Lily Pad

The Lily Pad is an aquatic plant that lets you plant non-aquatic plants in the Pool. It is based on the leaves of Nymphaeaceae, a flowering aquatic plant, better known as the Water Lily.

Usage
The Lily Pad is essential for any backyard level, day or night, especially those before obtaining plants that can attack zombies in multiple rows. Without it, the player cannot plant non-aquatic plants on his/her pool lanes and this will make the level difficult. Place Lily Pads on any water space you wish to plant a regular plant. Note that Potato Mines and Spikeweed can't be planted on top of a Lily Pad, nor can other aquatic plants. Cattails are the only aquatic plant that can be planted on top of it, because the Cattail is the upgrade of the Lily Pad.

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Lily Pad

Lily pads let you plant non-aquatic plants on top of them.

Special: non-aquatic plants can be planted on top of it

Must be planted in water

Lily Pad never complains. Lily Pad never wants to know what's going on. Put a plant on top of Lily Pad, he won't say a thing. Does he have startling opinions or shocking secrets? Nobody knows. Lily Pad keeps it all inside.

Cost: 25

Recharge: fast

Strategy
Wait until you've gotten your sun production started before placing Lily Pads, as aquatic zombies always take a little time to get started. When you do begin placing them, try to plan ahead for what you'll need. Don't put empty Lily Pads at the far right unless you absolutely need the extra time that Zombies will take chomping on them. They should be used to slow Zombies down, and as cheap and fast as they are, this might just save you in an emergency. Remember that Dolphin Rider Zombies will jump off their dolphins after leaping over a single Lily Pad, so use this to slow them down, but plant the Lily Pad in the second column as the zombie jumps over the first square of the pool.

Trivia

 * Lily Pads take slightly longer time to be completely eaten by the zombies, as does the Flower Pot.
 * If you take a really good look at the Lily Pad, you will see two very small eyes.
 * It is one of the three plants with yellow eyes, the other two being the Torchwood and the Grave Buster.
 * If you plant on a Lily Pad, a splashing sound can be heard along with a small splash.