Ail-mint

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This item is only obtainable during certain events. However, it can still be used if you have already obtained it. It is currently available.

“	The Ail-mint family includes fungi and poison plants.	”
—Penny

Ail-mint
Ail-mints poison all zombies when planted and provide a temporary boost to all Ail-mint Family plants on the lawn.
Statistics
Sun Cost	0
Recharge	85 seconds
Duration	11
Usage	Single, Instant
Poison	50 damage
Family	Ail-mint
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(immune to poison effect)
Unlocked	Spending 100 mints
Ail-mint is quick to state that poison should not be taken internally. Or externally, for that matter. Really, just leave it alone. It's poison!

Ail-mint is a Power Mint plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. When planted, she will poison all zombies on the board. She can also boost Ail-mint Family plants by increasing the effectiveness of their abilities, whilst also boosting their toughness, damage, and more whilst she is on the lawn.

Ail-mint Family plants include:

• Chili Bean
• Puff-shroom
• Fume-shroom
• Garlic
• Spore-shroom
• Perfume-shroom
• Blooming Heart
• Goo Peashooter
• Imp Pear
• Puffball
• Vamporcini
• Scaredy-shroom
• Nightcap

Like other Power Mints, she cannot be imitated or affected by other mints. After 11 seconds, Ail-mint will disappear.

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

Origins

Ail-mint is based on the "Lamiaceae" (also known as "mint").

Ail-mint's name is a pun on the word "ailment," meaning "An illness, typically a minor one." This is a reference to her boosting plants that plague zombies with harmful effects or use spores or fumes (which may or may not be toxic, but last a long time in the air nonetheless).

Almanac entry

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

Ail-mint
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 85 DURATION 11 Usage Single, Instant Ail-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Ail-mints poison all zombies when planted and provide a temporary boost to all Ail-mint Family plants on the lawn. Ail-mint is quick to state that poison should not be taken internally. Or externally, for that matter. Really, just leave it alone. It's poison!

Ail-mint boosts

While boosted by Ail-mint, the following plants gain the following effects.

• Blooming Heart will do an additional 120 damage with her initial attacks.
• Chili Bean's stun duration is increased by 12 seconds, and he creates ten duplicates with his Plant Food effect regardless of his level.
• Fume-shroom will do an additional 120 damage, and his Plant Food effect will do an additional 2900 damage over the duration.
• Garlic can absorb an additional 1200 damage.
• Goo Peashooter's pea does an additional 75 damage. Additionally, his poison will do an additional 4 damage per stack, and his Plant Food effect does an additional 132 damage per tick.
• Imp Pear will deal 90% damage to the Imp Pear Imp it creates when eaten, and its Plant Food effect will now transform up to fifteen zombies on the screen into Imps. If Imp Pear is at level 10, Ail-mint will have no effect.
• Puffball's poison will gain an additional 275 damage and his stun duration is increased by 10 seconds.
• Puff-shroom will do an additional 110 damage with his spores, his Plant Food effect will do an additional 30 damage per spore, and he will have his lifespan extended by 120 seconds.
• Spore-shroom's damage will increase by 120 damage, and its Plant Food effect will do an additional 2800 damage.
• Vamporcini will drain an addtional 10 (Level 1), 15 (Level 2), 20 (Level 3-4), 25 (Level 5), 30 (Level 6-7), 35 (Level 8-9) or 40 (Level 10) damage with its normal attack, an additional 6 (Level 1-2), 9 (Level 3-4), 12 (Level 5), 15 (Level 6-9) or 18 (Level 10) damage with its Plant Food attack.
• Scaredy-shroom will deal double damage with his normal attacks, and an additional 30 damage (level 1-5) / 35 (level 6-7) / 40 (level 8-10) with his Plant Food attacks, and he will never cower from nearby zombies.
• Nightcap will deal an additional 200 damage with her normal attacks, an additional 300 damage with her poison attacks.

Upgrades

Level upgrades

Note that Ail-mint's recharge is 30 seconds shorter during the Improve-mint event.

Level	Seed Packets	Upgrades
		Sun Cost	Recharge	Duration	Toughness	Poison Duration	Poison Damage
1	0	0	85 seconds	11 seconds	100000 damage	12 seconds	50 damage
2	100		80 seconds	12 seconds		11 seconds	64 damage
3	150		80 seconds	13 seconds		10 seconds	80 damage
4	200		75 seconds	14 seconds		9 seconds	100 damage
5	300		75 seconds	15 seconds		8 seconds	125 damage
6	400		75 seconds	16 seconds		7 seconds	157 damage
7	500		70 seconds	17 seconds		6 seconds	200 damage
8	600		70 seconds	18 seconds		5 seconds	260 damage
9	800		70 seconds	19 seconds		4 seconds	350 damage
10	1,000		60 seconds	20 seconds		3 seconds	500 damage

Strategies

Ail-mint by herself is a fantastic plant, as her ability poisons all zombies on screen when planted, which can very easily defeat all zombies on screen. Ail-mint's plant family is generally pretty weak, but there are a few plants that are effective, especially when boosted, including Fume-shroom, Spore-shroom, and Goo Peashooter. When boosted, these plants can easily wipe out large hordes of zombies, especially when combined with Ail-mint's poison effect. Puffball is also an exceptional choice when used in conjunction with Ail-mint due to its massive damage bonus and enhanced stun-duration of 10 seconds, which alone is on par with the duration of a Level 1 Iceberg Lettuce.

Ail-mint isn't quite as effective in Far Future because of the high health of the zombies there, making them take a while to defeat.

Remember that it's not advised to bring Power Mints into "Don't lose more than X plants" levels, as they will disappear after a while, which counts as a plant being lost.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Ail-mint
French	Tour-menthe	"Tormint"
German	Toximinze
Italian	Mala-menta
Brazilian Portuguese	Envenena-menta
Spanish	Enfer-menta

Trivia

• She has the longest duration of all the Power Mints, tying with Enchant-mint, at 11-20 seconds.
• According to her almanac entry, Perfume-shroom is in the Ail-mint family, although that plant is bugged and isn't affected by this Power Mint.
• Ail-mint appears to be chewing something in her idle animation.
• Despite not having a poison-based attack, Blooming Heart, Puff-shroom, Fume-shroom, Garlic, Spore-shroom, Scaredy-shroom, Imp Pear, and Chili Bean are in Ail-mint Family. This is likely due to Fume-shroom, Puff-shroom, Blooming Heart, Spore-shroom, and Scaredy-shroom basing on those are poisonous in real life, while Garlic, Imp Pear, and Chili Bean stunning zombies with the gas.
• She’s the only poisonous plant with a very slow recharge.

See also

• Power Mints
• Shadow-shroom

References

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