Chili Bean (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Chili Bean.

Chili Bean
Chili Beans deliver a crippling bout of gastrointestinal distress.
Statistics
Sun Cost	50
Recharge	20 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Stun	7.5 seconds
Range	Touch
Plant Food Power	33.33%
Usage	On Eaten
Family	Ail-mint
Plant Food effect	Launches out 3 Chili Bean clones to random locations on the lawn.
Usage	On being eaten
Special	Eating zombie is destroyed and releases stunning gas
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	50
Recharge	20 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	1800 damage
Range	When Eaten
Area	Single Target
Class	Special
Quality	White
Tags	Damage, insta, control
Plant features	Red plant, ahoge, short
In-game statistics
Other weakness	Robot zombies (except and ) (when spinning) (can fly over it) (when their respective jams play) (with torch lit) (with barrel) (can all ignore it or destroy it without eating) (when charging)
Unlocked	Beating Wild West - Day 4
Unlocked (China)	Collecting 10 stars in Wild West (pre-1.8), beating Wild West - Day 4
Costumes
Code name	chilibean
He's not blushing, he's trying to hold it in.

Chili Bean is the second plant obtained in Wild West in Plants vs. Zombies 2. When eaten by most zombies, they are stunned for 1.5 seconds and destroyed, releasing gasses that stun other zombies for 7.5 seconds. He generally doesn't apply his ability to mechanical enemies.

In the Chinese version, strong zombies such as a Poncho Zombie that are level 2 or above only receive 1800 damage from him and do not get stunned. However, the secondary ability still works.

Origins

Chili Bean is based on the beans used to make chili con carne: chili beans. Most of the time the food is made of several varieties of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) such as black-eyed peas, kidney beans, pinto beans, great northern beans, and navy beans.

His ability to produce stunning gas is a reference to how raffinose in the beans force the same in real life.

Almanac entry

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

Chili Bean
	SUN COST 50 RECHARGE 20 TOUGHNESS 300 Special Stun RANGE Touch PLANT FOOD POWER 33.33% Usage On Eaten Ail-mint Plant Food: Launches out 3 Chili Bean clones to random locations on the lawn. Chili Beans deliver a crippling bout of gastrointestinal distress. He's not blushing, he's trying to hold it in.

Chinese version  (China only)

巴豆送上的是肠胃瘫痪的“大礼”！ 用法：啃食 特点：杀伤啃食的僵尸并释放晕眩的气体 植物特征：红色植物、呆毛、矮个子 他不是天生脸红，那是憋红的。 In English: Chili Bean will give you a great present of gastrointestinal cripple! Usage: when eaten Special: kills the zombie that eats it and releases stunning gas Plant feature: red plant, ahoge, short He's not born this way, he's just trying to hold it in.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When Chili Bean is fed with Plant Food, he will spawn up to 3 Chili Beans on random avaliable tiles.

Ail-mint effect

When boosted by Ail-mint, Chili Bean's stun duration is increased by twelve seconds, and his plant food effect will now create ten duplicates.

Costumed (China only)

His Plant Food ability creates an additional duplicate.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Sluggish)	Starting Recharge	Toughness (Typical)	Special (Stun)	Plant Food Power (Duplication)	Range
1	0	0	50	20 seconds	15 seconds	300 damage	7.5 seconds	Three	Touch
2	10	1,000		19 seconds	15 seconds		8 seconds	Three
3	75	5,000		18 seconds	14 seconds		8.5 seconds	Three
4	200	10,000		17 seconds	14 seconds		9 seconds	Three
5	400	20,000		15 seconds	12 seconds		9.5 seconds	Four
6	750	30,000		14 seconds	11 seconds		10 seconds	Four
7	1,000	40,000		13 seconds	10 seconds		10.5 seconds	Four
8	1,250	50,000		12 seconds	9 seconds		11 seconds	Four
9	1,500	60,000	25	11 seconds	8 seconds		11.5 seconds	Four
10	2,000	75,000		10 seconds	7 seconds		12 seconds	Five

