Sap-fling

When he sees zombies, he goes SPLAT!

This item is only obtainable during certain events. However, it can still be used if you have already obtained it. It is currently not available.

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Sap-Fling.

Sap-fling
Sap-flings create zombie-slowing puddles of sap.
Statistics
Sun Cost	75
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300
Firing Rate	3 seconds
Range	Lobbed
Family	Contain-mint
Plant Food effect	Lobs pinecones at multiple random tiles on the lawn, creating sticky saps that slows zombie movement.
Damage Details	Does no damage on impact, but creates sap puddle
Special	Slows zombies who walk in puddle
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	0 damage
Attack Rate	2.9 seconds
Range	Whole Lane to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Ranged
Quality	Uncommon
Tags	Slowing, control, catapult
In-game statistics
Unlocked	100 gems
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Sap-fling Puzzle Pieces Daily log-in rewards
Costumes
Code name	sapfling
You've gotta see Sap-fling's throwing arm to believe it. He may be young, but everyone agrees ... the kid's got TALENT. Scouts from some of the biggest Pinecone Ball teams have been keeping a close eye on him. He could be headed to the majors. Oh sure, some knock him for his incredibly sticky spitball. But he only uses all-natural sap, so it's entirely legal.

Sap-fling is a special-edition gemium lobber plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It was added in the 3.1.1 update, and was available to purchase from December 4, 2014, to January 13, 2015. Sap-fling and the other special-edition plants returned in the Luck O' the Zombie event, lasting from March 11, 2015, to March 24, 2015.

It once again reappeared in the stores from July 7, 2015, along with the new Piñata Parties (codenamed "unvault") advertising the availability of all the limited plants for a limited time. Sap-fling yet again returned on December 16, 2015, as a premium plant sponsoring the third Feastivus event. As of the Feastivus 2017 event, Sap-fling is no longer money-based to be purchase, but rather gems.

Sap-fling creates a puddle of sap on the square nearest to the first zombie by throwing its sap-covered pinecone, which persists for 7 seconds and slows zombies by 50%. The sap cannot slow the following zombies: Dr. Zomboss, Jetpack Zombie, Disco Jetpack Zombie, Zombie Parrot, Seagull Zombie, Imp Cannon, Roman Caesar Zombie, Z-Mech, #caketank, Zomboni, and Zombie Bobsled Team. The projectile itself cannot deal any damage, nor can it be blocked/reflected. The slowing effect does not stack with the likes of Winter Melon, or Red Stinger's Plant Food ability.

Sap cannot be created on ocean tiles in Pirate Seas, on the water in Big Wave Beach, or the tiles covered with oil puddles (from Olive Pit) / slippery ices (from Zomboni) / poison (from Goo Peashooter) / lave puddles (from Lava Guava) / molten pools (from Meteor Flower) / goo puddles (from Cran Jelly). The sap can also override butter puddles from Buttercup and Bud'uh Boom, and prevent the butter puddles to be spawned.

Dr. Zomboss, Imp Cannon, and Zcorpion Zombie do not trigger Sap-fling's attack.

Origins

It is based on the conifer tree, commonly known as the pine tree, a cone-bearing seed plant in the division Pinophyta and the class Pinopsida that is commonly used for Christmas trees (explaining Sap-fling's appearance, time of availability, and even its costume: a bauble ornament hanging on its branch); as well as the conifer cone, an organ grown on conifer trees which contains reproductive structures.

Sap-fling is also near homophonous with sapling, a term for a young tree, which fits with the sap-fling being based on the conifer tree.

Almanac entry

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

Sap-fling
	SUN COST 75 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 FIRING RATE 3 RANGE Lobbed Contain-mint Plant Food: Lobs pinecones at multiple random tiles on the lawn, creating sticky saps that slows zombie movement. Sap-flings create zombie-slowing puddles of sap. You've gotta see Sap-fling's throwing arm to believe it. He may be young, but everyone agrees ... the kid's got TALENT. Scouts from some of the biggest Pinecone Ball teams have been keeping a close eye on him. He could be headed to the majors. Oh sure, some knock him for his incredibly sticky spitball. But he only uses all-natural sap, so it's entirely legal.

Sap-fling

SUN COST 75 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 FIRING RATE 3 RANGE Lobbed Contain-mint Plant Food: Lobs pinecones at multiple random tiles on the lawn, creating sticky saps that slows zombie movement. Sap-flings create zombie-slowing puddles of sap. You've gotta see Sap-fling's throwing arm to believe it. He may be young, but everyone agrees ... the kid's got TALENT. Scouts from some of the biggest Pinecone Ball teams have been keeping a close eye on him. He could be headed to the majors. Oh sure, some knock him for his incredibly sticky spitball. But he only uses all-natural sap, so it's entirely legal.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When fed Plant Food, Sap-fling throws 20 pinecones randomly on the lawn, turning into sap puddles which will stay for 15 seconds.

Contain-mint effect

When boosted by Contain-mint, Sap-fling's firing rate is reduced to 1 - 1.5 seconds. If Sap-fling is already at level 9 or higher, Contain-mint will have no effect.

