Heath Seeker

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Heath Seeker
Heath Seekers are Spear-mint family instant-use plants that burst into a storm of homing, piercing darts.
Statistics
Sun Cost	125
Recharge	20 seconds
Damage	560 damage
Pierce Damage	190 damage
Zombie Pierced	3
Usage	Single, Instant
Family	Spear-mint
Special	Can target from anywhere on the lawn
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	125
Recharge	20 seconds
Damage	560 damage
Range	Whole Screen
Area	Single Target
Class	Special
Quality	Blue
Tags	Damage, insta
In-game statistics
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Costumes
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.

“	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, Heath Seekers 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).

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. 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.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

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

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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