Iceberg Lettuce

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Iceberg Lettuce.

For the scrapped ice variant of Cabbage-pult in Plants vs. Zombies, see Plants vs. Zombies/Concepts.

“ Don't get lost staring into Iceberg's adorably cute eyes. If you do, it will be your last step... but only if you're a zombie. ”

—Iceberg Lettuce's Almanac entry

Iceberg Lettuce is the second plant obtained in Ancient Egypt in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It freezes the first zombie that comes into contact with it, exploding in the process. If the frozen zombie is attacked by a fire-based plant such as the Snapdragon, the zombie will be thawed and will continue to advance. Unless the freezing effect is interrupted, it lasts 10 seconds. Zombies from Frostbite Caves and Sky City are resistant to the freezing effect, as they only become chilled instead of being fully frozen by Iceberg Lettuce.

Origins

Iceberg Lettuce is based on the real life iceberg lettuce, a variant of lettuce (Lactuca sativa) with crisper leaves that grow in a spherical head resembling cabbage.

Iceberg Lettuce's name is pun on its icy based appearance and ability to freeze zombies.

Almanac entry

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

Iceberg Lettuce
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 20 Special Freeze Usage Single, On Contact Winter-mint Plant Food: Freezes or chills every zombie on lawn. Iceberg Lettuces freeze a zombie when stepped on. Don't get lost staring into Iceberg's adorably cute eyes. If you do, it will be your last step... but only if you're a zombie.

Chinese version  (China only)

踩上冰冻生菜的僵尸会被冻住。 用法：一次性使用，接触生效 特点：爆炸，暂时冷冻一名僵尸 植物特征：蓝色植物、矮个子 当它忽闪着大眼时，看它的人会被迷得神魂颠倒，灵魂出窍。不过，只对僵尸有效。 In English: Zombie that steps on Iceberg Lettuce will be frozen. Usage: single use, on contact Special: explodes, temporarily freezing a zombie Plant feature: blue plant, short Whenever it winks, the ones who saw it are hypnotized by it. Though, it only works for zombies.

Upgrades

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Plant Food ability (animated)

Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Iceberg Lettuce will glow from the inside and cover the entire screen in a blue flash before freezing all grounded enemies for 10 seconds, similar to Ice-shroom's effect from the original Plants vs. Zombies.

Iceberg Lettuce will not disappear after this, and will turn into the regular Iceberg Lettuce until it is dug up or used. Airborne enemies are not affected, while zombies from Frostbite Caves are slowed down instead. Using fire based plants will thaw the frozen zombies.

Winter-mint effect

When boosted by Winter-mint, Iceberg Lettuce's freeze duration is increased by 20 seconds. In addition, zombies frozen by a Winter-mint boosted Iceberg Lettuce will be chilled for 30 seconds when thawed. Its chill duration will increase by 30 seconds starting at level 5. Iceberg Lettuce will also freeze all zombies in a 3x3 (5x5 starting at level 16) area while boosted.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Sluggish)	Starting Recharge	Special (Freeze)	Special (Chill)*	Area
1	0	0	0	20 seconds	15 seconds	10 seconds	0 seconds	Single
2	3	50		19 seconds	14 seconds	11 seconds
3	10	200		18 seconds	13 seconds	12 seconds
4	25	1,500				13 seconds
5	50	2,000				14 seconds	3 seconds
6	75	3,000		17 seconds	12 seconds	15 seconds
7	100	4,000		16 seconds	11 seconds	16 seconds
8	125	5,000		15 seconds	10 seconds	17 seconds
9	175	6,000				18 seconds
10	225	8,000				19 seconds
11	300	10,000		14 seconds	9 seconds	20 seconds		1x3
12	350	15,000		13 seconds	8 seconds		4 seconds
13	350	20,000		12 seconds	7 seconds
14	400	25,000					5 seconds
15	450	30,000					6 seconds
16	500	35,000						3x3
17	550	40,000		11 seconds	6 seconds		7 seconds
18	600	45,000		10 seconds	5 seconds		8 seconds
19	700	50,000					9 seconds
20	800	55,000					10 seconds

