Aloe

When he sees zombies, he goes SPLAT!

This item is only obtainable during certain events. However, it can still be used if you have already obtained it. It is currently not available.

For other uses, see Aloe (disambiguation).

Aloe
Aloes heal injured plants to their immediate right when that plant is below a certain amount of health.
Statistics
Sun Cost	75
Recharge	20 seconds
Toughness	450 damage
Heal Plant	400 damage
PF Overheal	125%
Range	Close
Family	Reinforce-mint
Plant Food effect	Instantly heal every plant in the surrounding area.
In-game statistics
Unlocked	150 seed packets
Costumes
Code name	aloe
Aloe likes to soothe. He likes to alleviate, he likes to restore, he likes to mend. But don't ask him to revive. He's touchy about revival.

“	Aloe will heal neighboring plants and boost their health.	”
—Penny

Aloe is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 5.1.1. update. This plant was associated with the Epic Quest, Aloe, Salut! and was obtained at the end of the quest. Since the quest no longer exists, one can no longer obtain him that way.

He was available again as of January 3, 2018, this time as a special-edition premium plant that costs 100 gems. Aloe was available again as the Plant of the Week on June 12, 2018. Aloe appeared in the Almanac again in April, 2020 as a plant unlockable for 150 seed packets.

As of the 11.3.1 update, Aloe doesn't heal the following plants:

• Chili Bean
• Squash
• Hypno-shroom
• Sun Bean
• Stunion
• Stallia
• Shadow-shroom
• Explode-O-nut
• Bamboo Spartan

From time to time (usually when the target reaches 80% health), Aloe will heal an applicable plant on the tile in front of him on his immediate right, restoring their health by up to his healing value.

Origins

Aloe, as the name entails, is based on and named after the Aloe genus of flowering succulent plants native to tropical and southern Africa.

Aloe's ability to heal plants is based on the Aloe species Aloe vera's real world use in lotions in creams, as Aloe vera gel is harvested for its ability to relieve and heal skin burns.

Almanac entry

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

Aloe
	SUN COST 75 RECHARGE 20 TOUGHNESS 450 Heal Plant 400 PLANT FOOD POWER Overheal RANGE Close Reinforce-mint Plant Food: Instantly heal every plant in the surrounding area. Aloes heal injured plants to their immediate right when that plant is below a certain amount of health. Aloe likes to soothe. He likes to alleviate, he likes to restore, he likes to mend. But don't ask him to revive. He's touchy about revival.

Aloe

SUN COST 75 RECHARGE 20 TOUGHNESS 450 Heal Plant 400 PLANT FOOD POWER Overheal RANGE Close Reinforce-mint Plant Food: Instantly heal every plant in the surrounding area. Aloes heal injured plants to their immediate right when that plant is below a certain amount of health. Aloe likes to soothe. He likes to alleviate, he likes to restore, he likes to mend. But don't ask him to revive. He's touchy about revival.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When given Plant Food, Aloe will overheal all plants in a 3x3 area around him, restoring all their base health and adding a small bonus percentage.

Reinforce-mint effect

When boosted by Reinforce-mint, Aloe can absorb an additional 900 damage, his heal cooldown will be adjusted to 6 seconds, and will heal plants for an additional 800 damage. His Plant Food effect will also activate.

Level Upgrade

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Sluggish)	Starting Recharge	Toughness (Typical)	Special (Heal Plant)	Special (Heal Recharge)	Plant Food Power (Overheal)	Range
1	0	0	75	20 seconds	15 seconds	450 damage	400 damage	6 seconds	125%	Close
2	10	1,000		19 seconds		500 damage	450 damage
3	25	2,500		18 seconds		550 damage	500 damage
4	50	5,000				600 damage		5 seconds	135%
5	100	10,000	50	17 seconds		650 damage	550 damage
6	200	20,000				700 damage	600 damage		150%
7	400	30,000		16 seconds		750 damage	650 damage
8	800	50,000				850 damage		4 seconds	175%
9	1,200	75,000		15 seconds		950 damage	700 damage
10	1,600	100,000	25			1050 damage	750 damage		200%

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Toughness Bonus

Strategies

Aloe is a healing plant that works well with defensive plants such as Wall-nut, Tall-nut, etc. However, due to his placement scheme, he limits the offensive power of the player a bit, preventing plants like Snapdragon, Cold Snapdragon, and Phat Beet from dealing major damage, unless Pumpkin is somehow avaliable to protect said plants. Pumpkin, however, does dramatically improve his utility due to taking the same tile as another important offensive plant. He can also be easily overwhelmed when there are too many zombies eating a defensive plant. He also cannot heal any additional amount that isn't the plant's base HP, such as he will never be able to repair damaged armor from plant food abilities.

Aloe works extremely well with Chard Guard and Holly Barrier. If they are sufficiently damaged and Aloe heals them, all their missing ammunition are refilled, which can be abused to quite literally stall zombies forever, as long as they eat plants properly.

Aloe's healing ability, however, does not work well with Infi-nut because of the fact that he can already regenerate over time and has lower health than a Wall-nut.

As of version 6.3.1, Aloe no longer heals Explode-O-Nut. This was likely changed due to the fact that the plants are intended to be destroyed for their explosive effect. If a player intends to use an offensive wall, Endurian, Pea-nut, or more specifically, Kiwibeast are better options, as they tend to get damaged when fighting zombies, and Kiwibeast cannot be easily healed, on top of dealing high damage in close quarters.

Aloe is also very effective with Sweet Potato since she will last longer and in turn make her strategy easier to manage because of not having to use Wall-nut First Aid to heal her. Garlic is also effective as he will allow you to keep on diverting zombies without needing to worry about replacing him or healing him with Wall-nut First Aid as often.

Be aware that Aloe heals plants at a certain rate, which means that huge waves of zombies can rip through your defenses if they are not handled carefully.

Balance changes

Update 10.5.1

• ▲ Health increased from 300-900 to 450-1050 damage.
• ▲ Activates when plant damage reaches 20% instead of 50%.
• ▲ Heal recharge is reduced from 10-6 to 6-4 seconds.
• ▼ Heal amount is reduced from 500-800 to 400-750 damage.
• ▼ Starting recharge is increased from 10-5 to 15 seconds.
• ▲ Plant food heal percent is increased from 100-200% to 125-200%.

Gallery

Aloe has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Aloe
Simplified Chinese	芦荟医师	lit. "Aloe Doctor"
French	Aloe
German	Aloe
Italian	Aloe
Brazilian Portuguese	Aloé
Russian	Алоэ
Spanish	Aloe

Trivia

• In an advertisement about getting him on the title screen, the player can see his healing drop is blue instead of light green.
• His description refers to his inability to revive destroyed plants.
• It, Gold Bloom and Electric Currant were formerly the only plants obtainable through completion of an Epic Quest.
• Despite the fact that his seed packet is in the style of Modern Day and Player's House, his background in the Almanac and seed selection is in the style of premium plants. This is also shared with other plants obtained from Epic Quests.
  • While Gold Bloom and Electric Currant received a new seed packet design in v.6.6.1, being the premium seed packet, Aloe was the only one that did not get that change. This was fixed in the 7.5.1 update.
• In the 7.5.1 update, Aloe's healing animation may show up bugged by its effect sometimes showing up 1 tile ahead of its healed target.
• As confirmed by Plants vs. Zombies 3, he and Aloe Vera are siblings.
• It's the only plant in the game whose name is almost (If not) the same in most languages.

See also

• Aloe (Chinese version)
• Heavenly Peach
• Aloe Vera

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