Ensign Uproot

Ensign Uproot is a super-rare plant superpower card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the Guardian class. He costs 1 to play and has 2/1. He has the Amphibious trait, and his ability moves a selected plant or zombie, excluding him, onto a selected lane when he is played.

Origins

His name is based on the meaning of "uproot," to move someone out of their home or a familiar location, which is a reference to his ability. It is also a play on his root tribe.

His description and ability animation are plays on the word "tractor" in "tractor beam," as the tractor is an engineering vehicle used in agriculture.

Statistics

• Class: Guardian
• Tribes: Root Superpower Plant
• Traits: Amphibious
• Ability: When played: Move another Plant or Zombie.
• Rarity: Super-Rare

Card description

His mighty tractor beam is straight off the farm and out of this world.

Update history

Update 1.16.10

• Added into the game.

Update 1.60.79

• ▼ Health change: 2 → 1
• ▲ Trait added: Amphibious

Strategies

With

On top of his decent stats, Ensign Uproot's ability can be rather useful, as you have control to move one of your plants or a zombie. Simple ways to use this is moving an Amphibious zombie out of the water or moving zombies like Arm Wrestler or other zombies onto lanes where they can be destroyed, such as a lane with Spikeweed Sector on it. You can also use this to move a vital plant into a lane that is guarded well.

If he is given from a Super-Block during combat, you can use him to move a powerful plant that has already attacked onto another lane to the right, allowing it to do a second attack. Alternatively, you can move a zombie to the left if there are empty lanes, potentially denying it from attacking this turn.

However, Ensign Uproot is exclusive to Beta-Carrotina, and as a Superpower card, can only be normally played once per match. Reusing him is rather easy, however, as Beta-Carrotina has access to Rescue Radish to Bounce him and activate his ability again. Since she also has Bird of Paradise, she can potentially Conjure more, though it is much more inconsistent.

Because playing Ensign Uproot counts as playing a plant, he can synergize with Laser Cattail, Muscle Sprout and Astro-Shroom very well. However, while Beta-Carrotina has access to Laser Cattail, she must rely on Lily Pad's Fusion ability for Muscle Sprout, and Photosynthesizer for Astro-Shroom. Green Shadow and Nightcap can pull these off with their natural access to Muscle Sprout and Astro-Shroom effectively, but they again require assistance from Bird of Paradise' Conjure ability.

Against

By himself, he is just a 2/1 plant with Amphibious. However, his ability is dangerous as he can move any plant or zombie into areas that can help Beta-Carrotina. Try to have at least two or more dangerous zombies so she has to think twice before using this superpower.

Gallery

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  Ensign Uproot's statistics
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  Ensign Uproot's card image
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  Ensign Uproot's sprites
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  HD Ensign Uproot
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  Ensign Uproot shielded

Old

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  Ensign Uproot's statistics before update 1.60.79
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  Ensign Uproot activating his ability
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  Ensign Uproot frozen (note his eyes)
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  Ensign Uproot with the Strikethrough trait
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  Rolling Stone being played on Ensign Uproot

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Ensign Uproot
Simplified Chinese	拔根旗	"Uproot flag"
Traditional Chinese	除根旗手	"Root Out Ensign"
French	Soldat racine	lit. "Root soldier"
German	Entwurzler	"Uprooter"
Italian	Sradicamento del vessillo	"Ensign uprooting"
Japanese	エンサインアップルート	English name transliterated into Japanese
Korean	깃발 뽑기	lit. "Flag Pull"
Brazilian Portuguese	Alferes Trator
Russian	Символ корня	lit. "Symbol root", possible
Spanish	Alférez desarraigado	lit. "Ensign uproot"

Trivia

• If you look closely, he seems to use the same jet pack as Beta-Carrotina.
• He is the only card in the game that can move both plants and zombies.
• As Superpower Plants, he and Lieutenant Carrotron are intentionally excluded from the card pool of making, conjuring and transformation.
  • Bird of Paradise is the only exception, as it is intended to conjure Superpowers.

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