Missile Toe

When he sees zombies, he goes SPLAT!

This item is only obtainable during certain events. However, it can still be used if you have already obtained it. It is currently available.

Missile Toe
Missile Toes launch cold blasts that damage, chill and slow zombies.
Statistics
Sun Cost	500
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	1200 damage
Chill	10 seconds
Firing Rate	20 seconds
Plant Food Power	33.33%
Area	Tile
Usage	Tap to Aim
Family	Winter-mint
Plant Food effect	Launches multiple cold blasts at the random targets on the lawn.
Usage	Tap to arm, tap on target tile to fire
Range	Anywhere on lawn
Special	On impact, explodes in small area
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	400
Recharge	10 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	1000 damage
Attack Rest	20 seconds
Range	Whole Screen
Area	3×3 AoE
Class	Ranged
Quality	Super-rare
Tags	Damage, manual, area of effect, freezing
Plant features	Blue plant
In-game statistics
Unlocked	NA: $6.99 · EU: €5.49 · UK: £4.99
Costumes
Costumes (China)
Code name	missiletoe
While she is called Missile Toe, Missile Toe has no toes and, properly speaking, lacks missiles. How'd she get her name? Nepotism! Pure favoritism!

“	Tap Missile Toe to arm her, then tap the target to fire.	”
—Penny

Missile Toe is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2, tied to the 2016 Feastivus event. She acts like a Banana Launcher but she can slow down Zombies in a 3x3 radius as an added effect.

She is also immune to the chilling effect in Frostbite Caves (except in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2) but can't warm up other plants, as they are all cold plants. After firing she will reload for 20 seconds.

Origins

Her name is a portmanteau of the words "missile," a self-propelled self-guided munition system, and "mistletoe," the common name for most obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. Her binomial name is Atkinsonia ligustrina - Australia's Christmas tree, a rare bush in the Blue Mountains of Australia.

Almanac entry

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

Missile Toe
	SUN COST 500 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 1200 Special Chill FIRING RATE 20 PLANT FOOD POWER 33.33% AREA Tile Usage Tap to Aim Winter-mint Plant Food: Launches multiple cold blasts at the random targets on the lawn. Missile Toes launch cold blasts that damage, chill and slow zombies. While she is called Missile Toe, Missile Toe has no toes and, properly speaking, lacks missiles. How'd she get her name? Nepotism! Pure favoritism!

Missile Toe

SUN COST 500 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 1200 Special Chill FIRING RATE 20 PLANT FOOD POWER 33.33% AREA Tile Usage Tap to Aim Winter-mint Plant Food: Launches multiple cold blasts at the random targets on the lawn. Missile Toes launch cold blasts that damage, chill and slow zombies. While she is called Missile Toe, Missile Toe has no toes and, properly speaking, lacks missiles. How'd she get her name? Nepotism! Pure favoritism!

槲寄冰仙子可以发射寒冰炮弹到草坪任意格子上。 用法：点住槲寄冰仙子，拖动到轰炸目标上 范围：草坪全范围 特点：影响范围造成小面积爆炸 植物特征：蓝色植物 槲寄冰每年的圣诞节都会赐福给那些善良的人们，但是由于太过马虎，偶尔会失手发射1颗冰弹造成一点小事故~。 In English: Missile Toe can fire ice cannonballs at any tile on the lawn. Usage: Tap and hold Missile Toe, and drag to the launch target Range: full lawn Special: causes a small explosion around the impact area Plant features: blue plant Missile Toe sends out snow every Christmas to bless all the kind hearted souls, but because she can be a bit careless, she'll sometimes launch an ice missile by accident and make a little bit of a mess~.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability

When given Plant Food, she will launch four cold blasts at random targets on the lawn, then she plays her animation when she is finished recharging immediately after.

Winter-mint effect

When boosted by Winter-mint, Missile Toe will deal an additional 2000 damage per missile, her missiles will freeze zombies for an additional seven seconds on impact, her chill duration will increase by 30 seconds, and her reload rate will decrease to twelve seconds.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage* (Massive)	Special (Chill)*	Special (Freeze)*^	Firing Rate (Slow)	Plant Food Power (Freeze Bursts)	Area
1	0	0	500	5 seconds	300 damage	1200 damage	10 seconds	N/A	20 seconds	Four	Tile
2	10	1,000	475		350 damage	1250 damage			19 seconds
3	25	2,500			400 damage	1300 damage	12 seconds		18 seconds
4	50	5,000	450		450 damage	1400 damage	15 seconds
5	100	10,000			500 damage	1500 damage		3 seconds	16 seconds	Five
6	200	20,000	425		550 damage	1600 damage	20 seconds
7	400	30,000			600 damage	1700 damage		5 seconds	14 seconds
8	800	50,000	400		700 damage	1800 damage	25 seconds
9	1,200	75,000	375		800 damage	1900 damage		7 seconds		Six
10	1,600	100,000	350		900 damage	2000 damage	30 seconds		12 seconds

*Applies to both normal and Plant Food states.
^After reaching level 5, Missile Toe will gain an ability to freeze zombies it attacks. This column shows freeze duration.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Costumed (China only)

Missile Toe now launches powerful cold blasts, which leave small ice trails and deal 210 damage at level 1 each.

