Enlighten-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 available.

“	The Enlighten-mint Family is made up of sun-producing plants.	”
—Penny

Enlighten-mint is a Power Mint plant that was released in the 7.4.1 update in Plants vs. Zombies 2 for the Enlighten-mint's Solar Season in Arena.

When planted, she will produce 50 sun. She will then give Enlighten-mint Family plants a temporary boost, increasing their sun production rates and amounts of sun produced for a short time.

Enlighten-mint Family plants include:

• Sunflower
• Twin Sunflower
• Sun-shroom
• Sun Bean
• Toadstool
• Gold Leaf
• Gold Bloom
• Primal Sunflower
• Solar Tomato
• Shine Vine
• Solar Sage
• Sundew Tangler

Like other Power Mints, she cannot be imitated or affected by other mints. After 5 seconds, Enlighten-mint disappears.

Enlighten-mint requires 100 seed packets to unlock her (she can also be bought for 9.99 USD sometimes). During Sundew Tangler’s Ensuring Season, she can be unlocked for 100 mints.

During the 3rd. "Improve-mint" event (May 24, 2021 - June 2, 2021), during Shine Vine's week through Arena's "Champion Blowout Season", and also during the "Solar Sage's Sagacious Season"; Enlighten-mint returned to the store through its pinata which includes 10 of her seed packets and costs 20 gems.

Origins

Enlighten-mint is based on the "Lamiaceae." (also known as "mint")

Her name is a pun on the word "enlightenment," which means "the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened." Enlighten usually means "to inspire," but here, a literal interpretation is used, resulting in the meaning changing to "providing light."

Almanac entry

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

Enlighten-mint
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 85 DURATION 5 Usage Single, Instant Enlighten-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Enlighten-mints give a burst of sun when planted, and provide an additional temporary boost to Enlighten-mint Family plants. Enlighten-mint wants to stress that while "enlightenment" is properly understood as "full comprehension of a situation," she herself frequently likes to ask follow-up questions just to be sure.

Enlighten-mint boosts

When boosted by Enlighten-mint, sun plants will have their sun production rate reset, and gain the following effects:

• Primal Sunflower's sun production rate will be increased based on her level, and she'll produce an additional 75 sun.
  • When given Plant Food, it will produce an additional 225 sun. Starting at level 1, her sun production rate is 4.76-5 seconds. Starting at level 4, her sun production rate is 4.66-5 seconds. Starting at level 8, her sun production rate is 4.56-5 seconds. At level 10, her sun production rate is 4.46-5 seconds.

• Solar Tomato will do 200 damage (or do 100 damage if it is not at level 3+) to all zombies in its radius, her stun duration will be increased by 12 seconds, and she will produce 100 sun per stunned zombie instead of 50.
• Shine Vine's sun production rate will be increased based on its level, its sun production amplifier is increased by 75 sun, and its sun production is increased to 125 sun. Its stun duration is increased by 4.25 seconds, its Plant Food stun duration is increased by 5.25 seconds, and its damage caused to zombies is increased by 50 damage, its Plant Food damage is increased by 100 damage.
  • When given Plant Food, it will produce 250 sun. Its sun production rate is 3.5-5 seconds at level 1, 3.4-5 seconds at level 2, 3.3-5 seconds at level 3, 3.2-5 seconds at level 4, 3.1-5 seconds at level 5, 3-5 seconds at level 6, 2.9-5 seconds at level 7, 2.8-5 seconds at level 8, 2.7-5 seconds at level 9, 2.6-5 seconds at level 10.

• Solar Sage's zombie sun time is reduced to 3 seconds, her Enlightened Zombies Infectivity Chance is increased to 50%, her Enlightened Zombies Infectivity Cooldown is reduced to 3 seconds, her sun production when planted is increased to 100 sun, when triggered is increased to 150 sun, zombie sun is increased to 100.
• Sun Bean will convert an additional 100% damage done to a zombie to sun, the max sun a zombie can produce is increased by 400, and the max sun a zombie can produce from Sun Bean's plant food effect is increased by 700.
• Sunflower's sun production rate will be increased based on her level, and she will produce an additional amount of sun based on Sunflower's level. At level 1, she will produce an additional 25 sun. Starting at level 5, she will produce an additional 40 sun, and at level 10, she will produce an additional 50 sun.
  • When given Plant Food, she will produce an additional 75 sun starting at level 1, an additional 120 sun starting at level 5 and an additional 150 sun at level 10. Her sun production rate is 3.5-5 seconds at level 1, 3.4-5 seconds at level 2, 3.3-5 seconds at level 3, 3.2-5 seconds at level 4, 3.1-5 seconds at level 5, 3-5 seconds at level 6, 2.9-5 seconds at level 7, 2.8-5 seconds at level 8, 2.7-5 seconds at level 9, 2.6-5 seconds at level 10.

