Lily Pad (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Lily Pad (disambiguation).

Lily Pad
Lily Pads let you plant non-aquatic plants on top of them.
Statistics
Sun Cost	25
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Family	Contain-mint
Plant Food effect	Creates Lily Pads in adjacent spaces. If the adjacent space has Lily Pads- it will heal them instead.
Usage	Can also be planted under non-aquatic plants
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	25
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Class	Support
Quality	Common
Tags	Aquatic, support
Plant features	Green plant, aquatic plant, short
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Beating Big Wave Beach - Day 1
Unlocked (China)	Beating Big Wave Beach - Day 1, Collecting 10 Lily Pad Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Code name	lilypad
Not many people know this, but Lily Pad absolutely loves square dancing. There he is, a circular plant gliding across the dance floor making squares. He loves how it pushes his boundaries and really makes him think outside the sphere.

Lily Pad is an amphibious plant appearing in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He allows non-aquatic plants to be planted on top of him.

About

For more information about this character, see Lily Pad.

Lily Pad is unlocked after completing Big Wave Beach - Day 1. Unlike in the first game, Lily Pad can be planted anywhere and is only vulnerable when there is water underneath; if Lily Pad is on land, he cannot be targeted by any zombie other than Gargantuars, Octo Zombies, and Wizard Zombies. Likewise, the following plants cannot be planted on Lily Pad: , the following plants cannot be planted on Lily Pad on water: . He cannot be planted under an endangered plant.

Almanac entry

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

Lily Pad
	SUN COST 25 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 Contain-mint Plant Food: Creates Lily Pads in adjacent spaces. If the adjacent space has Lily Pads- it will heal them instead. Lily Pads let you plant non-aquatic plants on top of them. Usage: can also be planted under non-aquatic plants Not many people know this, but Lily Pad absolutely loves square dancing. There he is, a circular plant gliding across the dance floor making squares. He loves how it pushes his boundaries and really makes him think outside the sphere.

Lily Pad

SUN COST 25 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 Contain-mint Plant Food: Creates Lily Pads in adjacent spaces. If the adjacent space has Lily Pads- it will heal them instead. Lily Pads let you plant non-aquatic plants on top of them. Usage: can also be planted under non-aquatic plants Not many people know this, but Lily Pad absolutely loves square dancing. There he is, a circular plant gliding across the dance floor making squares. He loves how it pushes his boundaries and really makes him think outside the sphere.

Chinese version  (China only)

莲叶可以让你在它上面种植非水生植物。 用法：可以种植非水生植物 植物特征：绿色植物、水生植物、矮个子 不太有人知道，原来莲叶超级喜欢广场舞。他一上场，就仿佛舞池里滑动的圆盘横扫全场。他特爱这种舞可以令自己突破极限，飘飘欲仙的感觉。 In English: Lily Pads let you plant non-aquatic plants on top of them. Usage: can also be planted under non-aquatic plants Plant feature: green plant, aquatic plant, short Not many people know this, but Lily Pad absolutely loves square dancing. When he enters the stage, he will sweep the whole room like a circular disk gliding across the dance floor. He loves how it pushes his boundaries and really makes him think outside the sphere.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When given Plant Food, Lily Pad will spawn four copies of himself in adjacent tiles. if there were already Lily Pads around him, he will heal them (if they were ever harmed in the first place). These copies do not provide sun when dug up. The plant on top of him will also activate its Plant Food effect.

Costumed  (China only)

He creates Lily Pads in a 3x3 area around him.

Contain-mint effect

When boosted by Contain-mint, Lily Pad can absorb an additional 900 damage.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)
1	0	0	25	5 seconds	300 damage
2	10	1,000		4.5 seconds	350 damage
3	75	5,000			400 damage
4	200	10,000			450 damage
5	400	20,000	0		550 damage
6	750	30,000		4 seconds	600 damage
7	1,000	40,000			650 damage
8	1,250	50,000		3.5 seconds	700 damage
9	1,500	60,000			800 damage
10	2,000	75,000		3 seconds	900 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Toughness Bonus

Strategies

Lily Pad is a vital plant in levels with water lanes, as he allows deployment of other land-based plants to guard those lanes possible. While aquatic and aerial options are also available for this task such as Tangle Kelp, Rotobaga, Ghost Pepper, Guacodile and Caulipower in the second game, they either lack area-of-effect capability and thus can be overwhelmed by the ever-increasing amount of zombies present, or they're limited use plants that don't stay on the lawn in the long term. Remember that due to Lily Pad's cost, normal plants' costs are effectively 25 sun more expensive than normal, unless Lily Pad is upgraded.