Level Upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Fast Ice Charging 冰源减蓄	Improved the ice energy storage skill. Recharge reduced to 19 seconds. 槲寄冰仙子修习了寒冰能量的蓄能技巧，休息时间减少至19秒。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Missile Toe gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Quick Transport Charging 快输蓄源	The skill effect of Fast Ice Charging is increased by 100%. Recharge reduced to 18 seconds. 冰源减蓄的技能效果提升100%，休息时间减少至18秒。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Missile Toe gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Missile Toe may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Missile Toe gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Icy Bomb 寒冰仙弹	There is 80% chance to launch an ice missile. The ice missile will cause 3000 damage in 3x3 range when it lands, detonate after 5 seconds to cause 4500 damage in a 3×3 range. 攻击时有80%的概率发射寒冰导弹，寒冰导弹会在落地时造成3×3范围的3000点伤害，并在5秒后引爆造成3×3范围的4500点伤害。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Missile Toe gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Strategies

The Missile Toe is a direct upgrade to the Banana Launcher since her projectiles chill zombies in a 3x3 area in addition to causing high damage to any zombie that they hit directly. However, this plant's ability to slow zombies down with each shot also applies to the Snow Pea, Winter Melon, and Cold Snapdragon, making this plant somewhat redundant, unless she is the only ice-based plant that the player brings. She can also work well in Frostbite Caves since she is immune to the freezing effect.

Missile Toe has a huge advantage when it comes to dealing with Jester Zombies and Parasol Zombies. Although she fires projectiles, they cannot be deflected and will instantly destroy these zombies. In addition, she serves as a good option against Pharaoh Zombie and Newspaper Zombies as the slowing effect from her shots assures that other plants can deal more damage to them, even when enraged for the second one.

Her massive 500 sun cost and 20 seconds recharge time are notable weaknesses, however, the high damage and additional chill effect make her effective at dealing with single targets while crowd-controlling all other zombies in range through the slow effect. Her biggest weakness is that it is hard to know whether if she is recharging or not, as the only way to see is by looking her icy missile in her "hands", as it is smaller when recharging, but with no change in animation. This is especially noticeable when playing on smaller devices.

She can be used as a chilling alternative of Banana Launcher and even a slighty better as her area damage is better when freezing zombies. If she's leveled or with Winter-mint, her usage becomes even better. It is also notable that her Plant Food effect does not use up her original missile, and a boosted Missile Toe is thus better than a boosted Banana Launcher.

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version)  (China only)

In this version, Missile Toe now affects a 3x3 area. This means she can be used as a better version of Cob Cannon and a manual version of Winter Melon. This is made better by the fact that she is cheaper than both Winter Melon and Cob Cannon, costing 400 sun, as Winter Melon costs 500 and Cob Cannon costs 700 due to him requiring 2 Kernel-pults. Note that she is not immune to the freezing winds and the snowballs thrown by Hunter Zombies. Therefore, it is advised to pair her with a thawing plant such as Lava Guava or Hot Potato.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Missile Toe
Simplified Chinese	槲寄冰仙子	Mistletoe Ice Fairy
French	Guillerette	From gui and guillerette
German	Donnerbesen
Italian	Vischiorazzo
Brazilian Portuguese	Viscoguete
Spanish	Muérdago misil

Trivia

• Her recharge is 20 seconds like Banana Launcher, but the animation is slightly longer as you can fire Missile Toe's blast when the animation that shows it is ready (a short column of snow) happens.
  • However, her "recharge time" after her Plant Food effect is just her animation playing.
• The head-wear on her head resembles a Christmas tree.
• Her Almanac description jokes on how her name does not correlate to her appearance (specifically, she lacks missiles and toes).
• The projectiles affect a 3x3 area, despite their size.
  • This trait is not shared with Banana Launcher, as his only cover an area slightly smaller than 1x3.
  • However, that extra area does no damage to zombies, it only chills (and, when leveled up, freezes) them.
• She is the second premium plant released alongside the Feastivus event, with the first being Sap-fling, and the 3rd being Holly Barrier.
• In previous versions, the recharge was said to be sluggish but was actually fast in-game.
  • This error occurred with Banana Launcher's Almanac entry, too.

An example of the player controlling multiple Missile Toes

• Unlike Banana Launcher, the player cannot control multiple Missile Toes at once. If the player tries this, the Missile Toes they tapped while controlling the original Missile Toe will become stuck and unusable.
  • This can be fixed by either digging up the Missile Toe or by using Plant Food on her.
• Like Banana Launcher, she cannot be planted on minecarts. If the player tries this, this message will appear: "Missile Toes are too icy for mine carts."
• When she releases her snowball, the sounds of Christmas bells can be heard.
  • She can also be heard to have somewhat like a voice line, both when launching a missile and when used Plant Food on.
• She, Cold Snapdragon, Iceweed, and Ice-shroom are the only plants that are resistant to freeze effects, yet are unable to provide heat to warm other plants.
• She has the greatest number of statistics that can be upgraded, at seven.
• Her costume in the Chinese version is a combination of both of her costumes in the international version.

See also

• Banana Launcher
• Cold Snapdragon
• Winter Melon
• Cob Cannon

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