Heath Seeker

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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.

“ Plant Heath Seekers to release a storm of homing, piercing darts. ”

—Penny

Heath Seeker is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 9.2.1 update. They are an instant use plant that explodes after about 0.65 seconds into a massive barrage of nine darts (every 0.01 seconds). These darts home in on targets and can pierce through multiple targets.

In the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, Heath Seeker is a plant introduced in the v2.8.4 update alongside Ents and Hat Mushroom as part of Fairy Forest. They have six darts at level 1, and they are given an additional ability of prioritizing magic shields possessed by zombies. Each dart can break a magic shield, and when the dart breaks the magic shield, it will disappear instantly.

Origins

Heath Seeker is based on the winter heath (Erica carnea), a flowering evergreen plant native to the mountainous areas of mainland Europe commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant.

Heath Seeker's name is a portmanteau of "heath," the plant they're based on, and "heat seeker," referencing their homing abilities.

Almanac entry

Note: The stats shown below only apply Level 1.

Heath Seeker

SUN COST

125

RECHARGE

20

DAMAGE

560

Special

Pierce Damage

Special

Zombie Pierced

Usage

Single, Instant

Spear-mint

Plant Food: No Plant Food effect.

Heath Seekers are Spear-mint family instant-use plants that burst into a storm of homing, piercing darts.

Heath Seekers have always believed that the shortest distance between two points is an elaborately curved path that passes through several zombies and also looks pretty. Needless to say, they're struggling in geometry class.

Upgrades

Spear-mint effect

When boosted by Spear-mint, Heath Seekers' darts will deal an additional 1290 damage with their primary attack, and an additional 560 damage with their piercing attack.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Starting Recharge	Damage		Max Targets
						Primary	Piercing
1	0	0	125	20 seconds	10 seconds	560 damage	190 damage	3
2	50		100	19 seconds	9 seconds		240 damage
3	100			18 seconds	8 seconds	740 damage
4	200						340 damage
5	300			17 seconds	7 seconds			4
6	400		75				440 damage
7	500			16 seconds	6 seconds	1020 damage
8	600						560 damage
9	800		50			1290 damage
10	1,000			15 seconds	5 seconds			5

Mastery upgrade

• Damage Pierce

Costumed  (China only)

The costume makes the recharge go down by 20%

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Dart Power 尖刺强化	Heath Seeker's spikes have been enhanced to fire 7 dart bullets each time, and the number of bullet penetrations becomes 4 times. 石楠探索者的尖刺被强化了，每次发出7枚飞镖子弹，子弹的穿透次数变为4次。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Heath Seeker gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Dart Evolution 尖刺进化	Heath Seeker's spikes have been enhanced to fire 8 dart bullets each time, and the number of bullet penetrations becomes 5 times. 石楠探索者的尖刺被强化了，每次发出8枚飞镖子弹，子弹的穿透次数变为5次。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Heath Seeker gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).

Note: Heath Seeker cannot be upgraded to level 4.

Strategies

Heath Seeker is a similar plant to Grapeshot in terms of its range of action. They’re an all-round plant that can be used to clean up spare zombies scattered around the lawn, as well as thin out crowds in Endless Zones. They belong to a good plant family (which has many powerful plants such as Pokra and Laser Bean, while Spear-mint herself is very useful), with their Spear-mint boost being pretty impressive, taking chunks out of Gargantuars' health and dealing with the thrown Imp as well. Spear Mint boost allows Heath Seeker to deal tremendous damage to Zomboss(usually ending a phase), making it a very good option in Penny Pursuit. It has a faster recharge rate than Cherry Bomb, but they have different abilities, meaning they are not interchangeable. For example, Cherry Bomb is more suitable to solve the gathered enemies, has a limited area and ignores armor, while Heath Seeker is just the opposite.

It is a good idea to use Heath Seeker in Ancient Egypt and Dark Ages, since in addition to killing zombies, the ability can remove tombstones easily. Use Heath Seekers if there are a huge pile of zombies scattered all over the lawn to kill them all. However, when dealing with Troglobites, Heath Seeker can have trouble with the ice blocks as the thorns find them really hard to hit, similarly to Homing Thistle's thorns targeting Snorkel Zombies, circling around them until they despawn or hit them. However, they can still be targeted, wasting thorns.

Their thorns are also quite damaging, so they can be used against single high-health targets as well. In fact, a level 3 Heath Seeker can take out 2 Gargantuars.

Heath Seeker's darts cannot be deflected by Jester Zombies or blocked in any way; therefore you can use Heath Seeker in the Dark Ages without the risk of the darts being deflected.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Heath Seeker
German	Heiße Heide
Spanish	Peluda de Brezal
French	Bruyère guidée	lit. "Homing Heath"
Italian	Erica sibilante
Brazilian Portuguese	Urze Caçadora
Simplified Chinese	石楠探索者 shínán tànsuǒzhě	lit. "Photinia Seekers" (There's a mistake between 石楠 Photinia and 欧石南 Winter Heath)

Trivia

• Despite not having a Plant Food ability, they have an animation for being watered in the Zen Garden. The animation can be seen when they are ready to level up.
  • They, Puffball, Ice Bloom, Teleportato Mine, Rhubarbarian and Chilly Pepper are the only instant use plants released after Far Future to have this distinction.
• If planted after a level ends, it will just repeat its spinning animation over and over, not releasing any spikes.
• Its Almanac description is a reference to the fact that the fastest way to get between two points is not a straight line but a cycloid.

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