Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare Wiki Guide

Power Cactus

Character Descriptions

"The Power Cactus specializes in blasting opponents with electricity from extremely long ranges."

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The Power Cactus is an unlockable character variant of the base Cactus class. They share the same rank, abilities, and challenges, but their primary weapons are different.

Health Primary Ability 1 Ability 2 Ability 3
125 Electric Needle Potato Mine Garlic Drone Tallnut Battlement

Primary Weapon

The Power Cactus has a unique primary weapon called the Electric Needle. It remarkably similar to the default Spike Shot, firing at an equivalent rate and having the same effective range. However, the Electric Needle does less damage.

The reason this weapon does less damage is because the added electric effect. This effect causes a chain reaction when an enemy is hit, inflicting normal damage on the directly hit enemy while also incurring reduced damage to any nearby enemies. This makes the Power Cactus suitable to situations where enemies bunch together, allowing the Power Cactus to hit one enemy while harming multiple.


Upgrade Description
Charged Spike Reload
Electric Spike Stockpile
Ammo capacity increased with a stockpile of electric spikes.
Supercharged Spikes
Supercharged spikes deal extra damage.


Ability Unlocked Description
Potato Mine Level 1 This ability drops a potato mine that will detonate whenever a zombie steps on it, vanquishing them in the process. Three will be available at the start, and four can be placed on a map at once. Potato Mines require a 25 second recharge period before another becomes available.
Garlic Drone Level 3 This ability deploys a drone companion that can monitor zombies from the skies, attack with a full auto primary weapon, and call in explosive Corn Strikes on designated areas. Unfortunately, it only has 5 Health. It can fly around until destroyed or until the fuel reserves are used up. Try not to fly out of bounds or it will be destroyed at the end of the countdown. The Corn Strikes have a 10 second charge period, and the Garlic Drone requires a 60 second recharge period before it can be used again.
Tallnut Battlement Level 2 This ability drops a Tallnut barrier that can be used as shield or to block zombie paths. Two will be available from the start, and four can be placed on a map at once. Tallnut Battlements require a 25 second recharge period before another becomes available.


Ability Description
Potato Nugget Mine The Potato Nugget Mine behaves in an identical manner to its larger Potato Mine counterpart. The main difference is that the Potato Nugget Mine does less damage (around 50), is easier to hide, and more can be placed at a time.
Artichoke Drone The Artichoke Drone is a more durable version, less weaponized version of the Garlic Drone. The Artichoke Drone has 20 starting health instead of 5, allowing it to take more damage. However, its primary attack does less damage, and the corn strike behaves differently. Instead of one large airstrike, like the Garlic Drone's corn strike, the corn strike for the Artichoke Drone drops only one piece of corn and it recharges far more frequently.
Iron Maiden The Iron Maiden is, likewise, a more durable version of the default Tallnut. Only one can be recharged and less can be placed on the battlefield, but the Iron Maiden is also stronger than the Tallnut. In addition, whereas the Tallnut is long, the Iron Maiden is tall, actually providing full cover for a Cactus hiding behind it.