Blastberry Vine

When he sees zombies, he goes SPLAT!

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Blastberry Vine
Blastberry Vines can be planted on top of other plants to provide increased defense and an additional attack in the form of lobbed projectiles that break into explosive bomblets.
Statistics
Sun Cost	175
Recharge	10 seconds
Toughness	200 damage
Range	Lobbed
Damage	15 damage
Plant Food Power	12.5%
Family	Arma-mint
Plant Food effect	Launches a barrage of explosive berries at zombies in its column [sic].
In-game statistics
Unlocked	100 seed packets
Code name	blastberry
Blastberry Vine snickers to himself. He imagines lobbing bomblets. He's been reading up on it and he knows it's gonna make a big splash when it happens. "Soon," he whispers.

“	Plant Blastberry Vines on other plants for an offensive boost!	”
—Penny

Blastberry Vine is a vine plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 first introduced in the 7.5.1 update. He is a seasonal plant, released as part of Blastberry Vine's Big Boom season. Similarly to Pumpkin, Blastberry Vine can be planted on other plants to provide an extra layer of protection.

In addition to this, Blastberry Vine lobs a barrage of explosive berries over several tiles (every 2.85 - 3 seconds), which explodes dealing splash damage. The amount of berries that Blastberry Vine lobs increases while leveling up.

Origins

Blastberry Vine is based on the cutleaf evergreen blackberry (Rubus laciniatus), or evergreen blackberry, a species of blackberry bramble native to Eurasia.

Blastberry Vine's name is a portmanteau of "blackberry vine", the plant that Blastberry Vine is based on, and "blast", referencing Blastberry Vine's explosive projectiles.

Almanac entry

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

Blastberry Vine
	SUN COST 175 RECHARGE 10 TOUGHNESS 200 RANGE Lobbed DAMAGE 15 PLANT FOOD POWER 12.5% Arma-mint Plant Food: Launches a barrage of explosive berries at zombies in its column [sic]. Blastberry Vines can be planted on top of other plants to provide increased defense and an additional attack in the form of lobbed projectiles that break into explosive bomblets. Blastberry Vine snickers to himself. He imagines lobbing bomblets. He’s been reading up on it and he knows it’s gonna make a big splash when it happens. “Soon,” he whispers.

Blastberry Vine

SUN COST 175 RECHARGE 10 TOUGHNESS 200 RANGE Lobbed DAMAGE 15 PLANT FOOD POWER 12.5% Arma-mint Plant Food: Launches a barrage of explosive berries at zombies in its column [sic]. Blastberry Vines can be planted on top of other plants to provide increased defense and an additional attack in the form of lobbed projectiles that break into explosive bomblets. Blastberry Vine snickers to himself. He imagines lobbing bomblets. He’s been reading up on it and he knows it’s gonna make a big splash when it happens. “Soon,” he whispers.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability

When fed Plant Food, Blastberry Vine will launch 15 explosive berries over several tiles. Additionally, when a plant is planted on top of him when you activate his Plant Food effect, the plant on top will also activate its Plant Food effect.

Arma-mint effect

When boosted by Arma-mint, both Blastberry Vine's regular bomblets and Plant Food bomblets will do an additional 85 damage.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Mediocre)	Starting Recharge	Toughness (Typical)	Bomblet Damage*^	Bomblet Count^	Bomblet Splash Radius^	PF Grenade Count
1	0	0	175	10 seconds	6 seconds	200 damage	15 damage	5	Normal	3
2	50			9 seconds		250 damage	25 damage			4
3	100		150		5 seconds	300 damage	35 damage		+1.15x
4	200			8 seconds		350 damage	45 damage
5	300				4 seconds	400 damage		6		5
6	400			7 seconds		450 damage	55 damage
7	500		125		3 seconds	500 damage	65 damage		+1.25x
8	600			6 seconds		550 damage	75 damage			6
9	800				2 seconds	600 damage		7
10	1,000			5 seconds		650 damage	85 damage

*Per hit.
^Applied to both normal and Plant Food states.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Strategies

Although Blastberry Vine appears to function similarly to Pumpkin, his use is quite different. For one, Blastberry Vine's health is significantly lower than Pumpkin's, so much so that Blastberry Vine actually has less health than most of the other plants in this game. Because of this, Blastberry Vine isn't best used to fortify a plant at the start of a level, nor should he be used to fortify a plant that is constantly under attack.

Blastberry Vine is best used when planted on plants that are either rarely under attack, or aren't at risk of being attacked at all. Blastberry Vine's damage is respectable, and when spammed, can provide a frighteningly high source of damage. Because of this, Blastberry Vine is best used when spammed on plants that are already protected, as a secondary source of damage as well as a safety net.

