Fraidy Cat

Fraidy Cat
Statistics
Strength	2
Health	2
Cost	1
Set	Event
Class
Tribe	Pet Zombie
Traits	None
Abilities	When a Plant Trick is played, this gets +1/+1 and moves to a random lane.
What's a black cat's favorite color? Purrrrr-ple.

Fraidy Cat is an event zombie card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the Beastly class. It costs 1 to play and has 2/2. It does not have any traits, and its ability gives it +1/+1 and moves it onto a random lane when the plant hero plays a trick, unless it is destroyed by said trick. This ability stacks with each Fraidy Cat on the field and persists until all Fraidy Cats are removed from the field. Its closest plant counterpart is Black-Eyed Pea.

It was introduced in update 1.18.13, along with Transfiguration, Go-Nuts, Witch Hazel, Haunted Pumpking, Ketchup Mechanic, Sneezing Zombie, Exploding Fruitcake, Unexpected Gifts, and Frankentuar.

Origins

It is based on a cat, a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal, commonly owned as a domesticated pet.

Its appearance is a visual pun on the real meaning of fraidy cat; a timid, easily frightened person, as Fraidy Cat is depicted as an actual cat.

Its description makes a pun, with the word "purple" purposely having many "r"s to mimic a cat's purr.

Statistics

• Class: Beastly
• Tribe: Pet Zombie
• Traits: None
• Ability: When a Plant Trick is played, this gets +1/+1 and moves to a random lane.
• Set: Event

Card description

What's a black cat's favorite color? Purrrrr-ple.

Strategies

With

Fraidy Cat has good initial stats for its cheap cost, but it also has a really useful ability as every time the plant hero plays a trick, including most superpowers, it will get +1/+1 just like Black-Eyed Pea; it moves to a random lane, too. This can make the plant hero think twice before playing trick cards like Flourish, Plant Food, Photosynthesizer, Spring Bean (unless it is played on Fraidy Cat), and 2nd-Best Taco of All Time; just to name a few. However, be careful, as Fraidy Cat is very susceptible to any damaging or instant-kill trick, namely Berry Blast, as all of them do at least 2 damage. If your opponent is a Kabloom hero, boosting it may be a good idea.

Being in the pet tribe, it can benefit Zookeeper, which can boost the strength of all pets on the field (including it), and Cat Lady to boost her strength.

Using Frenzy cards like Possessed or Maniacal Laugh can allow Fraidy Cat to act like an Energy Drink Zombie that moves and gets boosted for each plant trick played. Since it is in the Beastly class, you can boost it with Vitamin Z to make it a dangerous threat. Unless there are no open lanes for it to move around, Area 22 doesn't work well with it, as once it moves, the boost wears off.

Against

Fraidy Cat can be really annoying if you wish to play trick cards. If you can, try to avoid playing trick cards as it can be boosted and move to a random lane. However, there are some tricks that can put an end to it, such as damaging, destroying, or Bouncing tricks (or cards in general). In this case, feel free to play them on Fraidy Cat. You are also free to use environment cards like Spikeweed Sector to remove it early.

Since Fraidy Cat's stats are low if unboosted, any plant with 2 or more can destroy it.

You can use its moving ability to their advantage by playing a trick to purposely move Fraidy Cat onto another lane. This can allow powerful/useful plants to attack your opponent, activate their ability, or survive for that turn. If you are lucky, Fraidy Cat can also move to a lane where it can be easily destroyed.

Gallery

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  Fraidy Cat's statistics

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  Fraidy Cat's card

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  Fraidy Cat's grayed out card

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  Fraidy Cat's card image

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  HD Fraidy Cat (note the legs)

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  Fraidy Cat's textures

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  Fraidy Cat attacking

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  Fraidy Cat destroyed

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  Fraidy Cat shielded

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  Lurch for Lunch being played on Fraidy Cat

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  Final Mission being played on Fraidy Cat

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  Galvanize being played on Fraidy Cat

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  Maniacal Laugh being played on Fraidy Cat

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  Fraidy Cat with the Frenzy trait

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  Fraidy Cat Fused with Killer Whale

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  Devour being played on Fraidy Cat

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  Fraidy Cat with 3/3

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  Fraidy Cat frozen

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  Fraidy Cat with the Untrickable trait

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  Fraidy Cat on the advertisement for the Early Access Bundle

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  Fraidy Cat on the Early Access Bundle

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  Fraidy Cat being the featured card in the menu for the September 19th, 2017 Daily Challenge

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  Fraidy Cat on an advertisement for the Early Access Bundle after its Daily Challenge has been completed

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Fraidy Cat
Simplified Chinese	胆小猫
Traditional Chinese	膽小貓
French	Revenchat
German	Angstkatze
Italian	Gatto fifone
Japanese	フレイディ・キャット
Korean	겁쟁이
Brazilian Portuguese	Gato Escaldado
Russian	Трусишка
Spanish	Gato miedoso

Trivia

• On its promotional images, it is greenish-gray with perked-up ears and crossed eyes, but in-game, it is purple with laid-back ears and its eyes facing left.
• Despite being listed as a Zombie, It does not have the traditional eye color of a zombie.

V · E	Zombies in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes

Unobtainable
Tokens	Zombie · Returned Octo Zombie
Superpowers	Flick-a-Plant · Get Well · Motivate