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce
• Toughness Bonus

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Improved Gas 毒气改良	Increases stun duration by 1.5 seconds.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Chili Bean gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Mixed Gas 混合毒气	Increases stun duration by 3 seconds.
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Chili Bean gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Chili Bean may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Chili Bean gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

Chili Bean is very useful as a "clutch plant" for quickly picking off tough zombies such as Buckethead Zombies, Knight Zombies, and Poncho Zombies, particularly when they appear unexpectedly during an ambush or are threatening endangered plants. The gas attack further expands his "clutch" ability by immobilizing enemies behind him, such as using one to kill a Knight Zombie and immobilize a Zombie King behind him.

Using his Plant Food ability with Ail-mint, Power Tiles or Tile Turnips can also flood the lawn with plenty of Chili Beans. He has a major drawback in that he requires the enemy to be able to eat and digest him, which means he is ineffective against some of the strongest zombies in the game, as they either do not eat plants (such as Gargantuars) or are immune to the effect (such as the machines in Far Future).

Compared to the Potato Mine, he is usually more of a clutch plant as he needs no "charge-up time," but the Potato Mine is cheaper and can damage almost any enemy, including multiple enemies, that approach him. As a weaker alternative to Chili Bean, you can use Stunion, as he is cheaper and works more quickly, but he only stuns zombies, as opposed to Chili Bean killing one and stunning the rest in the lane. However, Stunion does not require a zombie to eat him to activate his ability.

Balance changes

Update 5.7.1

• ▲ Stun duration increased from 7 to 7.5 seconds.

Update 8.7.1

• ▲ Gained a Damage Pierce as part of its mastery upgrades.

Related achievement

	Magical Fruit Stun 10 Zombies with one Chili Bean

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Chili Bean
Simplified Chinese	巴豆	"Croton"
French	Fayot péteur	Farter Bean
German	Chilibohne
Italian	Fagiolotto
Brazilian Portuguese	Feijão Picante	From feijão and picante
Spanish	Frijol	"Bean"

Trivia

• If not eaten, he will release his own gas once in a while as part of an idle animation. When this happens, he will briefly lose his costume if he is wearing one.
• He could kill a Disco-tron 3000 in the Chinese version. This was fixed when Dark Ages was released.
• When a Seagull Zombie eats him, the paralyzing gas comes from Seagull Zombie's head.
• In any levels with Dave's mold colonies on earlier updates, if the player uses Plant Food on him and one lands on the mold colonies, the objective can still be completed. This can also happen with any other plants that create duplicates of themselves with their Plant Food ability.
• As of the 2.1 update, he no longer makes Pianist Zombies faint and can no longer kill multiple zombies at once, but Zombie Bulls die instantly upon eating the Chili Bean, which is unusual due to the fact that the bull is a robot.
• If the zombie that eats him is immobilized by butter before the zombie dies, the zombie will not die but will be stunned and release gas.
• If there are only two or fewer empty tiles, and the player gives him Plant Food, he will create extra Chili Beans depending on the number of empty tiles. If there are no empty tiles, he will play the animation, but will not create any extra Chili Beans.
• If a zombie is facing backward (via Sweet Potato's Plant Food, Prospector Zombie after his dynamite detonates, or pterodactyl) when he dies from eating the bean, he will release gas backward towards the house, but the zombies on the way will not be stunned, while zombies in front of him will be stunned without gas.
• From the 5.9 update to the 6.0 updates of the game, Chili Bean may not cause zombies to die when eaten. Sometimes he will get eaten but the zombie will be unaffected.
• If the zombie who ate him is defeated before it can release gas, it will not do so, wasting the Chili Bean.
• After an unknown update, Chili Bean regained the ability to defeat the Pharaoh Zombie, even when his armor is intact.
• If he is fed Plant Food at the end of the level, the Chili Bean clones will not land on a tile. Instead, they will fly offscreen.
  • The same also happens with Potato Mine and Primal Potato Mine.

See also

• Magical Fruit
• Shadow-shroom
• Imp Pear

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