Arma-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 not available.

“	The Arma-mint Family comprises various lobbing and cannon plants.	”
—Penny

Arma-mint
Arma-mints launch a volley of heavy stunning projectiles and provide a temporary boost to all Arma-mint Family plants on the lawn.
Statistics
Sun Cost	0
Recharge	85 seconds
Duration	6 seconds
Stun	3 seconds
Projectile Volley	4
Damage	1200 damage
Usage	Single, Instant
Family	Arma-mint
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Spending 100 mints
"Lobbing projectiles, for me, has always been a very personal endeavor," says Arma-mint. "It's a great way for me to express myself, my identity, and my preference that zombies can be defeated in large groups."

“	The Arma-mint Family comprises various lobbing and cannon plants.	”
—Penny

Arma-mint is a Power Mint plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It can boost Arma-mint Family plants by increasing their damage, firing rate (for cannon plants), and other abilities.

It will also release a barrage of projectiles on random tiles that deal massive damage to all zombies in a 1x3 area and stun all zombies in a 3x3 area.

Arma-mint Family plants include:

• Cabbage-pult
• Kernel-pult
• Coconut Cannon
• Melon-pult
• Banana Launcher
• A.K.E.E.
• Apple Mortar
• Blastberry Vine
• BoomBerry
• Sling Pea
• Turkey-pult
• Stickybomb Rice

Like other Power Mints, Arma-mint cannot be imitated or affected by other mints. He remains on the lawn for 6 seconds (at Level 1).

Arma-mint can be purchased from the store with 100 mints while he is available.

It was available from August 20 to September 26, 2019.

Origins

Arma-mint is based on the mint, while also incorporating elements of cannons/mortars.

Its name is a portmanteau of "armament," which means military weapons and equipment, and "mint," the real-life plant it is based on.

Almanac entry

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

Arma-mint
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 85 DURATION 6 Stun 3 PROJECTILE VOLLEY 4 DAMAGE 1200 Usage Single, Instant Arma-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Arma-mints launch a volley of heavy stunning projectiles and provide a temporary boost to all Arma-mint Family plants on the lawn. "Lobbing projectiles, for me, has always been a very personal endeavor," says Arma-mint. "It's a great way for me to express myself, my identity, and my preference that zombies can be defeated in large groups."

Arma-mint boosts

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

• A.K.E.E. will do an additional 150 damage, his Plant Food effect will do an additional 900 damage, and his attacks bounce 5 times instead of 3.
• Apple Mortar will do an additional 120 damage, his Plant Food effect will do an additional 140 damage, his stun duration will increase to 1.5 seconds, and his Plant Food stun will increase to 1 second.
• Banana Launcher will do an additional 2000 damage per shot and his reload time is reduced to 2 seconds.
• Blastberry Vine will have an additional 85 damage added to both his regular and Plant Food attack's splash damage.
• Cabbage-pult will do an additional 120 damage, his firing rate will be reduced to 1.5 - 2 seconds, and his Plant Food effect will do an additional 600 damage.
• Coconut Cannon will do an additional 1200 damage, and his reload time is reduced to 2 seconds.
• Kernel-pult's kernels will do an additional 100 damage, and his butter stun duration will increase to 16 seconds.
• Melon-pult's's will do an additional 160 damage (with an additional 80 damage being added to its splash damage), and his Plant Food effect will do an additional 400 damage (with additional splash damage of 40 damage).
• Sling Pea will have an additional 65 damage added to his peas (with 30 damage being added to its splash damage), his Plant Food effect will do an additional 75 damage (with a splash of 30 damage being added during the boost), and his Plant Food effect will stun zombies for 1.5 seconds.
• Stickybomb Rice will deal an additional 175 damage, her Plant Food effect will deal an additional 525 damage, and her bomb chain chance is increased by 25%.
• Turkey-pult will have an additional 55 damage added to her normal projectiles and the turkey level is increased by 7. When boosted by Plant Food, the projectiles will do an additional 110 damage.
• BoomBerry will deal an additional 150 damage with its splash attack, an additional 300 damage with its Plant Food splash attack, its attack area increased as if it were at level 10, and its bonus splash damage is increased to 20 (level 1-2), 30 (level 3-6) or 40 (level 7-10) damage.

Upgrades

Level upgrades

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

Level	Seed Packets	Upgrades
		Sun Cost	Recharge	Duration	Toughness	Damage	Stun	Projectile Volley
1	0	0	85 seconds	6 seconds	300 damage	1200 damage	3 seconds	Four
2	100		80 seconds	7 seconds	350 damage			Five
3	150		80 seconds	8 seconds	400 damage	1300 damage	4 seconds	Five
4	200		75 seconds	9 seconds	450 damage			Six
5	300		75 seconds	10 seconds	550 damage	1400 damage	5 seconds	Six
6	400		75 seconds	11 seconds	600 damage			Seven
7	500		70 seconds	12 seconds	650 damage	1500 damage	6 seconds	Seven
8	600		70 seconds	13 seconds	700 damage			Eight
9	800		70 seconds	14 seconds	800 damage	1600 damage	7 seconds	Eight
10	1,000		60 seconds	15 seconds	900 damage			Nine

Strategies

Arma-mint is very useful in most artillery based strategies, as its effect boosts the damage of all the plants in its family, as well as the recharge of Coconut Cannon and Banana Launcher, making it very effective at clearing out large amounts of zombies.

Arma-mints other effect is also good since it can stall the zombies for a decent amount of time, as well as picking off lower health zombies. However, it should be noted that Arma-mint does not fire its projectiles immediately after its planting, so there has to be some planning and good timing when using Arma-mint.

As Arma-mint's family consists almost entirely of lobbed-shot plants, Arma-mint based strategies are very effective in Ancient Egypt and Dark Ages to help avoid tombstones. It is also pretty effective in certain Lost City levels without the Parasol Zombie, as Arma-mint family plants can take advantage of the Excavator Zombie, as well as the Gold Tiles to help generate sun for more expensive plants.

Arma-mint has noteworthy synergies with Banana Launcher, Coconut Cannon, and Melon-pult. When boosted by Arma-mint, Banana Launcher and Coconut Cannon will both do massive damage and reload at extraordinarily high rates, making them excellent at clearing hordes of strong zombies. Melon-pult on the other hand gets a sizable damage increase, making him very effective at clearing out hordes of zombies in general.

Avoid using Arma-mint in "don't lose more than X plants" since it is an instant plant and will vanish quickly.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Arma-mint
French	Arme-menthe
German	Panzerminze
Italian	Arma-menta
Brazilian Portuguese	Arma-menta
Spanish	Arma-menta

Trivia

• It and Contain-mint are the only Power Mints so far which can stun zombies.
  • Coincidentally, they both are the first Power mints to have an Arena Tournament.
• Despite being lobbed-shot plants, Spore-shroom, Pepper-pult, Sap-fling, Dusk Lobber, Blooming Heart and Winter Melon are not in the Arma-mint family.
• Despite not being a lobbed-shot plant, Coconut Cannon is part of the Arma-mint family, possibly due to its resemblance to an artillery piece.
• Its appearance (multiple mortar barrels) resembles a plant in its family, the A.K.E.E.
• The 7.5.1 update changed its Almanac entry's "Arma-mint family plants" to "Cannon family plants".
• Arma-mint's projectiles appear to resemble peppermint candies.
• It’s the only lobbed-shot plant with a very slow recharge.

See also

• Power Mints
• Lobbed-shot plants

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