Ancient Egypt - Ultimate Challenge
Code name	zombossmech_egypt
Other code names	zombossmech_egypt2 (Ancient Egypt - Day 35) zombossmech_modern_egypt (Modern Day - Day 32) zombossmech_egypt_battlez (Arena) zombossmech_egypt_rift (Penny's Pursuit)
To add that extra bit of wickedness to the Sphinx-inator Dr. Zomboss chiseled his creation from the stonework of cursed tombs. You should not take this instance of reuse and recycle to mean he's going green. The only thing green about him is his tongue.

Zombot Sphinx-inator is the boss of Ancient Egypt in Plants vs. Zombies 2 controlled by Dr. Zomboss, and is battled in Ancient Egypt - Day 25, Day 35 and possibly Modern Day - Day 32. It can send out any zombie from Ancient Egypt, excluding Flag Mummy Zombie, Ra Zombie and Camel Zombies. It takes up a two-by-two area at the right side of the lawn, jumping to different rows occasionally. It can send out zombies in two rows at a time, and it can only be attacked in the two rows it occupies at any one time. Unlike the original Zombot, the Sphinx-inator can be attacked at any time, provided there are plants in the same row he moves to.

In Arena, defeating the Sphinx-inator will award 10000 points, increasing by 10000 points each time the Sphinx-inator is defeated. Higher leagues will increase a multiplier for points scored, with a maximum of 5x in Jade league.

Almanac entry

Zombot Sphinx-inator
	TOUGHNESS Undying SPEED Hungry The destroyer of plants from the ancient sands. Special: missile attack can create tombstones To add that extra bit of wickedness to the Sphinx-inator Dr. Zomboss chiseled his creation from the stonework of cursed tombs. You should not take this instance of reuse and recycle to mean he's going green. The only thing green about him is his tongue.

Chinese version (China only)

Dr.Zomboss in a high-tech desert mount utilizing multiple attacks. It was often said that cars were like their owners, and Dr.Zomboss is no exception. In Chinese: 驾驶沙漠专用高科技座驾的僵尸博士 , 会使用多种攻击方式 。 都说车如其人 , 这句话对僵尸博士也一样适用 。

Overview

The Zombot Sphinx-inator approximately absorbs 18500 damage. Its appearance changes upon absorbing 4000 and 12000 damage before dying at 18500 damage.

Phases

The Zombot Sphinx-inator randomly performs one of the following actions:

• Warps in zombies.
• A target will appear on a random space and the Sphinx-inator will shoot a missile at that space, destroying any plant on it unless that plant is using Plant Food, attempting to create two tombstones in an adjacent tile. On Day 35, the missiles will create four tombstones instead of two. If the player quickly selects a plant and plant on the tile the bone's about to land, the tombstone will not be created and the plant will remain.
• The Sphinx-inator will tap its front two legs on the ground, immediately squashing any plants in the two tiles in front of it. It then steps back and charges forwards, destroying all plants and zombies in two rows. It will then stop short of the lawn mowers, and jump back to the rightmost column.
  • The attack will be cancelled if a plant fed with Plant Food attacks it.
  • A Wall-nut boosted with Plant Food will also have its armor stop the attack at the cost of destroying the armor, but the Zombot Sphinx-inator will not take any direct damage.
• The Sphinx-inator will change position. Sometimes, it will do this by leaping into the air and landing at its new position. However, if it moves by only 1 column or 1 row (and not both), then it may simply step over to its new position. It will squash any plants and zombies it steps into or lands on.
  • Upon reaching 0 health, Sphinx-inator will move to the second row from the bottom and fourth column from the right.

Ancient Egypt - Day 25

Phase	Health	Summoned zombies	Attacks
1	4000 damage		Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones
2	8000 damage	(summons )	Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones
3	6500 damage		Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones

Ancient Egypt - Ultimate Challenge (China only)

Phase	Health	Summoned zombies	Attacks
1	4000 damage		Fires missiles that can summon tombstones
2	8000 damage		Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the rows Fires missiles that can summon tombstones
3	6500 damage		Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones

Ancient Egypt - Day 35

Phase	Health	Summoned zombies	Attacks
1	8000 damage		Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones
2	16000 damage		Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones
3	15000 damage	(summons )	Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones

Modern Day - Day 32

Phase	Health	Summoned zombies	Attacks
1	5000 damage		Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones
2	9000 damage	(summons )	Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones
3	8500 damage		Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones

Arena and Penny's Pursuit

Phase	Health	Summoned zombies (Depends on damage)	Attacks
Depends on damage	Infinite damage	(summons )	Charges into a row, destroying all plants and zombies in the row Fires missiles that can summon tombstones

Audio

Sound	Description
	Zombot Sphinx-inator Intro
	Zombot defeat shock

Strategies

See Ancient Egypt - Day 25, Ancient Egypt - Day 35, Modern Day - Day 32, and Ancient Egypt - Ultimate Challenge.

