Puff-shroom (PvZ)

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For other uses, please refer to Puff-shroom (disambiguation) page.

Puff-shroom is a mushroom appearing in both main Plants vs. Zombies series games. Although it has a limited range of three tiles, it does not cost any sun and can deal as much damage as a Peashooter.

Origins

Its name refers to how it puffs little spores, and it is a mushroom.

History

Plants vs. Zombies

Puff-shroom is unlocked after the player beats Level 1-10. It is the first mushroom in the game. In this game, it has an aquatic counterpart called Sea-shroom.

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Puff-shroom makes its return in Plants vs. Zombies 2 as the second plant to be obtained in the Dark Ages with the same sun cost as its counterpart from the first game. In this game, Puff-shroom will flicker and disappear after a minute, but all Puff-shrooms on the lawn will have their timer reset if Plant Food is used on one of them. Puff-shroom has also had its health reduced to half that of a regular plant (three bites). Witch Hazel has the ability to turn zombies into Puff-shrooms.

Boosting 20 Puff-shrooms with a single Plant Food will earn the player the Fungus Humongous achievement.

Almanac entry

Plants vs. Zombies

File:New Puff-Shroom almanac.png

Almanac entry of the Puff-shroom

Puff-shroom

Puff-shrooms are cheap, but can only fire a short distance.

Damage: normal
Range: short
Sleeps during the day

"I only recently became aware of the existence of zombies," says Puff-shroom. "Like many fungi, I'd just assumed they were fairy tales or movie monsters. This whole experience has been a huge eye-opener for me."

Cost: 0

Recharge: Fast

Plants vs. Zombies 2

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

Puff-shroom
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 150 DAMAGE 20 RANGE 3 Tiles Special Lifespan PLANT FOOD POWER 9.09% Ail-mint Plant Food: All Puff-shroom on the lawn will shoot a spore barrage and reset their life duration. Puff-shrooms are short-range shooters that last for a limited time. Puff-shroom is hip to all the latest social networks. He loves to surf Sporebook, FungusedIn and ShroomstaGram. But he sometimes misses the simple camaraderie of a good ol' fashioned Lawn Area Network party.

Puff-shroom

SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 150 DAMAGE 20 RANGE 3 Tiles Special Lifespan PLANT FOOD POWER 9.09% Ail-mint Plant Food: All Puff-shroom on the lawn will shoot a spore barrage and reset their life duration. Puff-shrooms are short-range shooters that last for a limited time. Puff-shroom is hip to all the latest social networks. He loves to surf Sporebook, FungusedIn and ShroomstaGram. But he sometimes misses the simple camaraderie of a good ol' fashioned Lawn Area Network party.

Upgrades

Puff-shrooms unleashing barrage of spores

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Plant Food effect

When fed Plant Food, it will unleash 30 spores for three seconds, three spaces in front of it. Every Puff-shroom on the screen is also activated, which is a bit similar to Power Tiles. This also resets the duration of all the Puff-shrooms on the field, allowing them to last longer. If some of the Puff-shrooms are planted on Power Tiles, the effect will last longer and green outlines will be coming out from the Power Tiles. In the Chinese version, the spores can shoot through the lawn.

Costumed (China only)

Puff-shroom deals twice the damage and its plant food projectile travels farther.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage* (Normal)	Projectile Velocity	Special (Lifespan)	Plant Food Power (Damage*)	Range
1	0	0	0	5 seconds	150 damage	20 damage	Normal	60 seconds	20 damage	3 Tiles
2	3	50		4.5 seconds	200 damage	25 damage		65 seconds
3	10	200		4.5 seconds	250 damage	30 damage		65 seconds
4	25	1,500		4.5 seconds	300 damage	35 damage		70 seconds
5	50	2,000		4 seconds	350 damage	40 damage	+ 1.6x	70 seconds
6	75	3,000		4 seconds	400 damage	45 damage		75 seconds
7	100	4,000		4 seconds	450 damage	50 damage		75 seconds	25 damage
8	125	5,000		4 seconds	500 damage	55 damage		80 seconds
9	175	6,000		4 seconds	550 damage	60 damage		80 seconds
10	225	8,000		3.5 seconds	600 damage	65 damage		85 seconds
11	300	10,000		3.5 seconds	650 damage	70 damage		85 seconds
12	350	15,000		3.5 seconds	700 damage	75 damage		90 seconds
13	350	20,000		3.5 seconds		80 damage	+ 2.2x	90 seconds
14	400	25,000		3.5 seconds		85 damage		95 seconds
15	450	30,000		3.5 seconds		90 damage		95 seconds
16	500	35,000		3 seconds		95 damage		100 seconds	30 damage
17	550	40,000		3 seconds		100 damage		100 seconds
18	600	45,000		3 seconds		105 damage		110 seconds
19	700	50,000		3 seconds		110 damage		110 seconds
20	800	55,000		2.5 seconds		110 damage		120 seconds

