Cattail (Plants vs. Zombies Heroes)

For other uses, please refer to the Cattail (disambiguation) page.

Cattail
Statistics
Strength	3
Health	2
Cost	3
Set	Basic
Rarity	Common
Class
Tribe	Animal Plant
Traits	Amphibious
Abilities	None
"My secret weapon? It's my cute little hat!"

Cattail is a basic common plant card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the Smarty class. She costs 3 to play and has 3/2. She has the Amphibious trait and does not have any abilities. Her zombie counterparts are Dolphin Rider and Octo-Pet.

Origins

She is based on the plant in Plants vs. Zombies with the same name.

Her description is a reference to her appearance.

Statistics

• Class: Smarty
• Tribe: Animal Plant
• Trait: Amphibious
• Abilities: None
• Set - Rarity: Basic - Common

Card description

"My secret weapon? It's my cute little hat!"

Update history

Update 1.4.14

• ▲ Strength change: 2 → 3
• ▼ Health change: 3 → 2

Strategies

With

Cattail's Amphibious trait allows her to be played on the aquatic lane, whether to land 3 damage per attack against opponents with no aquatic defenses, or simply deal with an Amphibious zombie. Since Cattail is on the frail side, try to boost her to keep her alive for long. While all Smarty heroes can give her a small boost with Navy Bean, Green Shadow can do the job better due to her having good boosting cards like Fertilize and Embiggen.

However, Cattail can easily be replaced with either Lima-Pleurodon or Pear Pal: Lima-Pleurodon has a pretty good (and possibly game-changing) ability and tribe synergy, while Pear Pal has the added Team-Up trait, not to mention that they both cost less. Cattail may have 1 more strength, but that doesn't make much of a difference.

Against

Cattail hits hard for her cost and has the Amphibious trait, so she can whittle your health quite a bit if you are not prepared. Also, she cannot be destroyed by Rolling Stone, Weed Spray, or Rocket Science if her strength is unchanged.

Fortunately, Cattail doesn't have much health, so she can be easily taken care of by almost any Amphibious zombie (except Swabbie and Ducky Tube Zombie) or a damaging trick (or moving her out of the water and then using a non-Amphibious zombie for Rustbolt). In fact, every hero has at least one way to deal with her.

Gallery

Cattail has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Cattail
Simplified Chinese	猫尾草	lit. "Cat Tail Herb" Three characters as a word may refer to Phleum pratense
Traditional Chinese	貓尾草
French	Massette
German	Katzenschwanz
Italian	Tifa gatta
Japanese	キャットテイル
Korean	부들
Brazilian Portuguese	Typha	Typha is the scientific genus of the cattails (Also known as "Rabo de Gato")
Russian	Камыш
Spanish	Rabo de gato

Trivia

• Despite Cattail having visible leaves and being botanically similar to Lightning Reed (a Leafy card), she is strangely not considered a Leafy card.
  • There is also room for another tribe to be present, making this inconsistency more jarring.
• She is one of the only plant cards in the game along with Small Nut, Hot Date, Button Mushroom, Carrotillery & Bellflower to have one of 3 possible sounds play when spawned.

See also

• Dolphin Rider
• Octo-Pet
• Laser Cattail

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