Balance changes

Update 9.4.1

• ▲ Zomboss now has self-defense measures that mirror damage to plant spawns (Zomboids, Turkeys, Tigers, etc)

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Zombot Sphinx-inator
Simplified Chinese	埃及僵尸博士	Lit. "Egypt Dr. Zombie"
French	Sphinx-inateur zombot
German	Zombot-Sphinxinator
Italian	Sfingificatore Zombot
Brazilian Portuguese	Esfingenadora Zumbô
Spanish	Esfinge letal Zombot

Trivia

• Its Almanac entry says the only thing green about Dr. Zomboss is his tongue. However, his tongue is not green, but rather pink.
• When the Zombot Sphinx-inator is frozen and about to shoot a missile, it will be blue, but when it comes back from the top, it is no longer frozen.
• Before the 2.3 update, if an Iceberg Lettuce was hit with a missile the machine will be slowed down.
• The missiles launch Tomb Raiser Zombie's bones on tiles surrounding where it hit on tiles. If the player acts fast enough, they can plant on the tiles they are falling onto, so the tombstones will not be created.
• In the Chinese version, its Almanac icon looks different as it shows the Zombot's full body.
• In the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 before the 1.8.0 version, battling this Zombot can have the following:
  • A conveyor-belt manner which is the typical type (Level 1);
  • A Last Stand without the aid of sun-producing plants (Level 2);
  • And lastly, a Last Stand manner with the aid of sun-producing plants with the boss having additional health and stages. (Level 3)
• In the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, previously, there was the boss music in the battle. But then, the boss music has been replaced by the Player's House music.
• In the Chinese version, when it summons zombies, its mouth looks different from the International version. This is shared with the Zombot Plank Walker, the Zombot War Wagon and the Zombot Tomorrow-tron.
• In the Chinese version before the 1.8.0 version, the Zombot Sphinx-inator will automatically disappear instead of teleporting after the player gets the prize.
• In the Chinese version before the 1.9.0 version, it was one of the only Zombots which only took up 1 row, the others being the Zombot Dark Dragon, the Zombot Sharktronic Sub, and the Zombot Vulture Fighter.
• There is a glitch where after the Zombot is defeated and when the player plants the Iceberg Lettuce on it and after the money bag is collected, it would slow the Zombot down when Dr. Zomboss is about to teleport away.
  • Also, in Modern Day - Day 32, there is another glitch where after the Zombot is defeated and when the player plants the Spikeweed underneath, it will still attack the Zombot.
  • Additionally, when the player plants a Spring Bean underneath a Zombot, it will look like it is ready to bounce, but it does not bounce the Zombot back.
• The "-inator" in the title may be a reference to Phineas and Ferb, as Dr. Doofenshmirtz, the main antagonist of the show, builds machines that almost always have the suffix of "-inator."
  • Phineas and Ferb is referenced again in a comic strip where Professor Brainstorm's "Zombie Teleportation-ator"—referencing the suffix "-inator" for the second time—loses to a baking soda volcano.
  • Coincidentally, there is a level from Crash Bandicoot: Warped named Sphynxinator.
• Additionally, he can spawn Ra Zombies and Camel Zombies in Arena, which do not appear in normal fights.
  • When Dr. Zomboss spawns Camel Zombies, only one will spawn from it and the rest of them will just appear.
• Due to the removal of the portal under the Gargantuar statue and the Zomboss Podium for Lost City in version 5.2.1, the portal that appears in its mouth received a small redesign (This also happened to Zombot Plank Walker, Zombot War Wagon and Zombot Tomorrow-tron).

See also

• Dr. Zomboss
• Ancient Egypt - Day 25
• Modern Day - Day 32
• Tombstone
• Zombots

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