Bun Chi

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.

Bun Chi
Bun Chi chains 5 quick strikes to attack. After each chain, it increases its Chi Stack, up to 5 times that provides more damage with each stack. At the final stack, tap Bun Chi to unleash the Thunder Clap attack!
Short description
Bun Chi increases damage with successive chain strikes!
Statistics
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	12 seconds
Toughness	175 damage
Damage	50 damage
Thunderclap Damage	350 damage
Thunderclap Attacks	20%
Range	Close
Family	Enforce-mint
Plant Food effect	Immediately triggers thunder clap [sic], dealing damage in a 3x3 area and reducing zombie damage.
Special	Gain a Max of 5 Chi stacks with each successive Chain of Attacks. Each Stack will upgrade damage and knockback.
Special	At Level 5, tap the glowing flower to unleash a devastating Thunderclap Attack.
In-game statistics
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Costumes (China)
Code name	waterrabbit
Rarity	Epic
A wise plant once said… “Great results can be achieved with small forces… on your lawn! When it rains… it thunders… and something something …quickness is the essence of a strong lawn defense.” What does that even mean?!

“	Bun Chi chains 5 quick strikes to gain up to 5 Chi Stacks. Tap on it, when you see a glowing flower, to release a massive Thunder Clap Attack.	”
—Penny

Bun Chi is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 first introduced in the 10.2.1 update for the Bun Chi's Thunderous Arena Season. It attacks zombies by attacking them with its ears, slapping them four times before finishing with a clapping attack which knocks its target back.

Each time Bun Chi does this attack sequence, its next attack sequence will be upgraded and deal more damage, capping off at the fifth consecutive attack sequence. After five consecutive attack sequences, Bun Chi will be able to deal a high damaging "Thunder Clap" attack which is activated by tapping on it.

Bun Chi's Thunder Clap attack deals damage in a 3x3 area as well as knocking all effected zombies back further than its normal attack and reducing the attack damage of zombies to 20% of the original for 18 seconds. If Bun Chi is left idling too long, it will revert back to its base statistics and will need to recharge all of its attack upgrades.

The following zombies are immune to both the knockback and Thunder Clap's debuff: Gargantuar variants, Dr. Zomboss, Imp Cannon, Zcorpion Zombie, Zombie Bull, Robo-Cone Zombie, Zombie King, Cardio Zombie, Roman Caesar Zombie, Z-Mech, #caketank, and Treasure Yeti. Pianist Zombie, Stiltwalker Zombie, Catapult Zombie, and Zomboni are just immune to its knockback effect.

Origins

Bun Chi's name, appearance, and theming suggests it is based on a bunny ears cactus (Opuntia microdasys), a species of cactus native to central and northern Mexico named after its resemblance to a cartoon rabbit head. His name is a combination of "Bunny" and "tai-chi", an internal Chinese martial art practiced for self-defense and health.

Almanac entry

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

Bun Chi
	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 12 TOUGHNESS 175 DAMAGE 50 Thunderclap Damage 350 Thunderclap Attacks 20% RANGE Close Enforce-mint Plant Food: Immediately triggers thunder clap [sic], dealing damage in a 3x3 area and reducing zombie damage. Bun Chi chains 5 quick strikes to attack. After each chain, it increases its Chi Stack, up to 5 times that provides more damage with each stack. At the final stack, tap Bun Chi to unleash the Thunder Clap attack! Special: Gain a Max of 5 Chi stacks with each successive Chain of Attacks. Each Stack will upgrade damage and knockback. Special: At Level 5, tap the glowing flower to unleash a devastating Thunderclap Attack. A wise plant once said… “Great results can be achieved with small forces… on your lawn! When it rains… it thunders… and something something …quickness is the essence of a strong lawn defense.” What does that even mean?!

