- For more information about this character, see Night Cap.
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Nightcap is a premium plant added in the 10.8.1 update of Plants vs. Zombies 2 as part of the “Nightcap’s Covert Season” arena. She attacks by shooting piercing stars in a four tile area ahead of her (every 2.35-2.5 seconds) in a similar manner to Fume-shroom, these stars deal poisonous damage which lasts for 2 seconds.
Nightcap is also able to enter a stealth mode when zombies get close to her, in a similar manner to Cactus, Shadow Peashooter, and Scaredy-shroom. Nightcap cannot be damaged by any zombie attacks when she's in this stealth mode and she is able to deal poisonous damage to any zombie occupying her tile.
Nightcap cannot poison the following zombies: Dr. Zomboss, #caketank, Healer Zombie, Zombie Medusa, Zombie Medusa's statue, and Zombie Bobsled Team.
Origins[]
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Nightcap gets her name from the plant with the same name from Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, however her appearance and attack is based on Nightcap's appearance in the pre-2021 version of Plants vs. Zombies 3, while her stealth form is based on Nightcap's Shadow Sneak ability from her Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville appearance.
Overview[]
Nightcap have special abilities, which is similar to instant-use plants such as Power Mints and also Sundew Tangler:
- She cannot be destroyed by most means:
- She cannot be eaten by zombies. Instead, the zombies will just walk through them.
- She cannot be carried away by Zombie Parrot.
- She cannot be crushed by crashing zombies. If Troglobite or Arcade Zombie run into them, they will stop pushing ice blocks or the arcade machine and just go ahead.
- She cannot be transformed into sheep by Wizard Zombie and can't be covered by octopus from Octo Zombie.
- However, they can be destroyed when Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC makes ice blocks over where she are planted or speakers are spawned from Zombot Multi-stage Masher. They can also be destroyed by Zombie King, drowned by the tide if not planted on a Lily Pad.
- She cannot be pulled by Fisherman Zombie and can also block him from pulling other plants behind them.
- She is not affected by Boombox Zombie.
- Jester Zombie's reflected projectiles just pass through her.
- She is immune to freezing winds in Frostbite Caves.
- Dr. Zomboss will be stunned when he attempts to ram her.
Almanac entry[]
Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.
Nightcap
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Nightcap |
Nightcap shoots piercing poisonous stars down the lane and withdraws into a toxic stealth mode when zombies get too close. Special: avoids most zombie attacks |
Upgrades[]
Plant Food effect[]

When given Plant Food, Nightcap will deal heavy damage to zombies in a 3x5 area, also poison them and push them back if they are surviving.
Ail-mint effect[]
When boosted by Ail-mint, Nightcap will deal an additional 200 damage with her normal attacks, an additional 300 damage with her poison attacks.
Level upgrades[]
Level | Seed Packets | Coins | Upgrades | |||||||
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Sun Cost | Recharge | Starting Recharge | Damage | Special (Poison Zombies) |
Attack Range | Plant Food Power (Damage) | ||||
Damage | Duration | |||||||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 300 | 5 seconds | 3 seconds | 30 damage | 20 damage | 2 seconds | 4 tiles | 2000 damage |
2 | 50 | 40 damage | 30 damage | |||||||
3 | 100 | 50 damage | 40 damage | |||||||
4 | 200 | 60 damage | 3000 damage | |||||||
5 | 300 | 70 damage | 50 damage | 3 seconds | ||||||
6 | 400 | 80 damage | 5 tiles | |||||||
7 | 500 | 90 damage | 55 damage | 4 seconds | 4000 damage | |||||
8 | 600 | 100 damage | 65 damage | |||||||
9 | 800 | 110 damage | 5 seconds | 6 tiles | 4200 damage | |||||
10 | 1,000 | 120 damage | 70 damage | 6 seconds | 5000 damage |
Mastery upgrades[]
- Chance to Boost
- Damage Pierce
Strategies[]
Nightcap has great potential under her awesome appearance. Although she costs a lot of sun, she’ll definitely brighten your eyes and be worth the money. From her attack mode, she’s like Fume-shroom of the same plant family, that is, she can trigger her attack when there is a target within front 4 tiles, but obviously has more advantages: first, she can poison zombies, which is similar to the effect of Shadow-shroom, and second, when the zombie is too close, returning to toxic stealth state, which makes up for the shortcoming of its close attack. Her poisoning ability can ignore armor, which makes her particularly effective against a group of zombies like Buckethead Zombies, but not very useful against units like Gargantuars and mechanical zombies. Try to plant some defensive/slowdown plants/stun plants forward, such as Buttercup and Iceweed, which can prevent her from returning to invisible state, and also make its poison to kill zombies faster. At level one, the damage per second she causes is actually higher than that of Melon-pult with the similar amount of sun cost, and they are both group-effective plants. Because it can be seen as an upgraded-version of Fume-shroom, some strategies of Fume-shroom can be applied to Nightcap. For example, Nightcap is effective against zombies that attempt to shield themselves from normal projectiles, such as Barrel Roller Zombie, Shield Zombie and Excavator Zombie, hitting through their protection and killing them easily. It is worth to note that its poison does not work in grid items such as tombstones.
