Contain-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 Contain-mint Family includes stalling and slowing plants.	”
—Penny

Contain-mint
Contain-mints stun all zombies on the board and provide a temporary boost to all Contain-mint Family plants on the lawn.
Statistics
Sun Cost	0
Recharge	85 seconds
Duration	10 seconds
Stun	4 seconds
Usage	Single, Instant
Family	Contain-mint
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Spending 100 mints
"Go easy, there," says Contain-mint. "No need to be in such a rush all the time. Movement is totally overrated."

Contain-mint is a Power Mint plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. When planted, it stuns all zombies on-screen for 4 seconds. It can boost Contain-mint family plants by giving them high-level abilities and increasing their ability duration, increasing the effectiveness of their abilities.

Contain-mint family plants include:

• Grave Buster
• Spring Bean
• Blover
• Lily Pad
• Thyme Warp
• Sap-fling
• Magnet-shroom
• Hurrikale
• Stunion
• Stallia
• Dazey Chain
• Olive Pit
• Draftodil
• Buttercup
• Tomb Tangler
• Cran Jelly

Origins

Contain-mint's name is a portmanteau of "mint" and "containment," the act of containing something.

Almanac entry

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

Contain-mint
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 85 DURATION 10 Stun 4 Usage Single, Instant Contain-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Contain-mints stun all zombies on the board and provide a temporary boost to all Contain-mint Family plants on the lawn. "Go easy, there," says Contain-mint. "No need to be in such a rush all the time. Movement is totally overrated."

Contain-mint boosts

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

• Buttercup will deal an additional 600 damage with her normal attack, an additional 700 damage with her Plant Food attack, her butter stun duration is increased to 20 seconds, and her Plant Food butter stun duration is increased to 25 seconds.
• Dazey Chain will gain additional damage based on which stage they're at (65 damage for small, 130 for medium, 195 for large), and their stun duration is increased to 6 seconds.
• Draftodil will deal an additional 150 damage with her normal attack, an additional 255 damage with her Plant Food attack, her stun duration is increased by 1.25 seconds, her Plant Food effect stun duration is increased by 5 seconds, and the chance of her blowing small zombies off the lawn is increased to 100%.
• Grave Buster can absorb an additional 900 damage, and its grave busting time is reduced to 1 second. It will also gain the ability to explode after finishing eating a grave, dealing 1900 damage to all zombies in a single area, if he is not at level 6+.
• Lily Pad can absorb an additional 900 damage.
• Hurrikale will have its blowing duration increased to 6 seconds, and its chill duration is increased to 16 seconds. If Hurrikale is at level 9 or higher, Contain-mint will do nothing.
• Magnet-shroom will take 2.5 seconds to destroy objects, and his range is increased by 8x10.
• Olive Pit's pit capacity is increased by 6 zombies and his chewing speed is reduced to 10 seconds.
• Sap-fling's firing rate is reduced to 1 - 1.5 seconds. If Sap-fling is already at level 9 or higher, Contain-mint will have no effect.
• Spring Bean will knock back zombies an additional 3.5 tiles, and its sleep time is reduced to 1 second.
• Stallia will knock back zombies an additional 3 tiles, its stall duration is increased to 18 seconds, and its Plant Food stall duration is increased to 27 seconds.
• Stunion will poison zombies he stunned if he is not at level 5+, and his poison damage is increased by 50 damage.
• Tomb Tangler will have its underground damage increased by 800 damage, its fog will have a 100% chance to pull zombies down, and its Plant Food effect will target 8 zombies regardless of level.
• Cran Jelly will deal an additional 100 damage with its normal attack, an additional 30 damage with its goo attack, and its goo puddle life time is adjusted to 12 seconds.

Upgrades

Level upgrades

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

Level	Seed Packets	Upgrades
		Sun Cost	Recharge	Duration	Toughness	Stun
1	0	0	85 seconds	10 seconds	100000 damage	4 seconds
2	100		80 seconds	11 seconds		5 seconds
3	150		80 seconds	12 seconds		6 seconds
4	200		75 seconds	13 seconds		7 seconds
5	300		75 seconds	14 seconds		8 seconds
6	400		75 seconds	15 seconds		9 seconds
7	500		70 seconds	16 seconds		10 seconds
8	600		70 seconds	17 seconds		11 seconds
9	800		70 seconds	18 seconds		12 seconds
10	1,000		60 seconds	19 seconds		13 seconds

Strategies

Contain-mint works very well with Stunion, as Stunion will receive the poison effect it would get as if it were at level 5. Another plant that works well with Contain-mint is Stallia as it will knock back zombies as if it were at level 5 as well as having a longer slow duration. A boosted Spring Bean can potentially knock zombies off screen, instantly defeating them, while a boosted Magnet-shroom can easily clear out entire areas of metal, and can work even in Endless Zones. Dazey Chain, Draftodil and Buttercup will be boosted their damage and stun duration by Contain-mint, which makes them more effective.

Even on its own, Contain-mint is still an effective plant since its ability is useful without the support it provides to plants in its family, functioning as a psuedo-Iceberg Lettuce plant food effect, which can give your plants time to damage the zombies or give your seed packets time to recharge.

Contain-mint's ability to stun all zombies on screen is useful in adventure mode, but can potentially be detrimental in Arena because you will normally want to kill the zombies as quickly as possible. It's also not advised to bring Contain-mint on levels where you can't lose plants, as it and several other plants in his family are single-use plants and will disappear after a while.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Contain-mint
French	Ralentisse-menthe
German	Verlangsaminze
Italian	Conteni-menta
Brazilian Portuguese	Refrea-menta
Spanish	Deteni-menta

Trivia

• If a Contain-mint gets crushed by a Zombie King, its boost will never wear off, even if another Contain-mint is played.
• Contain-mint's turquoise leaves look similar to a bear trap.
  • This is related to the bear trap family icon, which is the unused icon.
• Despite not being able to slow down or stop zombies, Magnet-shroom and Grave Buster are part of the Contain-mint Family.
• Despite the fact that Blover and Thyme Warp are in its family, they will receive no buffs when a Contain-mint is on the field.
• If Contain Mint is used right after the zombies spawned from the tombstones in Dark Ages, the zombies will become invincible.
  • Using any instant-kill will only destroy the graves but not the zombies during the time they are stunned.
• Any kind of knockback on zombies will stop Contain-mint's stunning effect instantly.
• If you pay attention on Contain-mint's seed packet image, its bear trap leaves are colored darker than how they are in its in-game appearance.

See also

• Power Mints

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