Hypno-shroom (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For more information about this character, see Hypno-shroom.

Hypno-shroom
When zombies eat Hypno-shrooms, they will turn around and fight for you.
Statistics
Sun Cost	125
Recharge	20 seconds
Zombie Healing	100%
Area	Single
Usage	On Eaten
Family	Enchant-mint
Plant Food effect	Turns a hypnotized zombie into a Gargantuar.
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	75
Recharge	20 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Range	When Eaten
Area	Single Target
Class	Special
Quality	Blue
Tags	Mesmerize
Plant features	Mushroom family
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(undoes and is immune to hypnosis) (immune to hypnosis, petrifies hypnotized zombies) (immune to hypnosis)
Unlocked	100 gems
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Hypno-shroom Puzzle Pieces Obtain 310 stars
Costumes
Code name	hypnoshroom
Hypno-shroom has no trouble persuading zombies to fight on behalf of the plants. But he has yet to convince one to cluck like a chicken. "One day," he says. "One day."

Hypno-shroom is a single-use gemium mushroom that can be purchased with 100 gems. He is tied to Dark Ages Part 1.

Hypno-shroom converts the zombie that eats him to the player's side, causing it to turn around to attack other zombies and damageable grid objects. The zombie will be fully healed (will not heal armors), and in some cases, special abilities when converted. He doesn't affect zombies that attack him through means other than eating, such as crushing or burning. Upon coming into contact with him, Zombie Chickens and Ice Weasels will be hypnotized without damaging him.

General Information

Due to the absence of the sleeping mechanic, Hypno-shroom can now work immediately planted in levels outside the Dark Ages, but his cost has been increased to 125 sun (the latter does not apply to the Chinese version). His recharge speed has also been increased.

Unlike in the first game, hypnotized zombies will usually not retain their special abilities, while other zombies will have their special abilities glitched. For example, Turquoise Skull Zombie fires its laser at the player's house, destroying any plants caught, and all Neon Mixtape Tour special zombies will not activate their special abilities regardless of jam. The only exception to this are the abilities regarding creating additional zombies, as any hypnotized units such as Disco-tron 3000 and Chicken Wrangler Zombie/Weasel Hoarder will create hypnotized zombies to fight for the player.

Zombie Chickens and Ice Weasels will be instantly hypnotized by Hypno-shroom without damaging the plant. Hypnotizing Chicken Wrangler Zombies or Weasel Hoarders that have not released their respective animals will cause them to instantly release them. The hypnotized zombie absorbs 10% less damage from other zombies and will be fully healed (will not heal armors). In the Chinese version, whatever the zombie's armour is will also be fully healed upon eating Hypno-Shroom, with the armour also reversing it's degrades.

Almanac Entry

Note: Hypno-shroom costs 75 sun in the Chinese version.

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

Hypno-shroom
	SUN COST 125 RECHARGE 20 Special Zombie Healing AREA Single Usage On Eaten Enchant-mint Plant Food: Turns a hypnotized zombie into a Gargantuar. When zombies eat Hypno-shrooms, they will turn around and fight for you. Hypno-shroom has no trouble persuading zombies to fight on behalf of the plants. But he has yet to convince one to cluck like a chicken. "One day," he says. "One day."

Chinese version  (China only)

当僵尸吃下魅惑菇后，他将会掉转方向为你作战。 特点：让一只僵尸为你作战 植物特征：蘑菇家族 魅惑菇认为说服僵尸为植物而战毫无挑战。但是他还没说服过任何一只僵尸鸡。“会有那么一天的，”他说，“一定会有那一天的。” In English: When a zombie eats a Hypno-shroom, he will turn around and fight for you. Special: makes one zombie fight for you Plant feature: mushroom family Hypno-shroom doesn't find convincing zombies to turn rogue difficult. He is however yet to convince a zombie chicken. "One day", he said, "one day".

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

Plant Food effect on a zombie (animated)

Plant Food effect on a zombie  (China only) (animated)

Hypno-shroom's cap glows when fed with Plant Food, and any zombie that eats him transforms into the level's respective world version of Gargantuar. In the Chinese version, a non-costumed Hypno-shroom with Plant Food will instead transform the zombie into a Buckethead Zombie, regardless of toughness.

