Plants vs. Zombies Heroes/Glitches

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Glitches are normal to appear in any game. Glitches and bugs are software errors that can cause drastic problems within the code and typically go unnoticed or unsolved during the production of said software. These errors can be game caused or otherwise exploited until a developer/development team repairs them. Complex software is rarely bug-free or otherwise free from errors upon the first release. This article is a list of the glitches found in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes. If you think you found one that deserves to be on this page, feel free to add it.

Everybody gets down

Unknown how this glitch starts, but it is quite similar to the "We will fight".

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Time Travel Paradox Glitch

PopCap has stated that attempting to time travel (via the phone's settings app) can result in disastrous results and can corrupt the game. Time traveling backwards work fine, but tickets won't be saved. If the player does manage to time travel forward, the following can be seen:

• If the player reverts the time to normal, the game may crash.
• Daily Challenges may no longer be availble since the button to start a daily challenge is grayed out with "Unavailable" on it.
• Timer for quests may change, sometimes it may increase to 24 hours for a new quest.
• It is possible to go backwards or ahead for weekly event cards.
• Time Traveling on other games may cause glitches and other bad effects as well, although sometimes good. It should not be tried, anyway.

Mad Chemistry Glitch

On update 1.14.13, it is possible for Mad Chemist to get the following cards that should not been seen by the player as a programming error that allows these cards to spawned even though they are normally used in AI decks:

• Blank Zombie, which is otherwise used in early AI decks and some Witty Wednesday as filler. It costs 99 brains and is a trick card with no tribe or ability. The player is completely unable to play this, thus causing a waste in the deck.
• Plumber, which is the Bungee Plumber used by Template:PvZHLink in the tutorial. It is similar to Bungee Plumber but cannot target the plant hero, has Uncommon rarity, and has no tribes.

It is unknown if this can be given via Eureka or Peel that Orange!'s boss rule.

Unable to Watch Ads Glitch

For some players, watching ads for gem rewards is impossible, as the button in the shop is always grey. It is unknown what causes this or how it can be resolved.

We will fight

Unknown how this glitch starts, but this applies with zombie and plant heroes. Plant heroes can fight against plant hero and so do zombie heroes.

The game would then be glitched as the following may occur:

• The player cards may look like they are "face-down" and show the symbol on the back.
• Any placed plants or zombies will be placed onto the player's or opponent side. If the teammates gets "played" to the opponent's side, then it is impossible to win. Sometimes plants and zombies can be placed on the front as if it had Team-Up. Should the "Team-Up" teammates attack, they will damage themselves.

Multi-Scrapping

If you open the prompt to recycle multiple cards, it is possible to recycle the cards multiple times if you quickly press the scrap button. It will add those sparks also to add on and you will lose more than one of that card. It is unknown if the cards can reach the negatives from this.

x2 Cards in Deck Building Bug

Strangely, sometimes adding, removing, etc., 2 cards while building a deck will sometimes only display it as one (Ex: Added 2 cards to my deck, but going to the deck only shows x1). The bug is fixed by clicking the card.

No help from the game

Sometimes, while playing online and you fail a mission 3, 4, 5 or more times, the game won't give you a Premium Pack in an ad. It is currently unknown why this happens, although it could be a way to stop players from abusing the free pack system.

Concede Card Glitch

This will only happen if you redraw a card. If your opponent concedes while you redraw a card, all cards disappear except the fourth card.

Tomb Raiser Wrong Summon Glitch + Softlock

Tomb Raiser Zombie has a chance to summon Mixed-Up Gravedigger, which should not be possible as he does not have the Gravestone attribute. If this happens, the game will soft lock.

Animations Glitch

Electric Boogaloo's animations used to be severely glitched. This ranges from going faster or slower than normal, as well as reacting to hits late. It is unknown what makes this happen.

This may also happen to any hero in newer versions, though such thing to occur is more rare.

No Defeat animation Glitch

The glitch done using Threepeater

After the 1.6.27 update, the Defeat animation can now appear earlier than when the hero explodes. But when both plants Team-Up hits the zombie hero, they can cancel the defeat animation. The first plant must finish the opponent hero's health to 0 and the plant Team-Up will continue the attack to cancel the defeat animation. And the opponent hero gets defeated without the defeat animation, even after the game ends. Also, when you win as Nightcap, he will disappear with a smoke bomb showing up, but after 5 seconds he will appear suddenly without smoke.

