Hot Rod Chomper

GW1 GW2 Hot Rod Chomper Health 100 (125 if upgraded) Weapon Hot Rod Chomp Abilities Goop Burrow Spikeweed Super Sticky Goop Sprint Burrow Spiky Spikeweed Cheesy Goop Chesterweed Variant of Chomper Rarity Super Rare Hot Rod Chomper Health 125 Weapon Hot Rod Chomp Abilities Goop Burrow Spikeweed Super Sticky Goop Sprint Burrow Spiky Spikeweed Chomp Cannon Vampweed Variant of Chomper Rarity Super Rare

Hot Rod Chomper is a Super Rare variant of the Chomper in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. He is a playable character which acts as a melee class with a secondary ability to speed up for a limited time after eating a zombie. In exchange for less health than most Chompers, he has the fastest movement of them all.

Descriptions

Stickerbook description

The Hot Rod Chomper is the fastest Chomper in Suburbia. Equipped with a heavy duty blower, port-and-polished heads, and a lightweight frame, he can race in on the unsuspecting Zombies.

In-game description

Hot Rod Chomper gets a temporary speed boost every time he eats a Zombie. Cool beans!

Appearance

Hot Rod Chomper differs from the normal Chomper with his shiny black paint job accented with purple flames, a chrome mouth, and tongue. Upon jumping or chomping, the Hot Rod Chomper makes motor-like noises.

Variant perk

Being Hot Rod Chomper, speed is a definite benefit. Upon swallowing an enemy zombie, the Hot Rod Chomper gains a temporary speed boost of five seconds to help close in the space between him and another enemy zombie. He also quickly recharges the Goop ability to slow down zombies. The only major disadvantage about Hot Rod Chomper is that its health is only 100 (125 if upgraded), instead of the normal 150. Also, zombies can easily spot him because of the constant noises he makes.

Primary weapon

Hot Rod Chomp is the primary weapon of the Hot Rod Chomper. It deals 25 damage. Once a zombie has been eaten, he will gain a speed boost for five seconds.

Abilities

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Weapon upgrades

Description about the Hot Rod Chomper's weapon upgrades

Supercharged Turbo

Movement speed increased due to addition of a supercharged turbo.

Super Combustion Intestines

Digests Zombies in a very Hot-Roddy manner, allowing for faster digestion.

Reinforced Chassis

A reinforced chassis boosts the health of Hot Rod Chomper.

Strategies

With

You can use the extra speed to make a quick getaway to a Sunflower or to quickly chase a player down without the use of Burrow. Try to take advantage of speed such as dodging bullets side to side however do not try this while running from a Engineer. The speed also allows you to get almost as fast as Peashooter's Hyper.

Against

Try to use abilities that can help you go faster such as, Scientist's Warp, Foot Soldier's Rocket Jump or Rocket Leap, Engineer's Turbo Jackhammer or Jackhammer or the All-Star's Sprint Tackle or Ultra Tackle. However Sprint Tackle is not recommendable as the Hot Rod Chomper can possibly live and end up getting knocked back to safety.

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.

Gallery

Garden Warfare

Hot Rod Chomper with Sunflower in a promotional poster

Hot Rod Chomper in a promotional image with Power Flower, Fire Cactus, and Peashooter

Stickerbook

HD Hot Rod Chomper

Garden Warfare 2

Appearance

Trivia

• He appears in a promotional image as seen above. The "Need for Seed" in the image is a pun for Need for Speed, a racing game developed by Electronic Arts.
  • The origin of the pun was from a fan that wondered what was next for a plant-based pun on June 2013, and PopCap replied that it was a brilliant idea.
• He is the only plant based on a car, and one of only two based on machines. The other is Future Cactus.
• He is one of the five Chomper variants whose stem and leaves have different colors. The others being Count Chompula, Armor Chomper, Chester Chomper, and Chomp Thing.
  • However, this is only the case in Garden Warfare, as in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, many Chomper variant's stem and leaves are different colors.
• His speed boost makes him as fast as a Peashooter using Hyper, making him the fastest plant without using any abilities.
• His Chomp has a special sound effect similar to Armor Chomper.
• He is redesigned in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. His appearance is mostly the same except for his mouth. It now has a black chrome color with the teeth not being chrome but white instead.
• He was given a new movement animation along with Disco Chomper, this animation can be seen when either of these Chompers achieve the condition that makes them move faster than normal. The player can also see this animation done by other Chompers by activating the Speed Boost Craziness option in a private match.
• After Chomp Thing's health buff in the Trials of Gnomus DLC, he is the only Chomper variant with 125 health.

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