Stickybomb Rice

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Stickybomb Rice
Stickybomb Rice lobs sticky rice bombs with timers at zombies.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	225
Recharge	10 seconds
Damage	40 damage per shot
Special	Exploding sticky bombs trigger other sticky bombs
Family	Arma-mint
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(when flying) (cannot be be pinned by Stickybomb Rice projectiles)
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Costumes
"Stickybomb Rice has extreme confidence in bombs, rice, and the abstract concept of stickiness. She's published scholarly articles about all three"

“	Plant Stickybomb Rice to lob sticky rice bombs.	”
—Penny

Stickybomb Rice is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 8.6.1 update. Stickybomb Rice is able to lob clumps of explosive rice both in front of and behind her. This explosive rice pins and stuns the target in place, detonates on after a set amount of time, and can be stacked up to three times. Explosions from these sticky bombs can chain and detonate other sticky bombs.

Stickybomb Rice can also attack zombies in two adjacent lanes, one at a time, similar to Dandelion. The projectile cannot be deflected by Jester Zombie and Parasol Zombie, nor can be blocked by Shield Zombie's shield. Additionally, since the projectile sticks to the ground, Stickybomb Rice does not try to hit flying zombies, but they still receive damage from the explosions.

Origins

Stickybomb rice is based on the rice plant, specifically the glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa) (also known as sticky rice), a variety of the Asian rice (Oryza sativa) grown mainly in Southeast and East Asia, Northeastern India and Bhutan which has opaque grains, very low amylose content, and is especially sticky when cooked. It is called glutinous in the sense of being glue-like or sticky which is why it is also called "sticky rice".

She is also based on the sticky bomb, known as the the "Grenade, Hand, Anti-Tank No. 74", commonly known as the S.T. grenade. It was a British hand grenade used during World War II as a anti-tank weapon. The bombs can attach itself to tanks and other types of vehicle and explode, which a reference to how the Stickybomb Rice projectiles can stick on the zombies and explode.

Almanac entry

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

Stickybomb Rice
	SUN COST 225 RECHARGE 10 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 40 Special Bomb Chain Multiplier PLANT FOOD POWER 10% Arma-mint Plant Food: Lobs a sticky bomb at every zombie on the lawn. Stickybomb Rice lobs sticky rice bombs with timers at zombies. Stickybomb Rice has extreme confidence in bombs, rice, and the abstract concept of stickiness. She's published scholarly articles about all three.

Stickybomb Rice

SUN COST 225 RECHARGE 10 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 40 Special Bomb Chain Multiplier PLANT FOOD POWER 10% Arma-mint Plant Food: Lobs a sticky bomb at every zombie on the lawn. Stickybomb Rice lobs sticky rice bombs with timers at zombies. Stickybomb Rice has extreme confidence in bombs, rice, and the abstract concept of stickiness. She's published scholarly articles about all three.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Stickbomb Rice will lob the amount of sticky bombs equal to how many non-flying zombies on the lawn and each will latch on one of the non-flying zombies.

Arma-mint effect

When boosted by Arma-mint, Stickybomb Rice will deal an additional 175 damage per shot, her Plant Food effect will deal an additional 575 damage per shot, and her Bomb Chain Multiplier is increased by 25%.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Damage*		Bomb Timer		Explosion Radius^	Bomb Chain Multiplier^
						Normal	Plant Food	Normal	Plant Food
1	0	0	225	10 seconds	300 damage	40 damage	120 damage	1.25 seconds	3 seconds	1.5 tiles	15%
2	50		200		350 damage	55 damage	165 damage			1.525 tiles	17%
3	100			9 seconds	400 damage	70 damage	210 damage	2 seconds		1.55 tiles	18%
4	200		175		450 damage	85 damage	255 damage		3.5 seconds	1.575 tiles	19%
5	300				550 damage	100 damage	300 damage	2.75 seconds		1.6 tiles	20%
6	400			8 seconds	600 damage	115 damage	345 damage			1.625 tiles	21%
7	500		150		650 damage	130 damage	390 damage	3.5 seconds	4 seconds	1.65 tiles	22%
8	600			7 seconds	700 damage	145 damage	435 damage			1.675 tiles	23%
9	800			6 seconds	800 damage	160 damage	480 damage	4.25 seconds		1.7 tiles	24%
10	1,000			5 seconds	900 damage	175 damage	525 damage		4.25 seconds	1.725 tiles	25%

*Per stack.
^Applies to both normal and Plant Food states.

Strategies

Stickybomb Rice is basically a Cherry Bomb, Apple Mortar, and Kernel-pult combined into one plant; she attacks zombies in adjacent lanes, stalls them, and explodes her projectiles all at the same time. However, unlike Kernel-pult and Apple Mortar, her projectiles cannot be deflected by Jester Zombie, Parasol Zombie, or Shield Zombie, allowing her use against these types of zombies.

She works well in tandem with Tile Turnip combos, especially with multiples of her on the lawn. When combined, it can stall the horde before dealing massive damage to all zombies caught in the explosion.

Take note that as with all Lobber plants, she is vulnerable to fast zombies such as Zombie Chicken, charging All-Star Zombies, and enraged Newspaper Zombie. For these types of zombies, Wall plants like Wall-nut, Slowing plant like Stallia, and Stun plants such as Stunion should be used to wall them. Lastly, although the explosion can take out flying zombies such as Jetpack Zombie and Balloon Zombie or zombies forced into the air via Spring Bean or Breakdancer Zombie, she cannot target them on her own, so make sure she is paired with either Chard Guard to push the flying zombies back into the explosive radius or Blover to kill them directly.

Gallery

Seed packet sprite

Stickybomb Rice's costume

Sticky Bomb Rice Premium Seed Packet.png

Seed packet

Boosted seed packet

Sprites

Locked

Stickybomb Rice in an advertisement for Stickybomb Rice Early Access Bundle in the main menu screen

Stickybomb Rice's Early Access Bundle in store (Promoted)

Obtaining Stickybomb Rice seed packets from a piñata

In-game

Idling

About to lob sticky rice bomb

About to lob sticky rice bomb backwards

Lobbing sticky rice bomb

Lobbing sticky rice bomb backwards

The sticky rice bomb

Sticky rice bomb explosion

Plant Food (1)

Plant Food (2)

Plant Food (3)

5 Endangered Stickybomb Rices

Trivia

• If the zombie has an X number of stickybomb rice projectile stuck to it where X is the number of projectiles required to guarantee a OHKO, Stickbomb rice would then lob her projectile to the next leftmost zombie in her lane.

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