It is also possible to do this if a Template:PvZHLink or Power Pummel destroy the zombie hero but the initial damage for one lane is not enough to destroy the hero. It will do its defeat animation with health but when the "Plants Win" screen appears, they will warp its health to 0 and fill the Super-Block Meter, and go back to the idle animation after performing their hurt animation.

On a similar note, if a player concedes while their hero is doing an idle animation, their defeat animation will not play, but the player will still lose.

Similar to Power Pummel and Threepeater, it can also be done with Missile Madness to destroy the plant hero and continues to take additional damage to decrease their health to 0 when "Zombies Win" screen appears.

It can also be done with Missile Madness.

Auto-skip Zombie Phase and 10 second turn Glitch

This glitch occurs when a hero super-blocks and the Superpower trick fails to return to player's hand due to a lag. The game will automatically skip zombie phase. When it's time for tricks, the player will only have 10 seconds to play tricks but they can still play Superpower trick card for free.

Move a Dead Plant Glitch

If both Portal Technician and a plant is destroyed in same fight and the Portal Technician spawns Sumo Wrestler or Rodeo Gargantuar. The plant can still be moved even the health is 0. If you moved another plant to the plant with 0 health, it still cannot move to its lane until the plant is fully destroyed.

Playing with Fire Glitch

In the 39th zombie mission boss, the music will become higher pitch. This is because of the preplaced plants and zombies.

Undead Boosting Glitch

If a fighter with a self-boosting effect activates said effect at zero health, it will still live if its health was boosted.

Duplicated Reward Glitch

After you get a higher rank (or have been promoted to a higher league), play Casual and beat it. After you beat it, you will get a notification that you ranked up and it show that you will get an amount of gems, and even it show that you have been promoted to a higher league and then give you another amount of gems. But if you checked again, no reward was given.

Selfish Engineer Glitch

If a science zombie deals damage but dies in the process of a Zombot Drone Engineer to the immediate right buffing said science zombie, the Drone Engineer will receive the buff. It seems to be a visual glitch.

Undead card glitch

Rarely when a card's health is reduced to zero, it will not be defeated. Instead, it will just stay on the field and continue like they have health left. Attacking it again will destroy it.

Note how the Cabbage-Pult has no health

Note how the Smelly Zombie has no health

Zero Health Hero

Professor Brainstorm has zero health, but it does not appear to end the game

Unknown how this glitch starts, but sometimes the hero has 0 health. May be a visual glitch only.

A possible cause, is that the more damage glitch occurred and the enemy hero did not know, and didn't do the amount of damage needed to lower the real health. (Ex. the health might show zero when the hero actually has 5 left.)

Fighter size glitch

Sometimes, when a plant or zombie is placed on the field, it will be larger or smaller than it normally is. This also happens with cards.

Notice how Poison Ivy is bigger than normal

Notice how Arm Wrestler is smaller than normal

Notice how Smackadamia is noticeably bigger than normal

Notice how Shellery is bigger than normal

Notice how Water Chestnut is bigger than normal

Notice how Rescue Radish is bigger than normal

Notice how Team Mascot is bigger than normal

Notice how Zombot 1000 is bigger than normal

Notice how Nurse Gargantuar is bigger than normal

Notice how Loudmouth is bigger than normal

Notice how Toxic Waste Imp is bigger than normal

Card has no strength when planted, but icon still shows

If a card with no strength points, such as the Prickly Pear, is boosted and had strength points added to it and is then bounced, its strength points will return to zero, but the strength icon will still be visible with 0 on the icon. This applies to both when the card is played and on its card.

Notice the 0 strength Water Chestnut

Low health animation glitch

Electric Boogaloo is in the low health animation even though he has 6 health.

When a hero heals him/herself when they have low health and the health exceeds more than 5, they will continue to do their animation even though circumstances stand otherwise.

Seedling Transformation Glitch

If the Plant Hero ends their turn by placing a Seedling and pressing the button, both heroes can see what the Seedling will transform into in the next turn. This also works with Tomb Raiser Zombie's created gravestones, but the zombie hero only can see it. 

Invisible Card Glitch

Notice the invisible Hibernating Beary.

Sometimes, when the plant or zombie hero places a card, it will be invisible, but still can absorb damage and attack normally.

Z-Mech Stolen Superpower Glitch

When you receive Z-Mech from a Premium Pack, and when you click on him, it will show the image of Possessed instead of Template:PvZHLink.

Transparent Superpower Glitch

Sometimes when the Super-Block gives a superpower, some of the superpowers appears to be missing it's frame.