Bun Chi

SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 12 TOUGHNESS 175 DAMAGE 50 Thunderclap Damage 350 Thunderclap Attacks 20% RANGE Close Enforce-mint Plant Food: Immediately triggers thunder clap [sic], dealing damage in a 3x3 area and reducing zombie damage. Bun Chi chains 5 quick strikes to attack. After each chain, it increases its Chi Stack, up to 5 times that provides more damage with each stack. At the final stack, tap Bun Chi to unleash the Thunder Clap attack! Special: Gain a Max of 5 Chi stacks with each successive Chain of Attacks. Each Stack will upgrade damage and knockback. Special: At Level 5, tap the glowing flower to unleash a devastating Thunderclap Attack. A wise plant once said… “Great results can be achieved with small forces… on your lawn! When it rains… it thunders… and something something …quickness is the essence of a strong lawn defense.” What does that even mean?!

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Bun Chi will do the thunder clap attack twice.

Enforce-mint effect

When boosted by Enforce-mint, Bun Chi will deal an additional 8, 9, 12, 17, 20, 23, 26, 30, 35, or 40 damage based on its level with its normal strike, an additional 18, 21, 27, 38, 45, 52, 61, 68, 77, or 87 damage with its final strike, and its thunder clap damage is increased to 500 (Level 1-3), 800 (Level 4-5), 1000 (Level 6-7), 1200 (Level 8-9), or 1500 (Level 10) damage.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Starting Recharge	Toughness	Damage			Knockback Distance	Plant Food Power (Count)
							Normal Strike	Final Strike	Thunder Clap
1	0	0	150	12 seconds	2 seconds	175 damage	8 damage	18 damage	350 damage	0.5 tiles	2
2	50					225 damage	9 damage	24 damage	400 damage
3	100					250 damage	10 damage	25 damage	450 damage
4	200					275 damage	13 damage	33 damage	600 damage		3
5	300					300 damage	15 damage	35 damage	700 damage	0.7 tiles
6	400					350 damage	17 damage	42 damage	800 damage
7	500					400 damage	20 damage	50 damage	900 damage
8	600					500 damage	22 damage	52 damage	1000 damage		4
9	800					600 damage	24 damage	59 damage	1100 damage	0.8 tiles	5
10	1,000					700 damage	28 damage	68 damage	1300 damage	1 tile	6

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce
• Toughness Bonus

Strategies

Bun Chi, being a knockback plant, relies on the same strategies as most other knockback plants. Use stallers like Sap-fling to reduce the distance zombies can cover between knockbacks. Preferably use freeze or butter over stun, as most forms of knockback (including Bun Chi's) will cancel stun on hit, but not the former two. Additionally, Draftodill can apply its slowdown affect to zombies Bun Chi knocks back, as the game considers them airborne. It can even blow them off screen if their projectile makes contact with the zombie in this state, though Blover can accomplish this far more reliably and against multiple zombies at once.

A strong aspect of Bun Chi's is the manually activated thunderclap. This provides a large burst of knockback to many zombies at once, being potent enough to suppress entire swaths of zombies in even dense endless levels or maximum difficulty pursuit levels. However, this will take some time to build up, so building a sustainable defense that can reliably hold zombies back long enough for the next thunderclap to be ready is crucial. The auto attack on Bun Chi itself can actually be a huge help in this regard, as the knockback at the end of its combos is strong enough to hold a low density of zombies back. However, this can only effect a single target at a time, so making sure to thin out the crowd for Bun Chi's automatic knockback to better hold back the zombies that can reach it will often prove absolutely necessary to utilizing Bun Chi to its fullest.

An important thing of note is that the knockback will not work against Gargantuars or Mechs. As such, it may be a good idea to use Imp Pear's plant food effect to transform them into zombies that can be knocked back.

Gallery

Bun Chi has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Bun Chi
Simplified Chinese	兔极	"Bunny (tai)chi"
French	Bun Chi
German	Bun Chi
Italian	Con Chi	Clipping of "coniglietto" + "tai-chi"
Brazilian Portuguese	Bun Chi
Spanish	Con Chi	Clipping of "conejito" + "tai-chi"

Trivia

• Both Bun Chi and Twin Year of the Rabbits were created to commemorate the Year of the Rabbit.
• On Bun Chi's Almanac description, the wise plant's speech is actually from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. The first line is a reference to "Great results can be achieved with small forces"(不战而屈人之兵，善之善者也), and the third line originates from "Quickness is the essence of the war"(兵之情主速).

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