The Gargantuar variants will retain their special abilities and characteristic: For example, Gargantuar Prime will move more slowly and smash twice per attack, Sloth Gargantuar can throw up to three Yeti Imps, and Jurassic Gargantuar has increased durability and lowered speed. Each smash itself can either reduce a Gargantuar's health to the nearest quarter (it will take up to four smashes to instantly kill a Gargantuar) or instantly kill any other enemy. Gargantuar Prime, however, cannot fire its eye lasers, while Hair Metal Gargantuar will generate glitched shockwaves that travel backwards which do nothing. If the Gargantuar is damaged to the point it will throw its Imp, the Gargantuar will throw it to the third column from the left no matter where it is, so in most cases, the Imp is thrown backwards.

Enchant-mint effect

When boosted by Enchant-mint, Hypno-shroom will absorb an additional 350 damage, and when a zombie is hypnotized by an Enchant-mint boosted Hypno-shroom, the zombies HP will be restored to an additional 125% of its max HP (will not heal armors).

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Mediocre)	Toughness (Typical)	Special (Zombie Healing*)	Area
1	0	0	125	20 seconds	50 damage	100% HP	Single
2	10	1,000	125	19 seconds	100 damage	105% HP
3	25	2,500	125	18 seconds	150 damage	105% HP
4	50	5,000	125	17 seconds	200 damage	105% HP
5	100	10,000	100	17 seconds	250 damage	110% HP
6	200	20,000	100	16 seconds	300 damage	110% HP
7	400	30,000	100	15 seconds	350 damage	110% HP
8	800	50,000	100	14 seconds		115% HP
9	1,200	75,000	75	13 seconds		120% HP
10	1,600	100,000	75	12 seconds		125% HP

*The amount of health the hypnotized zombie retains based on its max health when being hypnotized (will not heal armors). This applies to both normal and Plant Food states.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Costumed (China only)

A Hypno-shroom fed with Plant Food will transform the zombie that eats him into a Gargantuar with increased health from a regular one.

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Intermediate Charm 中级魅惑	Hypnotized zombies gain 10% additional health. 魅惑僵尸之后为僵尸增加10%的生命值。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Hypno-shroom gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Advanced Charm 高级魅惑	Hypnotized zombies gain 20% additional health. 魅惑僵尸之后为僵尸增加20%的生命值。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Hypno-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Hypno-shroom may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Hypno-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Note: The abilities are bugged and hypnotized zombies' levels aren't affected.

Strategies

Hypno-shroom continues to suffer from the lack of viable targets, and the hypnotized zombie's lacking performance against their former allies. Hypno-shroom's Plant Food is also deceptive-looking - the Gargantuars take a long amount of time to smash individual zombies and cannot take much punishment in return, and thus are incredibly vulnerable to rushes of weaker enemies, in particular, Zombie Chickens and Ice Weasels since the Gargantuar is not capable of doing area damage.

Hypno-shroom benefits from the usage of Intensive Carrot since he must be eaten for his ability to take effect and costs more than the Intensive Carrot himself. Imitating Intensive Carrot can therefore greatly cut down the cooldown between Hypno-shroom uses, providing that the player does not plant another plant on the tiles with Hypno-shroom. This also works if Hypno-shroom is boosted via the Zen Garden since Intensive Carrot will also create a boosted Hypno-shroom upon reviving. An effective zombie to hypnotize is an enraged Newspaper Zombie or Sunday Edition Zombie, as it will most likely destroy several zombies before being destroyed itself. If there are zombies scattered around the lane, use Plant Food on Hypno-shroom and you will have a clear lane sooner or later, or if not, the number of zombies will have decreased. The Dinosaurs from Jurassic Marsh will also interact with zombies affected by Hypno-shroom's effect. Hypnotized Peasant Zombies can also be knighted by the Zombie King, giving them significantly enhanced durability. A boosted Hypno-shroom on the third lane can easily take out a Gargantuar, provided you damage the Gargantuar to half health with an instant-kill plant. Since the Imp will always be throw to the third column, they will always end up eating the Hypno-Shroom and because he's boosted, turns into a Gargantuar, before going back and decimating the zombies in his lane. A Jalapeno or just any other area-damage plants can also help out, by destroying groups of weak zombies since Gargantuar's attacks are single-target only. A hypnotized Gargantuar Prime has an advantage as it smashes two times each time it encounters an enemy, which allows it to quickly take out the other mechanical enemies who will often resist a single smash. Freezing or slowing plants also help out as they prevent the zombies from attacking, giving the Gargantuar more time to kill the zombies. In Wild West, the Zombie Chicken is a good candidate, as Hypno-shroom can convert them without taking damage. Likewise, this plant is also a great choice in Far Future, as most of the mechanical zombies do eat plants and can become hypnotized. Disco-Tron 3000 is a particularly good candidate for the Hypno Shroom, as it can summon hypnotized Disco Jetpack Zombies.