After the level upgrade, the performance of Nightcap has improved by leaps and bounds. Apart from the steady increase of normal attack damage, its poisoning effect has also been strengthened, making it "infinitely" poison zombie (if it keeps attacking them) at level five. This is because its poisoning duration exceeds its attack interval. At level six, she gained an additional attack range of 1 tile and another one in level nine. These made one of her disadvantages - short-range completely offset. Plus the features of poisoning zombies and high-damage attack, zombies generally cannot pass through Nightcap. However, with the level upgrades, the sun cost of Nightcap has not decreased.
Therefore, it is recommended to carry efficient sun-producing plants such as Gold Bloom or Solar Sage to get more sun and plant more Nightcap. Nightcap are particularly effective in some fields, such as Endless Zone. When powered by Ail-mint, Nightcap gains a lot of damage increases, making it common attack and poison attack reach an amazing level. Considering the attack interval of Nightcap and the duration of Ail-mint, Nightcap can quickly destroy a large group of zombies after Ail-mint's poisoning effect. Total poison damage of max-level Nightcap powered by Ail-mint can reach 2220, and there are also additional 320 normal-attack damage. Nightcap's Plant Food effect is to deal huge damage to targets within the 3x5 area, and to poison and knock back the undefeated zombies. It is as practical as Fume-shroom's.
Nightcap is almost invincible, which makes her useful in levels that does not allow you to lose plants. Some zombies are immune to poisoning, such as the Healer Zombie and Zombie Medusa. The former will even cure other poisoned zombies, greatly reducing total damage of Nightcap. Someone may compare Nightcap with Goo Peashooter. Although Goo Peashooter has a faster attack speed and a lower sun cost, it can only affect one zombie per pea, while Nightcap's stars can damage all zombies in an area. Not to mention Nightcap's poison is higher than Goo Peashooter's. The only advantage of Goo Peashooter is its ability to slow down zombie, and this thing is often not very effective because it requires many stacks to reach 50%. The comparison of their Plant Food effects is also a complete victory for Nightcap, as Nightcap can deal a large amount of damage (accurately 2000 damage at level 1), and also has the ability to poison and knockback zombies. The only thing better about Goo Peashooter's Plant Food effect than Nightcap's is that its knockback can be combined with Blover.
In general, Nightcap has a nice design.
Gallery[]
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In other languages[]
Please note that only official translations are used.
Language | Name | Description |
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Nightcap | ||
暗夜菇 | "Dark night-shroom" | |
Bonnet de nuit | ||
Nachtporling | ||
Berretto da notte | ||
Touquinha | Diminutive for the Portuguese word touca | |
Ночной Колпак/Ночная Шляпка | ||
Gorro de noche |
Trivia[]
- If you didn't obtain Nightcap during early access or during her arena season, she is now more difficult to obtain.
- When scrolling through the Almanac, there are sometimes offers to purchase her seed packets with coins (4000 for 5 seed packets) or gems (20 for 5 seed packets), but currently not by watching ads.
- Nightcap is the second playable plant to debut in Plants vs. Zombies 3 before Plants vs. Zombies 2, the first being Buttercup.
- However, with her cameo appearances at loading screen from 9.3.1 update to 10.7.1 update (except 9.7.1), Nightcap is the first plant that debut in Plants vs. Zombies 3 to appear in Plants vs. Zombies 2, with second being Buttercup.
- Before making her introduction in 10.8.1 loading screen as one of the featured plants, Nightcap has made several cameo appearances in the loading screen since the 9.3.1 update, long before she was added to the game:
- From the 9.3.1 to 9.6.1 update before her abrupt disappearance in 9.7.1 update, Nightcap can be seen behind between Squash and Parsnip.
- In the 9.8.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be seen with Parsnip, Headbutter Lettuce, Tall-nut, Spore-shroom and Sunflower.
- In the 9.9.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be seen behind Tomb Tangler.
- In the 10.0.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be seen in the time-space background, behind the Octo Zombie.
- In the 10.1.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be subtly seen near Turkey-pult's tofu turkey.
- In the 10.2.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be seen hanging on #feastivuscaketank at the right of loading screen.
