Lily Pad (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Lily Pad (disambiguation).

Lily Pad
Lily Pads let you plant non-aquatic plants on top of them.
Statistics
Sun Cost	25
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Family	Contain-mint
Plant Food effect	Creates Lily Pads in adjacent spaces. If the adjacent space has Lily Pads- it will heal them instead.
Usage	Can also be planted under non-aquatic plants
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	25
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Class	Support
Quality	White
Tags	Aquatic, support
Plant features	Green plant, aquatic plant, short
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Beating Big Wave Beach - Day 1
Unlocked (China)	Beating Big Wave Beach - Day 1, Collecting 10 Lily Pad Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Code name	lilypad
Not many people know this, but Lily Pad absolutely loves square dancing. There he is, a circular plant gliding across the dance floor making squares. He loves how it pushes his boundaries and really makes him think outside the sphere.

Lily Pad is an aquatic plant appearing in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He can only be planted in Big Wave Beach on the sea or wet sand, becoming a platform upon which other plants can be placed. He is an environment modifier.

About

For more information about this character, see Lily Pad.

Lily Pad is unlocked after completing Big Wave Beach - Day 1, and is unique to that world. Unlike in the first game, Lily Pad is only vulnerable when there is water underneath; if the tide recedes and Lily Pad is on dry land, he cannot be targeted by any zombie other than Gargantuars and Surfer Zombies. Likewise, the following plants cannot be planted on Lily Pad:

Almanac entry

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

Lily Pad
	SUN COST 25 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 Contain-mint Plant Food: Creates Lily Pads in adjacent spaces. If the adjacent space has Lily Pads- it will heal them instead. Lily Pads let you plant non-aquatic plants on top of them. Usage: can also be planted under non-aquatic plants Not many people know this, but Lily Pad absolutely loves square dancing. There he is, a circular plant gliding across the dance floor making squares. He loves how it pushes his boundaries and really makes him think outside the sphere.

Chinese version  (China only)

莲叶可以让你在它上面种植非水生植物。 用法：可以种植非水生植物 植物特征：绿色植物、水生植物、矮个子 不太有人知道，原来莲叶超级喜欢广场舞。他一上场，就仿佛舞池里滑动的圆盘横扫全场。他特爱这种舞可以令自己突破极限，飘飘欲仙的感觉。 In English: Lily Pads let you plant non-aquatic plants on top of them. Usage: can also be planted under non-aquatic plants Plant feature: green plant, aquatic plant, short Not many people know this, but Lily Pad absolutely loves square dancing. When he enters the stage, he will sweep the whole room like a circular disk gliding across the dance floor. He loves how it pushes his boundaries and really makes him think outside the sphere.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When given Plant Food, Lily Pad will spawn four copies of himself in adjacent tiles. if there were already Lily Pads around him, he will heal them (if they were ever harmed in the first place). These copies do not provide sun when dug up. The plant on top of him will also activate its Plant Food effect.

Costumed  (China only)

He creates Lily Pads in a 3x3 area around him.

Contain-mint effect

When boosted by Contain-mint, Lily Pad can absorb an additional 900 damage.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)
1	0	0	25	5 seconds	300 damage
2	10	1,000		4.5 seconds	350 damage
3	75	5,000		4.5 seconds	400 damage
4	200	10,000		4.5 seconds	450 damage
5	400	20,000	0	4.5 seconds	550 damage
6	750	30,000		4 seconds	600 damage
7	1,000	40,000		4 seconds	650 damage
8	1,250	50,000		3.5 seconds	700 damage
9	1,500	60,000		3.5 seconds	800 damage
10	2,000	75,000		3 seconds	900 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Toughness Bonus

Strategies

Lily Pad is a vital plant in levels with water lanes, as he allows deployment of other land-based plants to guard those lanes possible. While aquatic and aerial options are also available for this task such as Tangle Kelp, Rotobaga, Ghost Pepper, Guacodile and Caulipower in the second game, they either lack area-of-effect capability and thus can be overwhelmed by the ever-increasing amount of zombies present, or they're limited use plants that don't stay on the lawn in the long term. Remember that due to Lily Pad's cost, normal plants' costs are effectively 25 sun more expensive than normal, unless Lily Pad is upgraded.

Lily Pad's importance has further increased in the second game. As the tides can fully cover the entire field and any ground plant not on a Lily Pad will be swept away by the tide, Lily Pad can effectively be considered equivalent to Flower Pot on the Roof levels. The short recharge time and cheap price also allows Lily Pad to work as a bait to force Deep Sea Gargantuars and Surfer Zombies to use their attack early, depleting the latter's surfboards and preventing them from harming other plants.

It is ill-advised to plant ground plants that have to let zombies walk over to be damaged like Spikeweed, Spikerock, or Celery Stalker when the tide is low, as zombies can eat them and then the Lily Pad.

Balance changes

Update 10.6.1

• ▲ Lily Pad can now share Plant Food with the plant on top of it.

Update 10.8.1

• Lily Pad is now able to be pulled by Fisherman Zombie.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Lily Pad
Simplified Chinese	莲叶	lit. "Lotus Leaf"
French	Nénuphar
German	Seerosenblatt
Italian	Foglia di ninfea
Brazilian Portuguese	Vitória-régia	from vitória-régia
Spanish	Nenúfar

Trivia

• If the player tried to bring him on any Far Future level before Day 8, the text will say "Complete future10 to unlock using Lily Pad on this level." The same glitch occurred with Tangle Kelp. This bug was fixed in the 3.2.1 update.
  • This was a leftover of a scrapped mechanic in Far Future where certain plants could be locked until other levels were beaten.
• He, Hot Potato (unless at level 5 and up) and Perfume-shroom are the only plants without Endless Zone cards.
• Before the 4.0 update, pre-planted or Plant Food-created Lily Pads could give sun, effectively bolstering sun production, specifically in Last Stand levels. However, this mechanic was somewhat removed, though all pre-placed Lily Pads at the start of a level will still give sun.
• Before 10.6 update, when being eaten, instead of flashing white briefly to signify a loss of health, he turned white completely as long as he was being attacked. This was due to Lily Pad originally being both a plant and a Grid Item.
• If one looks closely at him, they will notice the plant blowing bubbles underwater and frowns after a few seconds.
• If the player looks closely, they might notice that there is an array of Lily Pads in the moat in Dark Ages.
  • However, they look nothing like the plantable Lily Pads.
• It is the first plant that can fit other plants in its own tile in the game, with the second being Blastberry Vine.

Specific to Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 (China only)

• In the Almanac, he is shown on the ground, and not in the water. The same applies to all other aquatic plants and zombies. It is not like this in the international version, so this was likely a mistake.

See also

• Aquatic plants

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