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Arctic Trooper is a zombie in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. He is the Super Rare ice variation of the Foot Soldier.

The Arctic Trooper uses the Frozen Z-1 Assault Blaster, a slightly weaker variant of the Z-1 Assault Blaster that can slow and freeze enemies.

Descriptions[]

Stickerbook description[]

The Arctic Trooper spent last winter assigned to the Zomboss Arctic H.Q. where he learned survival tricks and ate a bunch of snow.

In-game description[]

The Arctic Trooper's icy shots slow, and eventually freeze Plants in their tracks!

AI Health[]

  • Easy: 75
  • Normal: 100
  • Hard: 125
  • CRAAAAZY: 150

Primary weapon[]

The Frozen Z-1 Assault Blaster is the primary weapon of the Arctic Trooper. The facts below apply to a fully upgraded weapon.

  • In GW1, his damage is 5-7.2 and his critical damage is 6-8.6, which means that his DPS varies between 45.83 and 78.83. In GW2, his damage is 4.6-6.6 and his critical damage is 5.5-7.9, which means that his DPS varies between 42.17 and 72.42.
  • The weapon has an ice effect; when a hit is made it slows the target. If around 12 (GW1) or 10 (GW2) hits are dealt, the target will be frozen.
  • The ammo in a clip is 30 (or 35 in GW2).
  • The reload time is 2.025 seconds (Or 1.8s in GW2).
  • The projectile speed is medium.
  • The weapon is full auto.
  • The bloom is medium.

Abilities[]

Left abilities
Zombie Stink CloudGW1
Zombie Stink Cloud
Zombie Stink Cloud arcs a gas grenade in front of the zombie; any plants inside the gas suffer damage. The gas is also extremely helpful for cover. It requires a 20-second recharge after use.
Super Stink CloudGW1
Super Stink Cloud
An alternate ability of Zombie Stink Cloud, Super Stink Cloud lasts shorter but does more damage than the Zombie Stink Cloud.
Center abilities
Rocket JumpGW1
Rocket Jump
Rocket Jump will launch the zombie high into the air. It is very useful for gaining an elevated advantage. It requires a 20-second recharge after use.
Rocket LeapGW1
Rocket Leap
An alternate ability of Rocket Jump, the Foot Soldier will go a further distance, but will not jump as high. Rocket Leap also has two uses. This ability is good if you want to get around places faster.
Right abilities
ZPGGW1
ZPG
ZPG fires an extremely powerful projectile that explodes on impact. It requires a 25-second recharge after use.
Multi-RocketGW1
Multi-Rocket
An alternate ability of ZPG, the Foot Soldier will launch four rockets to attack plants upon using the Multi-Rocket.

Left abilities
Zombie Stink CloudGW2
Zombie Stink Cloud
Zombie Stink Cloud arcs a gas grenade in front of the zombie; any plants inside the gas suffer damage. The gas is also extremely helpful for cover. It requires a 20-second recharge after use.
Super Stink CloudGW2
Super Stink Cloud
An alternate ability of Zombie Stink Cloud, Super Stink Cloud lasts shorter but does more damage than the Zombie Stink Cloud.
Center abilities
Rocket JumpGW2
Rocket Jump
Rocket Jump will launch the zombie high into the air. It is very useful for gaining an elevated advantage. It requires a 20-second recharge after use.
Rocket LeapGW2
Rocket Leap
An alternate ability of Rocket Jump, the Foot Soldier will go a further distance, but will not jump as high. Rocket Leap also has two uses. This ability is good if you want to get around places faster.
Right abilities
ZPGGW2
ZPG
ZPG fires an extremely powerful projectile that explodes on impact. It requires a 25-second recharge after use.
Multi-RocketGW2
Multi-Rocket
An alternate ability of ZPG, the Foot Soldier will launch four rockets to attack plants upon using the Multi-Rocket.

