Puff-shroom (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

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For other uses, see Puff-shroom (disambiguation).

Puff-shroom
Puff-shrooms are short-range shooters that last for a limited time.
Statistics
Sun Cost	0
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	150 damage
Damage	20 damage
Range	3 Tiles
Lifespan	60 seconds
Plant Food Power	9.09%
Family	Ail-mint
Plant Food effect	All Puff-shroom [sic] on the lawn will shoot a spore barrage and reset their life duration.
Special	Lives for a limited time
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	0
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	150 damage
Damage	20 damage
Attack Rate	1.4 seconds
Range	4 Tiles to the Right
Area	Single Target
Duration	60 seconds
Class	Vanguard
Quality	Common
Tags	Damage
Plant features	Purple plant, mushroom family, short
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Beating Dark Ages - Night 2
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Puff-shroom Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Costumes (China)
Code name	puffshroom
Puff-shroom is hip to all the latest social networks. He loves to surf Sporebook, FungusedIn and ShroomstaGram. But he sometimes misses the simple camaraderie of a good ol' fashioned Lawn Area Network party.

Puff-shroom is a mushroom plant appearing in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He shoots spores at zombies like most other straight shooting plants, but has a limited range and will disappear a short while after being planted. However, this is largely countered by his quick recharge, 0 sun cost and high expendability.

About

For more information about this character, see Puff-shroom.

Puff-shroom makes his return in Plants vs. Zombies 2 as the second plant to be obtained in Dark Ages, and retains the same 0 sun cost and short range as he did from the previous game. In this game, however, Puff-shroom has a limited lifespan, and will start to flicker and eventually disappear 60 seconds after he's planted. Said lifespan can be increased by leveling up Puff-shroom, and can reach up to double the original duration. Note, however, that using Plant Food on a Puff-shroom will reset the lifespan of all Puff-shrooms on the lawn, stopping them from vanishing. Puff-shroom has also had his health reduced to half that of a regular plant (150 damage vs 300 damage), which slightly hinders his usefulness as a meat shield, albeit not by much. Witch Hazel has the ability to turn zombies into Puff-shrooms if it does not reach level 7 or is not boosted by a Power Mint.

Boosting 20 Puff-shrooms with a single Plant Food will earn the player the Fungus Humongous achievement.

Almanac entry

Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.

Puff-shroom
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 150 DAMAGE 20 RANGE 3 Tiles Special Lifespan PLANT FOOD POWER 9.09% Ail-mint Plant Food: All Puff-shroom on the lawn will shoot a spore barrage and reset their life duration. Puff-shrooms are short-range shooters that last for a limited time. Puff-shroom is hip to all the latest social networks. He loves to surf Sporebook, FungusedIn and ShroomstaGram. But he sometimes misses the simple camaraderie of a good ol' fashioned Lawn Area Network party.

Puff-shroom

SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 150 DAMAGE 20 RANGE 3 Tiles Special Lifespan PLANT FOOD POWER 9.09% Ail-mint Plant Food: All Puff-shroom on the lawn will shoot a spore barrage and reset their life duration. Puff-shrooms are short-range shooters that last for a limited time. Puff-shroom is hip to all the latest social networks. He loves to surf Sporebook, FungusedIn and ShroomstaGram. But he sometimes misses the simple camaraderie of a good ol' fashioned Lawn Area Network party.

Chinese version  (China only)

小喷菇射程很近并只能持续一段时间。 特点：存活时间有限 植物特征：紫色植物、蘑菇家族、矮个子 小喷菇对所有最新的网络时尚无所不知。他沉溺在“菇博”，“菇信”和“美菇秀秀”中不能自拔。但是有时候他还是会想念草坪网友聚会,那种纯朴简单的友情一去不返。 In English: Puff-shroom has short range and can only last for a short time. Special: has limited living time Plant feature: purple plant, mushroom family, short Puff-shroom knows everything about the newest internet trend. He can't pull himself away from "Shroombo", "ShroomChat" and "Shroomtu". But sometimes he misses the lawn gatherings of internet friends, that simple friendship is gone and will never return.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When fed Plant Food, he, along with any other copies of himself, will unleash a barrage of 15 spores per second for two seconds, and their lifetime are all reset. If some of the Puff-shrooms are planted on Power Tiles, the effect will last longer and green outlines will be coming out from the Power Tiles.

In the Chinese version, the spores have a range increase.

Ail-mint effect

When boosted by Ail-mint, Puff-shroom does an additional 110 damage per spore, an additional 30 damage per plant food spore, and his lifespan is extended by 120 seconds.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage* (Normal)	Projectile Velocity	Special (Lifespan)	Plant Food Power (Damage*)	Range
1	0	0	0	5 seconds	150 damage	20 damage	Normal	60 seconds	20 damage	3 Tiles
2	3	50		4.5 seconds	200 damage	25 damage		65 seconds
3	10	200			250 damage	30 damage
4	25	1,500			300 damage	35 damage		70 seconds
5	50	2,000		4 seconds	350 damage	40 damage	+ 1.6x
6	75	3,000			400 damage	45 damage		75 seconds
7	100	4,000			450 damage	50 damage			25 damage
8	125	5,000			500 damage	55 damage		80 seconds
9	175	6,000			550 damage	60 damage
10	225	8,000		3.5 seconds	600 damage	65 damage		85 seconds
11	300	10,000			650 damage	70 damage
12	350	15,000			700 damage	75 damage		90 seconds
13	350	20,000				80 damage	+ 2.2x
14	400	25,000				85 damage		95 seconds
15	450	30,000				90 damage
16	500	35,000		3 seconds		95 damage		100 seconds	30 damage
17	550	40,000				100 damage
18	600	45,000				105 damage		110 seconds
19	700	50,000				110 damage
20	800	55,000		2.5 seconds				120 seconds