*Per hit.

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	File:Puff-shroom (PvZ) Upgrade 1.png Rapid Planting	Puff-shroom's seed packet recharges 30% faster.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Puff-shroom (PvZ) gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	File:Puff-shroom (PvZ) Upgrade 2.png Improved Breed	Puff-shroom's seed packet recharges 50% faster (80% in total from the Level 2).
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Puff-shroom (PvZ) gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Puff-shroom (PvZ) may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Puff-shroom (PvZ) gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

Due to its zero sun cost and poor offensive potential, Puff-shroom serves the role of a "cannon fodder", a highly disposable plant meant to be planted and eaten in great quantity. Regardless, Puff-shroom can be useful for both offensive and defensive purpose:

Offensively, Puff-shroom is useful as a deterrent against basic Zombies in the early game, a role that can also be occupied by instant use plants such as Potato Mine, Stunion and Squash. Compared to the aforementioned plants, Puff-shroom benefits from his ability to be massed in great numbers with little negative impact, and therefore will be able to last until the middle game. However, its offensive potential will prove to be inefficient as the level progresses and zombie density rapidly increases, while instant use plants can continue to work efficiently.

Defensively, Puff-shroom serves well as a makeshift wall against most enemies because of its sun cost. Puff-shroom is particularly effective in stalling Gargantuars, as they will take the same amount of time to attack a Puff-shroom as a Tall-nut while not dealing any economical damage to the player, even in the day. Puff-shroom does not work however against several other zombies that can crush or circumvent plants, such as Explorer Zombie, Pianist Zombie and Mecha-Football Zombie.

Puff-shroom should ideally be placed at the frontline to support other offensive plants. This will somewhat negate Puff-shroom's range issue, as well as allow it to absorb the horde's attacks if they manage to break through the firing zone.

Plants vs. Zombies

Puff-shroom is a highly useful plant in ZomBotany and ZomBotany 2, as it is too short to be hit with peas, making it a good choice for both attacking and stopping Squash Zombies. However, it requires Coffee Beans to able to function properly, removing one of its biggest advantages - being free. Puff-shroom can also be used to force Pole Vaulting Zombies to jump when replaying Adventure Mode.

Photosensitive

Puff-shroom is vital for obtaining the Nintendo DS achievement Photosensitive. The rest of the selected plants are not important, since the player cannot plant them. Wall-nuts, Potato Mines, and Scaredy-shrooms can be used, but the player can only plant either one Wall-nut or two of the others. The easiest level to achieve this is on Level 2-1, as the only zombies that appear are the regular Zombie and the Newspaper Zombie. Simply plant three to four columns of Puff-shrooms at the back of the lawn (the player should not plant Sunflowers, as they may be tempted to collect sun, therefore failing this achievement). Due to their free sun cost, the player should not worry if the zombies eat his or her Puff-shrooms and instead continue to plant and replace his or her Puff-shrooms, and he or she should easily achieve Photosensitive.

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Puff-shroom has been significantly nerfed in terms of basic function, as it now has a timed lifespan and will disappear after 60 seconds - without Plant Food or Imitater, the player will only be able to maintain a maximum of ten Puff-shrooms on the lawn at any given movement. Because of this, Puff-shroom can no longer be planted in large quantities and therefore will lose its effectiveness even faster than it did in the first game. However, this is compensated by its powerful Plant Food ability, which will spread to all Puff-shrooms currently present on the lawn, dealing a massive amount of damage and resetting their duration in the progress, without the need of Power Tiles or Tile Turnip

In Dark Ages, Puff-shroom should not be used to fight Jester Zombies, as they can reflect Puff-shroom's projectile. Puff-shroom is also a poor choice in the Big Wave Beach as its biggest advantage of "being free" cannot be used effectively, since it cannot be planted in the water without the use of Lily Pad, which costs 25 sun to create.

