Solar Tomato

Solar Tomato is a premium instant-use plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. When played, she stuns zombies in a 3x3 area for 8 seconds, causing each stunned zombie to drop 50 sun. Once she is leveled up to level 3, she can lightly damage the zombies she stuns.

Origins

She is based on the tomato, the edible fruit of the tomato plant. The "solar" part of her name comes from her ability to produce sun, and may reference the genus of tomato, Solanum.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Ability

Almanac entry

Solar Tomato	SUN COST 100 RECHARGE Sluggish SUN COST: 100 RECHARGE: Sluggish TOUGHNESS Typical SPECIAL Stun TOUGHNESS: Typical SPECIAL: Stun SUN PRODUCTION Variable AREA 3x3 SUN PRODUCTION: Variable AREA: 3x3 Solar Tomatoes stun zombies in a 3x3 area, causing each zombie to drop 50 sun. Solar Tomato wishes folks would just stop and enjoy the sunshine sometimes. "Stop," she says. "Enjoy the sunshine. I said stop! Hold it right there! Don't move! I MEAN IT!!!"

Solar Tomato

		SUN COST 100			RECHARGE Sluggish

SUN COST: 100
RECHARGE: Sluggish

		TOUGHNESS Typical			SPECIAL Stun

TOUGHNESS: Typical
SPECIAL: Stun

		SUN PRODUCTION Variable			AREA 3x3

SUN PRODUCTION: Variable
AREA: 3x3

Solar Tomatoes stun zombies in a 3x3 area, causing each zombie to drop 50 sun.

Solar Tomato wishes folks would just stop and enjoy the sunshine sometimes.

"Stop," she says. "Enjoy the sunshine. I said stop! Hold it right there! Don't move! I MEAN IT!!!"

Upgrades

Enlighten-mint effect

When boosted by Enlighten-mint, Solar Tomtao's stun duration will be increased by twelve seconds, it'll do 100 DPS to every zombie it stuns, and it will produce 100 sun for every zombie stunned regardless of the Solar Tomato's level.

Level upgrade

*Once she is leveled up to level 3, she can lightly damage the zombies she stuns with solar flare.

Strategies

Solar Tomato is a plant that should be used on levels where there are a lot of zombies. Using Solar Tomato on low numbers of zombies tend to be less profitable and pointless if you are not playing a level with the "Produce at least X sun" objective. Do not forget that she also stuns the zombies.She only stuns the zombies for only a few seconds, but that's enough time for you to plant quickly to counter huge waves of zombies. You should not fear bringing expensive plants like Winter Melon if you have this plant on hard levels, due to her being capable of making large amounts of sun.

If you want an enormous amount of sun, combine her with a max-leveled (and Imitated) Gold Bloom and max-leveled Primal Sunflower, to guarantee all offensive plants on the lawn in no time to kill zombies in the blink of an eye. Also, you can gather the zombies with Garlic, Sweet Potato, or Hot Date for Solar Tomato to be more effective, although Garlic is recommended due to his low cost.

Another strategy is to use Solar Tomato like a sun-giving Stallia. If multiple zombies are clustered together and you have explosive plants like Cherry Bomb, use Solar Tomato to stop those zombies to recharge your instant-kill plants and/or wait for more zombies to get rid of.

There's another strategy to get more sun, by making zombies stuck in the middle lane using this along with Garlic and Primal Peashooter or other plants that can prevent them from moving, and pack them until the final wave when a Cherry Bomb can easily wipe out most, if not all of the zombies. This strategy can work in expansion levels, but it can be hard to use because it requires a lot of sun to set up and you may lose plants faster than you can protect them.

Solar Tomatoes work well in Endless Zones as the higher density of zombies will allow the player to accrue higher amounts of sun. This makes it easier to set up more expensive plants like Winter Melons and Banana Launchers.

Gallery

HD Solar Tomato

Solar Tomato with its costume

Textures and sprites

Seed packet without sun cost

Seed packet

Seed packet image

Solar Tomato activating its ability

Solar Tomato on a Gold Tile

An advertisement introducing Solar Tomato

An in-game advertisement promoting Solar Tomato and Electric Peashooter for the Back to School Sale Special Bundles

Solar Tomato featured as Plant of the Week

Solar Tomato's Epic Quest

Solar Tomato when it is ready to level up

Solar Tomato's costume in the Store

Purchasing its costume

Solar Tomato with her costume in the store

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Videos

Plants vs. Zombies 2 - SOLAR TOMATO! - Epic Quest Premium Seeds Premium Plant Quest (Ep.148)

By Alex5432000

Plants vs. Zombies 2 - SOLAR TOMATO - Epic Quest Premium Seeds (Ep.355)

By Alex5432000

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Trivia

• The stage showed in her reveal trailer is level three of the Solar Tomato Epic Quest.
• Her Almanac entry is similar to Stallia's, as they both talk about zombies pausing or stopping.
  • However, her Almanac entry has the flavor text split into two parts, which also makes her the first plant in the series that has a flavor text with multiple parts.
  • She is the second instant-use plant in the series to have a starting cost of 100 sun, along with Hurrikale.
• She is one of the six plants that glows in her seed packets along with Lightning Reed, Hot Potato, Sun-shroom, Sun Bean, Explode-O-Nut , and Electric Peashooter.

See also

• Sun Bean