*After reaching Level 5, Iceberg Lettuce will be able to chill zombies after freezing them. This column will show its chill duration after the freezing effect expires.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Remote Attack 远程攻击	Iceberg Lettuce has learned to attack from a distance. When a zombie appears within three squares to the right, it will launch a snowball with a damage of 30 at a frequency of 1.4 seconds. 冰冻生菜学会了远程攻击，当僵尸出现在右侧三格范围内时，会以1.4秒的频率发射伤害为30的雪球。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Iceberg Lettuce gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Range Enhancement 射程强化	Skillfully mastered the ability of long-range attack, the attack range of launching snowballs increased by 2 grids, and the damage increased to 40. 熟练地掌握了远程攻击的能力，发射雪球攻击范围提升2格，伤害提升至40。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Iceberg Lettuce gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Iceberg Lettuce may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Iceberg Lettuce gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

When given Plant Food, all zombies will be frozen for ten seconds and some Power Snow snowballs will be thrown to them.

Plants vs. Zombies Online (China only) (Archived content)

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In Adventure Mode

Attacks all enemies every 3 turns with a chance to freeze them.

Strategies

Iceberg Lettuce allows the player to delay a single zombie, giving them time to produce sun to purchase additional plants. It can also be used to stun tough zombies in place, allowing more time for the plants to deal damage before the threat can move to near the plants. Overall, Iceberg Lettuce will be rendered redundant by Stunion if Plant Food and sun cost is not taken into the equation, as Stunion can stun more zombies at a time and works better with fire plants and versus Frostbite Caves zombies. Once it reaches Level 11, however, it becomes more or less equal to Stunion as it can now stun an approximate 1x2 area of zombies. At Level 16, it freezes zombies in a medium area.

The Plant Food ability is perhaps Iceberg Lettuce's most useful aspect. While Stunion's can only disable enemies in a limited area, Iceberg Lettuce can freeze all zombies present, effectively halting the entire level for a while. Because of this, Iceberg Lettuce can stay relevant in higher levels in Endless Zones, most notably in tandem with Tile Turnip.

In Ancient Egypt, Iceberg Lettuce will be the first option available to put out Explorer Zombies' torches. It can also freeze a whole line of Camel Zombies, if it managed to freeze any zombie in the line. Iceberg Lettuce can also be used as a countermeasure against Chicken Wrangler Zombies, as they cannot release Zombie Chickens when frozen. However, Iceberg Lettuce should not be used in tandem with fire-based plants such as Snapdragon, Fire Peashooter and Pepper-pult, as they will thaw frozen zombies and render Iceberg Lettuce useless.

The player should make Iceberg Lettuce a priority in all Endless Zones except for Icebound Battleground. Its use is very helpful from there. From stalling zombies to minimizing the lag (in higher levels), the Iceberg Lettuce is a plant not to be conserved. Though, using its Plant Food ability maybe detrimental to the next level, the player should bring Power Lily as well in order to use the Iceberg Lettuce's full potential for the subsequent waves. Timing is necessary since the arrival of the next batch of zombies is sometimes unpredictable.

Avoid using this plant in Frostbite Caves, as it only slows zombies in this world instead of freezing them, making plants like Stunion and Stallia more optimal choices.

Iceberg Lettuce is an effective choice against Jester Zombie since he can completely freeze him, not allowing the zombie to deflect projectiles. This'll allow plants to attack the Jester Zombie without him deflecting any projectiles.

It is a poor idea to use it on "Don't lose more than x plants" unless you feed it with plant food and have a good strategy. However, it is a good choice in "Spend no more than x sun" and "defeat x zombies in y seconds" as it only costs 0 sun and a player can stall zombies and then bring an instant-kill plant such as Cherry Bomb (or allow plants to finish off the group of frozen zombies).