Upgrades[]

Garden Warfare[]

ArcticTrooperUpgrade

Less Frozen Reloader[]

The reloader sometimes gets iced up, but the less frozen one is great! The reload time has reduced for sure!

Arctic Ammo Pouch[]

Ammo capacity increased through clever use of arctic pockets.

Harder Ice Pellets[]

Harder Ice Pellets naturally do more damage.

Garden Warfare 2[]

Health Regeneration Delay
Health Regeneration Delay Upgrade

This upgrade decreases the delay before health regeneration begins!

Zoom Upgrade
Zoom Upgrade

This upgrade increases the zoom distance of your primary weapon!

Health Regeneration
Health Regeneration Upgrade

This upgrade increases how quickly your health regenerates!

Speed Upgrade
Speed Upgrade

This upgrade allows you to move faster!

Reload
Reload Upgrade

This upgrade decreases your reload time!

Ammo Upgrade
Ammo Upgrade

This upgrade increases the number of times you can fire before reloading!

Ice Upgrade
Ice Upgrade

This upgrade allows you to freeze enemies faster!

Health Upgrade
Health Upgrade

This upgrade increases your maximum health!

Strategies[]

The Arctic Trooper is good for players that can reliably stay focused on one target as landing around 12 or 10 consecutive hits with the Arctic Trooper will freeze the enemy solid, fully immobilizing them and rendering them unable to use any abilities.

If you wish to use the Arctic Trooper effectively, you need to be able to reliably land your hits as missing too many shots may cause you to empty your entire magazine without freezing your opponent. Once you do freeze them though, it gives you enough time to do one thing, this can be, for instance, reloading your weapon so you have a full magazine ready by the time your opponent unfreezes, activating the ZPG and trying to shoot it before they get free or use the time given to escape if you are severely injured.

Do not try to do more than one thing while your opponent is frozen though, as you will run out of time, since three seconds (or 2.1s in GW2) is very short.

Arctic Trooper really struggles against groups of Plants, as he is one of the weaker Soldiers because of his somewhat poor damage output. His main weakness are Sunflowers, as they can remove his powerful Ice effect with healing. Even Tankier variants, like Armour Chomper, Citrons (especially Frozen Citron) and Torchwoods can screw him over if he doesn't have enough Ammo.

Balancing changes[]

Trouble in Zombopolis: Part Two DLC[]

  • Magazine capacity was increased from 25 to 30.
  • Increased ammo upgrade from 30 to 35 magazine capacity.

June 2017 Patch[]

  • Decreased freeze rate by 10%

Related achievements[]

Garden Dioxide PSN
Garden Dioxide
As a Soldier, vanquish 2 players with a single ZPG strike
Rocket Man PSN
Rocket Man
Vanquish 10 players and 10 Plant Pots with the Soldier's ZPG
Hunting Season PSN
Hunting Season
Vanquish 100 Soldiers, 100 Scientists, 100 Engineers and 100 All Stars

Gallery[]

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare[]

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2[]

In other languages[]

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language Name Description
United States of America English Arctic Trooper
Taiwan Traditional Chinese 極地戰士
France French Soldat arctique
Germany German Gebirgsjäger
Italy Italian Soldato artico
Japan Japanese アイストルーパー
スノーソルジャー[1] in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
Poland Polish Arktyczny Żołnierz
Brazil Brazilian Portuguese Soldado do Ártico
Spain Spanish Tropa ártica


Trivia[]

  • In the Great White North map, near the first garden, there are ice blocks which have Arctic Troopers in them.
    • An Arctic Trooper can also be found frozen in an ice sculpture by the second objective point.
      • In fact, there are multiple Arctic Troopers found stuck inside of the ground in various different maps. Some of these maps include the Great White North, Frosty Creek and the academy in Zomburbia.
  • In Garden Ops, Arctic Troopers usually appear during a Super Yeti Wave, serving as support enemies.
    • On Crazy difficulty however, they can spawn in place of a normal Foot Soldier.
  • His appearance is greatly reminiscent to that of an Inuit.
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