Puff-shroom (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

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

Puff-shroom
Puff-shrooms are short-range shooters that last for a limited time.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	0
Recharge	5 seconds
Damage	20 damage per shot
Range	3 Tiles
Special	Lives for a limited time
Family	Ail-mint
In-game statistics
Rarity (China)	Common
Unlocked	Beating Dark Ages - Night 2
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Puff-shroom Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
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 dps vs 300 dps), which slightly hinders his usefulness as a meat shield, albeit not by much. Witch Hazel has the ability to turn zombies into Puff-shrooms.

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 SUN COST: 0 RECHARGE: 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 TOUGHNESS: 300 DAMAGE: 20 RANGE 3 Tiles Special Lifespan RANGE: 3 Tiles Special: Lifespan PLANT FOOD POWER Duration PLANT FOOD POWER: Duration Puff-shrooms are short-range shooters that last for a limited time. Special: lives 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

SUN COST: 0
RECHARGE: 5

		TOUGHNESS 300			DAMAGE 20

TOUGHNESS: 300
DAMAGE: 20

		RANGE 3 Tiles			Special Lifespan

RANGE: 3 Tiles
Special: Lifespan

		PLANT FOOD POWER Duration

PLANT FOOD POWER: Duration

Puff-shrooms are short-range shooters that last for a limited time.

Special: lives 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.

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 can shoot through the lawn.

Ail-mint effect

When boosted by Ail-mint, Puff-shroom does an additional 110 DPS per spore, an additional 30 DPS per plant food spore, and an extra two minutes are added to its lifespan.

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 dps	20 dps	Normal	60 seconds	20 dps	3 Tiles
2	3	50		4.5 seconds	200 dps	25 dps		65 seconds
3	10	200		4.5 seconds	250 dps	30 dps		65 seconds
4	25	1,500		4.5 seconds	300 dps	35 dps		70 seconds
5	50	2,000		4 seconds	350 dps	40 dps	+ 1.6x	70 seconds
6	75	3,000		4 seconds	400 dps	45 dps		75 seconds
7	100	4,000		4 seconds	450 dps	50 dps		75 seconds	25 dps
8	125	5,000		4 seconds	500 dps	55 dps		80 seconds
9	175	6,000		4 seconds	550 dps	60 dps		80 seconds
10	225	8,000		3.5 seconds	600 dps	65 dps		85 seconds
11	300	10,000		3.5 seconds	650 dps	70 dps		85 seconds
12	350	15,000		3.5 seconds	700 dps	75 dps		90 seconds
13	350	20,000		3.5 seconds		80 dps	+ 2.2x	90 seconds
14	400	25,000		3.5 seconds		85 dps		95 seconds
15	450	30,000		3.5 seconds		90 dps		95 seconds
16	500	35,000		3 seconds		95 dps		100 seconds	30 dps
17	550	40,000		3 seconds		100 dps		100 seconds
18	600	45,000		3 seconds		105 dps		110 seconds
19	700	50,000		3 seconds		110 dps		110 seconds
20	800	55,000		2.5 seconds		110 dps		120 seconds

*Per hit.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Rapid Planting	Puff-shroom's seed packet recharges 30% faster.
	Combat Training	Puff-shroom gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Improved Breed	Puff-shroom's seed packet recharges 50% faster.
	Cell Activation	Puff-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken	Puff-shroom may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power	Puff-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

Puff-shroom deals twice the damage and its Plant Food projectile travels farther.

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, as they will take the same amount of time to attack a Puff-shroom as they would for any other plant while preventing the brute from damaging your defenses. However, Puff-shroom does not work 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 and make quick work of him. Puff-shroom is also a poor choice in Big Wave Beach, as his biggest advantage of "being free & spammable" falls to the wayside, since he cannot be planted in water without the use of Lily Pad, which costs 25 sun to plant.

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, after a Puff-shroom is fully frozen, if you plant another Puff-shroom and activate Plant food on him, only the Puff-shroom that is not frozen will be boosted. However, after it gets defrosted it will receive the boost.

Related achievements

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

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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.
  • He is the only plant to do this in the international version.
  • If he is planted on Power Tiles, the tiles will pulsate as the Plant Food effect is triggered, but nothing else will happen.
• 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.
  • However, in the Chinese version they renamed these to: Mushroom Blog (菇博), Mushroom Mail (菇信) and Beautiful Mushroom Show (美菇秀秀).
    • They are all Chinese puns of Sina Weibo, WeChat and Meitu, 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.
• Even though he has the lowest health out of all non-instant use plants, he does not have his own health category on the Almanac.
  • Though this is probably due to lack of space, as a plant's Almanac entry can only have a maximum of three categories, those being recharge speed, range, and damage respectively.
• 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

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