Metal Petal

Metal Petal is a variant of Sunflower. This very rare Sunflower character is the second to last in the set. It is an armored plant, like the Armor Chomper and Jade Cactus.

Description
''Metal Petal is an armored Sunflower. While the metal weighs her down-making her slower than other Sunflowers-she has the added benefit of higher health.''

Variant perk
Metal Petal has an additional 50 health more than the Sunflower, which gives it a total health of 150. Because this Sunflower is made out of metal, it is also slower than the other Sunflowers.

Metal Petal's attack is called the Metal Blast. It deals less damage than the Sunflower.

Primary weapon
Metal Blast is the primary weapon of Metal Petal, which has 50 ammo.

Artificial Reload Upgrade
A slightly more artificial reload results in a reload speed increase.

More Metal Shard Ammo
Metal shard surplus results in increased ammo capacity.

Sharper Metal Flakes
Sharper metal flakes cause more damage.

Strategy
The extra health of the Metal Petal allows it to endure damage better making it useful when healing plants near or at the front lines where Sunflowers can be killed relatively easily due to the fact that they only have 100 HP. The Metal Petal's 150 HP grants it the ability to serve as a good frontline Medic that is much less vulnerable to damage than the other variants and is more resistant to ambushes or "assassinations" made by warping Scientists or Mobile Foot Soldiers.

Unlocking
In order to unlock this variant, the player must reach rank 10 with the Sunflower class. He or she needs to do this by completing challenges with the Sunflower and any of its variants. The player earns a character piece for each rank he or she levels up, starting at level 6 all the way to level 10.

Trivia

 * This is the only Sunflower variant out of eight with increased health.
 * This and Sun Pharaoh are the only variants of Sunflower that do not have the word "Flower" in their name.
 * The Metal Petal has the third highest health out of all the plants, possessing more health than all the Peashooters and most Cacti (100-125 HP), being tied with the unupgraded Chomper and the Jade Cactus (both 150 HP) and having less health then the upgraded Chomper (175 HP) and the Armor Chomper (200 to 225 HP).