Nightshade

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

Nightshade
Nightshades are shadow plants that smack zombies with slappy leaves. Hurls and regrow its leaves when powered by other Shadow plants.
Statistics
Sun Cost	75
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	100 damage
Range	Straight
Family	Conceal-mint
Plant Food effect	Regrows all of its leaves, then throw [sic] three large leaves at zombies. Permanently, [sic] increases its damage.
Special	Hurls and regrows leaves when powered
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	100
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	270 damage
Attack Rate	seconds
Range	1 Tile to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Vanguard
Quality	Super-rare
Tags	Damage, shadow
Plant features	Blue plant, purple plant, shadow family
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(deflects projectiles) (makes it and other zombies immune to projectiles)
Unlocked	Beating Modern Day - Day 4
Costumes
Code name	nightshade
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.

“	The Nightshade is another shadow plant, User Dave. By itself it deals slapping damage to zombies. But if it is planted next to a Moonflower, both will become more powerful.	”
—Penny

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 either Moonflower, Conceal-mint, Gloom Vine, or Noctarine, 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: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.

Nightshade
	SUN COST 75 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 100 RANGE Straight Conceal-mint Plant Food: Regrows all of its leaves, then throw [sic] three large leaves at zombies. Permanently, [sic] increases its damage. Nightshades are shadow plants that smack zombies with slappy leaves. Hurls and regrow [sic] its leaves when powered by other Shadow plants. 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 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 100 RANGE Straight Conceal-mint Plant Food: Regrows all of its leaves, then throw [sic] three large leaves at zombies. Permanently, [sic] increases its damage. Nightshades are shadow plants that smack zombies with slappy leaves. Hurls and regrow [sic] its leaves when powered by other Shadow plants. 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.

Chinese version  (China only)

在暗影状态下的时候，会用力投掷和重新长出树叶 特点：在暗影状态下的时候，会用力投掷和重新长出树叶 植物特征：蓝色植物，紫色植物，暗影一族 对于茄属[sic]植物来说，攻击是一种责任和特权。他来自一长串热情的追踪者，他的家人包括三名国王、四名大使和一名总统。 In English: When in shadow state, strongly throws and regrows tree leaves Special: when in shadow state, strongly throws and regrows tree leaves Plant feature: blue plant, purple plant, shadow family For Solanum plants, , attacking is a duty and a privilege. He comes from a long queue of ardent trackers, his family includes three kings, four ambassadors and a president.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability

When fed with Plant Food, Nightshade will regrow all of his leaves, then hurl three large leaves at zombies (or do melee damage three times if there is a zombie close to him). Each large leaf deals 600 (400 in Chinese version) damage, 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 instead of 100 and his melee attack will do 600 damage instead of 200.

Conceal-mint effect

When boosted by Conceal-mint, Nightshade will do an additional 400 damage on his normal ranged attacks, an additional 700 damage on his melee attacks, an additional 600 damage on his powered ranged attacks, an additional 1100 damage on his Plant Food melee attacks, and an additional 1800 damage on his Plant Food ranged attacks. He will be powered even if not adjacent to a Moonflower.

Level upgrades

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 damage	100 damage	150 damage	200 damage	600 damage	600 damage	Normal	Straight
2	10	1,000			350 damage	125 damage	180 damage	250 damage	650 damage	700 damage
3	75	5,000		4.5 seconds	400 damage	150 damage	225 damage	300 damage	700 damage	800 damage	+1.3x
4	200	10,000			450 damage	175 damage	255 damage	350 damage	750 damage	900 damage
5	400	20,000		4 seconds	550 damage	200 damage	300 damage	400 damage	800 damage	1200 damage
6	750	30,000			600 damage	225 damage	330 damage	450 damage	850 damage	1300 damage
7	1,000	40,000		3.5 seconds	650 damage	250 damage	375 damage	500 damage	900 damage	1400 damage	+1.6x
8	1,250	50,000			700 damage	300 damage	450 damage	550 damage	950 damage	1500 damage
9	1,500	60,000	50	3 seconds	800 damage	350 damage	525 damage	600 damage	1000 damage	1600 damage
10	2,000	75,000		2.5 seconds	900 damage	400 damage	600 damage	700 damage	1100 damage	1800 damage

*After being fed with Plant Food and throwing large leaves, all leaves thrown normally after that will be powered.
^Applies to both normal and Plant Food state.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Night Shade Regrowing 夜影再生	When Moonflower buffs this plant, its leaf regeneration speed increases, restoring a leaf every 4.5 seconds. 当有月光花提供增益时，它的叶片恢复速度提升，每4.5秒恢复一片叶子。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Nightshade gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Rapid Growth 快速生长	When Moonflower buffs this plant, its leaf regeneration speed increases, restoring a leaf every 4 seconds. 当有月光花提供增益时，它的叶片恢复速度提升，每4秒恢复一片叶子。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Nightshade gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Nightshade may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	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 making 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, 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 the player can plant it with Dusk Lobber because Dusk Lobber can do splash damage to the zombies and Nightshade can more easily 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.

Related achievement

	The Shadow Family Complete a level with 20 powered Shadow Plants

Gallery

Nightshade has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Nightshade
Simplified Chinese	夜影龙葵	lit. "Night Shadow Solanum nigrum"
French	Bouton-noir	"Black Button"
German	Nachtschatten
Italian	Notturnombra
Brazilian Portuguese	Beladona Sombria	Portuguese for "dark nightshade"
Spanish	Solanácea

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.

See also

• Shadow plants

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