Arma-mint

Bring BIG SURPRISE!

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.

Template:Plantpic

Arma-mint
Arma-mints launch a volley of heavy stunning projectiles and provide a temporary boost to all Arma-mint Family plants on the lawn.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	0
Recharge	85 seconds
Damage	1200 dps
Duration	6 seconds
Family	Arma-mint
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Spending 100 mints
"Lobbing projectiles, for me, has always been a very personal endeavor," says Arma-mint. "It's a great way for me to express myself, my identity, and my preference that zombies can be defeated in large groups."

Arma-mint is a Power Mint plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It can boost Arma-mint Family plants by increasing their damage, firing rate (for cannon plants), and other abilities. It will also release a barrage of projectiles on random tiles that deal damage to all zombies in a 1x3 area and stun all zombies in a 3x3 area.

Arma-mint Family plants include:

• A.K.E.E.
• Apple Mortar
• Banana Launcher
• Blastberry Vine
• Cabbage-pult
• Coconut Cannon
• Kernel-pult
• Melon-pult
• Sling Pea

Like other Power Mints, Arma-mint cannot be imitated or affected by other mints. He remains on the lawn for 6 seconds.

Arma-mint can be purchased from the Store with 100 mints while he is available.

He was available from August 20, 2019 to September 26.

Origins

Arma-mint is based on the mint, while also incorporating elements of cannons/mortars.

Its name is a portmanteau of "armament," which means military weapons and equipment, and "mint," the real-life plant it is based on.

Almanac entry

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

Arma-mint
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 85 DURATION 6 Stun 3 PROJECTILE VOLLEY 4 DAMAGE 1200 Usage Single, Instant Arma-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Arma-mints launch a volley of heavy stunning artillery projectiles and provide a temporary boost to all Arma-mint Family plants on the lawn. "Lobbing projectiles, for me, has always been a very personal endeavor," says Arma-mint. "It's a great way for me to express myself, my identity, and my preference that zombies can be defeated in large groups."

Arma-mint

SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 85 DURATION 6 Stun 3 PROJECTILE VOLLEY 4 DAMAGE 1200 Usage Single, Instant Arma-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Arma-mints launch a volley of heavy stunning artillery projectiles and provide a temporary boost to all Arma-mint Family plants on the lawn. "Lobbing projectiles, for me, has always been a very personal endeavor," says Arma-mint. "It's a great way for me to express myself, my identity, and my preference that zombies can be defeated in large groups."

Arma-mint boosts

While boosted by Arma-mint, the following plants gain the following effects.

• A.K.E.E. will do an additional 150 DPS, its Plant Food effect will do an additional 900 DPS, and both its regular and Plant Food seeds will bounce 5 times instead of 3.
• Apple Mortar will do an additional 120 DPS, its Plant Food effect will do an additional 140 DPS, its stun duration will increase to 1.5 seconds, and its Plant Food stun will increase by 1 second.
• Banana Launcher will do an additional 2000 DPS and its reload speed will be decreased to just 2 seconds.
• Blastberry Vine will have an additional 85 DPS added to both its regular and Plant Food attack's splash damage.
• Cabbage-pult will do an additional 120 DPS, its attack speed will increase by 50%, and its Plant Food effect will do an additional 600 DPS.
• Coconut Cannon will do an additional 1200 DPS, and its reload rate will be decreased to just two seconds.
• Kernel-pult's kernels will do an additional 100 DPS, and its butter duration will increase to 16 seconds.
• Melon-pult will do an additional 160 DPS (with an additional 80 DPS being added to its splash damage), and its Plant Food effect will do an additional 400 DPS (with an additional splash damage of 40 DPS).
• Sling Pea will have an additional 65 DPS added to its peas (with 30 DPS being added to its splash damage), its Plant Food effect will do an additional 75 DPS (with a splash of 30 DPS being added during the boost), and its Plant Food effect will stun zombies for 1.5 seconds.

Upgrades

Level upgrades

Note that Arma-mint's recharge is 30 seconds shorter during the Improve-mint event.

Level	Seed Packets	Upgrades
		Sun Cost	Recharge	Duration	Toughness	Damage	Stun	Projectile Volley
1	0	0	85 seconds	6 seconds	300 damage	1200 damage	3 seconds	Four
2	100		80 seconds	7 seconds	350 damage			Five
3	150		80 seconds	8 seconds	400 damage	1300 damage	4 seconds	Five
4	200		75 seconds	9 seconds	450 damage			Six
5	300		75 seconds	10 seconds	550 damage	1400 damage	5 seconds	Six
6	400		75 seconds	11 seconds	600 damage			Seven
7	500		70 seconds	12 seconds	650 damage	1500 damage	6 seconds	Seven
8	600		70 seconds	13 seconds	700 damage			Eight
9	800		70 seconds	14 seconds	800 damage	1600 damage	7 seconds	Eight
10	1,000		60 seconds	15 seconds	900 damage			Nine

Strategies

Arma-mint is very useful in most artillery based strategies, as its effect boosts the damage of all the plants in its family, as well as the recharge of Coconut Cannon and Banana Launcher, making it very effective at clearing out large amounts of zombies. Arma-mints other affect is also good since it can stall the zombies for a decent amount of time, as well as picking off lower health zombies. It should be noted however that Arma-mint does not fire its projectiles immediately after its planting, so there has to be some planning and good timing when using Arma-mint.

As Arma-mint's family consists almost entirely of lobbed-shot plants, Arma-mint based strategies are very effective in Ancient Egypt and Dark Ages to help avoid tombstones. It is also pretty effective in certain Lost City levels without the Parasol Zombie, as Arma-mint family plants can take advantage of the Excavator Zombie, as well as the Gold Tiles to help generate sun for more expensive plants.

Arma-mint has noteworthy synergies with Banana Launcher, Coconut Cannon, and Melon-pult. When boosted by Arma-mint, Banana Launcher and Coconut Cannon have their damage increased and their reload rate decreased quite significantly, making them excellent at clearing hordes of strong zombies. Melon-pult on the other hand gets a sizable damage increase, making him very effective at clearing out hordes of zombies in general.

Avoid using Arma-mint in "don't lose more than X plants" as it disappear after a while.

Gallery

HD Arma-mint

Arma-mint's sprites

Seed packet without sun cost

Appearing

Shooting

Projectile

Disappearing

Arma-mint on a Gold Tile

Arma-mint in an ad

Arma Mint in another ad

Arma-mint and his seed packets in the store

Purchased

Obtaining Arma-mint seed packets from a piñata

Arma-mint ready to level up

Arma-mint family's icon

Arma-mint's Garden Party Tournament

Arma-mint in an advertisement for Improve-mint Event

Arma-mint in another advertisement for Improve-mint Event

Videos

Plants vs. Zombies 2 - ARMA-MINT - Quest, Max level Quest (Ep.368)

By Alex5432000

Trivia

• It and Contain-mint are the only Power Mints so far which can stun zombies.
  • Coincidentally, they both are the first Power mints to have a Arena Tournament.
• Despite being lobbed-shot plants, Spore-shroom, Pepper-pult, Sap-fling, Dusk Lobber, Blooming Heart and Winter Melon are not in the Arma-mint family.
• Despite not being a lobbed-shot plant, Coconut Cannon is part of the Arma-mint family. 
• It looks extremely similar to A.K.E.E.
  • Coincidentally, this plant can boost the A.K.E.E.
• The 7.5.1 update changed its Almanac entry's "Arma-mint family plants" to "Cannon family plants".

See also

• Power Mints
• Lobbed-shot plants

View · Edit	Plants (Tower defense)	L · G