Citron (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

Citron
Citrons shoot powerful balls of plasma.
Statistics
Sun Cost	350
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	800 damage
Range	Straight
Firing Rate	1 second
Plant Food Power	10%
Family	Fila-mint
Plant Food effect	Shoots a giant plasma ball that can destroy most mech type zombies and flings zombies to adjacent zombies.
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	350
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	800 damage
Attack Rest	9.5 seconds
Range	Whole Lane to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Ranged
Quality	Legendary
Tags	Damage, lightning
Plant features	Orange plant, 100,000 volts
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(immune to projectiles unless raincoat is shredded)
Unlocked	Beating Far Future - Day 6
Unlocked (China)	Collecting 10 Citron Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Costumes (China)
Code name	citron
As the owner and primary user of "Vitamin C-U-Later" 20-hour energy shots, Citron is always on and always ready for action. "Let's make this happen!!"

“	Citron shoots powerful balls of plasma after charging for a short duration.	”
—Penny

Citron is the third plant obtained in Far Future in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He periodically fires projectiles that deal 800 damage to zombies, with an attack cooldown of 9.5 seconds.

Overview

Citrons have to slowly charge up when initially planted and in between attacks. If there are no zombies or obstacles in front of the Citron, he will not fire until any other enemy enters within his range. The shot deals 800 damage and is a single-target projectile.

Almanac entry

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

Citron
	SUN COST 350 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 800 RANGE Straight FIRING RATE 1 PLANT FOOD POWER 10% Fila-mint Plant Food: Shoots a giant plasma ball that can destroy most mech type zombies and flings zombies to adjacent zombies. Citrons shoot powerful balls of plasma. As the owner and primary user of "Vitamin C-U-Later" 20-hour energy shots, Citron is always on and always ready for action. "Let's make this happen!!"

Citron

SUN COST 350 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 800 RANGE Straight FIRING RATE 1 PLANT FOOD POWER 10% Fila-mint Plant Food: Shoots a giant plasma ball that can destroy most mech type zombies and flings zombies to adjacent zombies. Citrons shoot powerful balls of plasma. As the owner and primary user of "Vitamin C-U-Later" 20-hour energy shots, Citron is always on and always ready for action. "Let's make this happen!!"

Chinese version  (China only)

充能柚子可以发射等离子炮。 植物特征：橙色植物、十万伏特 "厚积而薄发" 是充能柚子座右铭，少年老成的性格让人觉得他渊博，稳重。有人问他成功的秘诀时，他指了指他家那台大屏等离子电视机。 In English: Citron can fire balls of plasma. Plant feature: orange plant, 100,000 volts "Sufficiently accumulate." This is Citron's motto. his precocious character makes others think that he is profound and steady. When asked about his secret to success, he simply pointed to the large-screen plasma TV in his house.

Plants vs Zombies Online (China only) (Archived content)

	柚子 媲美椰子加农炮的重型武器 能打出成吨伤害 塔防: 柚子所打出的离子球会给单个僵尸造成很高的伤害。 可是，在面临比较复杂的局面，特别是许多僵尸一起登场时，指望柚子消灭整排僵尸是不现实的，它需要和其他群攻型植物进行配合。 技能: 无 消耗阳光: 350 伤害 很大 冷却时间 中等

柚子

媲美椰子加农炮的重型武器
能打出成吨伤害

塔防:
柚子所打出的离子球会给单个僵尸造成很高的伤害。 可是，在面临比较复杂的局面，特别是许多僵尸一起登场时，指望柚子消灭整排僵尸是不现实的，它需要和其他群攻型植物进行配合。

技能: 无
消耗阳光: 350
伤害: 很大
冷却时间: 中等

In English: Citron A heavy weapon comparable to the Coconut Cannon Can deal tons of damage Tower Defense: The ion spheres shot by Citron deal high damage to a single zombie. However, in complex situations, especially when many zombies appear at once, relying on Citron to eliminate a whole row of zombies is unrealistic. It needs to be paired with other area attack plants. Skill: None Sun Cost: 50 Damage: Very High Recharge: Moderate Card abilities: Trait 1: Anger - Increases critical hit rate Trait 2: Skill Boost - Increases a certain percentage of skill damage Skill: Giant Electric Sphere - Attacks the current target. If the target is killed, it continues attacking the next target directly behind it, with damage stacking. Captain Skill: Critical Surge - Increases the critical hit rate of all team members

