Does Torchwood Affect Fire Peashooter in Plants vs. Zombies?
The short answer is: Torchwood does not directly affect Fire Peashooter’s pea by default. However, this doesn’t mean there’s no interaction between these two fiery flora. The relationship between Torchwood and Fire Peashooter is nuanced, involving a Plant Food boost to unlock their synergistic potential. This article will delve deep into the details of their interaction, and provide a range of FAQs to address other common questions regarding these two Plants vs Zombies powerhouses.
Understanding the Basic Mechanics
Before examining their dynamic, it’s crucial to understand how each plant operates independently.
Fire Peashooter
The Fire Peashooter is a formidable offensive plant, characterized by her ability to launch fire peas at zombies. These fire peas deal standard damage while adding the unique effect of thawing any frozen enemies they hit. This is advantageous for countering icy threats like Snow Pea and Winter Melon. She boasts a decent firing rate and overall, is a strong contender for offensive plant roles. Notably, Fire Peashooter is generally considered better than a regular Repeater because she provides similar damage at a lower cost, alongside her thawing ability.
Torchwood
Torchwood, on the other hand, doesn’t directly attack. Instead, he serves as a support plant, focusing on boosting the power of other pea-shooting plants. He lights regular peas that pass through him, turning them into fire peas, doubling their damage and granting a fiery effect. However, it’s crucial to remember that the fiery effect also removes any ice-based slowdown effects from the zombies, meaning a careful strategy is needed in icy levels. He only affects peas that move through him and is not effective if placed behind other plants.
The Interaction: Plant Food is Key
As stated, normally Torchwood does not affect Fire Peashooter’s fire peas. Fire Peas pass straight through a regular Torchwood without any alterations. However, the dynamic changes when Torchwood is boosted with Plant Food. A Plant Food-boosted Torchwood gains the ability to relight Fire Peashooter’s fire peas, turning them into plasma peas.
Plasma Peas – The Ultimate Firepower
These plasma peas are even more potent than regular fire peas. When a fire pea goes through a plant food-boosted Torchwood, it becomes plasma peas. The exact effects of the plasma pea can vary slightly depending on the specific game in the franchise, but their common characteristic is the increased damage output, often accompanied by a visual change, making them very powerful and visually striking. This mechanic is a key strategy for maximizing damage output. This plasma pea effect is a powerful synergy, showcasing that teamwork between different plants is a critical factor for victory in the PvZ series.
Synergies and Considerations
- Strategic Placement: Positioning a Torchwood strategically to affect multiple pea-shooting plants, including Fire Peashooters (when boosted with plant food), is important for creating a powerful lane.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis: While a Fire Peashooter is effective on her own, if you need extra power, the investment in both a Fire Peashooter and a Torchwood with Plant Food, can be worth it.
- Ice Counter Strategy: Be mindful that Torchwood will thaw any frozen targets, which can be a downside in some scenarios if you are using ice plants in addition to your fire plants.
- Plant Food Usage: Plan your use of Plant Food carefully, making sure you can achieve maximum impact from the plant food boost on the Torchwood and subsequently fire pea shooters.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What plants are directly affected by Torchwood?
Torchwood directly affects the following plants by turning their peas into fire peas: Peashooter, Repeater, Split Pea, Threepeater, Pea Pod, Pea-nut, and Primal Peashooter. He will also change a fire pea to plasma if boosted with Plant Food.
2. Does Torchwood work with Primal Peashooter?
Yes, Primal Peashooter can be combined with Torchwood to deal more damage. The Primal Peashooter will launch regular peas that then change to fire peas after going through the torchwood, just as a regular peashooter would.
3. Does Torchwood work with Snow Pea?
No, it is not recommended to use a Torchwood with a Snow Pea. While the peas will be turned into fire peas, this removes the freezing and slowing effect of the Snow Pea’s peas. This defeats the purpose of the snow pea.
4. Is Fire Peashooter better than Repeater?
Yes, Fire Peashooter is often considered better than Repeater. She has a lower cost while dealing the same damage and adds the bonus of the thawing ability. While she fires only one pea rather than two, the overall cost benefit is worth it.
5. What happens when a Fire Pea passes through multiple Torchwoods?
The standard fire pea is not affected when passing through a Torchwood. However, if the torchwood is plant food boosted, the fire pea then becomes a plasma pea. Passing it through multiple Torchwoods doesn’t improve its effect further.
6. Is Fire Peashooter worth it?
Yes, Fire Peashooter is a worthwhile plant. She is effective, relatively low cost and has high DPS. She is a great offensive plant and offers a good alternative to a peashooter and repeater when fighting ice zombies.
7. Can Torchwood clear out fog in fog levels?
Torchwood can clear out fog in a small area around him (a 3×3 plus shape). However, it is not recommended to rely on him solely for this purpose, as he only clears fog in a limited space.
8. Is Snow Pea a girl in PvZ?
In the “Plants vs Zombies: Official Guide To Protecting Your Brains” book, Snow Pea is considered female. However, this is considered non-canon on the wikia.
9. How much damage does Torchwood increase?
Torchwood doubles the damage of normal peas by lighting them on fire. He does not affect the damage of peas already on fire, unless Plant Food is used.
10. Does Cabbage-pult do more damage than Peashooter?
Cabbage-pult deals identical damage per second to Peashooter. It launches cabbages at half the fire rate of a peashooter but deals twice the damage each cabbage.
11. Is Torchwood a playable character in Battle for Neighborville?
Yes, Torchwood is a playable plant class in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. He is a Defend class with high health and abilities focused on high damage.
12. What is the rarest Chomper in PvZ Garden Warfare 2?
The Unicorn Chomper is the rarest Chomper in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.
13. Is Fire Peashooter considered male or female?
In most of her appearances, Fire Peashooter is considered female, however, in Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare and it’s sequel, she is depicted as male.
14. What is a Giga Torchwood?
Giga Torchwood is a boss plant exclusive to Graveyard Ops and the Backyard Battleground in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.
15. Is Torchwood considered a fire plant?
Yes, Torchwood is considered a fire-type plant. Fire-type piñatas often offer seed packets for plants such as the fire peashooter and Torchwood.
Conclusion
While the relationship between Torchwood and Fire Peashooter may seem straightforward, it is nuanced. A regular Torchwood doesn’t affect the standard fire pea, but when boosted with Plant Food, it enhances the Fire Pea’s power by turning it into a plasma pea, demonstrating the strategic depth available within the Plants vs Zombies franchise. Understanding this dynamic will give you a considerable advantage against the zombie horde and demonstrates the power of team synergy.