Shadow melon-pult

 Costumed  (China only)
It can launch fire melons that deal quadruple the damage of normal melons.

Strategies
Melon-pult retains his role as a well-rounded and reliable offensive choice, useful both in normal levels and in the Endless Zones. This is further cemented by improvements in both splash damage and radius, greatly increasing Melon-pult's crowd control capability in the progress. On the other hand, Melon-pult's reliability has taken a noticeable hit, as certain zombies can now block or reflect lobbed shots, such as Shield Zombie, Jester Zombie and Parasol Zombie.

Melon-pult can be used in conjunction with Cold Snapdragon, as the latter's chilling effect and high damage makes this combination similar to planting Winter Melons, with a cheaper price of 25 sun. In addition, Cold Snapdragon helps Melon-pult to take out the zombies that he normally can't, such as Jester Zombies, Shield Zombies and Parasol Zombies.

 Version 2.5.6  (China only)

 * ▲ Melon slices damage area increased from 1x1 to 3x3 area.
 * ▼ Melon Slices chance of occurence decreased from 40% to 25%.

Trivia

 * If a zombie is in front of him, the zombie will not instantly be hit by the melon, unlike in Plants vs. Zombies. The only time it will be hit by a melon instantly if he was a zombie taller than the Melon-pult himself.
 * His description mentions that he is the middle child of the Pult family. This would make Cabbage-pult the youngest and Kernel-pult the oldest.
 * He and Winter Melon both have the same watering animation.
 * After he defeats a zombie, the "brick-breaking" sound will not play if his melon hits another zombie.
 * In some Last Stand levels, Melon-pult cannot be selected as one of the plants for the level.