Bramble Bush

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Bramble Bush
Bramble Bush traps and damages a zombie. The berry clusters show the number of traps remaining.
Statistics
Sun Cost	125
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	1500 damage
Damage	30 damage
Traps	3
Family	Spear-mint
Plant Food effect	Regenerate [sic] all of his berry traps and trap the leftmost zombie in his column [sic], dealing 2x damage for a short duration.
Usage	Berry clusters show traps remaining
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(pushed obstacles can't be destroyed and only destroy Bramble Bush) (ignores Bramble Bush while in the air)
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Costumes
Bramble Bush is a prickly sort. In fact, let's not beat around the Bramble Bush here; he's covered in extraordinarily dangerous spikes.

“	Plant Bramble Bush to trap and damage zombies.	”
—Penny

Bramble Bush is a Trap plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 9.6.1 update for the Bramble Bush's Barbed Arena season. He traps a zombie close to him and will continuously damage it. While Bramble Bush traps a zombie, he will also damage zombies that attack him. Additionally, he can remove armor from zombies that are dragged. Each Bramble Bush has a limited number of traps.

Trapped zombies are knocked back when Bramble Bush is eaten, destroyed, or dug up. Affected zombies are considered airborne and can therefore be neutralized with Blover.

Origins

Bramble Bush is based on the bramble plant, a thorny vine plant with berries in the genus Rubus.

Almanac entry

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

Bramble Bush
	SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 1500 DAMAGE 30 Traps Traps Spear-mint Plant Food: Regenerate [sic] all of his berry traps and trap the leftmost zombie in his column [sic], dealing 2x damage for a short duration. Bramble Bush traps and damages a zombie. The berry clusters show the number of traps remaining. Bramble Bush is a prickly sort. In fact, let's not beat around the Bramble Bush here; he's covered in extraordinarily dangerous spikes.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food animation

When given Plant Food, Bramble Bush will regenerate all of his berry traps and trap the leftmost zombie in his lane, doing double his usual damage for 4 seconds.

Spear-mint effect

When boosted by Spear-mint, Bramble Bush will deal an additional 165 damage with his normal attack, and an additional 330 damage with his Plant Food attack.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Damage		Special (Traps)	Plant Food Power (Duration)
						Normal	Plant Food
1	0	0	125	5 seconds	1500 damage	30 damage	60 damage	3	4 seconds
2	50			4.5 seconds	1550 damage	45 damage	90 damage
3	100		100		1600 damage	60 damage	120 damage	4
4	200				1650 damage	75 damage	150 damage
5	300			4 seconds	1700 damage	90 damage	180 damage
6	400		75		1750 damage	105 damage	210 damage		5 seconds
7	500			3.5 seconds	1800 damage	120 damage	240 damage	5
8	600		50		1850 damage	135 damage	270 damage
9	800			3 seconds	1950 damage	150 damage	300 damage
10	1,000				2100 damage	175 damage	350 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Strategies

Bramble Bush is a good plant for stalling. His ability can perma-stun a zombie. This makes it more effective than Spikeweed, Spikerock and Iceweed. The first two do nothing but dealing damage, while the latter can only slow down zombies. At level 1, Bramble Bush's damage is 3 times that of Spikeweed/Iceweed, and 1.5 times that of Spikerock. Each level upgrades also increases damage more than they do. It's best to place a defensive plant such as Buttercup in front of Bramble Bush or Pumpkin on top of Bramble Bush as long as there is a zombies trapped by him. His fast recharge time and low sun cost allow you to plant Bramble Bush frequently, overcoming the problem that he can only use a certain number of times.

Much like Spikeweed, Iceweed and Spikerock, Bramble Bush is a great counter to Zombie Chickens, Ice Weasels and other critters, as he does not consume his berries when attacking them, and he can easily delete many of them with his rapid attacks as well as his above average health. His traps can even destroy Barrels from Barrel Roller Zombies, which makes him more effective than Spikerock because he costs less sun.

Bramble Bush's ability to remove armor directly is extremely good against zombies such as Brickheads, Knights and especially Excavator Zombies, since it removes their main source of pushing power. It can be used to stop All-Star Zombies and ZCorp Chair Racers from tackling plants as well.

Bramble Bush is quite useful for taking down stronger zombies like Robo-Cone Zombie and Mecha-Football Zombie, as they are completely disabled while in it. However, as they're durable, it leaves the plant vulnerable to other zombies, whereas Spikeweeds, Spikerocks and Iceweeds do not have this issue since zombies don't eat them whatsoever. Another strong zombie it can kill is a Gargantuar, as if planted on top of a Gargantuar, it will become defenseless and trapped in the Bramble Bush, whereas other similar plants cannot deal with Gargantuars at all.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Bramble Bush
French	Buisson piquiant	"Spiky-bush"
German	Brombeerbusch
Italian	Mora spinosa
Brazilian Portuguese	Armora
Spanish	Zarza Mora

Trivia

• Bramble Bush is the second Rubus plant that appears in Plants vs. Zombies 2, the first being Blastberry Vine.
• When attacking, his appearance is somewhat similar to Tangle Kelp's design from the first game.
• Bramble Bush can be planted on minecarts, but cannot be moved when he is trapping a zombie.
• Some of his animations (such as the end of attack) are missing in-game. (Unsourced)
• In the beta version his description was "Bramble Bush traps and damages a zombie until another zombie comes along and frees it." (Unsourced)

See also

• Spikeweed
• Venus Flytrap

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