Related achievements

	20 Below Zero Freeze twenty zombies with a single Iceberg Lettuce.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Iceberg Lettuce
German	Eisbergsalat	lit. "Iceberg lettuce"
Spanish	Lechuga iceberg	lit. "Iceberg lettuce"
French	Salade glaciaire	lit. "Glacial salad"
Italian	Lattuga iceberg	lit. "Iceberg lettuce"
Brazilian Portuguese	Alfaiceberg	Portmanteau of alface and iceberg
Simplified Chinese	冰冻生菜 bīngdòng shēngcài	lit. "Ice Lettuce"

Trivia

• It cannot freeze Zombots, but can still slow them down.
  • Before the 2.3 update, if a missile from the Zombot hit it, it would disappear and would still somehow slow down the Zombot.
• After the 1.9 update, it will not activate when a zombie is frozen, stunned by Chili Bean or Stunion , buttered by Kernel-pult, or disabled by E.M.Peach.
  • However, this still happens in the Chinese version.
• In the Plants vs. Zombies: Official Guide to Protecting Your Brains book, it is referred to as "Iceberg."
  • This is also Iceberg Lettuce's internal name in PvZ2, which is likely where the book got the name from.
• In Plants vs. Zombies Online, it can stop the fireball of Sphinx.
• In Plants vs. Zombies Online, it can stop more than one zombies that step on it. However, the freeze time is much shorter.
• It sometimes is not fast enough to freeze a zombie, and will simply disappear without exerting its effect. This usually happens with faster zombies.
• Crazy Dave keeps the Iceberg Lettuce in his fridge in the trailer, referring to how it is made of ice.
• Placing Iceberg Lettuce at the Gargantuar's back will force it to smash it, but instead of being crushed, it will freeze the Gargantuar.
• Its Plant Food ability functions nearly identical to the ability of Ice-shroom from Plants vs. Zombies.
  • The difference is that Ice-shroom deals 20 damage when freezing the zombies, while Iceberg Lettuce does not. Also, Ice-shroom freezes zombies for a shorter period of time, but leaves a chilling effect.
• If the player manages to freeze 20 zombies at once (either via its Plant Food ability or by levelling it up to level 11+), the player will earn the 20 Below Zero achievement.
  • This is a reference to the first PvZ game's achievement of the same name.
• Its Plant Food ability doesn't freeze the zombies that are protected by Glitter Zombie's rainbow trail during its jam.
  • Its Plant Food ability also can't affect flying zombies, probably because their feet are off the ground so icicles cannot appear, as it is a characteristic of frozen zombies. However, they are not even chilled.
• According to its costume description in the Store (formerly), it was said that its white earmuff costumes was "made from real Yeti fur."
• Starting at the 7.5.1 update, the zombies will attack Iceberg Lettuce if planted nearby them while it's proceeding to freeze a zombie. This will keep going until the snowflakes texture disappears. Also in this version, if it is stunned by Boombox Zombie's ballad jam effect, it will be killed by any zombie that comes and bites it. Before this update, the zombies ignored it and when it was stunned by Boombox Zombie's ballad jam effect, a zombie that came into contact with it would be frozen (this made it activate despite being under the ballad jam effect).
• There is a glitch which causes level 5+ Iceberg Lettuce's chill time to be much shorter. That's because its freeze time and chill time superpose.
• In Plants vs. Zombies Online, Iceberg Lettuce's effect only lasted for five seconds.
• If he is stunned by Boombox zombie's Ballard jam effect, iceberg lettuce will be killed by any zombie that comes and bites him.

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)

• If it shoots an iceball (only if it is leveled up), it will look slightly different. This will last until it dies, gets used up, or Plant Food is used on it.
• Iceberg Lettuce, Puff-shroom, Stallia and Sea-shroom are tied with having the lowest chance to activate their Plant Food effect, at only 5%.
• It is possible for this to cost a negative amount of sun via Plant Families.

See also

• 20 Below Zero (Plants vs. Zombies 2)
• Ice-shroom
• Frostbite Caves
• Stunion
• Stallia
• Winter-mint
• Ice Bloom

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