Fire Chomper is the Rare fire variant of the Chomper in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. Along with the Fire Cactus, Fire Pea, Fire Flower, BBQ Corn, and Fire Rose, he is one of the six fire-based variants on the plants side.
Descriptions
Stickerbook description
The Fire Chomper enjoys chasing the Zombies around, using his intimidating flames to make them flee."
In-game description
Fire Chomper belches flames, dealing fire damage over time.
AI Health(GW2 only)
Easy: 105
Normal: 140
Hard: 175
CRAAAAZY: 210
Appearance
Instead of the normal purple head the Chomper has, the Fire Chomper's head looks to have a lava texture. Its mouth appears to be on fire.
Variant perk
The Fire Chomper's basic attack is not a bite, but he breathes out fire to harm nearby zombies instead. The fire breath itself deals ten damage continuously, and causes damage over time to the zombies at a rate of five damage per second for a few seconds after the enemy is hit. He is still able to swallow a zombie whole from behind, however.
An additional benefit to the fire breath is it bypasses additional defenses on NPC zombies such as screen doors, coffins, barrels, and even outhouses making short work of heavily defended zombies, similar to the Fume-shroom.
Primary weapon
Flame Spray is the primary weapon of the Fire Chomper. It deals ten damage continuously and five damage for every second for four seconds.
Abilities
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Weapon upgrades
Blazing Speed
Fire Chomper moves slightly below blazing speed.
Heartburn Digestion
Reduced chance of heartburn decreases digestion time when eating Zombies.
Flame Hardened Skin
Flame hardened skin provides extra health boost.
Strategies
Although Fire Chomper has a spray that allows him to fight at slightly longer range, you should still play him as you would any other Chomper. The fire affect allows you to deal lots of damage when combined with the spray's initial damage. Combining this with Goop or Spikeweed works well to stack up the damage in a hurry.
Balancing changes
Graveyard Variety Pack DLC
- ▲ Digestion time was decreased after a chomp escape (i.e. victim got away using anti-chomp ability like Jackhammer).
- ▼ Brought Chompers regeneration delay to parity with all other playable characters.
Trouble in Zombopolis: Part One DLC
- Tuned Chomper camera to be closer to that in Garden Warfare.
- ▲ Improved all digestion time upgrade multipliers.
Trouble in Zombopolis: Part Two DLC
- ▲ Increased overheat time from 1s to 1.25s.
Trials of Gnomus DLC
- ▼ Fire DOT damage was decreased from 5 to 4.
- ▲ Number of damage ticks were increased from 4 to 5.
- ▼ Damage was decreased from 10 to 8.
Gallery
Trivia
- He appears to have slight range increase with his primary attack, the Flame Spray.
- When the player gives him accessories, his mouth will not burn anymore.
- He may be a reference to the Venus Fire Trap from the Super Mario games.
- He deals the same damage and fire rate as the potted plant Snap Dragon, however it does not increase damage over time.
- When he is using Flame Spray and an All-Star uses Sprint Tackle on it, the flame has a visible range while he is flying away.
- He, Fire Pea, Yeti Chomper and Garlic Drone are the only plants mentioned in another plant's Stickerbook entry. Fire Chomper is mentioned in Power Chomper's entry.
- He is redesigned in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. He now has an all-yellow mouth, yellow spots, and reddish spikes.
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