- In the 10.3.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be seen inside Penny along with Wall-nut.
- In the 10.4.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be subtly seen standing on the rooftop of the house at the left of loading screen.
- In the 10.5.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be seen standing on the beach afar as a silhouette, near the game's logo.
- In the 10.6.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be seen outside of the ZCorp buildling.
- In the 10.7.1 loading screen, Nightcap can be seen standing on the rooftop at the right of loading screen.
See also[]
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Others | Imitater · Explode-o-nut · Giant Wall-nut · Reverse Repeater · Giant Sunflower · Giant Marigold · Sprout · Tree of Wisdom |
Plants vs. Zombies: Social Edition | |
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Premium | Pickled Pepper · Icy Fume-shroom · Fire-shroom · Flamewood · Vine-nut · Gatling Pea · Twin Sunflower · Gloom-shroom · Winter Melon · Super Chomper · Future Star · Calm Chuck |
Plants vs. Zombies Adventures | |
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>Normal | Peashooter · Sunflower · Aspearagus · Wall-nut · Cherry Bomb · Popcorn · Beet · Snow Pea · Jalapeño · Magnet Plant · Flaming Pea · Shamrock · Bamboo Shoot · Repeater · Chilly Pepper · Twin Sunflower |
VIPs | Sweet Pea · Beeshooter · Hard-nut · Acespearagus · Power Flower · Beetboxer · Ice Queen Pea · Shamrockstar · Bamboom |
Others | Trees |
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Player's House | Peashooter · Sunflower · Wall-nut · Potato Mine · Cabbage-pult | ||||||||
Ancient Egypt | Bloomerang · Iceberg Lettuce · Grave Buster · Bonk Choy · Repeater · Twin Sunflower | ||||||||
Pirate Seas | Kernel-pult · Snapdragon · Spikeweed · Spring Bean · Coconut Cannon · Threepeater · Spikerock · Cherry Bomb | ||||||||
Wild West | Split Pea · Chili Bean · Pea Pod · Lightning Reed · Melon-pult · Tall-nut · Winter Melon | ||||||||
Frostbite Caves | Hot Potato · Pepper-pult · Chard Guard · Stunion · Rotobaga | ||||||||
Lost City | Red Stinger · A.K.E.E. · Endurian · Stallia · Gold Leaf | ||||||||
Far Future | Laser Bean · Blover · Citron · E.M.Peach · Infi-nut · Magnifying Grass · Tile Turnip | ||||||||
Dark Ages | Sun-shroom · Puff-shroom · Fume-shroom · Sun Bean · Magnet-shroom | ||||||||
Neon Mixtape Tour | Phat Beet · Celery Stalker · Thyme Warp · Garlic · Spore-shroom · Intensive Carrot | ||||||||
Jurassic Marsh | Primal Peashooter · Primal Wall-nut · Perfume-shroom · Primal Sunflower · Primal Potato Mine | ||||||||
Big Wave Beach | Lily Pad · Tangle Kelp · Bowling Bulb · Guacodile · Banana Launcher | ||||||||
Modern Day | Moonflower · Nightshade · Shadow-shroom · Dusk Lobber · Grimrose | ||||||||
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Others | Marigold |
Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) | |
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Ancient Egypt | Peashooter · Sunflower · Wall-nut · Cabbage-pult · Bloomerang · Iceberg Lettuce · Grave Buster · Bonk Choy · Repeater · Twin Sunflower · Snow Pea · Cherry Bomb · Torchwood |
Pirate Seas | Kernel-pult · Snapdragon · Power Lily · Spikeweed · Spring Bean · Coconut Cannon · Spikerock · Lightning Reed · Tall-nut |
Wild West | Threepeater · Squash · Split Pea · Chili Bean · Jalapeno · Pea Pod · Melon-pult · Winter Melon · Imitater |
Kongfu World | Resistant Radish · Fire Gourd · Peach · Bamboo Shoot |
Far Future | Laser Bean · Blover · Citron · E.M.Peach · Infi-nut · Magnifying Grass · Tile Turnip · Starfruit |
Dark Ages | Hypno-shroom · Sun-shroom · Puff-shroom · Fume-shroom · Sun Bean · Pea-nut · Magnet-shroom · Oak Archer · Coffee Bean · Plantern |
