Chilly Pepper (PvZ:RiT)


 * For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, see Chilly Pepper (PvZA).
 * For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Chilly Pepper (PvZH).

Chilly Pepper is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies: Rips in Time. When placed, Chilly Peppers will explode, dealing 200 damage per shot to every zombie in his lane, enough to kill a Zombie or any of its variants, alongside anything weaker. Anything that isn't killed in the explosion will be frozen for ten seconds, with a period of being chilled after breaking free from the freeze. Chilly Peppers will extinguish the torches of Fire Eater Zombie and Explorer Zombie.

Origins
Chilly Pepper's name is a portmanteau of the chili pepper, a species of pepper, and the homophone "chilly", meaning cold.

Suburban Almanac Entry
Chilly Pepper

Chilly Peppers blast and freeze every zombie in their lane.

Damage: heavy

Area: lane

Usage: instant

People always talk about how sickly Chilly Pepper looks, and he wishes he was. Maybe then he could feel slightly warmer. Anything would beat how cold Chilly Pepper feels right now.

Family: Winter-mint

Cost: 75

Recharge: 35 seconds

Strategies
Chilly Pepper, while a bit more expensive than other stalling plants like Iceberg Lettuce, Stallia, and Stunion, does come with the bonus of freezing an entire lane, rather than a small group, or even just one zombie, making it a bit more useful later on in certain levels. Chilly Peppers deal 200 damage per shot once they explode, and the player can use this to their advantage to take out large hordes of weaker zombies. Chilly Pepper can immediately dispatch a Zombie Bobsled Team, but generally, a Jalapeno is more useful for this, since it eliminates the ice trail the zombies arrive on.

While in most cases, Chilly Pepper isn't as useful as its fire counterpart, it costs less and has a faster recharge, allowing it to be placed for less sun, and making it more useful in night levels and Growling Twenties, where sun may be more limited. In addition, it can be used to stall powerful zombies while getting damage in on them. It faces competition from Ice-shroom, which freezes a 3x3 area and chills the rest of the screen, but costs more, and deals less damage, alongside being weaker during the day. Since Chilly Pepper is equally useful at different times, and is relatively cheap, it can be a decent addition for stalling, or for taking out weaker zombies. It's a good idea to pack it alongside Laser Bean, Fume-shroom, Plantain-pult, and other plants that deal damage to zombies down the lane.

Trivia

 * It and Sweet Pea are the two plants that have appeared in Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, and Plants vs. Zombies: Rips in Time.