Lotus Root

歪比巴卜！

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He prefers to call himself Optimus Prime.

The official name of this plant is Lotus Root. However, a literal translation can be found in its infobox. The official name is to be used on all pages that refer to this plant.

莲藕射手(translation: Lotus Root Shooter)
Shoots water droplets to attack, can absorb toxic steam to cause additional damage.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	200
Recharge	Fast
Damage	Normal
Special	Absorbs the toxic steam surrounding him
In-game statistics
Direct damage	20 damage per shot
Other weakness	(deflects water droplets) (blocks water droplets) (immune to his knockback effect)
Rarity (China)	Super-Rare
Unlocked	Complete Steam Ages - Day 6
Chinese English 莲藕射手是资深环保人士，看到漫天的雾霾，它总想射点什么。 Lotus Root is a senior environmentalist. When he sees smog in the sky, he always wants to shoot something.

Lotus Root (莲藕射手; pinyin: lián'ǒu shèshǒu) is a plant from Steam Ages in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2. He shoots water droplets at zombies that deal 20 damage per shot, functioning exactly like a Peashooter. He is also capable of absorbing toxic steam from sewers, allowing him to shoot a poisonous black water droplet that can poison zombies.

The poisonous water droplet can deal up to 500 damage, including his poison effect.

Origins

He is based on the root of the lotus plant, nelumbo.

Almanac entry

莲藕射手 Lotus Root	DAMAGE Normal RANGE Straight RECHARGE Fast
	可以吸收有毒蒸汽造成额外的伤害 特别：吸收身边的毒雾 植物特征：白色植物 莲藕射手是资深环保人士，看到漫天的雾霾，它总想射点什么。

莲藕射手 (Lotus Root)
Sun cost: 200

DAMAGE: Normal
RANGE: Straight
RECHARGE: Fast

可以吸收有毒蒸汽造成额外的伤害

特别：吸收身边的毒雾
植物特征：白色植物
莲藕射手是资深环保人士，看到漫天的雾霾，它总想射点什么。

In English: Can absorb toxic steam to cause additional damage. Special: Absorbs the toxic steam surrounding him Plant feature: white plant Lotus Root is a senior environmentalist. When he sees smog in the sky, he always wants to shoot something.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed Plant Food, Lotus Shooter shoots a large amount of water droplets that can push zombies. At the end he shoots a large bubble that deals 500 damage per shot to all zombies in a 1x1 area.

Costumed

He will shoot green toxic water droplets that are the same as his black droplets. He also shoots a large green bubble at the end that deals 800 damage per shot to the zombie it hits along with 500 splash damage in an area of a tile and poisons them.

Level upgrade

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Multiple Water Droplets 多重水箭	There is a 10% chance to enter to a "bursting state", rapidly shooting a number of water droplets.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Lotus Root gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Water Droplet Mastery 水箭大师	Chance of Multiple Water Droplets has been increased to 100%.
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Lotus Root gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Lotus Root may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Lotus Root gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Lotus Water Gun 莲藕水枪	It may launch a continuous stream of water that knocks back zombies and does continuous damage to them.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Lotus Root gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Strategies

Place him around steam sewers to remove the steam. If the player is not dealing with large groups of zombies or planning to place plants near the steam, it might actually be beneficial to keep letting the Lotus Root use its special steam attack while healing him with either Heavenly Peach or Trump Tulip.

However, he is outclassed by Blover because it can blow away all the steam at once.

It is not recommended to use him outside of Steam Ages, as he will be a costlier, slower recharging Peashooter that cannot synergize with Torchwood.

Gallery

HD Lotus Root

HD Costumed Lotus Root

Puzzle Piece

Costume Puzzle Piece

Seed packet

Sprites

GIF of Lotus Root's idle animation

Lotus Root's silhouette teaser

Lotus Root's reveal photo

Unlocking Lotus Root

Lotus Root Inhaling Toxic Steam

Grayed-out Lotus Root

Dancing Lotus Root

Lotus Root on a Gold Tile

Lotus Root cannot be used on this level

Lotus Root on the map

Seed packet texture

Trivia

• His normal projectile uses Acidic Citrus' projectile sprites, but colored light blue.
• Despite being based on a real-life aquatic plant, he can't be planted in the water in Big Wave Beach.
• Despite attacking with water, his projectile cannot extinguish Explorer Zombie's torch.
• It is the second plant to be based on lotus in the game, with the first being Lotuspot.
• If the plant uses the water stream ability while a zombie is entering a sewer, the projectile will follow the zombie until is killed. This seems to be more a bug.

See also

• Sewer
• Steam Ages