• Sun-shroom will instantly grow to his max size, his sun production rate will be increased based on his level, and he'll produce 110 sun once fully grown.
  • When given Plant Food, he will produce 330 sun. Starting at level 1, his sun production rate is 2.5-5 seconds. Starting at level 3, his sun production rate is 2.4-5 seconds. Starting at level 5, his sun production rate is 2.3-5 seconds. Starting at level 7, his sun production rate is 2.2-5 seconds. Starting at level 9, his sun production rate is 2.1-5 seconds.

• Toadstool's chew time will be reduced to 3 seconds, and she will produce an additional 100 sun per eaten zombie during Plant Food effect.
• Twin Sunflower's sun production rate will be increased based on her level, and she'll produce an additional amount of sun based on Sunflower's level. At level 1, it'll produce an additional 50 sun. Starting at level 5, it'll produce an additional 80 sun, and at level 10, Sunflower will produce an additional 100 sun.
  • When given Plant Food, it will produce an additional 125 sun, an additional 200 sun starting at level 5, and an additional 250 sun at level 10. Starting at level 1, her sun production rate is 4.76-5 seconds. Starting at level 4, her sun production rate is 4.66-5 seconds. Starting at level 8, her sun production rate is 4.56-5 seconds. At level 10, her sun production rate is 4.46-5 seconds.

• Sundew Tangler will deal an additional 18, 20, 24, 28, 32, 38, 44, 54, 68, or 80 damage with its normal attacks, an additional 300 (level 1-2), 350, 400, 500, 600, 700, 850, 1050, or 1300 damage with its Plant Food attacks, and its sun rate is reduced to 6 seconds (level 1), 4 seconds (level 2-9), or 3 seconds (level 10).

Upgrades

Level upgrades

Note that Enlighten-mint’s recharge is 30 seconds shorter during the Improve-mint event.

Level	Seed Packets	Upgrades
		Sun Cost	Recharge	Duration	Toughness	Sun Produced
1	0	0	85 seconds	5 seconds	100000 damage	50
2	50		80 seconds	5.5 seconds		75
3	100		80 seconds	6 seconds		100
4	200		75 seconds	6.5 seconds		125
5	300		75 seconds	7 seconds		150
6	400		75 seconds	7.5 seconds		175
7	500		70 seconds	8 seconds		200
8	600		70 seconds	8.5 seconds		225
9	800		70 seconds	9 seconds		250
10	1,000		60 seconds	9.5 seconds		300

Strategies

Enlighten-mint is very comparable to Gold Bloom, as they both provide early boosts to sun-producing plants. Although Enlighten-mint requires a full setup of sun-producing plants to maximize the amount of sun she can produce, she can produce more sun overall then Gold Bloom can. Gold Bloom, on the other hand, can be imitated and doesn't require a full set up of sun-producing plants to use, often making it the simpler choice to use.

Enlighten-mint has excellent synergies with Sun-shroom, Solar Tomato, and Toadstool. When boosted by Enlighten-mint, Sun-shroom will quickly grow to his final stage as well as produce a bunch of extra sun, making him a particularly good choice of sun producer when used in combination with Enlighten-mint. Solar Tomato when boosted not only stuns zombies for longer, but deals damage and produces a noticeably larger amount of sun. Finally, Toadstool, when boosted, takes a shorter amount of time to chew zombies, as well as producing more sun when zombies are finally swallowed during the Plant Food effect.

Enlighten-mint can also work pretty effectively in Arena and Penny's Pursuit to help increase sun production quickly.

However, it is strongly recommended not to bring Enlighten-mint into levels with "don't lose more than X plants" objectives as she will disappear after a while just like the other mints.

An awkward weakness of Enlighten-mint is that it will cause most, if not all of your sun producers to have a synchronised animation. This means you will have to save sun between usage, but is simply something that you will have to deal with.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Enlighten-mint
German	Strahleminze
Spanish	Ilumina-menta	portmanteau of iluminar and menta
French	Embrase-menthe	"Ignite-mint"
Italian	Illumina-menta
Brazilian Portuguese	Esclareci-menta	portmanteau of esclarecimento and menta

Trivia

• Though Gold Bloom and Gold Leaf are also in Enlighten-mint's family, they gain no bonus when this plant is planted.
• Enlighten-mint has the shortest duration out of all the Power Mints, with a 5-second duration at Level 1 and a 9.5-second duration at Level 10.
• Enlighten-mint was the last Power Mint to be released.
• Enlighten-mint is the only Power Mint to be a seasonal plant.
• Enlighten-mint is the only Power Mint to be obtained by collecting seed packets rather than having it be purchased for 100 mints.
• Like Fila-mint, Enlighten-mint hovers above the ground, but still cannot be planted above the water in Big Wave Beach.
• She is the only Power Mint banned in Last Stand, Sun Bombs levels and Dark Ages - Night 14 due to the fact that she can give the player sun which allows them to plant more plants.
• Most of the plants in Enlighten-mint's family are female.
  • Enlighten-mint herself is also female.

See also

• Power Mints

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