Nightshade

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Nightshade
Nightshades are shadow plants that smack zombies with slappy leaves.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	75 (50 in Chinese version)
Recharge	Fast
Damage	Heavy
Range	Straight
Range details	Close (not powered) Straight (powered)
Rarity (China)	Super-Rare
In-game statistics
In-game recharge	Fast
Direct damage	5 normal damage shots in 4 seconds (long range, powered) 10 normal damage shots in 4 seconds (close range) 8 normal damage shots in 4 seconds (long range, boosted) 30 normal damage shots in 4 seconds (close range, boosted)
Other weakness	(deflects projectiles) (makes it and other zombies immune to projectiles)
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. It will slap any zombies in front of it with its leaves but can only do this three times and can only do so at close range. If powered by a Moonflower, it gains the ability to regrow and hurl these leaves at zombies, effectively turning it into a long-ranged offensive plant instead of a melee plant. However, thrown leaves do less damage compared to leaves slapping a zombie.

Origins

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

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

Almanac entry

'NOTE: Nightshade costs 50 sun in Chinese version.'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.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Nightshade will regrow all of its leaves, then hurl three large leaves at zombies. Each large leaf deals 30 normal damage shots, similar to the large pea Repeater shoots at the end of its Plant Food effect. Additionally, after performing the effect, all leaves thrown by Nightshade will deal 7.5 normal damage shots instead of 5.

The leaves the Nightshade uses will now remain as the powered color, and also have changed damage when in both melee and ranged form. In melee form, it is capable of defeating a Conehead Zombie with one leaf, and a Buckethead Zombie with three leaves. Its ranged leaves deal eight normal damage shots per leaf (tombstones enter their second degrade when hit with one leaf, which occurs at eight normal damage shots).

Costumed (China only)

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

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 damage	100 damage	150 damage	200 damage	600 damage	600 damage	Normal	Straight
2	10	1,000		5 seconds	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		4.5 seconds	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		4 seconds	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		3.5 seconds	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.

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Night Rejuvenation	When powered by Moonflower, its fallen leaves restores much faster.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Nightshade gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Rapid Growth	It restores fallen leaves more faster.
	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).

Strategies

Nightshade's main strength is its high potential effectiveness for its 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. This ability could also be considered a downside, however, 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 it not being able to regrow its leaves. Nightshade also faces great challenges in the world it 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.

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Trivia

• In the 5.7.1 update, its seed packet recharge time was changed from 5 seconds to 24 seconds.
• It reuses attacking sounds from Cactus.
  • It also reuses the Plant Food effect sound from Wall-nut and Tall-nut when it uses Plant Food.
• When it is not powered, it sometimes have powered leaves instead of the basic purple leaves.
  • When it attacks whether powered or not, its leaves turn purple. This is only a visual error.
    • However, if fed Plant Food, its leaves remain as the powered leaves.
• If one looks closely, its costume slightly shakes during its idle animation.
  • This is because every other animation loop, it blinks its eyes. This causes the shades to shake a little because of the blink.
• It resembles Bloomerang in terms of appearance.
• If Nightshade's near a zombie and Plant Food is used on it, Nightshade will instead do its melee attack, opposed to its Plant Food effect. It will not continue the Plant Food attack after the zombie is defeated.
• It, along with Red Stinger and Spikerock, are the only plants that cannot be repaired with Wall-nut First Aid, despite visually degrading.

See also

• Moonflower
• Shadow-shroom
• Dusk Lobber
• Grimrose

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