Upgrades

Plant Food ability (animated)

Plant Food effect

Upon the usage of Plant Food, Citron gets struck by lightning and shoots a giant glowing light-blue plasma ball that travels down the lane, flinging away most types of zombies and tombstones in that lane. The plasma ball disintegrates upon impact with most mechanical type zombies, Gargantuar variants, Cardio Zombie, Roman Caesar Zombie, Z-Mech, #caketank, and Dr. Zomboss, which are either too heavy or cannot be killed instantly but dealing 2500 damage instead. This will reset his attack delay, therefore, it's best to be used when he had just finished firing a shot, since a reset happening by then doesn't really affect gameplay. For balancing reasons, Zombie Bull, Treasure Yeti, Bug Bot Imp, and Catapult Zombie are also directly removed from the screen when hit instead of the plasma ball exploding on them.

Fila-mint effect

When boosted by Fila-mint, Citron charges his plasma ball twice as fast, and his plasma ball does an additional 1000 damage.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Huge)	Projectile Velocity	Firing Rate (Slow)	Plant Food Power (Damage)*	Range
1	0	0	350	5 seconds	300 damage	800 damage	Normal	Normal	2500 damage	Straight
2	10	1,000	325		350 damage	850 damage		+ 20%	2600 damage
3	75	5,000		4.5 seconds	400 damage	900 damage	+ 1.5x		2700 damage
4	200	10,000	300		450 damage	950 damage		+ 40%	2800 damage
5	400	20,000		4 seconds	550 damage	1000 damage			3000 damage
6	750	30,000	275		600 damage			+ 60%	3200 damage
7	1,000	40,000		3.5 seconds	650 damage		+ 1.9x		3400 damage
8	1,250	50,000	250		700 damage			+ 80%	3600 damage
9	1,500	60,000		3 seconds	800 damage				3800 damage
10	2,000	75,000	225		900 damage			+ 100%	4000 damage

Note: Citron's charging time is actually 7 seconds, but there's a 2.5–second interval between each charge, during which he fires the plasma ball.
*Damage dealt to units it cannot wipe out instantly.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Speedy Energy Collection 极速聚能	Citron's energy storage technology has been improved. Energy storage speed is increased by 25%. 充能柚子的蓄能技术得到了提升蓄能速度加快了25%。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Citron gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Energy Field 能量场	Citron's energy storage technology has been further upgraded by 40% faster. 充能柚子的蓄能技术得到了进一步升级蓄能速度加快40%。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Citron gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Citron may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Citron gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Electromagnetic Detonation 电磁爆弹	Launches a light blue plasma lightning ball, which explodes after hitting a zombie, causing 900 splash damage to zombies within a 3×3 range, and leaving behind an electron cloud with a damage of 100/sec in a 3×3 range for 2 seconds. 发射淡蓝色的等离子闪电球，击中僵尸后爆炸对3×3范围内的僵尸造成900点溅射伤害，并留下一片3×3范围伤害为100/秒持续2秒的电子云。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Citron gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

Citron now deals higher damage and produces chains of electric current to attack zombies.

Strategies

Citron's greatest advantage is his high damage per second capability. Against a single target, Citron can easily outmatch most controllable plants, including Strawburst and Banana Launcher or even the Magnifying Grass (if you have the sun to spare). Thanks to this, Citron is a powerful choice against single high-health targets such as Robo-Cone Zombie and Gargantuar. However, his high cost, slow firing rate, and the inability to control Citron mean that large numbers of zombies will present a great challenge, as Citron will deal huge amounts of overkill damage and waste his attacks. Because of this, Citron should be paired with other crowd-controlling plants like Laser Bean or Fume-shroom, and he should not be used by himself. When paired with either of the two, he can become a seriously dangerous plant.

