- Not to be confused with Enforce-mint, another Power Mint with a similar name.
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Reinforce-mint is a Power Mint plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. When planted, he will knock all zombies backward (for approximately 1.4 tiles), then activate Plant Food abilities for all plants in his family and boosts them.
Reinforce-mint Family plants include:
Like other Power Mints, he cannot be imitated or affected by other mints. After 8 seconds, Reinforce-mint will disappear.
Reinforce-mint can be obtained with 100 mints in the store when he is available.
Origins[]

Reinforce-mint's name is a portmanteau of the words "reinforcement," referring to his ability to boost defensive plants, and "mint," the real-life plant he is based on.
Almanac entry[]
Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.
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Reinforce-mints push all zombies back and provide a temporary boost to all Reinforce-mint Family plants on the lawn. Reinforce-mint isn't scowling. He's just workshopping defense strategies, doing what he can to support the team. Maybe he's scowling just a little bit. Fine. |
Reinforce-mint boosts[]
When boosted by Reinforce-mint, the following plants will have their Plant Food effects triggered, as well as receive the following boosts:
- Aloe can absorb an additional 900 damage, its heal cooldown will be adjusted to 6 seconds, and its healing is increased by 800 damage.
- Bean Sprout will deal an additional 50 damage with its normal attacks, an additional 100 damage with its Plant Food attacks, and an additional 1 shockwave is shot during the Plant Food effect.
- Blockoli can absorb an additional 16000 damage, he will deal an additional 325 damage with his normal attack, an additional 975 damage with his Plant Food attack, and his stun duration is increased by 7 seconds.
- Chard Guard's leaves will take three hurls to detach, and it can absorb an additional 3000 damage.
- Endurian can absorb an additional 5000 damage, and its damage will increase by 80 damage.
- Gumnut's gum can absorb an additional 20000 damage, its gum health boost is increased by 600, and its Plant Food effect can target an additional 10 zombies.
- Holly Barrier can absorb an additional 5000 damage, its leaves can absorb an additional 3000 damage, and its Plant Food effect leaves can absorb an additional 5000 damage.
- Infi-nut can absorb an additional 4500 damage.
- Pea-nut can absorb an additional 12000 damage, and its peas will do an additional 110 damage.
- Primal Wall-nut can absorb an additional 11000 damage.
- Pumpkin can absorb an additional 8000 damage.
- Sweet Potato can absorb an additional 8500 damage.
- Tall-nut can absorb an additional 32000 damage.
- Wall-nut can absorb an additional 8000 damage.
- Guard-shroom's health is increased by 1000 (level 1-5) or 2000 (level 6-10), it will deal an additional 1000 damage, its shroom spawn count is increased by 1, its Plant Food Pull Zombie Count is increased by 2. Mini-shroom has 1.5x health and double damage to zombies it cannot eat, and its damage boost is increased by 0.25.
Upgrades[]
Level upgrades[]
Note that Reinforce-mint's recharge is 30 seconds shorter during the Improve-mint event.
Level | Seed Packets | Upgrades | |||||||
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Sun Cost | Recharge | Duration | Toughness | Special (Knockback) | |||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 85 seconds | 8 seconds | 100000 damage | Normal | |||
2 | 100 | 80 seconds | 9 seconds | ||||||
3 | 150 | 10 seconds | +5% | ||||||
4 | 200 | 75 seconds | 11 seconds | ||||||
5 | 300 | 12 seconds | +10% | ||||||
6 | 400 | 13 seconds | |||||||
7 | 500 | 70 seconds | 14 seconds | ||||||
8 | 600 | 15 seconds | +15% | ||||||
9 | 800 | 16 seconds | |||||||
10 | 1,000 | 60 seconds | 17 seconds | +20% |
Strategies[]
Reinforce-mint is best used when you have a lot of zombies on the board, with Pea-nut, Infi-nut, or with Holly Barrier. Reinforce-mint will cause all Reinforce-mint family plants to activate their plant food abilities, with Pea-nut being the most noticeable as he is the only one of them to have a ranged attack. Using a Reinforce-mint when you have a column full of Pea-nuts will significantly weaken the horde, or even completely clearing it, and will nearly take down stronger zombies such as Gargantuars. In Arena and Penny's Pursuit, several columns of Pea-nuts will be required. Even in other cases where such plants have no offensive abilities, Reinforce-Mint can still be a life saver, as just one of him can save dozens of Plant Food.
Another very powerful strategy is to use Reinforce-mint to boost Infi-nuts in several columns. Doing so requires staggering the columns they are placed in to allow for consistent attacking plants, as well as provide extra barriers. Use plant food to recharge Reinforce-mint when the Infi-nuts lose their shields. Since Infi-nut shields have a very high amount of health, however, they should hold back the zombies for well over the 85 second recharge of Reinforce-mint.
Holly Barrier also works very well with Reinforce-mint, since the Reinforce-mint will cause the Holly Barrier to launch three strong missiles as the zombies, as well as potentially healing the Holly Barrier. As the plant food effect of the Holly Barrier also knocks back zombies, this can make for a great way to stall or even clear the lawn of zombies, especially if there are multiple Holly Barriers planted.
Since Spring Bean was no longer able to combine with Blover, Reinforce-mint has been the substitute. Planting Blover, then immediately planting Reinforce-mint will wipe out all zombies on the lawn at the time. However, zombies that have not yet stepped on the lawn, or have been gummed by Gumnut, will not be knocked back and therefore not killed by Blover. Having Chard Guards right at the front of the lawn can help, as when their Plant Food effect is activated they will throw all zombies in front into the air, as well as have all their leaves restored. If this is timed correctly with Blover, all zombies on the board could be blown away. Transversely, using Reinforce-mint with Holly Barrier's barrier combined with Blover will insta-kill all zombies in a 3x3 area, wiping them off the board and will completely restore all of the barriers that have been previously used. Doing this though requires proper timing, for as soon as the barrier is launched, Blover must be planted immediately afterwards.
Reinforce-mint, Blover, and Chard Guard make a powerful combo in Arena, as the zombies there are extremely tough, making them difficult to kill with direct damage. As long as any of their families are not weak or ineffective, Blover can nuke any airborne zombies that are knocked airborne, and Reinforce-Mint can be used to repair Chard Guard.
Gallery[]
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In other languages[]
Please note that only official translations are used.
Language | Name | Description |
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Reinforce-mint | ||
援固薄荷 | ||
Renforce-menthe | From Renforcement and menthe | |
Schutzminze | ||
Rafforza-menta | ||
Endureci-menta | From endurecer and menta. It is a pun on "endurecimento" | |
Reforza-menta |
Trivia[]
- Reinforce-mint is misspelled regularly throughout the game. This is a list of how and where they are misspelt:
- In his Almanac entry, he is misspelled as Reinforcemint, without the dash, even though the same entry also spells its name correctly, twice.
- In the store, his piñata spells its name as Re-inforcement. The offer for Reinforce-mint, however, is spelled correctly.
- At the news tab, the name is spelled Reinforce-ment. The name, like the Almanac entry, is also mentioned again with the correct spelling twice in the same paragraph.
- Prior to the 6.8.1 update, Reinforce-mint family plants did not glow while Reinforce-mint was on the board. The screen also did not flash when Reinforce-mint is planted.
- He is currently the only Power Mint capable of making plants in its own family activate their Plant Food ability.
- This is the only Power Mint to have its form with straight lines and a blocky form.
- If Reinforce-Mint is planted before another plant in his family is deployed, Reinforce-Mint will not trigger its Plant Food effect though it still enhances its defense.
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