Hypno-shroom should not be used in the presence of Zombie Medusas, Roman Healers and Magicians as they each can easily counter his ability. They are all immune, and Roman Healers remove hypnosis and Zombie Medusas petrify hypnotized zombies.

It is a risky idea to use him in "Don't lose more than X plants", as he’s more situational: it lowers his effectiveness if he’s used for weaker zombies or zombies that do not eat plant such as a Gargantuar.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Hypno-shroom
Simplified Chinese	魅惑菇	lit. "Charming Mushroom"
French	Champi-hypno
German	Hypnopilz
Italian	Ipnofungo
Brazilian Portuguese	Hipnogumelo	portmanteau of hipnose and cogumelo
Spanish	Hipnoseta

Trivia

• Hypnotized zombies can eat tombstones, frozen blocks, Surfer Zombie's surfboards and Octo Zombie's octopi or just about any other grid item.
  • They are also no longer ignored by Gargantuars. Each Gargantuar smash deals 1800 damage to them and 900 damage to other Gargantuars. Additionally, if a zombie was eating a plant, it will change its target when a hypnotized zombie is attacking it.
• Before the 2.4.1 update, Hypno-shroom fully healed all zombies that ate him.
  • This still seems to be the case in the Chinese version, where Hypno-Shroom also heals damaged armor items.
• He used to make zombies tougher than normal zombies when hypnotized before 2.9.1 version.
• Hypnotized zombies are affected by the Power Toss, but they will never be tossed off the screen, similar to non-shrunken Gargantuars.
• If a hypnotized zombie eats a Sun Bean before it was hypnotized, it will still generate sun as it takes damage with other zombies. If the zombie isn't defeated, it will produce whatever sun it has left a few seconds after it leaves the lawn.
• Before update 7.0.1., hypnotized zombies could trample the flowers, causing the loss of a level. This was because even though they were hypnotized and therefore on the plants' side, they still counted as zombies. Also, if a hypnotized Gargantuar was kicked into the player's house by a Breakdancer Zombie, it would still somehow result in a loss.
• He is featured for free in Dark Ages - Nights 4 and 8.
• He is the first plant to have a positive view on zombies, with the second being Blooming Heart.
  • Coincidentally, both are premium plants.
• Turquoise Skull Zombie can instantly kill any hypnotized zombies in one hit, and when hypnotized, his laser will still destroy the player's plants as it fires backwards.
• Hypnotized Troglobites will still push ice blocks backwards towards the player's house.
• If a poisoned zombie is hypnotized, it will be cured from the poison.
• In the Transformation Bundle in the store, he is mistakenly referred to as "Hypnoshroom."
• On March 16, 2017, he became one of 4 premium plants to be permanently purchasable with 100 gems, along with Squash, Jalapeno and Pea-nut.
• Hypno-Shroom is bugged with the Zombie Bull and Rodeo Legend Zombie, causing their Imp-throwing animation to replay after hypnosis.
• If you use Hypno-shroom on Camel Zombies, only the first camel will be hypnotized, as Camel Zombies consist of 3 entities.
• Upon finishing a normal level, hypnotized zombies will remain on the screen, if any, but will despawn when the reward has been collected.
• He and Hocus Crocus are the only plants in the Enchant-mint family whose name start with the letter H.

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)

• He will not be spawned by Spore-shroom (level 2 and above), despite also being a mushroom.
  • This is ironic as he appears on Spore-shroom's level 3 upgrade icon.
• He can't hypnotize Zombie Chicken and Ice Weasel, who can eat him unaffected.
• Even when he’s put to sleep by Archmage Zombie or hit by Perfume Zombie’s perfume, he’ll still hypnotize the zombie that eats him.

See also

• Mushrooms
• Caulipower
• Zoybean Pod

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