The Plant Food ability is very similar in many parts to Laser Bean. The main difference between the two is how they deal with larger, tougher zombies. Laser Bean's Plant Food ability is not stopped by mechanical enemies, effectively making Laser Bean more useful than Citron for crowd control. Conversely, Citron can actually destroy certain stronger zombies that Laser Bean cannot (such as the infamous Brickhead Zombie), making Citron ideal against single Gargantuars and Gargantuar Prime, who will release their Imp after passing the 91 normal damage shots mark. Regardless, in levels without tough zombies, the two Plant Food effects are perfectly interchangeable with no major differences.

Citron should be avoided against fast zombies like All-Star Zombie and Surfer Zombie, zombies producing additional annoying targets (Chicken Wrangler Zombie, Tomb Raiser Zombie) or zombies that block or deflect straight-firing projectiles like Shield Zombie, Jester Zombie, and Excavator Zombie. All-Star Zombies and Surfer Zombies can reach the Citrons quickly and destroy them (though this is easily resolved by using a cannon fodder plant to bait their abilities). Shield Zombie, Jester Zombies, and Excavator Zombies, on the other hand, will nullify the plasma ball. However, Citron's plant food ability will still counter many of them easily, as it can clear off swarms and hit multiple targets, even destroying any tombstones it passes through. Since it wipes them off immediately without dealing damage, he actually works better in disposing them, as he will prevent the nasty critters from being released.

In the Chinese version, it is recommended to upgrade Citron to at least level 4, since when he is planted, he has a chance to immediately activate his Plant Food ability which can wipe out nearly everything in a single lane. In addition, Sweet Potato can help attract more zombies so Citron could kill them easily. This is augmented further at level 5, where his attacks now deal splash damage and can easily defeat large numbers of weaker zombies.

Balance changes

Update 6.7.1

• ▼ Plant Food effect no longer insta-kills Gargantuars.

Gallery

Citron has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Citron
Simplified Chinese	充能柚子	lit. "Energy-charging Pomelo"
French	Cédrat	"Pomelo"
German	Zedrate
Italian	Cedro
Brazilian Portuguese	Cidra	"Citron" in portuguese
Spanish	Pomelo

Trivia

• If one looks closely at a zombie that has been flung from his Plant Food ability, small bolts of electricity will arc around the zombie.

Citron costing 400 sun in an EA screenshot

• Before Far Future was released, he was originally going to cost 400 sun, according to an official screenshot released on Tuesday Exclusive prior to the world's release by Electronic Arts. Probably, the cost was reduced for balancing reasons - He doesn't deal splash damage like Coconut Cannon (also 400 sun), therefore the high cost would severely damage game balance.
• He was the second Far Future plant to be previewed in Piñata Parties, with the first being Laser Bean.
• During the setup for Last Stand, his animation stops once he is fully charged, possibly due to a bug. Once the level starts, his animation will resume. This also happens in Far Future - Day 15, on the seed selection screen.
• Magic Vine's projectile from Plant Food upgrade is a recolored version of Citron's.
• The Puzzle Piece to unlock him shows a fully charged Citron, while the Puzzle Piece to unlock his costume shows an uncharged Citron.
• In a Zomboss battle, if there are fully charged Citrons in the lanes the Zombot is in, the Citrons will shoot at the Zombot while it is leaving.
  • This is similar to Zomboss battles with Spikeweed and Endurian as they will also attack the Zombot as it is leaving if they are close enough.
• Citron's idle animation in game is different from both the one of the Almanac (slightly flatter) and that of the seed packet (does not glow).
  • In certain levels like Last Stand, during the preparation phase, however, when a Citron is fully charged, his shape is actually the same as the one in the seed packet.
  • During the Far Future Piñata Parties, his idle animation is similar to the in-game Citron if he is fully charged.
• His Plant Food effect can destroy multiple mechanical zombies at once if it is activated close enough, despite not being splash damage. This was also true for Gargantuars before the 6.7.1 update.
• When Citron is bitten while reloading, his mouth will flash white, and he will reload longer.
• His Almanac entry is a pun on "Vitamin C" in oranges and the phrase "see you later."
• Citron is one of the nine plants that have a food-related costume, the others being Spring Bean (if you count the coconuts), Buttercup, Hot Potato, Guacodile, Gold Leaf, Fire Peashooter, Snapdragon, and Cold Snapdragon.
• Citron will reload longer if he is placed next to Moonflower.

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