BoomBerry

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 available.

BoomBerry
Launches explosive berries at the last zombie in its lane, stunning them for a short time.
Short description
Launches explosive berries at the last zombie in its lane.
Statistics
Sun Cost	225
Recharge	12 seconds
Toughness	175 damage
Range	Lobbed
Damage	90 damage
Stun	0.8 seconds
Damage Max Bonus	80 damage
Bonus per Plant	10 damage
Family	Arma-mint
Plant Food effect	Launches multiple projectiles, blanketing the target column with explosive berries.
Hint	Especially effective against Zcorpion, Octo and Wizard zombies.
In-game statistics
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Code name	boomberry
Rarity	Epic
“How to make the best explosions! First fuel. Mix in a spark and an oxidizing agent. Finally, you’ll need Me!”

BoomBerry is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 first introduced in the 10.3.1 update for the BoomBerry's Booom Arena Season. It fires lobbed explosive berries (every 4.55-4.75 seconds, or 4.95-5.15 seconds starting at level 7) at the last zombie in its lane, in a similar manner to Carrot Rocket and Pineapple-pult from Plants vs. Zombies Online and Rafflesia from the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2.

These berries also deal splash damage to surrounding zombies and stun whichever zombies they hit for 0.8 seconds, both directly and with their splash damage. BoomBerry also gets bonus damage when there are other BoomBerrys on the lawn. BoomBerry can remove octopi from Octo Zombie and sheep from Wizard Zombie whenever it attacks the zombies themselves.

Origins

While the plant BoomBerry is based on is never explicitly stated, it heavily resembles a cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus), a berry in the rose family commonly grown and cultivated all throughout the northern hemisphere. The name BoomBerry is portmanteau of "boom" and cloudberry as it shoots explosive berries.

Almanac entry

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

BoomBerry
	SUN COST 225 RECHARGE 12 TOUGHNESS 175 RANGE Lobbed DAMAGE 90 Special Stun Damage Max Bonus 80 Bonus per Plant 10 Arma-mint Plant Food: Launches multiple projectiles, blanketing the target column with explosive berries. Launches explosive berries at the last zombie in its lane, stunning them for a short time. “How to make the best explosions! First fuel. Mix in a spark and an oxidizing agent. Finally, you’ll need Me!”

BoomBerry

SUN COST 225 RECHARGE 12 TOUGHNESS 175 RANGE Lobbed DAMAGE 90 Special Stun Damage Max Bonus 80 Bonus per Plant 10 Arma-mint Plant Food: Launches multiple projectiles, blanketing the target column with explosive berries. Launches explosive berries at the last zombie in its lane, stunning them for a short time. “How to make the best explosions! First fuel. Mix in a spark and an oxidizing agent. Finally, you’ll need Me!”

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Launches multiple projectiles, blanketing the target column with explosive berries.

Arma-mint effect

When boosted by Arma-mint, BoomBerry will deal an additional 150 damage with its splash attack, an additional 300 damage with its Plant Food splash attack, its attack area increased as if it were at level 10, and its bonus splash damage is increased to 20 (level 1-2), 30 (level 3-6) or 40 (level 7-10) damage.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Starting Recharge	Toughness	Damage		Plant Food Power (Damage)		Attack Delay	Splash Area		Damage Bonus		Damage Bonus limit
							Normal	Splash	Normal	Splash		Vertical	Horizontal	Normal	Splash
1	0	0	225	12 seconds	10 seconds	175 damage	120 damage	90 damage	180 damage	190 damage	3.8 seconds	0	0	16 damage	10 damage	80 damage
2	50						140 damage	115 damage	210 damage	215 damage						90 damage
3	100					195 damage		120 damage		220 damage		1		24 damage	12 damage	100 damage
4	200						160 damage	130 damage	240 damage	230 damage
5	300						180 damage	140 damage	270 damage	240 damage					15 damage	110 damage
6	400					215 damage	200 damage	150 damage	300 damage	250 damage					18 damage	120 damage
7	500					225 damage		160 damage		260 damage	4.2 seconds			30 damage	20 damage	130 damage
8	600						220 damage	170 damage	330 damage	270 damage				32 damage	22 damage	140 damage
9	800					235 damage	240 damage	175 damage	360 damage	275 damage			1
10	1,000					245 damage	260 damage	190 damage	390 damage	290 damage					25 damage	150 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Damage Pierce
• Chance to Boost

Strategies

BoomBerry, while difficult to use, can be a strong asset to the player's arsenal. Due to the area of affect of its attacks being capable of stunning all zombies caught in them, this plant is able to repeatedly stun every zombie on screen.

However, due to it targeting the last zombie in its lane, it's very easy for zombies to slip past its focus (especially if and when a new zombie spawns in the lane). Because of this, the main focus should be on controlling the movement of zombies to fit them all with the area of effect.

Plants that perform well in this regard include instant-use knockback plants, such as Tumbleweed and Hurrikale, as their high manual control allows the player to control the location of zombies to a very fine degree.

However, a plant that truly excels in this regard is Holly Barrier. The knockback (as previously stated) allows the player to fit the zombies into BoomBerry's aoe quite well, with the phenomenal ability to be stockpiled over time via maintaining multiple Holly Barriers on the field at once with their berries stocked up.

Additionally, the walling capabilities of the mini berries it launches will continue to group together zombies, as zombies that have advanced further than others are forced to chew at the wall while those behind them catch up.

Finally, it pairs well with Homing Thistle, as Homing Thistle is able to catch any zombies that make it past BoomBerry.

Balance changes

Update 11.0.1

• ▲ Attack speed increased.

Gallery

BoomBerry has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	BoomBerry
French	Baie bombe	"Bomb-Berry"
German	Knallbeere
Italian	Bumbacca
Brazilian Portuguese	Bumora	From bum (boom) and amora (It was previously called "Jabumticaba")
Spanish	Petabaya

Trivia

• The middle berry's face heavily resembles Rhubarbarian.
• BoomBerry, MayBee and SeaFlora are the only plants whose names are written in CamelCase naming convention. The majority of plants that have their names are written with either spaces with the following word's first letter is capitalized, hyphens between words or both.

See also

• Carrot Rocket
• Pineapple-pult
• Rafflesia

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