In order to support Blastberry Vine spam, lots of sun production is needed. Primal Sunflower, Sun-shroom, or Moonflower are best for this, but Twin Sunflower can also work. It is recommended that you support these through the use of either Gold Bloom, Enlighten-mint, Sun Bean, or Solar Tomato to further increase sun output. Once sun production as well as a basic defense has been established, Blastberry Vines can then be planted. Start with the most threatened lanes first, and continue to plant them until your defense is covered.

As with all vines, Blastberry Vine can make rather effective use of Plant Food due to his already high offensive potential as well as how any plant within him also benefits. Using Blastberry Vine with Tile Turnip/Power Tile can prove devastatingly effective, as one Plant Food could have his value dramatically increased.

Despite Blastberry Vine's low health, he is actually somewhat decent at supporting close-ranged plants such as Bonk Choy, Snapdragon, Wasabi Whip and especially Pokra, because their ranged attacks are either limited or nonexistent, yet they can easily stop zombies at close range with strong melee attacks.

Blastberry Vine also has excellent synergy with "artillery" plants such as Coconut Cannon and Banana Launcher. While the artillery plants are recharging, Blastberry Vine helps to defend zombies that might otherwise destroy the "artillery" plant and waste a lot of sun. Even when they do finish recharging, Blastberry Vine helps conserve shots for something else such as gargantuars.

In Frostbite Caves, Blastberry Vine is excellent when paired with Wasabi Whip, providing extra firepower while being immune to frost thanks to Wasabi Whip warming him. This can also work in Icebound Battleground, although they must be supported with instants such as Jalapeno or Imp Pear in order to be used to their maximum effect.

Blastberry Vine can also be used on Save Our Seeds to help protect endangered plants, but be wary of his low HP.

In Lost City, he is useful for dealing with Excavator Zombies and Parasol Zombies, since they cannot counter his projectiles. However, due to his low health, he may have trouble withstanding the barrage of Lost Pilot Zombies and Relic Hunter Zombies, so plant him close to the house to reduce the chance of him being destroyed, or pair him with plants that can deal with large amounts of zombies at once, such as Winter Melon or Laser Bean.

In Dark Ages, particularly in the endless zone - Arthur's Challenge - he can prove to be a valuable asset in dealing with hordes of Jester Zombies, as his projectiles cannot be reflected by them. He can also be used to increase the firepower from your offense, since most of the plants you can use with respect to the Jester Zombies' presence are rather weak in terms of damage. His property as a vine plant also allows the player to compact their defenses up to the left side of the lawn, leaving the spaces on the right side for graves to appear, therefore reducing the chance of your plants being knocked out of place. Although, the player may have trouble spamming him due to the reduced amount of sun production, so do not rely on him as your main offensive plant.

However, Blastberry Vine isn't without his faults. Due to his low health, Blastberry Vine is rather frail, and if repeatedly attacked, both he as well as the plant on top of him can easily get eaten. Blastberry Vine also does not make for good protection against Imps from Gargantuars since his health and damage are far too low in order to be able to deal with them reliably. Other defensive options like Spikerock, as well as Explode-o-Vine/Pumpkin often fare much better.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Blastberry Vine
French	Dynamûre
German	Knallerbsen-Ranke
Italian	Rampicante esplosivo
Brazilian Portuguese	Trepadeira Explosiva
Spanish	Enredadera explosiva

Trivia

• He is the second plant that can fit another plant in his own tile in Plants vs. Zombies 2, with the first being Lily Pad.
  • The shovel cannot remove plants planted inside Blastberry Vines as it will always remove the Blastberry Vine instead, unlike Pumpkin in all editions of the first game, where players can remove the contained plant rather than the Pumpkin shell.
  • A Blastberry Vine could be planted on an Imitater that's about to transform into another Blastberry Vine. The result was having two Blastberry Vines in one tile, which was normally impossible. This has been fixed.
• Mecha-Football Zombie and Fisherman Zombie moves both Blastberry Vine and any plant planted on him at the same time.
• If an Escape Root swaps with a plant on Blastberry Vine, only the plant inside will move.
• If Blastberry Vine is planted on a plant that's immune to frost in Frostbite Caves, Blastberry Vine will also become immune to frost. Otherwise, Blastberry Vine will not be immune to frost by himself. This includes heating plants as well as those naturally immune to frost, such as Cold Snapdragon.
• Glitter Zombie can kill Power Mints on Blastberry Vine. This is a glitch.
• His attacking sound effect were reused for Bamboo Shoots attacking sound effect.

See also

• Pumpkin
• Pyre Vine
• Strawburst
• Arma-mint

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