Sunflower Singer

Sunflower Singer (向日葵歌手; pinyin: xiàngrìkuí gēshǒu) is a monthly special plant in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2. She was released on October 29, 2015 to celebrate the second anniversary of Plants vs. Zombies 2 in China. She produces 100 sun, boosts the plants' attack power and slightly shortens their cooldown between each attack within a 3x3 area.

Origins
Sunflower Singer's design is based on the Helianthus annuus, also known as the common sunflower. She takes also inspiration from the Sunflower from Zombies on Your Lawn.

Almanac entry
Note: Sunflower Singer's recharge is Mediocre in-game.

Plant Food effect
She begins to sing and makes every plant dance and forms sun into a heart shape and later a "2" shape. After the sun falls onto the ground, she gives the player 280 sun. The effect also stuns zombies. Some plants have special abilities that activate only after dancing.

Costumed
While singing, she makes other Sunflower Singers produce 50 sun. This has no extra effect on plants with Special Abilities.

Plants with known special abilities

 * Primal Peashooter: Shoots a giant ball of lava akin to Pitaya's Plant Food effect. Very effective at clearing lanes of zombies.
 * Cowardly Thorns: Heals herself to full health.
 * Ghost Pepper: Delayed for a short time, allowing her to deal more damage before she explodes.
 * Dinosaur Roar Grass: Automatically devours any zombie he was eating.
 * Chomper: Automatically devours any zombie he was eating.
 * Toadstool: Automatically devours any zombie she was eating.

Strategy
Sunflower Singer is effectively a more powerful version of Twin Sunflower. The fact that she can boost the attack of other plants surrounding her and that her gives more sun when fed Plant Food (280 from Sunflower Singer compared to 250 from Twin Sunflower). Sunflower Singer can also stun zombies when she uses her Plant Food effect. However, plants are also unable to attack while she sings unless fed Plant Food.

A good way to wipe clean the current horde of zombies is to have 1 Sunflower Singer on 1 Power Tile (either naturally in Far Future or created with Tile Turnip), having one column of level 4/5 costumed Flame Flower Queen or level 4 costumed Laser Bean on the same colored Power Tile, and then using Plant Food on the Sunflower Singer. As the zombies get stunned by Sunflower Singer's Plant Food effect, the Plant Food effect of Flame Flower Queen/Laser Bean will be unleashed on the zombies, resulting in the current lawn being completely wiped clean. What makes this strategy even better is that if this is used on a Zombot that is about to clear the lane of plants (with the exception of the Zombot Aerostatic Gondola and the Zombot Battle Eagle-tron) (charge attack cannot be stopped in any ways) and Laser Bean was used (Flame Flower Queen's Plant Food projectile does not stop the charge attack from occurring from a distance), the lane clearing attack will be temporarily stopped due to Sunflower Singer's Plant Food effect and then the Zombot gets hit by the Plant Food projectile of the plant. When the stunning effect of Sunflower Singer's Plant Food projectile is over, the Zombot will be stunned due to getting hit by the Plant Food projectile. If there are many costumed Sunflower Singers and they are equipped with the Spotlight Flower Pot when you use Plant Food on the Sunflower Singer, all the other will produce an extra 25 sun, which can allow easy sun farming. Take note that the original Sunflower Singer will not activate the benefit of the Spotlight Flower Pot.

If you do not intend to use Sunflower Singer as a way to increase damage dealt to the zombies, then treat this plant like Twin Sunflower.

Trivia

 * She, Sunflower, Twin Sunflower, Triplet Sunflower, Primal Sunflower and Power Flower are the only plants based on sunflowers.
 * She is the only sunflower-based plant and the first sun-producing plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that has a unique ability other than producing sun, the second being Moonflower.
 * However, in Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars and Garden Warfare, the Sunflowers are offensive plants, possibly because of the genre of the games.
 * She is the first Chinese plant to be based on existing plant. The second is Angel Starfruit.
 * Coincidentally these two plants were released in special events.
 * They are both female according to the Almanac.
 * She is the first (in overall) plant that is a direct upgrade of an existing plant, Twin Sunflower, regarding factors like sun cost, recharge, and effect. Grapeshot from the international version is the second direct upgrade. Cold Snapdragon is the third. Angel Starfruit is the fourth. Wasabi Whip is the fifth. Explode-o-nut is the sixth. Bombegranate is the seventh. Cattail is the eighth.
 * When using Plant Food, a slightly remixed tune of "Zombies on Your Lawn" can be heard.
 * Most international plants will use their watering animations from the Zen Garden when dancing.
 * The only plants that use a new animation are Wall-nut, Iceberg Lettuce, Power Lily, Winter Melon, Laser Bean, Magnifying Grass, and all China-exclusive plants.
 * Lily Pad and Kiwifruit are the only plants that is not instant-use that does not have a dancing animation.
 * "Small Pea Pea" (小豌豌) mentioned in the Almanac entry is a worker for PopCap Shanghai.
 * The plant name itself is an example of alliteration.
 * Previously, she was usable in all Last Stand levels.
 * This was fixed in the 1.6.5 version.
 * However, this came back in the 1.8.0 update.
 * It is unknown why some plants have special abilities that activate during Sunflower Singer's Plant Food effect and some do not.
 * Although Toadstool does instantly devour the zombie she is chewing when powered by Sunflower Singer's Plant food effect, no sun will be produced by her.
 * This may be because unlike other biting plants, she produces sun when she finishes devouring a zombie.

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