Hypno-shroom (Plants vs. Zombies)

For other uses, see Hypno-shroom (disambiguation).

Hypno-shroom is the thirteenth plant introduced in Plants vs. Zombies, and is unlocked after competing Level 2-5.

Hypno-shroom is a single-use mushroom that converts the zombie that eats him to fight on the player's side, causing them to travel to the right side of the lawn and attack any other zombies in its way. The zombie retains its current health, and in some cases, special abilities when converted. Zombies that do not eat plants cannot be converted by Hypno-shroom.

Audio

The sound when a zombie has been hypnotized by Hypno-shroom.

About

For more information about this character, see Hypno-shroom

Hypno-shroom is the 13th plant received and obtained after beating Level 2-5. As he is a nocturnal plant, Coffee Bean will be required to wake up Hypno-shroom on Day, Pool and Roof levels.

Generally speaking, most zombies will retain their special ability when hypnotized, but will use these for the player's benefit instead: Screen Door Zombies and Ladder Zombies can use their shields to defend themselves from bites, Dancing Zombie can summon hypnotized Backup Dancers, while Jack-in-the-Box Zombie's explosions can destroy other hostile zombies. However, the latter does not apply to some ZomBotany zombies, as Peashooter and Gatling Pea Zombie will continue to shoot and damage plants, and Jalapeno Zombie will still destroy all plants in its row when exploding.

Hypnotizing a Dancing Zombie will give the player the Disco is Undead achievement.

Almanac entry

Hypno-shroom
When eaten, Hypno-shrooms will make a zombie turn around and fight for you. Usage: single use, on contact Special: makes a zombie fight for you Sleeps during the day "Zombies are our friends," asserts Hypno-shroom. "They're badly misunderstood creatures who play a valuable role in our ecology. We can and should do more to bring them round to our way of thinking." Cost: 75 Recharge: slow

Strategies

While theoretically introduced as a way to abuse high-threat enemies for the player's own advantage, Hypno-shroom faces several obstacles that prevent it from actually performing the task efficiently: Firstly, zombies that do not eat plants such as Zomboni, Catapult Zombie, and Gargantuar, while useful, can't be converted. This reduces Hypno-shroom's effectiveness to mostly Buckethead Zombies, Screen Door Zombies, Football Zombies, Jack-in-the-Box Zombies, Ladder Zombie and Dancing Zombies, which are in most cases not very dangerous. Secondly, the hypnotized zombie's actual performance is only average at best, and will only worsen as the game progresses and the zombie density increases.

Because of these reasons, Hypno-shroom should be best treated as a tool to eliminate select targets in earlier levels, and phased out in favor of more powerful instants such as Squash later on. Dancing Zombie and Jack-in-the-Box Zombie are prime targets for hypnotizing, as the former can summon hypnotized dancers to fight for the player, while the latter may explode and kill all adjacent unhypnotized enemies, which is simply a Cherry Bomb, essentially.

Vasebreaker

In the Vasebreaker level Third Vase, Hypno-shroom should be used immediately against Disco Zombie to prevent them from swarming the field with Backup Dancers. Hypnotized Disco Zombies can also bolster the player's defensive force with hypnotized zombies and help cleaning up the remaining vases.

In another Vasebreaker level Chain Reaction, the Football Zombie is probably the most important zombie to get with the Hypno-shroom, as there are no Magnet-shrooms or Wall-nuts to defend with.

Related achievements

Plants vs. Zombies

	Disco is Undead Hypnotize a Dancing Zombie.

	Good Morning Complete a daytime level by planting mushrooms and Coffee Beans only.

	No Fungus Among Us Complete a Nighttime Level without planting any mushrooms.

	Morticulturalist Collect all 49 plants.

	Book Learner Fill out the Suburban Almanac.

	The Complete Zombie You've won every trophy, climbed every mountain, defeated every zombie, planted every plant. Congratulations!

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Hypno-shroom
German	Hypnopilz
Spanish	Hipnoseta	Direct translation of the english name.
French	Champi-hypno
Italian	Ipnofungo
Japanese	ヒプノシュルーム Hipunoshurūmu
Korean	최면버섯 Choemyeonbeoseos
Dutch	Hypnopaddo
Brazilian Portuguese	Hipnogumelo
Russian	Гипногриб
Simplified Chinese	迷糊菇 Míhu-Gū 小迷糊 Xiǎo Míhu 魅惑菇 Mèihuò-Gū
Traditional Chinese	迷糊菇 Míhu-Gū 小迷糊 Xiǎo Míhu

Trivia

• If a slowed zombie eats him, he will still move slowly at first after being hypnotized.
• When a zombie eats him, the player will hear a siren. The same sound also occurs when the player gives chocolate to Stinky the Snail or to their plants in the Zen Garden.
• If the last zombie of a level eats him, said zombie will instantly despawn.
  • However, if hypnotized zombies are present upon Dr. Zomboss's defeat in Level 5-10 and Dr. Zomboss's Revenge, they will also despawn. This is because even though they are hypnotized, they still count by the game as zombies thus both hypnotized and non-hypnotized ones will despawn upon the boss' defeat.
• If a hypnotized zombie encounters a regular zombie eating a plant, the other zombie will not change targets, allowing the hypnotized one to eat it without being damaged.
  • Gargantuars will ignore hypnotized zombies. That being said, it is possible for a zombie to eat a gargantuar in 15 seconds, if the player somehow prevents the gargantuar from moving.
• Hypnotized Peashooter/Gatling Pea zombies will still shoot peas at the player's plants except for in the iOS and Android versions, while the Jalapeno zombie will burn the plants without burning the zombies.

• Mushrooms
• Disco is Undead

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