The Cactus can also plant Potato Mines (which still explode beautifully, but without the “Spud-Ow!” onomatopoeia) and set up defensive Tall-nuts for cover. However, the slower rate of fire requires you to pull the trigger for each shot, instead of holding it down. It was used in the original game to take out both air and ground targets, and you can still do that in Garden Warfare.
The most sniper-like character of the Plants team, the Cactus can fire pointy projectiles with a great deal of accuracy. It doesn’t have any ranged attacks that cause damage, so this is probably the best choice for players who like to make every attack feel personal. The Chomper can also slow down prey with purple goop or lay vine traps that temporarily disable zombies. It can burrow underground to gobble up enemies in one bite or sneak up behind them and draw them in to your maw. In the originals, the Chomper would stay put and chew up the first zombie to cross its path, but in Garden Warfare it acts as a stealthy, up-close assassin. The Chomper probably represents the biggest departure from the first PvZ games. Every team should have at least one healing Sunflower, because these support units are far from helpless. The Sunflower can also plant healing stations around the map, which is a lot friendlier than setting zombies’ hair on fire. It can heal nearby plants, using a beam similar to the medic’s healing gun in Team Fortress 2. Now, the Sunflower fires a blazing-hot death ray at enemies while remaining rooted in place. In the original games, the Sunflower was essential for gathering resources, but you don’t need any sunshine to augment your forces in Garden Warfare. It’s a well-balanced unit, but the splotchy main weapon feels a bit like firing congealed soup. With enough experience, it develops the ability to run quickly and jump higher in Hyper mode, launch an area-clearing explosive Chili Bean Bomb, or take root with an extremely high-powered Gatling Pea.
In Garden Warfare, the Peashooter is an agile foot soldier, firing a slow, mushy glob of peas that causes splash damage.