The player can make great use of Puff-shrooms in levels that require the player to not spend too much sun. Being free, Puff-shroom won't detract from the sun counter, meaning the player is free to plant as many Puff-shroom as he/she chooses.

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Trivia

General

• In the French translations, the name Puff-shroom is translated as "Champi-gnon", which is a pun on the words "champignon" (mushroom) and "gnon" (a French argot term, meaning the act of punching).

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies

• It, Sun-shroom, Spikeweed, and Spikerock are the only plants which, when planted, may not be in the center of a square on the lawn. They may get planted slightly to the left, right or up.
• It is one of the two cheapest plants in Versus Mode, requiring only 25 sun for the cost of the Coffee Bean with the other being the Potato Mine.
• Even if it is at the edge of the red line in Versus Mode, it cannot shoot the Target Zombies, as the distance is just slightly over three squares long. The only time it can shoot the Target Zombie, however, is if its spore goes past a dead zombie about to fall down.
• On the iPad version of Plants vs. Zombies, the spore range increases to four squares.
• On the Nintendo DS and online versions of Plants vs. Zombies, if it shoots an already dead zombie (after falling), the spore will pass through the entire lawn.
• The player will receive a warning for refusing to bring Puff-shrooms on the first night level. The warning will say "This Level will be extremely difficult without Puff-shrooms. Are you sure you wish to continue without them?"
• It, Twin Sunflower, Sunflower, Sun-shroom, and Sea-shroom are the only plants that cannot be used in Last Stand and the iOS puzzle mode variation.
• It can be considered as the opposite to Scaredy-shroom, as Puff-shroom can only attack zombies in a close range and Scaredy-shroom can only attack zombies in a far range.
• Even though its spores technically come out of his mouth, if the player looks closely it can be seen that they come out of its head.
• In Java version, if player forgot to bring Puff-shroom at night levels, the game will still proceed without warning the player to choose it.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies 2

• It is the first plant that initiates a chain reaction of Plant Food ability, even if there are no Power Tiles from Tile Turnips or from Far Future to aid it from doing so, unless there is only one Puff-shroom present on the lawn. The second one is the Groundcherry, which activates a chain reaction for sun-producing plants on-screen, and the third is Sunflower Singer which also initiates a chain reaction of other Sunflower Singers.
  • It is the only plant to do this in the international version.
  • If it is planted on Power Tiles, the tiles will pulsate as the Plant Food effect is triggered, but nothing else will happen.
• If the level has been completed but the reward has not been collected and it is about to fade, it will stay on the lawn instead.
• In its Almanac entry, Sporebook is a pun on Facebook, Shroomstagram is a pun on Instagram, FungusedIn is a pun for LinkedIn, and Lawn Area Network is a pun on Local Area Network.
  • However, in the Chinese version they renamed it to: Mushroom Blog (菇博), Mushroom Mail (菇信) and Beautiful Mushroom Show (美菇秀秀).
  • They are all Chinese puns of Sina Weibo, WeChat and Meitu, all of which are Chinese social media.
• In Dark Ages - Night 12, if the player lets the endangered Puff-shrooms disappear, instead of saying "THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR PLANT!", the game over text says "PUFF-SHROOM DID NOT SURVIVE!".
• As of the 2.9 update, it now has an "about to open mouth" sprite when fed with Plant Food.
• Even though it has the lowest health out of all non-instant use plants, it does not have its own health category on the Almanac.
  • Though this is probably due to lack of space, as a plant's Almanac entry can only have a maximum of three categories, those being recharge speed, range and damage respectively.
• The splatter created when a spore hits a target is a recolor of the splatter caused when a pea hits a target.
• The sound that it makes when it disappears is identical to the sound that Stunion makes when it disappears.

See also

• Sea-shroom
• Spore
• Mushrooms
• Fungus Humongous
• Witch Hazel

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