*Per hit.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Rapid Planting 快速种植	The improvement of cultivation technology shortens the cultivation time of Puff-shroom to 3.5 seconds. 栽培技术的提升使小喷菇的种植时间缩短为3.5秒。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Puff-shroom gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Improved Seeds 种子改良	The improvement of cultivation technology shortens the cultivation time of Puff-shrooms to 2 seconds. 栽培技术的提升使小喷菇的种植时间缩短为2秒。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Puff-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Puff-shroom may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Puff-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

Puff-shrooms work together, when Puff-shrooms release their big moves, all Puff-shrooms will spray high-damage spores together, and restore the existence time of the Puff-shrooms to 60s.

Strategies

Puff-shroom has been significantly nerfed in terms of basic function, as he now has a timed lifespan and will disappear after 60 seconds; without Plant Food or using Imitater, the player will only be able to maintain a maximum of ten Puff-shrooms on the lawn at any given time. Because of this, Puff-shroom can no longer be planted in nearly as large quantities and therefore will lose his effectiveness even faster than he did in the first game. He also has less overall health, taking only 1.5 bites from a zombie before being destroyed. However, this is all compensated by his powerful Plant Food ability, which will spread to all Puff-shrooms currently present on the lawn, potentially dealing a massive amount of damage whilst also resetting their duration in the progress, all without the need of Power Tiles or Tile Turnip.

Defensively, Puff-shroom serves well as a makeshift wall against most enemies because of his nonexistent sun cost and fast recharge. Puff-shroom is particularly effective in stalling Gargantuars due to the long plant-smashing animation, and in combination with Sunshroom the pair recharge fast enough to perma-stall a Gargantuar. However Puff-shroom is not effective against several other zombies that can crush or circumvent plants, such as Explorer Zombie, Pianist Zombie, and Mecha-Football Zombie.

In Dark Ages, Puff-shroom should not be used to fight Jester Zombies, as they can reflect Puff-shroom's projectiles. Puff-shroom is also a poor choice in Big Wave Beach, as his main advantage of "being free & spammable" is undermined by the need to put out Lily Pads first or Sea-shroom.

Due to his freeness, the player can make great use of Puff-shrooms in levels that require the player to not spend more than X sun. Being free, Puff-shroom won't detract from the sun counter, letting you augment your defenses without fear of going over the limit. However, it is not at all recommended to use Puff-shrooms in levels where there is a limit to the number of plants that can be lost, since his disappearing after 60 seconds will count as a plant lost.

In Frostbite Caves, Plant Food will only affect Puff-shrooms that are not frozen. However, those that are frozen will remember the Plant Food, undergoing its effect upon being thawed.

Puff-shroom is extremely effective in boosteramas, as each new Puff-shroom will trigger a Plant Food effect on every Puff-shroom already in play. This can put out enough damage to kill almost all zombies on the board, and it recharges every few seconds.

Related achievements

	Fungus Humongous Buff 20 Puff-shrooms with a single Plant Food

Gallery

Puff-shroom has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Puff-shroom
Simplified Chinese	小喷菇	lit. "Little Puff-shroom"
French	Champi-gnon
German	Pustepilz
Italian	Malporcino
Brazilian Portuguese	Soprogumelo	Portmanteau of sopro and cogumelo
Russian	Пуфгриб
Spanish	Seta desesporada

Trivia

• He is the first plant that initiates a chain reaction of Plant Food ability, even if there are no Power Tiles from Tile Turnips or from Far Future to aid him from doing so, unless there is only one Puff-shroom present on the lawn. The second one is the Lantern Cherry, which activates a chain reaction for sun-producing plants on-screen, and the third is Sunflower Singer which also initiates a chain reaction of other Sunflower Singers.
  • Additionally, he, Doom-shroom, Scaredy-shroom, and Sea-shroom are the only plants that initiate a chain reaction of Plant Food in the International version.
    • Coincidentally, four of them are Mushrooms and first appeared in the first game.
  • If he is planted on Power Tiles, the tiles will pulsate as the Plant Food effect is triggered, but the firing effect will be slightly longer.
• If the level has been completed but the reward has not been collected and he is about to fade, he will stay on the lawn instead.
• In his Almanac entry, Sporebook is a pun for Facebook, FungusedIn is a pun for LinkedIn, ShroomstaGram is a pun for Instagram, and Lawn Area Network is a pun for Local Area Network.
  • In the Chinese version, they localized to Shroombo (菇博), ShroomChat (菇信) and Shroomtu (美菇秀秀). They are all Chinese puns of Sina Weibo, WeChat and Meitu respectively, all of which are Chinese social media platforms.
• In Dark Ages - Night 12 and Inzanity epic quests with them, if the player lets the endangered Puff-shrooms disappear, instead of saying "THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR PLANT!", the game over text says "PUFF-SHROOM DID NOT SURVIVE!".
• As of the 2.9 update, he now has an "about to open mouth" sprite when fed with Plant Food.
• The splatter created when a spore hits a target is a recolor of the splatter caused when a pea hits a target.
• The sound that he makes when he disappears is identical to the sound that Stunion makes when he disappears.
• He appears slightly taller than he did in the first game.

See also

• Spore
• Mushrooms
• Fungus Humongous
• Witch Hazel
• Scaredy-shroom
• Sea-shroom
• Ghost Pepper

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