Heath Seeker

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Heath Seeker
Heath Seekers are Spear-mint family instant-use plants that burst into a storm of homing, piercing darts.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	125
Recharge	20 seconds
Damage	560 dps
Range	Full Board
Special	Can target from anywhere on the lawn
Family	Spear-mint
In-game statistics
Rarity (China)	Rare
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Costumes
Heath Seekers have always believed that the shortest distance between two points is an elaborately curved path that passes through several zombies and also looks pretty. Needless to say, they're struggling in geometry class.

“	Plant Heath Seekers to release a storm of homing, piercing darts.	”
—Penny

Heath Seeker is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 9.2.1 update. They are an instant use plant that explodes after about 0.65 seconds into a massive barrage of nine darts (every 0.01 seconds). These darts home in on targets and can pierce through multiple targets.

In the Chinese version, Heath Seekers have six darts at level 1, and they are given an additional ability of prioritizing magic shields possessed by zombies. Each dart can break a magic shield, and when the dart breaks the magic shield, it will disappear instantly.

Origins

Heath Seeker is based on the winter heath (Erica carnea), a flowering evergreen plant native to the mountainous areas of mainland Europe commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant.

Heath Seeker's name is a portmanteau of "heath," the plant they're based on, and "heat seeker," referencing their homing abilities.

Almanac entry

Note: The stats shown below only apply Level 1.

Heath Seeker		SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 20 SUN COST: 125 RECHARGE: 20 DAMAGE 560 Special Pierce Damage DAMAGE: 560 Special: Pierce Damage Special Zombie Pierced FAMILY Spear-mint Special: Zombie Pierced FAMILY: Spear-mint Heath Seekers are Spear-mint family instant-use plants that burst into a storm of homing, piercing darts. Special: can target from anywhere on the lawn Heath Seekers have always believed that the shortest distance between two points is an elaborately curved path that passes through several zombies and also looks pretty. Needless to say, they're struggling in geometry class.

Heath Seeker

		SUN COST 125			RECHARGE 20

SUN COST: 125
RECHARGE: 20

		DAMAGE 560			Special Pierce Damage

DAMAGE: 560
Special: Pierce Damage

		Special Zombie Pierced			FAMILY Spear-mint

Special: Zombie Pierced
FAMILY: Spear-mint

Heath Seekers are Spear-mint family instant-use plants that burst into a storm of homing, piercing darts.

Special: can target from anywhere on the lawn
Heath Seekers have always believed that the shortest distance between two points is an elaborately curved path that passes through several zombies and also looks pretty. Needless to say, they're struggling in geometry class.

Upgrades

Spear-mint effect

When boosted by Spear-mint, Heath Seekers' darts will deal an additional 1290 DPS with their primary attack, and an additional 560 DPS with their piercing attack.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Starting Recharge	Damage		Max Targets
						Primary	Piercing
1	0	0	125	20 seconds	10 seconds	560 dps	190 dps	3
2	50		100	19 seconds	9 seconds		240 dps
3	100			18 seconds	8 seconds	740 dps
4	200						340 dps
5	300			17 seconds	7 seconds			4
6	400		75				440 dps
7	500			16 seconds	6 seconds	1020 dps
8	600						560 dps
9	800		50			1290 dps
10	1,000			15 seconds	5 seconds			5

Mastery upgrade

• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Dart Power 尖刺强化	Number of bullets+1, penetration times of each bullet+1
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Heath Seeker gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Dart Evolution 尖刺进化	Number of bullets+1 (2 in total), penetration times of each bullet+1 (2 in total)
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Heath Seeker gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).

Strategies

Heath Seeker is a similar plant to Grapeshot in terms of its range of action. Is an all-round plant that can be used to clean up spare zombies scattered around the lawn, as well as thin out crowds in Endless Zones. They belong to a good plant family (which has many powerful plants such as Pokra and Laser Bean, while Spear-mint herself is very useful), with their Spear-mint boost being pretty impressive, taking chunks out of Gargantuars' health and dealing with the thrown Imp as well. It has a faster recharge rate than Cherry Bomb, but they have different abilities, meaning they are not interchangeable. For example, Cherry Bomb is more suitable to solve the gathered enemies, has a limited area and ignores armor, while Heath Seeker is just the opposite.

It is a good idea to use Heath Seeker in Ancient Egypt and Dark Ages, since in addition to killing zombies, the ability can remove tombstones easily. Use Heath Seekers if there are a huge pile of zombies scattered all over the lawn to kill them all. However, when dealing with Troglobites, Heath Seeker can have trouble with the ice blocks as the thorns find them really hard to hit, similarly to Homing Thistle's thorns targeting Snorkel Zombies, circling around them until they despawn or hit them. However, they can still be targeted, wasting thorns.

Their thorns are also quite damaging, so they can be used against single high-health targets as well. In fact, a level 3 Heath Seeker can take out 2 Gargantuars.

Heath Seeker's darts cannot be deflected by Jester Zombies or blocked in any way; therefore you can use heath seeker in the Dark Ages without the risk of the darts being deflected.

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Name	Description
English	Heath Seeker
Simplified Chinese	石楠探索者	Photinia Seekers
French	Bruyère guidée
German	Heiße Heide
Italian	Erica sibilante
Brazilian Portuguese	Urze Caçadora
Spanish	Peluda de Brezal

Trivia

• Despite not having a Plant Food ability, they have an animation for being watered in the Zen Garden. The animation can be seen when they are ready to level up.
  • They, Puffball, Ice Bloom, Teleportato Mine, and Rhubarbarian are the only instant use plants released after Far Future to have this distinction.
• If planted after a level ends, it will just repeat its spinning animation over and over, not releasing any spikes.