Cold Snapdragon

For other versions, see Snapdragon (disambiguation).

Cold Snapdragon
Cold Snapdragons breathe icy mist into 6 adjacent tiles that both slows and damage zombies.
Statistics
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	30 damage
Plant Food Power	20%
Range	Close
Family	Winter-mint
Plant Food effect	Fires an ice blast in front, dealing heavy damage and either freezing or chilling zombies.
Area	Slows and damages zombies in the 6 tiles
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	250
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	80 damage
Attack Rate	1.9 seconds
Range	2x3 on Right
Area	AoE within Range
Class	Vanguard
Quality	Legendary
Tags	Damage, area of effect, slowing, freezing
Plant features	Blue plant
In-game statistics
Other special	Immune to frost in Frostbite Caves
Strengths	(boosted zombies lose their speed) (extinguishes torch and dynamite) (slows her down and allows other zombies behind her to be exposed)
Unlocked	NA: $6.99 · EU: €5.49 · UK: £4.99
Unlocked (China)	Ten Puzzle Pieces or buy it in the 1.9.1 update event
Costumes
Costumes (China)
Code name	coldsnapdragon
Cold Snapdragon gets chilly when anyone brings up his cousin Snapdragon. "We just view temperature very differently, and I'd really rather not discuss it," he says. Yikes.

Cold Snapdragon is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 and a monthly special plant in the Chinese version. He was released in the international version alongside the Jurassic Marsh's Part 2 teaser in Piñata Parties on December 9, 2015, and released in the Chinese version on November 16, 2016.

Cold Snapdragon is an ice-based version of Snapdragon, capable of spraying ice mist in a 2x3 area in front of himself every 1.85-2 seconds, dealing identical damage to Snapdragon's fire attack and also slowing affected enemies for 10 seconds, reducing their movement and attack speed by 50%. He is immune to all freezing effects on his own and does not generate heat to thaw nearby plants.

Origins

Cold Snapdragon is based on Snapdragon, which is in turn based on the real-life snapdragons, or dragon flowers, plants from the Antirrhinum genus. This contrasts their fire and ice capabilities. His name is also a portmanteau of the term "cold snap" and "snapdragon".

Cold Snapdragon's costumes are both related to coldness: strawberry ice cream, and an ice block (the bow with the ice block is presumably to prevent it from sliding off the head of the Cold Snapdragon).

Almanac entry

Note: Cold Snapdragon costs 250 sun in the Chinese version

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

Cold Snapdragon
	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 30 PLANT FOOD POWER 20% RANGE Close Winter-mint Plant Food: Fires an ice blast in front, dealing heavy damage and either freezing or chilling zombies. Cold Snapdragons breathe icy mist into 6 adjacent tiles that both slows and damage zombies. Cold Snapdragon gets chilly when anyone brings up his cousin Snapdragon. "We just view temperature very differently, and I'd really rather not discuss it," he says. Yikes.

Cold Snapdragon

SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 30 PLANT FOOD POWER 20% RANGE Close Winter-mint Plant Food: Fires an ice blast in front, dealing heavy damage and either freezing or chilling zombies. Cold Snapdragons breathe icy mist into 6 adjacent tiles that both slows and damage zombies. Cold Snapdragon gets chilly when anyone brings up his cousin Snapdragon. "We just view temperature very differently, and I'd really rather not discuss it," he says. Yikes.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Cold Snapdragon will release a powerful blast of ice in a 3x3 square in front of itself, similarly to Snapdragon. While the ice blast is slightly weaker, capable of dealing only 1200 damage compared to Snapdragon's 1800, it can also freeze surviving targets and disable them for 10 seconds. Zombies from Frostbite Caves are resistant to this freezing effect, getting chilled instead. Attacking with fire based plants will remove the freezing effect.

Plant Food effect (animated)

Close-up of Cold Snapdragon using its Plant Food effect

The visual effect of Cold Snapdragon's Plant Food effect

HD Cold Snapdragon when using Plant Food

Plant Food ability (animated)

Winter-mint effect

When boosted by Winter-mint, Cold Snapdragon's damage will be increased to 180 damage, and its plant food effect's damage will increase to 4000 damage. He will deal more damage if he is at Mastery.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Moderate)	Plant Food Power (Damage)	Range
1	0	0	150	5 seconds	300 damage	30 damage	1200 damage	Close
2	10	1,000			350 damage	35 damage
3	25	2,500			400 damage	40 damage	1400 damage
4	50	5,000			450 damage	45 damage	1600 damage
5	100	10,000			550 damage	50 damage
6	200	20,000	125		600 damage	55 damage
7	400	30,000			650 damage	60 damage	1800 damage
8	800	50,000			700 damage	70 damage
9	1,200	75,000			800 damage	80 damage	2000 damage
10	1,600	100,000	100		900 damage	90 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Cold Breath	~5.6% chance to fire an attack that does 1.5x damage and freezes zombies for 2 seconds.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Cold Snapdragon gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Arctic Breath	~10.9% chance to fire an attack that does 2x damage and freezes zombies for 3 seconds.
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Cold Snapdragon gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Cold Snapdragon may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Cold Snapdragon gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Ice Dragon Breath	20% to fire a lane-wide attack that targets all grounded zombies which has 3000 damage, a 3-second freeze and a 7-second slow. Loses all previous abilities
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Cold Snapdragon gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

In addition to releasing a powerful blast of ice, Cold Snapdragon will also freeze all zombies on-screen, similar to Iceberg Lettuce's Plant Food effect.

