Guard-shroom

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Guard-shroom
An amphibious mushroom that will spawn mini versions of itself to guard adjacent plants. These Mini-shrooms can gobble up zombies, as well as significantly boost mushrooms and other plants they share a tile with.
Statistics
Sun Cost	200
Recharge	30 seconds
Toughness	1100
Damage	750
Shroom Spawn Count	1
Spawn Cooldown	14 seconds
Plantfood Eat Count	5
Family	Reinforce-mint
Plant Food effect	Main Body - Drags several zombies and pummels them. Mini - Retriggers the Plant Food ability of the host plant.
Hint	Guard-shroom's Minis will grant a significant boost to all shroom type plants and give an extra boost to Sea-shroom, Puff-shroom, Scaredy-shroom and Nightcap.
In-game statistics
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Code name	guardshroom
What does 363.154e+13 and Guard-shroom have in common? When Dave asked, it took Penny more than 4 hours to complete the Guard-shroom census and emerge from the basement. Penny vehemently states this number is accurate and has banned anyone else from going down there.

Guard-shroom is a mushroom plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 11.3.1 update. It is able to spawn miniature versions of itself to protect adjacent plants. Mini-shrooms are able to eat zombies that approach them in a similar manner to Chomper and bites zombies they can't eat for 300 damage.

Mini-shrooms will also give a 1.5x damage boost to other mushrooms they guard, providing an additional boost to the following mushrooms: Scaredy-shroom (1.2x attack speed), Puff-shroom & Sea-shroom (lifespan + 30 seconds), and Nightcap (attack range + 1 tile).

Both mushrooms can live on water, and cannot exist with Lily Pad on the same tile. Mini-shrooms cannot be spawned on any tile with a grid object or a vine occupying it.

Origins

Although the exact mushroom Guard-shroom is based on is never stated in-game, it heavily resembles the shaggy ink cap (Coprinus comatus), also commonly known as the shaggy mane or lawyer's wig, a commonly occurring mushroom in Europe and North America. Unlike the in-game Guard Shroom, this mushroom cannot grow in or on water.

Almanac entry

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

Guard-shroom
	SUN COST 200 RECHARGE 30 TOUGHNESS 1100 Special 750 SHROOM SPAWN COUNT 1 SPAWN COOLDOWN 14 PLANT FOOD EAT COUNT 5 Reinforce-mint Plant Food: Main Body - Drags several zombies and pummels them. Mini - Retriggers the Plant Food ability of the host plant. An amphibious mushroom that will spawn mini versions of itself to guard adjacent plants. These Mini-shrooms can gobble up zombies, as well as significantly boost mushrooms and other plants they share a tile with. What does 363.154e+13 and Guard-shroom have in common? When Dave asked, it took Penny more than 4 hours to complete the Guard-shroom census and emerge from the basement. Penny vehemently states this number is accurate and has banned anyone else from going down there.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Guard-shroom will eat some zombies and spawn Mini-shrooms in a 3x3 area around it. Mini-shroom will retrigger the Plant Food ability of plant on top of it if fed Plant Food.

Reinforce-mint effect

When boosted by Reinforce-mint, Guard-shroom will activate its Plant Food effect, its health is increased by 1000 (level 1-5) or 2000 (level 6-10), it will deal an additional 1000 damage, its shroom spawn count is increased by 1, its Plant Food Pull Zombie Count is increased by 2. Mini-shroom will allow the plant on top of it to activate its Plant Food effect once again, it has 1.5x health and double damage to zombies it cannot eat, its damage boost is increased by 0.25.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Special (PF damage)*	Shroom spawn count	Spawn cooldown	Plant food eat count	PF range
1	0	0	200	30 seconds	1100 damage	750 damage	1	14 seconds	5	3x3
2	50				1300 damage	950 damage
3	100			25 seconds	1500 damage	1150 damage	2
4	200		175		1700 damage	1350 damage			6
5	300				1900 damage	1550 damage
6	400				2100 damage	1750 damage	3
7	500				2300 damage	1950 damage
8	600			20 seconds	2500 damage	2100 damage			8
9	800		150		2700 damage	2300 damage
10	1000				2900 damage	2500 damage	4

*Damage done to non-edible targets like Gargantuars and mechs.

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Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Gallery

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  Seed Packet image

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  Seed Packet

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  Boosted seed packet

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  Sprites

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  Appearance of Guard-shroom's Mini-shrooms

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  Almanac entry (A)

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  Almanac entry (B)

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  Locked

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  Guard-shroom Animations

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Guard-shroom
French	Champi-garde
German	Wachpilz
Italian	Guardiaporcino
Brazilian Portuguese	Guardamelo
Russian	Гриб-страж	lit. "Mushroom-guard"
Spanish	Setaguardia	"Guard-shroom"

Trivia

• The 363.154e+13 equation mentioned in Guard-shroom's almanac entry is equal to 3,631,540,000,000,000, or 3.63154 quadrillion.
• Sun-shroom and Magnet-shroom do not receive any boosts from Guard-shroom's Mini-shrooms.

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