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- For other uses, please refer to the Cattail (disambiguation) page.
Cattail is a basic common plant card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the 
Smarty class. She costs 3
to play and has 3
/2
. She has the Amphibious trait and does not have any abilities. Her zombie counterparts are Dolphin Rider and Octo-Pet.
Origins
She is based on the plant in Plants vs. Zombies with the same name.
Her description is a reference to her appearance.
Statistics
- Class: Smarty
- Tribe: Animal Plant
- Trait: Amphibious
- Abilities: None
- Set - Rarity: Basic - Common
Card description
"My secret weapon? It's my cute little hat!"
Update history
Update 1.4.14
- ▲ Strength change: 2 → 3
- ▼ Health change: 3 → 2
Strategies
With
Cattail's Amphibious trait allows her to be played on the aquatic lane, whether to land 3 damage per attack against opponents with no aquatic defenses, or simply deal with an Amphibious zombie. Since Cattail is on the frail side, try to boost her to keep her alive for long. While all Smarty heroes can give her a small boost with Navy Bean, Green Shadow can do the job better due to her having good boosting cards like Fertilize and Embiggen.
However, Cattail can easily be replaced with either Lima-Pleurodon or Pear Pal: Lima-Pleurodon has a pretty good (and possibly game-changing) ability and tribe synergy, while Pear Pal has the added Team-Up trait, not to mention that they both cost less. Cattail may have 1 more strength, but that doesn't make much of a difference.
Against
Cattail hits hard for her cost and has the Amphibious trait, so she can whittle your health quite a bit if you are not prepared. Also, she cannot be destroyed by Rolling Stone, Weed Spray, or Rocket Science if her strength is unchanged.
Fortunately, Cattail doesn't have much health, so she can be easily taken care of by almost any Amphibious zombie (except Swabbie and Ducky Tube Zombie) or a damaging trick (or moving her out of the water and then using a non-Amphibious zombie for Rustbolt). In fact, every hero has at least one way to deal with her.
Gallery
Plants vs. Zombies Wiki has a gallery for Cattail.
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In other languages
Please note that only official translations are used.
| Language |
Name |
Description
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 English
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Cattail
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 Simplified Chinese
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猫尾草
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lit. "Cat Tail Herb"
Three characters as a word may refer to Phleum pratense
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| Traditional Chinese
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貓尾草
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 Brazilian Portuguese
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Typha
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Typha is the scientific genus of the cattails
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 Spanish
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Rabo de gato
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Trivia
- Despite Cattail having visible leaves and being botanically similar to Lightning Reed (a Leafy card), she is strangely not considered a Leafy card.
- There is also room for another tribe to be present, making this inconsistency more jarring.
- She is one of the only plant cards in the game along with Small Nut, Hot Date, Button Mushroom, Carrotillery & Bellflower to have one of 3 possible sounds play when spawned.
See also
Kabloom
Mega-Grow
Smarty
Solar