Strategies

Generally speaking, Cold Snapdragon can be considered a nearly direct upgrade to the Snapdragon, as it exceeds its counterpart in some important aspects while maintaining the same sun cost. The former's ice-based attack can slow enemies down in addition to damaging them, and therefore can suppress the approaching horde much better than the latter's fire breath. To put in comparison, two full rows of Cold Snapdragons is capable of defeating Buckethead Zombies and outmatching Winter Melon in close combat, while two full rows of normal Snapdragons can only defeat Conehead Zombies. Cold Snapdragon's attack also extinguish Explorer Zombie's torch and Prospector Zombie's dynamite, along with adding ice effects to the zombies, allowing the plant to be used in tandem with other ice-based plants. It can also defeat Imp Dragon Zombies, unlike its fiery counterpart. Cold Snapdragons are also useful against T. rex as they can disable zombies with T. Rex's boost effect. Cold Snapdragon is an excellent choice against Mecha-Football Zombies and Punk Zombies as they will not eat the plant and will push it instead, allowing the Cold Snapdragon to continue attacking them. It also works great against Glitter Zombie as they can slow her down and allow other zombies behind her to be exposed.

Cold Snapdragon is a good choice in the Dark Ages. It can defeat Jester Zombies very easily with their ice mist. In addition, it works very well for slowing down crowds of zombies, especially high health zombies such as Knight Zombie, as well as, those who spawn in the Necromancy ambush.

Cold Snapdragon is particularly useful in Frostbite Caves due to a unique feature no other non-fire plant possesses (other than Missile Toe): neither the freezing wind nor Hunter Zombie's snowballs can freeze or disable Cold Snapdragon. In addition, Cold Snapdragon can abuse the slider tiles to great effect due to its attack area, and its attack's area of effect nature and slowing effect makes the plant an ideal counter to Weasel Hoarders and their Ice Weasels. It should be noted however, that its Plant Food ability cannot completely freeze enemies in the aforementioned world. Also note that it cannot unfreeze any frozen plant nearby, and that the presence of the necessary fire plants may negate the slowing chill effect.

Cold Snapdragon is a great choice in Endless Zones due to their high damage profile for a low sun cost of 150, and their area of effect means that they can suppress enemies easily, with power relatable to that of Winter Melon. However, it beats the latter in terms of close quarters combat, as six Cold Snapdragons in two columns can deal much more damage than two Winter Melons in the same lane. Cold Snapdragon is also an excellent plant to deal with sandstorms, as planting them at the third column, protected with the Infi-nut's force field, can quickly eliminate the zombies, allowing Winter Melons to direct their damage to the advancing zombie horde. It is also a good choice to defend against Imps thrown by Gargantuars; along with the Infi-nut's force field, Cold Snapdragon can make short work of Imps. Since they are very disposable, they are also an excellent early setup plant. Perhaps, the most challenging Endless Zone for a Cold Snapdragon is Highway to the Danger Room. Portals can appear in front of the Cold Snapdragon and spawn threats like Explorer Zombie, Barrel Roller Zombie, Pianist Zombie, Wizard Zombie, Surfer Zombie, Octo Zombie and Excavator Zombie who can immediately destroy or render it useless without eating it.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Cold Snapdragon
Simplified Chinese	冰龙草	lit. "Ice Dragon Grass"
French	Gueule-de-dragon froide	Cold Snapdragon
German	Eis-Drachenmäulchen	Ice Snapdragon
Italian	Bocca di drago fredda	Frozen Snapdragon
Brazilian Portuguese	Boca-de-dragão Gelado	Icy Snapdragon
Spanish	Bocadragón gélido	Icy Snapdragon ("Bocadragón" being a combined version of "Boca de dragón"; "Snapdragon" in Spanish)

Trivia

• It is one of the four ice-based plants to be immune to the freezing winds in Frostbite Caves, the other being Missile Toe, Iceweed, and Ice-shroom, unlike other ice plants like Iceberg Lettuce, Snow Pea, Winter Melon. It could be because it has fur that generates heat to itself.
• Its eyes can only be seen during its Plant Food Effect. This makes it one of the only plants with hidden eyes, excluding those with no eyes like Chomper.
• Its placeholder cost was originally $6.99, but this was changed to the official price of $4.99 when it was released. The original price is still in the code, and the current price is internally named akin to plant sales.
• It is one of the five plants that sneeze. The others are Ginseng, Chilly Pepper, Primal Rafflesia and Sap-fling.
• Cold Snapdragon is one of the nine plants that have a food-related costume, the others being Spring Bean (if you count the coconuts), Citron, Hot Potato, Guacodile, Gold Leaf, Fire Peashooter, Snapdragon, and Buttercup.

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)

• Its seed packet is different in the international version.
  • Only its head was shown in the Chinese version, while its entire body is shown in international version.

See also

• Snapdragon
• Slowdown plants

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