Spear-mint

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 available.

Spear-mint
Spear-mints generates a number of higher-level Spikerocks on the board and provide a temporary boost to all Spear-mint Family plants on the lawn.
Statistics
Sun Cost	0
Recharge	85 seconds
Duration	6 seconds
Usage	Single, Instant
Family	Spear-mint
Plant Food effect	No Plant Food effect.
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Spending 100 Mints
Code name	spearmint
"Slash!" Spear-mint enthuses. "Slishy-slashy-slice!" she adds, wanting to make sure she's getting her point across. She wants to be very clear on this.

“	The Spear-mint family is made up of piercing plants.	”
—Penny

Spear-mint is a Power Mint plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. When she is planted, she immediately generates a number of higher-level Spikerocks towards the back of the lawn. She can also boost Spear-mint Family plants by increasing their damage, penetration, and many others.

Although the level of generated Spikerocks is fixed depending on Spear-Mint's level, if the player's own Spikerock is higher-leveled, Spear-Mint will generate the Spikerocks at the level that the player owns instead. The same applies to Witch Hazel and the various mushrooms she can spawn.

Spear-mint Family plants include:

Like other Power Mints, she cannot be imitated or affected by other mints. After 6 seconds, Spear-mint will disappear.

Spear-mint can be obtained with 100 mints in the Store when she is available.

Origins

Spear-mint shares her name with a real-life plant (Mentha spicata); however, the word "spear" is emphasized, hence her appearance and ability.

Almanac entry

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

Spear-mint
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 85 DURATION 6 Usage Single, Instant Spear-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Spear-mints generate a number of higher-level Spikerocks on the board and provide a temporary boost to all Spear-mint Family plants on the lawn. "Slash!" Spear-mint enthuses. "Slishy-slashy-slice!" she adds, wanting to make sure she's getting her point across. She wants to be very clear on this.

Spear-mint

SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 85 DURATION 6 Usage Single, Instant Spear-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Spear-mints generate a number of higher-level Spikerocks on the board and provide a temporary boost to all Spear-mint Family plants on the lawn. "Slash!" Spear-mint enthuses. "Slishy-slashy-slice!" she adds, wanting to make sure she's getting her point across. She wants to be very clear on this.

Spear-mint boosts

While boosted by Spear-mint, the following plants will gain the following effects:

• Bloomerang will do an additional 100 damage, his projectiles can pierce through an additional 6 zombies, and his Plant Food effect will produce 16 more projectiles.
• Bramble Bush will deal an additional 165 damage with his normal attack, and an additional 330 damage with his Plant Food attack.
• Cactus will do an additional 120 damage with her spike projectile, an additional 240 damage with her Plant Food spike projectile, an additional 40 damage while hiding, and an additional 80 damage while hiding with her Plant Food effect active.
• Dartichoke will receive an additional 210 damage to her main attack along with an additional 630 damage to her critical damage darts and Plant Food darts, and her chance to fire a critical dart will increase to 75%.
• Heath Seekers' darts will deal an additional 1290 damage with their primary attack and an additional 560 damage with their piercing attack.
• Homing Thistle will do an additional 140 damage. His projectile velocity will be as fast as at level 7-10.
• Laser Bean will do an additional 180 damage, and his Plant Food effect will do an additional 3200 damage.
• Pokra's melee attacks will do an additional 480 damage, her projectile will do an additional 2600 damage, her Plant Food projectiles will do an additional 2600 damage, she will shoot 12 projectiles with her Plant Food effect, and her projectile slow duration will be increased to 6 seconds.
• Spikerock will do an additional 100 damage.
• Spikeweed will do an additional 40 damage.
• SeaFlora will deal an additional 300 damage (increases by 100 damage for each level) with her land normal attack, an additional 500 damage (increases by 60 damage for each level) with her land Plant Food attack, an additional 200 damage (increases by 50 damage for each level) with her water normal attack, an additional 360 damage (increases by 60 damage for each level) with her water Plant Food attack, an additional 300 damage (increases by 75 damage for each level) with her explosions attack, she can pierce an additional 3 (land) / 2 (water) zombies, has a 100% chance to leave a puddle on death, and her bubble travel distance is increased by 3 tiles.
• Bamboo Spartan will deal an additional 100/120/160/200/240/280/320/360/400/500 damage with his normal attacks, and his Plant Food effect will always fire six attacks.
• Aqua Vine will deal an additional 150/250/350/450/550/650/750/850/950/1050 damage with its normal land attacks, an additional 75/125/175/225/275/325/375/425/475/525 damage with its normal water attacks, and an additional 200/300/400/500/600/700/800/900/1000/1100 damage with its Plant Food land and water attacks.
• Sweetheart Snare will deal double damage with both its normal and Plant Food attacks.

