Nightshade

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars, see Nightshade.

Nightshade
Nightshades are shadow plants that smack zombies with slappy leaves.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	75 (50 in Chinese version)
Recharge	5 seconds
Damage	100 damage per shot in 4 seconds (long range, powered) 200 damage per shot in 4 seconds (close range) 150 damage per shot in 4 seconds (long range, boosted) 600 damage per shot in 4 seconds (close range, boosted)
Toughness	300 DPS
Range	Straight
Range details	Close (not powered) Straight (powered)
Family	Conceal-mint
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(deflects projectiles) (makes it and other zombies immune to projectiles)
Rarity (China)	Super-Rare
Unlocked	Beating Modern Day - Day 4
Costumes
For Nightshade, smacking is a duty and a privilege. He comes from a long line of ardent smackers, and his family counts three kings, four ambassadors and a president as among those proudly slapped around.

Nightshade is the second plant obtained in Modern Day in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He will slap any zombies in front of him with his leaves every 4 seconds but can only do this three times and can only do so at close range. If powered by a Moonflower, not only can his leaves actually be fired in Appease-mint-style formation, but he also gains the ability to regrow said leaves every 5 seconds, effectively turning him into a long-ranged offensive plant instead of a melee plant. However, thrown leaves do less damage compared to leaves slapping a zombie.

Origins

He is based on the Solanaceae, which is an economically important family of flowering plants, known as climbing nightshades.

His appearance may be based on Solanum dulcamara, with his leaves being based on the purple petals and his cap being based on the reproductive part of the flower.

Almanac entry

NOTE: Nightshade costs 50 sun in Chinese version.

Nightshade	SUN COST 75 RECHARGE 5 SUN COST: 75 RECHARGE: 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 100 TOUGHNESS: 300 DAMAGE: 100 RANGE Straight FAMILY Conceal-mint RANGE: Straight FAMILY: Conceal-mint Nightshades are shadow plants that smack zombies with slappy leaves. Special: hurls and regrows leaves when powered For Nightshade, smacking is a duty and a privilege. He comes from a long line of ardent smackers, and his family counts three kings, four ambassadors and a president as among those proudly slapped around.

Nightshade

		SUN COST 75			RECHARGE 5

SUN COST: 75
RECHARGE: 5

		TOUGHNESS 300			DAMAGE 100

TOUGHNESS: 300
DAMAGE: 100

		RANGE Straight			FAMILY Conceal-mint

RANGE: Straight
FAMILY: Conceal-mint

Nightshades are shadow plants that smack zombies with slappy leaves.

Special: hurls and regrows leaves when powered

For Nightshade, smacking is a duty and a privilege. He comes from a long line of ardent smackers, and his family counts three kings, four ambassadors and a president as among those proudly slapped around.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Nightshade will regrow all of his leaves, then hurl three large leaves at zombies. Each large leaf deals 600 damage per shot, similar to the large pea Repeater shoots at the end of his Plant Food effect. Additionally, after performing the effect, all leaves thrown by Nightshade will deal 150 damage per shot instead of 100 and his melee attack will do 600 damage per shot instead of 200.

Conceal-mint effect

When boosted by Conceal-mint, Nightshade will do an additional 400 DPS on his ranged attacks and an additional 1800 DPS on his Plant Food ranged attacks. He will be powered even if not adjacent to a Moonflower.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Heavy)			Plant Food Power (Damage)		Projectile Velocity	Range
						Ranged		Melee	Melee	Ranged
						Normal	Powered*
1	0	0	75	5 seconds	300 dps	100 dps	150 dps	200 dps	600 dps	600 dps	Normal	Straight
2	10	1,000		5 seconds	350 dps	125 dps	180 dps	250 dps	650 dps	700 dps
3	75	5,000		4.5 seconds	400 dps	150 dps	225 dps	300 dps	700 dps	800 dps	+1.3x
4	200	10,000		4.5 seconds	450 dps	175 dps	255 dps	350 dps	750 dps	900 dps
5	400	20,000		4 seconds	550 dps	200 dps	300 dps	400 dps	800 dps	1200 dps
6	750	30,000		4 seconds	600 dps	225 dps	330 dps	450 dps	850 dps	1300 dps
7	1,000	40,000		3.5 seconds	650 dps	250 dps	375 dps	500 dps	900 dps	1400 dps	+1.6x
8	1,250	50,000		3.5 seconds	700 dps	300 dps	450 dps	550 dps	950 dps	1500 dps
9	1,500	60,000	50	3 seconds	800 dps	350 dps	525 dps	600 dps	1000 dps	1600 dps
10	2,000	75,000		2.5 seconds	900 dps	400 dps	600 dps	700 dps	1100 dps	1800 dps

*After being fed with Plant Food and throwing large leaves, all leaves thrown normally after that will be powered.

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Night Rejuvenation	When powered by Moonflower, its fallen leaves restores much faster.
	Combat Training	Nightshade gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Rapid Growth	Restoring time of fallen leaves also decreases while not being powered.
	Cell Activation	Nightshade gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken	Nightshade may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power	Nightshade gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

Nightshade now hurls all three of his plant food leaves at once, which does more damage. However, he only does this once.

Strategies

Nightshade's main strength is his high potential effectiveness for his fairly low price of 75 sun. When powered by Moonflower, a Nightshade can deal almost three times as much damage as an average Peashooter, and will, therefore, have little problem can make much quicker work of Basic and Buckethead Zombies. However, this ability could also be considered a downside, as Nightshade is heavily dependent on Moonflower which is a plant with a relatively slow recharge rate, and Nightshade's performance when not powered is below average due to him not being able to regrow his leaves. Nightshade also faces great challenges in the world he is introduced in, as the amount of methods used by the horde to deter straight-shooting projectiles, plus the sheer zombie density can render even the most powerful of single target plants insignificant. But player can plant it with Dusk Lobber because Dusk Lobber can do a splash damage to the zombies and Nightshade can more easily to kill them.

When given plant food, the leaves the Nightshade uses will remain as the powered color, and also have changed damage when in both melee and ranged form. In melee form, he is capable of defeating a Conehead Zombie with one leaf, and a Buckethead Zombie with three leaves. Tombstones enter their second degrade when hit with one ranged leaf, which occurs at 160 damage per shot. 

Related achievement

	The Shadow Family Complete a level with 20 powered Shadow Plants

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Trivia

• He reuses attacking sounds from Cactus.
  • He also reuses the Plant Food sound effects from Wall-nut and Tall-nut when he is given Plant Food.
• When he is not powered, he would sometimes have powered leaves instead of the basic purple leaves.
  • When he attacks whether powered or not, his leaves turn purple. This is only a visual error.
    • However, if fed Plant Food, his leaves remain as the powered leaves.
• If one looks closely, his costume slightly shakes during his idle animation.
  • This is because every other animation loop, he blinks his eyes. This causes the shades to shake a little because of the blink.
• He resembles Bloomerang in terms of appearance.
• If Nightshade is near a zombie and Plant Food is used on him, Nightshade will instead do his melee attack, opposed to his Plant Food effect. He will not continue the Plant Food attack after the zombie is defeated.
• Him, along with Red Stinger, are the only plants that cannot be repaired with Wall-nut First Aid despite visually degrading.
• Nightshade will gain an additional 700 DPS on his melee attacks and an additional 1100 DPS on its Plant Food melee attacks while boosted by Conceal-mint, but he will be powered and never do melee attack while boosted by it.

See also

• Shadow plants

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