Living Card

If a berry with 2 attack or less attacks a Kangaroo Rider with a Sergeant Strongberry on the field, Sergeant Strongberry will attack the Kangaroo Rider after it has bounced. Leaving both its idle animation and its card icon in the player's deck. The card background is invisible.

A gray Trash Can Zombie

Gray Glitch

This glitch is a visual glitch that makes zombies or plants darker when played. It can be triggered when you play a plant or zombie quickly as the turn starts.

Sergeant Strongberry and Berry Blast Glitch

When you have Sergeant Strongberry on the field, and play a berry trick (like Berry Blast), the extra damage will not take effect. This only works sometimes, as Berry Blast does normally take Sergeant Strongberry's effect.

Letting the Air Out of the Band

Upon the end of a Multiplayer match, when the game plays the main theme for the quests menu, if the button to go back to Multiplayer menu is timed just right, the note for one of the instruments does not properly end, and it will keep playing until the music is changed. This is easiest done if the player completes one hero quest, where it seems to be around the quickest timing possible to advance, but you can do it all the same even without completing a hero quest.

With proper timing, it can be further brought to different screens, including an entire multiplayer match, where the instrument will play during the whole match, outside of occasional glitching or being temporarily muted for a signature superpower being played.

It's unknown exactly why this happens, as replications are scarce and almost entirely random due to the unknown timing. However, one possible cause is the game's music could potentially be a .midi file played in real time, and not an .ogg or an .mp3 played, and thusly, by timing the end of a song just right between when a note starts and a note is supposed to end, the game is never properly told to end the note, and the instrument keeps playing. Upon the song changing, it's told to stop all instruments in the song playing, and that's why it is fixed.

Wrong Class Glitch

Sometimes, cards appear in the wrong class when viewed in the almanac. They may also be played in games with the wrong class, causing certain heroes to play cards that they weren't supposed to be able to play.

Negative Sun/Brain Glitch

Sometimes at the start of turn the sun/brain received is shown to be lower than the actual sun/brain that should be received. After cards are played, the brain/sun may go to a negative number. However, this is only a visual glitch. It usually occurs when a Brainana steals brains.

B-Flat Ultra-Glitch

Note: This glitch was discovered by CITRONtanker, and due to its complexity, it might never happen again.

This glitch is very rare and equally complex. It starts when your opponent plays a Locust Swarm to destroy a plant. Immediately after, they put a B-Flat on the same plant that had Locust Swarm used on it. This causes the game to softlock, likely because B-Flat is not programmed to target a single plant, but rather to destroy a random one. During this, you can perform the Floating Cards glitch, but you cannot progress the battle in any way. If you concede the match, things get really strange. The screen dims, zooms out, and moves down. You can see a card texture there, most likely the one you would get at the start of your next turn.

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As you can see, B-Flat does not have a target yo to rushing, causing the game to softlock

Although dim, this is what happens if you concede. If you look closely, you can see the Prickly Pear texture, likely the card you would draw next turn.

"A Dark and Stormy Glitch"

This glitch is rare, but sometimes when tap the store icon on the menu, the screen will strangely turn black- however you can still see your gem values. This can be solved by closing and reopening the game.

Patched Glitches

The following glitches were patched out eventually.

• Before version ???, it was possible for the game to ask the player where did they want to move the Surprise Gargantuar if he was spawned from a Gargantuars' Feast even if there was less than 2 open lanes. If that occurred with no available lanes, the game softlocked.

  

  Unmovable Surprise Gargantuar

• Before version 1.6.27, if a fighter was given a trait from another fighter, such as an Imp getting Deadly or a Template:PvZHLink getting Frenzy, was bounced, the card in the player's hand would still have the trait icon on the health or strength. This continued to apply when the card was placed, and it did not go away until the fighter was destroyed. This however was purely an aesthetic glitch and the fighter would behave like usual.
• Before version ???, if a Seedling transformed into a plant (or transformed from the effects of Petal-Morphosis) that had a "When played" ability, it would not have activated its ability. Should this occur with Wild Berry, the game will not allow the turn to end, forcing the player or their opponent to concede.

  

  Wild Berry not changing lanes

• Before version ???, the game would not have responded and soft-locked if a Bungee Plumber was used on the plant hero while a Soul Patch was on the field, since back then, all attacks made on the plant hero had an animation where the attack went in the direction of the Soul Patch.
• Before version ???, Soul Patch would have taken damage for Wall-Knight even if he used Uncrackable, where he would not have taken any damage in the first place.
• Before version ???, it was much harder to clear Electric Boogaloo's Shocking Moves since only tricks could be used on the heights lane of that mission, and yet zombies could be played there as normal.