Upgrades

Level upgrades

Note: Spear-mint's recharge is 30 seconds shorter during the Improve-mint event.

Level	Seed Packets	Upgrades
		Sun Cost	Recharge	Duration	Toughness	Number of Spikerocks	Spikerock level
1	0	0	85 seconds	6 seconds	300 damage	5	5
2	100		80 seconds	7 seconds	350 damage		6
3	150			8 seconds	400 damage	6
4	200		75 seconds	9 seconds	450 damage		7
5	300			10 seconds	550 damage	7
6	400			11 seconds	600 damage	8
7	500		70 seconds	12 seconds	650 damage		8
8	600			13 seconds	700 damage	9
9	800			14 seconds	800 damage		9
10	1,000		60 seconds	15 seconds	900 damage	10	10

Strategies

At level 1, Spear-mint spawns five Spikerocks which can be dug up for sun if the sun shovel perk is available. This can function as an alternative to Gold Bloom. Spear-mint is also very good in regular levels, as planting her once guarantees that not even Conehead Zombies will get past the first column, as well as being a good counter for Chicken Wrangler Zombies and their Zombie Chickens and plus Weasel Hoarders and their Ice Weasels. Since the Spikerocks don't despawn, repetitive planting of the Spear-mint can flood the lawn with Spikerocks. This can save the amount of sun that would have been used for planting five Spikerocks, making this and the fact that you are now able to use the Instant Recharge upgrade on Power Mints make Spear-mint very good for Last Stand levels. It is also worth noting that the tiles must be empty for a Spikerock to spawn, making areas with tombstones very annoying for Spear-mint.

In addition, the plants that she boosts benefit greatly from the boost and can often take out entire hordes with a few shots. Laser Bean and Bloomerang are good examples, as when boosted by Spear-mint, they can defeat entire lanes while Spikeweeds and Spikerocks can deal with zombies that have higher health when boosted. Homing Thistle gets the benefit of dealing with targeted zombies more quickly when boosted, having the potential to defeat more zombies than usual, and finishing off Gargantuars extremely quickly.

Spear-mint is very powerful in Arena, as the spawned Spikerocks can pop open newly released Zombie Hamsterballs, whilst also being boosted and taking out the buffed zombies very quickly. When paired with Laser Beans and Bloomerangs (commonly used while she was available), the zombie horde, though stronger due to Arena, can be wiped out quickly and effectively. Instant-recharging Spear-mint to boost Laser Beans is advisable.

Higher-levels Spear-mint can be used to place Spikerocks in the 3rd column to defeat any Imps thrown by Gargantuars.

Using Spear-mint in "Never have more than X plants" levels is a bad idea due to spawning additional Spikerocks on planting, so avoid using her in those levels. Spear-mint is also ineffective in Big Wave Beach since she cannot spawn Spikerocks if there is water in the rightmost columns. The ones she does manage to plant will also either be ineffective due to being so close to the house or be washed away by the water.

Another use of Spear-mint is as an improved Gold Bloom. Since she spawns five Spikerocks, you can shovel these up in regular levels to obtain extra sun. However, the higher level your own Spikerocks are, the less sun will be generated as they would cost less. In Arena, however, upgrades except Mower Launch do not work, so this use of Spear-mint is not possible. If your own Spikerocks are at level 1, shoveling all of them will produce 625 sun. It will have a better sun production rate, as the large amount of extra sun will make up for the slightly slower recharge time.

If the Spikerocks are boosted, either in Zen Garden or Arena Boosted Tournaments such as Boosterama or by gem cost, Spear Mint will also generate the number of boosted Spikerocks depending on her level, which would pull all the zombies back to the end of the lawn (only in Boosterama). This is very useful as it pull zombies back to their starting position when your lawn is under severe attack. It is basically Thyme Warp combined with Spikerock.

Gallery

Spear-mint has a gallery!

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Spear-mint
French	Perce-menthe	"Pierce-mint"
German	Speer-Minze
Italian	Lancia-menta	"Spear-mint"
Brazilian Portuguese	Perfura-menta	From perfurar and menta. It is a pun on "perfuramento"
Spanish	Lanza-menta	"Spear-mint"

Trivia

• If the player has the Shovel Bonus Upgrade, using Spear-mint in a Last Stand level gives the player an opportunity to gain sun by digging up the Spikerocks that she spawns.
  • This is similar to the Lily Pad glitch.
• Her disappearance refers to what she does in her Almanac.
• A level 6 Spear-mint produces the most sun (when digging up all the Spikerocks using 50% sun refund), at 600.
• There is a glitch which causes Pokra's ranged attack additional damage when powered by her to increase from 600 to 2600. This is due to the glitch mentioned above and the sub type in her actions wrongly writing as "1" instead of "2".

See also

• Power Mints

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