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- For other uses, see Puff-shroom (disambiguation).
Puff-shroom is a recurring character within the Plants vs. Zombies franchise. Puff-shrooms are usually the first mushroom the player obtains and are quite weak, though they are either very cheap or completely free in return.
As of Plants vs. Zombies 3, Puff-shroom has appeared in five games.
Origins
Calvatia cyathiformis
His name is a combination of the word "puff," which means a short burst of breath or wind, referring to how he puffs little spores as his attack and the suffix "-shroom" referring to how he is a mushroom. He may be based on the Calvatia cyathiformis, also known as the purple-spored puffball.
In the French translations, the name Puff-shroom is translated as "Champi-gnon," which is a pun on the words "champignon" (a mushroom) and "gnon" (a French argot term, meaning the act of punching).
History
Plants vs. Zombies
- Main article: Puff-shroom (PvZ)
In the original Plants vs. Zombies game, as well as all Chinese spin-off games based on it, Puff-shroom is the first mushroom to be obtained. They are completely free, allowing the player to use it as a cheap offense and defense. However, being a mushroom, they will fall asleep in Day, Pool, and Roof levels unless waken up by a Coffee Bean.
He has an aquatic counterpart, Sea-shroom, who is also a free mushroom, except they had a slower recharge and were Aquatic.
Plants vs. Zombies 2
- Main article: Puff-shroom (PvZ2)
Puff-shroom next appears in Plants vs. Zombies 2 where he has been drastically nerfed. He is still a free plant and even can stay awake no matter the world, but now he has a minute long timer before he disappears. If any Puff-shroom on-screen is fed Plant Food, not only will their timer reset, but they'll also activate the Plant Food of every other Puff-shroom on the screen, resetting their timers as well.
Witch Hazels can naturally transform zombies into more Puff-shrooms until they reach level 7.
Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars (China only)
- Main article: Spray Mushroom line
Puff-shroom appears in the Chinese-exclusive turn-based game Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars as the first plant in the Mushroom line, evolving into Scaredy-shroom and then Fume-shroom. They attack by stretching up and shooting spores at zombies.
His abilities include Spore Spray, which deals damage to all enemies in their lane, Necrotoxin, which gives Spore Spray a chance to poison enemies for 3 turns, and Microbial Corrosion, which lets his attacks ignore 120 HP worth of armor, an effect that is doubled if the enemy is poisoned.
Plants vs. Zombies Heroes
- Main article: Puff-Shroom (PvZH)
Puff-Shroom also appears in the turn-based mobile card game Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, once again costing 0
, having 1
/1
stats and Team-Up. Puff-Shroom used to be a Token card only before finally being added as an obtainable card in the Colossal Fossils set.
Shroom for Two, Mushroom Grotto and Witch Hazel can all create this plant without the plant being in the deck itself, making them a common mushroom the player will use and see in the game.
Plants vs. Zombies 3
- Main article: Puff-Shroom (PvZ3)
Puff-Shroom's most recent appearance is in Plants vs. Zombies 3. Here he works almost identically to his Plants vs. Zombies 2 counterpart, except he damages himself rather than having a natural timer.
His Plant Food ability is the same as it was in Plants vs. Zombies 2 while his Tacobility lets him fire three spores at a time along with removing his "timer".
Similar to Witch Hazel in the previous game, Fairy Ring Mushroom transforms zombies in a 3x3 area around her into Puff-Shrooms if she's the one who defeated them.
Trivia
Puff-shroom's concept design for Adventures.
- Puff-shroom has never costed more than 0 sun, being one of the only plants who cost has stayed the same in all their appearances, even counting spin-offs.
- Puff-shroom was considered for Plants vs. Zombies Adventures but ended up getting scrapped.
- It is likely that, because Magnet-shroom was reworked into Magnet Plant, it was believed that mushrooms wouldn't be able to work in Adventures' format and instead of letting all mushrooms be awake during the day, they simply scrapped them instead.
See also
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