Shadow Flower

Shadow Flower
Health	100
Weapon	Dark Energy
Ammo	50
Damage	Impact
Range	Short/Mid
Abilities
Variant of
Rarity	Super Rare
The Shadow Flower works from the darkness, righting wrongs and singing songs - her mask disguises her true Sunflower heritage.
Shadow Flower's dark energy allows her to fire faster than other Sunflowers!
Health	110
Weapon	Dark Energy
Ammo	50
Damage	Impact
Range	Short/Mid
Abilities
Variant of
Rarity	Super Rare
The Shadow Flower works from the darkness, righting wrongs and singing songs - her mask disguises her true Sunflower heritage.

Shadow Flower is a Super rare variant of Sunflower in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and a Rare variant in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. She is able to fire her primary weapon faster than other Sunflowers, but it also has a slightly longer reload time.

Descriptions

Stickerbook description

The Shadow Flower works from the darkness, righting wrongs and singing songs - her mask disguises her true Sunflower heritage.

In-game description

Shadow Flower's dark energy allows her to fire faster than other Sunflowers!

AI Health (GW2 only)

• Easy: 66
• Normal: 88
• Hard: 110
• CRAAAAZY: 132

Primary weapon

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Dark Energy is the primary weapon of Shadow Flower; all facts below apply to a fully upgraded weapon.

• The base close range damage per hit is 8 and the critical is 10.
• The max DPS at close range is 66.7.
• The base middle range damage per hit is 8 and the critical is 10.
• The max DPS at middle range is 66.7.
• The base long range damage per hit is 7 and the critical is 9.
• The max DPS at long range is 60.0.
• The weapon deals no splash damage.
• The ammo in a clip is 60.
• The reload time is 2.6 seconds.
• The projectile speed is medium.
• The weapon is full auto.
• The bloom is low.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

The Shadow Flower's primary weapon is the Dark Energy. It deals slightly less damage than the standard Sun Pulse at around 7 to 8 impact and 8 to 9 critical damage. It compensates for this by having a faster rate of fire but it has less range and a larger damage drop off.

Abilities

• GW1
• GW2

Left abilities
Heal Beam	If the Sunflower stays close to her target, she can use her heal beam to keep them alive.
Rainbow Heal Beam	The Rainbow Heal Beam is exactly the same as the standard Heal Beam, but it's rainbow colored! It heals faster as well. OK, no that's a lie. It's colorful!
Center abilities
Sunbeam	The Sunflower can dig into the ground and root herself in place. This allows her to unleash a devastating beam of sunlight at the Zombies.
Solar Flare Beam	The Solar Flare Beam is now the ultimate power in the universe! We suggest you use it.
Right abilities
Heal Flower	Heal Flowers can be deployed to help keep the Sunflower and her teammates in the fight.
Dark Flower	The Dark Flower is a nasty little plant. It shoots hurtful red lasers at the Zombies but doesn't heal, because it's an evil little flower.

Left abilities
Heal Beam	If the Sunflower stays close to her target, she can use her heal beam to keep them alive.
Rainbow Heal Beam	The Rainbow Heal Beam is exactly the same as the standard Heal Beam, but it's rainbow colored! It heals faster as well. OK, no that's a lie. It's colorful!
Center abilities
Sunbeam	The Sunflower can dig into the ground and root herself in place. This allows her to unleash a devastating beam of sunlight at the Zombies.
Solar Flare Beam	The Solar Flare Beam is now the ultimate power in the universe! We suggest you use it.
Right abilities
Heal Flower	Heal Flowers can be deployed to help keep the Sunflower and her teammates in the fight.
Dark Flower	The Dark Flower is a nasty little plant. It shoots hurtful red lasers at the Zombies but doesn't heal, because it's an evil little flower.
Rainbow Flower	The Rainbow Heal Flower is exactly the same as the standard Heal Flower, but it's rainbow colored! It also knows calculus. OK, no that's a lie. It's colorful!

Weapon upgrades

Description about Shadow Flower's weapon upgrades

Shadowy Reload Technique

This shadowy technique allows the collection of light in a way that helps her reload faster.

Dark Energy Collector

Dark energy storage allows for higher ammo capacity.

Particle Accelerator

Accelerated dark matter particles increase damage.

Strategies

With

The Shadow Flower is basically a Sunflower with a faster fire-rate, at the cost of reload speed. It relies on getting quite close to targets due to its high damage drop-off. Sunflowers are most effective when within close proximity of teammates so that they can heal them. Shadow Flower can outshoot most Foot Soldiers in 1v1s, that doesn't mean that she is perfect. Try to time your reloads so that you aren't caught off guard with only half a clip left. Reloading every time you vanquish a Zombie player is recommended (unless there are multiple Zombies in the area in which case, don't stop shooting until your clip is empty). While reloading, try to jump around to make it difficult for Zombies to vanquish you. You are most vulnerable when reloading. It is useful to travel with another teammate so that you can support them by healing them in battle. While fighting with a teammate, stay by them so that you don't break the heal beam, but try to move around as much as possible to make yourself harder to hit.

Against

The Shadow Flower is not to be underestimated. Her high damage output compensates for low health. When trying to vanquish a Shadow Flower, make sure to NOT run in a straight line towards her. Deal with her as you would a default Sunflower and you should be fine. Engineers are great Sunflower counters, as they are able to damage groups of plants at a time. Try to ambush this flower and attack heavily when she is reloading. 

Balancing changes

February 2018 Patch

• ▲ Increased all Sunflower Variants HP by 10

Gallery

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Shadow Flower in-game

An unmasked Shadow Flower

A Shadow Flower figure with All-Star, Imp Punt and Heal Flower figures

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

Shadow Flower in-game

Trivia

• She has a stereotypical robber mask, a reference to how burglars usually "hide in the shadows" from authorities.
• If her mask (called "Dark Sunflower Mask" in-game) is removed through customization, her eyes will be revealed to be visually similar to Mystic Flower's, except for the white glow.
  • They are also similar to the Plasma Pea's eyes.
• Her bottom leaves had been redesigned in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 to match her appearance.
  • Her eyes are now sky blue, and she blinks more rather than blinking halfway.

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