Costumed (China only)

When fed Plant Food, it releases a large amount of sap in an area, which has a 100% chance to immobilize zombies in amber.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Elevated)	Firing Rate (Mediocre)	Projectile Velocity	Range
1	0	0	75	5 seconds	300 damage	2.85 - 3 seconds	Normal	Lobbed
2	10	1,000			400 damage	2.75 - 3 seconds
3	25	2,500		4.5 seconds	600 damage	2.5 - 3 seconds	+ 1.3x
4	50	5,000			800 damage	2.25 - 3 seconds
5	100	10,000			1000 damage	2 - 2.5 seconds
6	200	20,000		4 seconds	1200 damage	1.75 - 2.5 seconds
7	400	30,000	50		1400 damage	1.5 - 2 seconds	+ 1.6x
8	800	50,000		3.5 seconds	1600 damage	1.25 - 2 seconds
9	1,200	75,000			1800 damage	1 - 1.5 seconds
10	1,600	100,000		3 seconds	2000 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Amber Crystals 琥珀晶体	15% chance to fully paralyze zombies for 2 seconds. 树脂投手投出的树脂有15%的概率将僵尸变成琥珀，持续2s。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Sap-fling gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Rapid Hardening 快速硬化	30% chance to fully paralyze zombies for 2 seconds. 树脂投手投出的树脂有30%的概率将僵尸变成琥珀，持续2s。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Sap-fling gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Sap-fling may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Sap-fling gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

As a plant with slowing down effect for an entire tile, Sap-fling can be used as a substitute for other ice-based plants such as Winter Melon for suppressing the crowd. While Sap-fling does not deal any damage to enemies, its relatively low cost and synergy with fire-based plants like Pepper-pult, Fire Peashooter, and Snapdragon make Sap-fling a more practical choice in normal levels.

However, be aware that Sap-fling will not function well in several levels like Big Wave Beach as it poses a particularly great threat to Sap-fling, as most of the tiles are usually flooded and it does not allow sap tiles to be placed, and its firing rate is quite slow like other lobbed shot plants.

The slowing effect of the sap allows plants with limited range or one tile effect such as Bonk Choy, Ghost Pepper and Spikerock to deliver more damage against zombies as they move slower inside their shooting range. This effect is also very useful for plants with slow fire rates, like Laser Bean, Fume-shroom, Bloomerang, Dandelion, and other lobber plants as these plants can deliver more shots against zombies.

Sap-fling particularly shines in Frostbite Caves, with its ability to work with fire plants. Furthermore, ice floes can bottle the zombies up, so with a swift Hurrikale push or Chard Guard toss, all the zombies will be in one tile, allowing Sap-fling to slow all the zombies down and let splash damage plants do more damage, such as Pepper-pult and Dandelion.

Sap-fling also works well with slow attacking or charging plants such as Banana Launcher and Witch Hazel, as it gives them enough time to use their ability. Sap-fling also works well with Turkey-pult, as it slows down zombies, giving enough time for Turkey-pult to deploy more turkeys, also making turkeys deal more damage while zombies deal less damage to them.

Sap-fling not only halves zombies walking speed, but also their attack speed, creating unique synergy with Garlic, or any defensive plant.

Avoid using Sap-fling against Breakdancer Zombie as he can kick the zombies past the sap. Using it with Lava Guava is also a bad idea because Lava Guava's explosion creates a lava tile, overriding the sap as well as the slowing effect.

Balance changes

Update 5.5.1

• ▲ Sun cost decreased from 150 to 75.

Gallery

Sap-fling has a gallery!

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Sap-fling	Portmanteau of "sap," referring to the orange sap on the pinecone that it throws at the zombies, "sapling," the type of plant this plant is based (and its sapling) on, and "fling," referring to the fact that it is a lobber plant.
Simplified Chinese	树脂投手	lit. "Resin-pult"
French	Lance-sève
German	Saftling
Italian	Lancialinfa
Brazilian Portuguese	Lança-seiva	From lança of "lançar" and seiva
Spanish	Lanzasavia

Trivia

• Defeated zombies may also be affected by its puddle, unlike with freezing effects. Their dying animation will also be slowed down.
• It appears to have a cold, often sniffling and wiping its sap on the ground as if it was snot from a runny nose. In the Zen Garden, when watered, it will sneeze and some sap will be thrown to the ground as if it was snot.
  • Sap-fling, Cold Snapdragon, Ginseng, and Chilly Pepper are the only plants that sneeze as if they had a cold.
    • Coincidentally Sap-fling and Cold Snapdragon are both premiums, both cost 150 sun (less in the 5.5 version), both slow zombies, and both were released during December.
• Prior to the 3.2.1 update, zombies would turn orange if pinecones hit them. Along with that, when it lobbed projectiles, it made the sound of a tree creaking. However, these sounds have been suppressed after the 3.2.1 update.
  • If the zombie was chilled while getting hit by pinecones, it would turn green.
• According to the concept art, it was originally going to fall over and crush zombies after they came near it. It was also originally much larger. The original idea was possibly scrapped because it resembled Squash's ability too much.
• Before the 4.1.1 update, it and Lava Guava could halt MC Zom-B from moving while MC Zom-B's jam is played, as MC Zom-B would blindly attack the sap or lava tile even if no plant was in his area of effect. Along with this, Troglobites in Frostbite Caves and Arcade Zombies in Neon Mixtape Tour could not push frozen blocks and arcade machines onto sap.
• It is the only plant that can attack zombies but not damage them.
• It is one of seven lobbed-shot premium plants, the others being Blooming Heart, Apple Mortar, Sling Pea, Blastberry Vine, Turkey-pult and Stickybomb Rice.
• It has an ambush called "Sap Spawn!" in Far Future - Day 29 where zombies rise up from all of the sap, similar to "Necromancy!" in Dark Ages.
  • This is the only effect in the game where a plant can create zombies from its shots.
• Prior to the Feastivus 2017 event, it costed USD $3.99.
• It, Sweet Potato, Tomb Tangler, Gold Leaf, and Thyme Warp are the only plants to have their sun cost changed in the updates.

Specific to the Chinese Version  (China only)

• It cannot be selected in Sky City levels. The same applies to E.M.Peach, Blover, Bamboo Shoot, and Cryo-shroom.
  • This is most likely because its attack involves covering tiles with puddles of sap, and only three columns of Sky City's lawn consists of ground tiles.

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