Lily Pad's importance has further increased in the second game. As the tides can fully cover the entire field and any ground plant not on a Lily Pad will be swept away by the tide, Lily Pad can effectively be considered equivalent to Flower Pot on the Roof levels. The short recharge time and cheap price also allows Lily Pad to work as a bait to force Deep Sea Gargantuars and Surfer Zombies to use their attack early, depleting the latter's surfboards and preventing them from harming other plants.

It is ill-advised to plant ground plants that have to let zombies walk over to be damaged like Spikeweed, Spikerock, or Iceweed when the tide is low, as zombies can eat them and then the Lily Pad. He can also be planted on dry land, but his use is greatly reduced on the land. Basically Lily Pad on land can only be a cheap blocker/staller for things like Gargantuar, Mecha-Football Zombie, and Ankylosaurus.

In this game, Lily Pad faces a competition with the emergence of Aqua Vine, as both of them allow non-aquatic plants to be planted on top of them, while Aqua Vine also makes aquatic plants have wider use. Aqua Vine has a powerful attack for both its land and water states, while Lily Pad cannot attack. So it seems that Aqua Vine is a super upgrade to Lily Pad. However, Lily Pad still maintains certain advantages: firstly, it is easier to obtain; secondly, Lily Pad allows non-aqua vine plants to be used on his tile, and some vine plants are a must-have for some plants; thridly, due to the vine mechanism, Lily Pad can support wall plants and make something that needs to be attacked to trigger like Buttercup usable; finally, Lily Pad is cheaper, has faster recharge, and becomes free when leveled to at least 5.

Balance changes

Update 10.6.1

• ▲ Lily Pad can now share Plant Food with the plant on top of it.
• ▼ Lily Pad can now be destroyed by Surfer Zombie if there is a plant on top of it.
• Lily Pad can now be targeted by Octo Zombie and Wizard Zombie.

Update 10.8.1

• Lily Pad is now able to be pulled by Fisherman Zombie.
• Plants with the Lily Pad can be pulled together.

Update 11.2.1

• ▲ Lily Pad can now be used in all worlds.

Update 11.3.1

• ▲ Lily Pad can now be planted to the left of the tide line in Big Wave Beach.

Gallery

Lily Pad has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Lily Pad
Simplified Chinese	莲叶	lit. "Lotus Leaf"
French	Nénuphar
German	Seerosenblatt
Italian	Foglia di ninfea
Brazilian Portuguese	Vitória-régia	"Lily pad" in portuguese
Spanish	Nenúfar

Trivia

• If the player tried to bring him on any Far Future level before Day 8, the text will say "Complete future10 to unlock using Lily Pad on this level." The same glitch occurred with Tangle Kelp. This bug was fixed in the 3.2.1 update.
• Before the 4.0 update, pre-planted or Plant Food-created Lily Pads could give sun, effectively bolstering sun production, specifically in Last Stand levels. However, this mechanic was somewhat removed, though all pre-placed Lily Pads at the start of a level will still give sun.
• Before 10.6 update, when being eaten, instead of flashing white briefly to signify a loss of health, he turned white completely for the duration of the zombie eating him. It is because he was a grid item in code.
• He will blow bubbles underwater during his idle animation.
  • He will do the same if he is planted on the ground during a low tide in Big Wave Beach, which makes no sense.
• The last night of Dark Ages gives the player a boosted Magnet-shroom for the Zomboss battle. The last day of Big Wave Beach also has Lily Pad as a mandatory boosted plant. These are the only Zomboss battles that have this feature.
• If the player looks closely, they might notice that there is an array of Lily Pads in the moat in Dark Ages.
  • However, they look nothing like the plantable Lily Pads.
• He is the first plant that can fit other plants in its own tile in the game, with the second being Blastberry Vine.
  • However, before the Patch 10.6.1, players could power up the plants on top of Lily Pad only.
• He belonged to Contain-mint family possibly due to Lily Pad allowing plants to be planted on top of him, with containment attribute.
• He was an aquatic plant before Patch 11.3.1 and the only aquatic plant to not despawn during low tide in Big Wave Beach.
• Almost all plants related to water cannot be planted on the Lily Pad, if one tries to plant them on him, different messages will be seen.
  • In Tangle Kelp's case: "Tangle Kelp can only be planted in water"
  • In SeaFlora's case: "SeaFlora cannot be planted on Lily Pads."
  • In Electric Peel's case: "Electric Peel cannot be planted on Lily Pads."
  • In Sea-shroom's, Guard-shroom's, and Aqua Vine's case: "You can't plant this on Lily Pads."
• As of 11.2.1 where he can now be used across all worlds, he cannot be planted on minecarts.

Specific to Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 (China only)

• He is the only two non-instant-use plants that do not have a dancing animation caused by Sunflower Singer.
• In the Almanac, he is shown on the ground, and not in the water. The same applies to all other aquatic plants and zombies. It is not like this in the international version, so this might be a mistake.

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