Big Wave Beach | Acidic Lemon · Lotus Pod · Lily Pad · Bowling Bulb · Banana Launcher · Guacodile · Tangle Kelp · Homing Thistle |
Frostbite Caves | Hurrikale · Fire Peashooter · Hot Potato · Pepper-pult · Chard Guard · Stunion · Rafflesia · Whirlwind Acorn |
Sky City | Rotobaga · Loquat · Asparagus · Saucer · Horsebean · Groundcherry · Anthurium · Pineapple |
Lost City | Lava Guava · Red Stinger · A.K.E.E. · Stallia · Gold Leaf · Toadstool · Jackfruit |
Neon Mixtape Tour | Morning Glory · Phat Beet · Thyme Warp · Celery Stalker · Spore-shroom · Garlic · Intensive Carrot · Cactus |
Jurassic Marsh | Primal Peashooter · Primal Wall-nut · Perfume-shroom · Primal Sunflower · Primal Potato Mine · Primal Rafflesia · Dino-Roar Grass · Timid Thorn · Sugarcane Master |
Modern Day | Shadow-shroom · Caulipower · Moonflower · Grimrose · Nightshade · Dusk Lobber · Blooming Heart |
Steam Age | Gold Bloom · Flat-shroom · Maypop Mechanic · Lotus Shooter · Wind-Blowing Vanilla · Lily of Pharmacy · Mulberry Blaster |
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Aloe · Bearberry Mortar · Wax Gourd Guard · Oily Olive · Pomegranate Jeweler · Dartichoke |
Heian Age | Dripping Diphylleia · Stephania · Tupistra Stalker · Dendrobium Windbreak · Chef Cypripedium · Boophone Geigi |
Fairytale Forest | Ents · Heath Seeker · Hat Mushroom · Hocus Crocus · Princess Spring Grass · Bamboo Trooper |
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Others | Potato Mine · Flower Pot · 8-Bit Peashooter · Chilly Pepper · Ice Bloom · Tactical Cuke |
Hero Plants | P-Mech Assembler - Flamestar |
Removed | Rotten Red |
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Player's House | Sunflower · Peashooter · Wall-nut · Potato Mine |
Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum | Bruce Bamboo · Carrot Rocket · Pomegranate · Dandelion · Venus Flytrap · Wax Gourd · Sod |
Ancient Egypt | Bloomerang · Bonk Choy · Grave Buster · Iceberg Lettuce · Cabbage-pult |
Pirate Seas | Snapdragon · Spikeweed · Spring Bean · Kernel-pult · Coconut Cannon · Narcissus · Endurian · Spikerock · Pineapple-pult · Threepeater |
Far Future | Laser Bean · Blover · Citron · E.M.Peach · Tile Turnip · Ganoderma · Banana Tree · Nitro-shroom · Infi-nut · Magnifying Grass |
East Sea Dragon Palace | Oxygen Algae · Garlic · Bubble Flower · Electric Sea Pine |
Upgrades | Twin Sunflower · Repeater |
VIPs | Winter Melon |
Power Ups | Cherry Bomb · Jalapeno |
Premium | Squash · Snow Pea · Tall-nut |
Adventure Mode only | Magic Vine · Split Pea · Chili Bean · Lightning Reed · Pea Pod · Melon-pult · Starfruit · Chomper · Fire Peashooter · Cattail · Rose Swordfighter · Clivia · Sap-fling · Acid Lemon · Magic-shroom · Ghost Pepper · Guacodile · Hurrikale · Plantern · Oak Archer · Homing Thistle · Pepper-pult · Resistant Radish · Toadstool · Blooming Heart · Red Stinger · Electric Blueberry · A.K.E.E. · Moonflower · Agave · Asparagus · Pumpkin Witch · Mine Fruit · Sea Anemone · Lychee Drill · Sea Starfruit |
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Dave's House | Peashooter · Sunflower · Squash · Wall-Nut · Potato Mine · Bamboo Shoots · Bonk Choy · Cabbage-Pult |
Campground | Lily Pad · Snow Pea · Plantern · Lightning Reed · Tangle Kelp · Sun-Shroom |
Begonia Boulevard | Umbrella Leaf · Puff-Shroom · Lychee |
Power-Ups | Grapes of Wrath · Chilly Pepper · Jalapeño · Cherry Bomb · Blover |
Others | Threepeater |
Sep Version | Chili Bean · Silversword |
Pre-2021 | Buttercup · Garlic · Pushywillow · Chard Guard · Spikeweed · Kernel-Pult · Caramel Popcorn · Melon-Pult · Shuffle Truffle · Blockbuster · Butternut Squash · Ragweed · Sawgrass · Fire Peashooter · Pine Needler · Night Cap · Aloe Vera · Sweet Potato · Hydrangea · Dogwood · Chomper · Flak Seed · Gravitree · Gloom-Shroom · Lemon-Aid · Starfruit · Snapdragon · Fairy Ring Mushroom · Kalestorm · Star Tree · Magic Beans |