Winter Squash


 * For more uses, see Squash (disambiguation).

Winter Squash is a in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, and a member of the  class. It costs 4 to play, and has 2/6. It does not have any traits, and its ability instantly destroys a zombie that receives the Freeze effect.

Origins
It is based on the plant in real life with the same name.

Its appearance is based on the plant from Plants vs. Zombies with a similar appearance, and also a pun on "winter," referring to its ice blue color, icicles, earmuffs, and shivering motions, which are commonly associated with winter.

Statistics

 * Class: Smarty
 * Tribe: Squash Plant
 * Traits: None
 * Ability: When a Zombie becomes frozen, destroy that Zombie.
 * Set - Rarity: Premium - Rare

Card description
"My complexion is more of a summer."

Update 1.2.11

 * Rarity change: Uncommon → Rare
 * Replaced Carrotillery in the Ally Pack.

Update 1.4.14

 * Animation change: Winter Squash now blows ice shards at the frozen zombie, compared to simply breathing at it before.

With
Winter Squash is a very useful plant, most of it due to its useful ability. It is one of the key plants in a Freeze deck, as it instantly destroys any zombie regardless of stats, as long as it gets frozen. This allows you to easily deal with any threat, as even one spells doom to a powerful threat. is another example of such a card, as Winter Melon's Splash Damage trait allows it to freeze up to 3 zombies per attack, instantly destroying all of them.

Even if you only consider its stats, it is still a good plant. It has 6 health, which lets it survive a hit or two from most zombies. This allows it to destroy many zombies, as well as fighting back itself, before going down for a few turns. However, without any freezing cards, it is much less useful, so remember that.

Against
Combined with its high health and its ability, Winter Squash is annoying and dangerous at the same time. It can wreck a lot of havoc, especially if your opponent is running a Freeze deck. However, it is not invincible and has quite a lot of counters. Playing Deadly zombies is one of them, as they instantly destroy Winter Squash in one attack. Since it has 2 strength, Rolling Stone is also a good one to use against it, and as a last resort, you can play Locust Swarm to instantly destroy it.

Trivia

 * It is one of two plants to have the word "winter" in its name, the other being Winter Melon.
 * Unlike Winter Melon, however, Winter Squash does not freeze zombies, but destroys frozen ones instead.
 * It is one of the three plant cards with the ability to destroy zombies that is not in the Solar class, the others being Shamrocket and .
 * Out of the three, Winter Squash is the only one that isn't in the Guardian class.
 * It is the only one out of the three that isn't a trick.
 * Unlike, Winter Squash doesn't squash zombies, but attacks like all other plant fighters do.