Chili Bean (PvZ2)

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“	He's not blushing, he's trying to hold it in.	”
—Chili Bean's Almanac entry

Chili Bean (PvZ2)
Chili Beans deliver a crippling bout of gastrointestinal distress.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	50
Recharge	Sluggish
Damage	Massive
Range	Touch
Usage	When eaten
Special	Eating zombie is destroyed and releases stunning gas
Rarity (China)	Common
In-game statistics
Other weakness	Robot zombies (except ) (shielded with sarcophagus) (when spinning) (when charging toward plants) (when torch is lit) (can fly over it)
Unlocked	Beating Wild West - Day 4
Unlocked (China)	Collecting 10 stars in Wild West (pre-1.8), beating Wild West - Day 4
Costumes
He's not blushing, he's just trying to hold it in.

Chili Bean is the second plant obtained in Wild West in Plants vs. Zombies 2. When a zombie eats him, they will be stunned for 1.5 seconds before dying, unleashing a trail of gas behind them that stuns other zombies in the lane for 7.5 seconds. Chili Bean and his gas cloud do not affect mechanical enemies. In the Chinese version, strong zombies such as a Poncho Zombie that are level 2 or above only suffers 90 damage from him and does not get stunned. However the zombies behind still get stunned.

Origins

Chili Bean is based on the food of the same name, chili beans. Most of the time the food is made of the species Phaseolus vulgaris more commonly referred to as pinto beans. The effect of the zombie unleashing a trail of gas is based on when you eat chili beans the bacteria on the beans make you pass more gas.

Almanac entry

Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.

Chili Bean
	SUN COST 50 RECHARGE 20 TOUGHNESS 300 Special Stun RANGE Touch PLANT FOOD POWER 33.33% Usage On Eaten Ail-mint Plant Food: Launches out 3 Chili Bean clones to random locations on the lawn. Chili Beans deliver a crippling bout of gastrointestinal distress. He's not blushing, he's trying to hold it in.

Chili Bean

SUN COST 50 RECHARGE 20 TOUGHNESS 300 Special Stun RANGE Touch PLANT FOOD POWER 33.33% Usage On Eaten Ail-mint Plant Food: Launches out 3 Chili Bean clones to random locations on the lawn. Chili Beans deliver a crippling bout of gastrointestinal distress. He's not blushing, he's trying to hold it in.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When Chili Bean is fed with Plant Food, three additional Chili Beans will be created, landing on unoccupied tiles.

Costumed (China only)

It now creates one more Chill Bean, making four Chili Beans in total.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Sluggish)	Starting Recharge	Toughness (Typical)	Special (Stun)	Plant Food Power (Duplication)	Range
1	0	0	50	20 seconds	15 seconds	300 damage	7.5 seconds	Three	Touch
2	10	1,000		19 seconds	15 seconds		8 seconds	Three
3	75	5,000		18 seconds	14 seconds		8.5 seconds	Three
4	200	10,000		17 seconds	14 seconds		9 seconds	Three
5	400	20,000		15 seconds	12 seconds		9.5 seconds	Four
6	750	30,000		14 seconds	11 seconds		10 seconds	Four
7	1,000	40,000		13 seconds	10 seconds		10.5 seconds	Four
8	1,250	50,000		12 seconds	9 seconds		11 seconds	Four
9	1,500	60,000	25	11 seconds	8 seconds		11.5 seconds	Four
10	2,000	75,000		10 seconds	7 seconds		12 seconds	Five

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Improved Gas	Zombies are stunned by the gas 1.5 seconds longer.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Chili Bean (PvZ2) gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Mixing Poison	Zombies are stunned by the gas another 1.5 seconds longer (3 seconds of initial).
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Chili Bean (PvZ2) gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Chili Bean (PvZ2) may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Chili Bean (PvZ2) gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

Chili Bean is very useful as a "clutch plant" for quickly picking off tough zombies such as Buckethead Zombies, Knight Zombies, and Poncho Zombies, particularly when they appear unexpectedly during an ambush or are threatening endangered plants. The gas attack further expands his "clutch" ability by immobilizing enemies behind him, such as using one to kill a Knight Zombie and immobilize a Zombie King behind him. Using his Plant Food ability with Power Tiles or Tile Turnips can also flood the lawn with plenty of Chili Beans. He has a major drawback in that he requires the enemy to be able to eat and digest him, which means he is ineffective against some of the strongest zombies in the game, as they either do not eat plants (such as Gargantuars) or are immune to the effect (such as the machines in Far Future).

Compared to the Potato Mine, he is usually more of a clutch plant as he needs no "charge-up time," but the Potato Mine is cheaper and can damage almost any enemy, including multiple enemies, that approach him. As a weaker alternate to Chili Bean, you can use Stunion, as he's cheaper and works more quickly, but he only stuns zombies, as opposed to Chili Bean killing one and stunning the rest in the lane. However Stunion does not require a zombie to eat him to activate his ability.

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Trivia

• If not eaten, he will release his own gas once in a while as part of an idle animation. When this happens, he will lose his costume if he is wearing it.
• He can kill a Disco-tron 3000 in the Chinese version. This is fixed when Dark Ages was released.
• When a Seagull Zombie eats him, the paralyzing gas comes from Seagull Zombie's head.
• In any levels with Dave's mold colonies on earlier updates, if the player uses Plant Food on him and one lands on the mold colonies, the objective can still be completed. This can also happen with any other plants that create duplicates of themselves with their Plant Food ability.
• As of the 2.1 update, he no longer makes Pianist Zombies faint and can no longer kill multiple zombies at once, but Zombie Bulls die instantly upon eating the Chili Bean.
• If his gas stuns ten zombies at once, the player gets the Magical Fruit achievement.
• If the zombie that eats him is immobilized by butter before the zombie dies, the zombie will not die but will be stunned and release gas.
• If there are only two or fewer empty tiles, and the player gives him Plant Food, he will create extra Chili Beans depending on the number of empty tiles.
  • If there are no empty tiles, he will play the animation, but will not create any extra Chili Beans.
  • This also happens to Potato Mine and Primal Potato Mine.
• If a zombie is facing backwards (via Sweet Potato's Plant Food, Prospector Zombie after his dynamite detonates, or pterodactyl) when he dies from eating the bean, he will release gas backwards towards the house.
• Pharoah Zombie lost his immunity to him when the Far Future Expansion was released. He is still immune to Chilli Bean in the Chinese version.
• There is a glitch when the player plants a Thyme Warp right before a zombie dies by eating a Chili Bean, where they will end up staying in one spot, not being a threat.
  • This also happens if a zombie eats him in Glitter Zombie's rainbow.
• If a fainted zombie gets pushed back by Primal Peashooter, he will continue walking for a short moment, then release gas and die.
• He holds the record for being the plant with the shortest Almanac entry, at nine words (or 45 characters).
• In From the 5.9 update to the 6.0 updates of the game, Chili Bean may not cause zombies to die when eaten. Sometimes he will get eaten but the zombie will be unaffected.
• In From the 5.9 update to the 6.0 updates of the game, Chili Bean may not cause zombies to die when eaten. Sometimes he will get eaten but the zombie will be unaffected.

See also

• Hypno-shroom
• Magical Fruit
• Shadow-shroom

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