Beta-Carrotina

Template:Heropic 19

Beta-Carrotina
As leader of the Plant-etary Guard, she's ready to root out Zombies wherever they crop up.
Classes	,
Signature Superpower	Genetic Amplification
Other Superpowers	Ensign Uproot Lieutenant Carrotron Lightspeed Seed

Beta-Carrotina is a plant hero in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, and a leader of the Guardian and Smarty classes, alongside Template:PvZHLink. Her signature superpower is Genetic Amplification, which Conjures a 2 plant, then gives it +1/+1, and the Amphibious and Team-Up traits. She was added on July 11th, 2017 along with Huge-Gigantacus as part of Season 3 of the Galactic Gardens update.

Origins

She is based on the Daucus carota, commonly known as the carrot.

Her name is a portmanteau of "beta-Carotene," a provitamin A carotenoid, which the carrot is known for containing, "carrot", the plant she is based on, and "Tina," a common female name, derived from the name "Christina."

Statistics

• Classes: Guardian, Smarty
• Superpowers:
  • Signature: Genetic Amplification - Conjure a 2-cost Plant. It gets +1/+1, Amphibious, and Team-Up.
  • Other:
    • Ensign Uproot - 2/2. When played: Move another Plant or Zombie.
    • Lieutenant Carrotron - 2/1. Team-Up. When played: Conjure a Root.
    • Lightspeed Seed - Conjure two Tricks.

Hero description

As leader of the Plant-etary Guard, she's ready to root out Zombies wherever they crop up.

Strategies

With

Leading the Guardian and the Smarty classes, Beta-Carrotina is similar to Citron. As such, most of her play style will be very similar to him. However, what sets her apart from him are their superpowers. Genetic Amplification will allow her to obtain any 2 plant within the game and allow her to play it anywhere she wants to, including the water lane. Her other superpowers are all about outsmarting the opponent; Ensign Uproot allows her to manipulate the field on either her side or the opponent's with a 2/2 on the field, Lieutenant Carrotron allows her to obtain any root plant in the game as well as leaving a 2/1 with Team-Up, while Lightspeed Seed will Conjure tricks, even ones she cannot normally play such as Template:PvZHLink and Berry Blast. Overall, most of her superpowers involve Conjuring; in which a Conjuring deck is useful when using this hero. But unlike Citron, she lacks the ability to shield her plants with exception of Force Field, making her less defensive-minded and more reliant on tactics compared to him.

The best plant to synergize with her superpowers would be Rescue Radish, as you can activate Ensign Uproot and Lieutenant Carrotron's ability again. Whether you are trying to pull a card advantage or reposition and re-strategize the field to suit your winning conditions, just make sure you have enough sun to do so.

Against

Mostly similar to Citron, Beta-Carrotina will prove to be a hard opponent to hit since she can swarm the field with plants that are hard to hit. Fortunately, she only has Template:PvZHLink to shield her plants, meaning in terms of stalling powerful attacks, she is more likely to be defeated first than Citron. Also, her superpowers are mostly based on Conjuring, so Quickdraw Con Man will be more useful against her than Citron.

Strategy decks

Main article: Community-built decks/Beta-Carrotina

Time to get back to your roots! Starch-Lord buffs your tubular tubers, while fetching a fist full of radical rhizomes. Lock the game down by placing a Soul Patch in a Force Field.

		The Root Cause
	x4		x4		x2		x4		x1
	x4		x4		x3		x4		x4
	x4		x2

Take to the high seas with this naughty nautical deck. Flood the lanes with ample amphibious cards, then buff them to high waters with Navy Beans.

		Amphi-bean Assault
	x4		x3		x4		x4		x3
	x4		x2		x2		x3		x4
	x4		x3

Beta-Carrotina builds an unbeatable blockade in this cosmic control deck. Crush the enemy's resistance, then swoop in with a Dark Matter Dragonfruit for a decisive victory.

		Starch Wars
	x4		x4		x4		x2		x2
	x4		x3		x3		x4		x4
	x2		x4

Playing Evolutions like Tricorn and Blockbuster on Fusion Plants like Lily Pad and Pumpkin Shell gives you both the Evolution ability and the Fusion ability - a truly Wombo Combo!

		Wombo Combos
	x4		x4		x2		x2		x2
	x4		x4		x2		x4		x2
	x2		x4		x4

Jelly Bean gets bigger whenever you Bounce something. Push that to the max by bouncing everything in sight: Plants, Zombies, and even Gravestones. Meanwhile, your dinosaur Plants roar larger and lagrer!

		Bouncy House
	x4		x4		x1		x3		x3
	x4		x4		x2		x3		x4
	x4		x4

Gallery

Plants vs. Zombies Wiki has a gallery for Beta-Carrotina.

Visit this page to see it.

Trivia

• Her in-game music is a remix of the main menu music.
• She has the same sound as Chompzilla on the Vs. screen if you are playing as a zombie hero. This is likely a glitch.
• During development, she was called "BetaCarrot," and lead 3 classes (Solar, Mega-Grow, and Guardian). Her signature superpower would have drawn her a plant that was destroyed, then given it +1/+1.
• She and Green Shadow are the only female heroes not to lead the Solar class.
• One of her strategy decks, "Wombo Combos," is likely a refrence to the famous Super Smash Bros. meme of the same name.
• One of her strategy decks, "Starch Wars," references a famous franchise, Star Wars.
• Beta-Carrotina has access to the most Team-Up plants, and is tied with Citron to have access to the most Amphibious plants.

See also

• Genetic Amplification

V · E	Plants in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes