Aqua Vine

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“	Aqua Vine can support both ground and water plants. Depending on the plant its host to, Aqua Vine will change its attack.	”
—Penny

Aqua Vine is a premium vine plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2, introduced in the 11.4.1 update for the "Aqua Vine" Arena Season.

It allows land plants to be planted over the water in Big Wave Beach and Puddles and aquatic plants on land, with its attack changing depending on what is planted in it, or where it's planted. The plant inside takes priority over its current environment.

If planted on land or over a land plant, Aqua Vine fires a high damaging blast of water to the first zombie in its lane, knocking them back one tile. The projectile cannot be blocked by an Excavator Zombie's Shovel or returned by Jester Zombies. Those killed by it are knocked off the lawn instantly if they proceed sufficiently far into the screen. Gargantuars, various General zombies (Cardio Zombie, etc), Zomboss and anything that doesn't move cannot be knocked back or tossed out of the lawn.

If planted on water or over an amphibious plant, Aqua Vine will instead fire a stream of water that pierces through all zombies in front of it.

Zombies damaged by its attacks will have a "wet" status effect applied to them, which is able to extinguish zombie fires except for Prospector Zombie's dynamite sticks.

Origins

The exact species of vine Aqua Vine is based on is never officially specified. However, the water cannon possessed by Aqua Vine heavily resembles members of the Nepenthes species of pitcher plants.

Almanac

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

Aqua Vine
	SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 10 TOUGHNESS 400 DAMAGE (GROUNDED) 100 PLANT FOOD (GROUNDED) 100 DAMAGE (WATERED) 50 PLANT FOOD (WATERED) 700 KNOCKBACK DISTANCE 1 Spear-mint Plant Food: Attracts zombies then blasts them away with a jet of water. An amphibious plant that can support both ground and water type plants. Its abilities will change based on the type plant it is host to. Once during its regular morning jog, Aqua Vine tied a taco to the end of a string in the hopes of getting Dave to exercise. Who knew Dave could be so fast?

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Aqua Vine will attract zombies to the lane its planted in, and release a piercing knockback wave that will also extinguish zombie fires. If planted on land or over a land plant, Aqua Vine will only attract zombies in a 3x3 area. If planted on water or over an amphibious plant, Aqua Vine will attract zombies across the entirety of both adjacent lanes.

Spear-mint effect

When boosted by Spear-mint, 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.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Starting Recharge	Toughness	Damage		Plant Food Power (Damage)		Knockback Distance
							Land	Water	Land	Water
1	0	0	125	10 seconds	6 seconds	400 damage	100 damage	50 damage	100 damage	700 damage	1 tile
2	50					500 damage	190 damage	100 damage	310 damage	900 damage
3	100		100	9 seconds	5.5 seconds	600 damage	290 damage	150 damage	520 damage	1100 damage
4	200					700 damage	390 damage	200 damage	730 damage	1300 damage	1.5 tiles
5	300		75		5 seconds	800 damage	490 damage	250 damage	940 damage	1500 damage
6	400			8 seconds		900 damage	590 damage	300 damage	1150 damage	1700 damage
7	500				4.5 seconds	1000 damage	690 damage	350 damage	1360 damage	1900 damage
8	600			5 seconds		1100 damage	790 damage	400 damage	1570 damage	2100 damage	2 tiles
9	800		50		4 seconds	1200 damage	890 damage	450 damage	1780 damage	2300 damage
10	1,000					1300 damage	990 damage	500 damage	1990 damage	2500 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Reinforced Water Bomb 强化水弹	Each attack has a 20% chance of launching a water bomb that can repel small and medium-sized zombies. 每次攻击时有20%的概率发射一枚可以击退中小体型僵尸的水弹。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Aqua Vine gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Super Water Bomb 超级水弹	Each attack has a 25% chance of launching a water bomb that can repel small and medium-sized zombies. 每次攻击时有25%的概率发射一枚可以击退中小体型僵尸的水弹。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Aqua Vine gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Aqua Vine may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Aqua Vine gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Waterspout! 水龙卷！	Launches a tornado every 5 attacks that causes damage and pushes a small/medium zombie to the right for 2 tiles. 每5次攻击后，下一次攻击会吹出一个水龙卷，造成伤害并将一个中小体型僵尸向右侧携带2格距离，随后水龙卷继续向右移动。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Aqua Vine gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Strategies

Aqua Vine is a versatile offense-oriented supportive plant that aims to maximize the value of tiles available to the player, and has his own utility elsewhere. He can practically replace the Lily Pad if owned, as he does possess all of the latter's capabilities, serving well in areas with lots of puddles or on water tiles in big Wave Beach. As he is amphibious himself, water plants will not be destroyed in low tide and will remain in commission for future onslaughts. An added bonus is his ability to extinguish flames on certain zombies with his attacks, greatly reducing the threat they pose.

Aqua Vine's most notable quality is his piercing water jet, which is substantially weaker than his single-target water blast but compensates with its excellent coverage, hitting every zombie ahead of him and bypassing all sorts of protection. It can quickly accumulate damage and wipe out groups of weak zombies in his lane or snipe frail ones behind enemy lines, notably Wizard Zombies, Turquoise Skull Zombies and to a lesser extent Octo Zombies. It also has no trouble getting past grid objects like Arcade Machines or Tombstones. The only issue presented by this attack is its requirement of water (or a water plant, if he is deployed on land), as he can take up valuable space when placed behind other plants, while putting him ahead reduces his coverage and may interfere with the use of melee plants.

Aqua Vine's single-target water blast shouldn't be ignored either, as it possesses a valuable knockback effect to delay zombies he couldn't kill, and deals more damage than his piercing stream. It is surprisingly dangerous, as while a couple of zombies are immune to his knockback, other plants could be reserved to counter them, and a few Aqua Vines have no difficulty juggling small numbers of strong zombies. While being a solid projectile prevents it from bypassing Shield Zombie's force field, it is not impeded by Jesters or Excavators, and is in fact devastatingly effective against Bug Zombies.

Gallery

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  HD Aqua Vine
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  Seed Packet
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  Boosted seed packet
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  Aqua Vine's seed packet image
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  Sprites
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  Almanac Entry (1)
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  Almanac Entry (2)

Chinese version (China only)

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  HD costumed Aqua Vine
• Seed packet

  Seed packet
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  Puzzle Piece
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  Puzzle Piece sprite
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  Costume Puzzle Piece
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  On the Reinforced Water Bomb upgrade icon
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  On the Super Water Bomb upgrade icon
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  On the Waterspout! upgrade icon
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  Silhouette teaser for Aqua Vine alongside Lunisolar Honeysuckle and Rhubarbarian
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  Aqua Vine's illustrated handbook icon
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  Aqua Vine's illustrated handbook image

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Aqua Vine
Simplified Chinese	水生藤蔓	lit. "Aquatic Vine"
French	Aqua-vigne
German	Aqua-Ranke
Italian	Rampicante acquatico
Brazilian Portuguese	Trepadeira Aquática
Spanish	Acuaenredadera

Trivia

• According to the official v11.4 release post on Reddit:
  • "When not battling zombies, Aqua Vine spends most of its day exercising and training for the Iron-Plant competition. It's not easy to carry all those plants on its back."
• If a Zombie Parrot targets an Aqua Vine planted over a Sea-shroom, the Sea-shroom will disappear when the Aqua Vine supporting it is stolen.
• Rhubarbarian will not cross Aqua Vines planted in water, despite being able to be planted in them.
• SeaFlora planted on Aqua Vines are somehow not counted as being in water, being unable to hit the lanes above or below them.
• Aqua Vine's knockback doesn't make zombies susceptible to being blown away by Blover.

See Also

• Primal Peashooter
• Vine plants

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