  

• Before version 1.6.27, Neptuna's trident experienced a visual glitch when using a superpower trick. If the player used a superpower trick or Neptuna's Signature Superpower: Octo-Pult, they would notice the yellow glow clipping out of Neptuna's trident.

Neptuna when using superpower trick

Neptuna's trident clipped out when using her Signature Superpower.

• Before version ???, if the player skipped a quest in the Daily Quests, a new one would appear but did not replace the old one. Although the old quest could be completed, it did not give its reward. Skipping to the next day made it disappear permanently and would not have a new quest to replace it.
• Before version 1.14.13, should an Template:PvZHLink who was revealed from a Gravestone used his ability on himself to damage/destroy certain plants such as Template:PvZHLink or Hothead and gets killed from it while there was a Headstone Carver on the field, the headstone carver would have attempted to boost a non-existent zombie. However, since he does not exist anymore, the game would not end until the player or their opponent conceded.
• Before version ???, in A Fight to the Finish Line, there was a cosmetic glitch where the second lane which was supposed to be a ground lane actually looked like an aquatic lane.

  

• Before version ???, the icon for Yeti Lunchbox was missing its lunchbox. Only the light was present.

  

  Notice it only shows the picture of the light while Yeti Lunchbox is not visible.

• Before version 1.14.13, should multiple attacks via special abilities occur on the hero, (e.g. multiple Admiral Navy Beans, the Sergeant Strongberry loop as shown in the picture, or Re-Peat Moss), the Super-Block would not have blocked the rest of the attacks.

  

• Before version ???, it was possible for the textures in the game to be replaced with pink textures, similar to the pink textures used in Plants vs. Zombies 2 where textures are replaced with either sun sprites or pink textures with a black X if the player locked their device with the game still on or opened the notifications while playing the game.

  

  

  

  

• Before version ???, scrolling left from the first card in the player's deck would have shown a 3/3 card, a sun icon, and a brain icon.

  

• Before version 1.14.13, if the zombie hero used cards such as Fireworks Zombie or The Chickening to damage multiple nut plants while there was a Mirror-Nut on the field or was fighting a Smarty plant hero that played a bean while there were several Admiral Navy Beans, a superblock that appeared would have only blocked the first attack, forcing the zombie hero to take the extra damage and not allowing them to use their obtained superpower until all the damage was dealt.
• Before version ???, it was possible for a Bounced card to not properly return to its owner's hand.

Both sides have a fighter which was supposed to be bounced

Professor Brainstorm had an Imp which was supposed to be bounced

• Before version ???, it was possible for insta-blocks to occur, even though they were removed in version ???.
• Before version ???, it was possible to play a card outside its intended lane, though it was a visual glitch.

The Water Chestnut is played in the Hero's hand instead of a lane.

However, it still takes damage from the lane it should be in. (Water Lane in this case)

The Water Chestnut can still be targeted, too.

• Before version ???, it was possible to play Trick or Treater as a plant hero either from Petal-Morphosis, Seedling, or the special rule of the boss battle of Peel that Orange! for Citron's side. If that happened, Trick or Treater will, in the fight phase, hurt and destroy himself but otherwise would act normally in the zombie trick phase.

Trick or Treater from a Seedling

• Before version ???, it was possible for the AI to softlock the match since it might have very rarely not come up with a solid plan for that turn.
• Before version ???, Template:PvZHLink is shown to have the attribute "Shielded" and the multiple attack attribute star on the Collection menu. It is purely cosmetic and doesn't act differently. This also happened with the Jugger-Nut.
• Before version ???, in multiplayer, it was possible to plays a card where it won't be placed where it is supposed to be, instead it will be placed out of the lawn.

  

  Notice the Three-Headed Chomper is placed outside the lawn

• Before version ???, it was possible for Template:PvZHLink to become glitched when it bounced itself at the end of a turn, its card became glitched and unplayable while the yeti itself became a background,

A Zookeeper on the Zombie Yeti's lane.

A Cat Lady on the Zombie Yeti's lane. Note the yellow button

• Before version ???, if Mixed-Up Gravedigger was played and a non-amphibious zombie appeared in the aquatic lane, when bounced, it will be missing the card details and its card background.
• Before version ???, sommetimes cards can be dragged anywhere on the screen and they would not have dropped back to the player's hand nor could be played on the field.

An example if this glitch