Magnet-shroom (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

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

Magnet-shroom is a mushroom that takes away metallic objects such as buckets, metal grates and even Punk Zombies' heads, lowering their toughness and/or preventing them from using their special abilities, while only having a small recharge time needed between thefts.

Although he does not cause any damage unless plant food is used on him, he can render some of the toughest zombies almost defenseless, such as Knight Zombies by removing their helmets, reducing their health to that of a normal zombie and making them much easier to defeat in all situations.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Attracting metal
	Plant Food
	Metal hitting zombies

About

For more information about this character, see Magnet-shroom

Magnet-shroom makes its return in Dark Ages. He is unlocked after completing Dark Ages - Night 15 and is the last plant to be obtained in Dark Ages.

He has the same effect as the original game, but he no longer glows when he steals metallic items or turns into a blackish color after he takes an object. His recharge is ten seconds slower than in the first game.

Almanac entry

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

Magnet-shroom
	SUN COST 100 RECHARGE 15 TOUGHNESS 300 Special Destroy Objects RANGE Multi-Lane Contain-mint Plant Food: Remove and toss [sic] all metal objects on zombies within range, dealing damage. Magnet-shrooms remove helmets and other metal objects from zombies. Despite his unusual appearance, Magnet-shroom doesn't have a problem attracting girlfriends. But he does have a problem keeping them. It's the same thing every time. In the end, they always find him too clingy.

Chinese version  (China only)

吸走铁桶、铁盔或其它金属物品。 特点：移除僵尸们所有的金属物品 植物特征：红色植物、蘑菇家族 虽然磁力菇外形奇特，但是对找女朋友完全没有影响。可真谈了恋爱却都维持不长，每个姑娘都因为同一个理由和他分手:太粘人。 In English: Attracts iron buckets, helmets and other metal objects. Special: removes all metal objects from zombies Plant feature: red plant, mushroom family Despite Magnet-shroom has an unusual appearance, it has no impact on him when finding girlfriends. But the relationships don't last long. Every lady left him due to the same reason: he's too clingy.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When given Plant Food, Magnet-shroom attracts up to 20 metallic objects from zombies within his vicinity and throws each object ahead of his lane. Each thrown bucket, helmet, and grate deals 300 damage, while Treasure Yeti's head deals 500 damage per shot and Punk Zombie heads will not be thrown at all. The maximum amount of possible damage is 6200 damage per shot, overkilling all zombies except Zombots.

Contain-mint effect

When boosted by Contain-mint, Magnet-shroom will take 2.5 seconds to destroy objects, and his range is increased by 8x10.

Level Upgrade

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Mediocre)	Starting Recharge	Toughness (Typical)	Special (Destroy Objects)*	Range (Multi-Lane)^
1	0	0	100	15 seconds	10 seconds	300 damage	10 seconds	5x7
2	10	1,000	100	15 seconds	10 seconds	400 damage	9.5 seconds	5x7
3	75	5,000	100	14 seconds	9 seconds	500 damage	9 seconds	5x8
4	200	10,000	75	13 seconds	8 seconds	600 damage	8.5 seconds	5x8
5	400	20,000	75	13 seconds	8 seconds	700 damage	8 seconds	6x8
6	750	30,000	75	12 seconds	7 seconds	800 damage	7.5 seconds	6x9
7	1,000	40,000	50	12 seconds	7 seconds	900 damage	7 seconds	6x9
8	1,250	50,000	50	11 seconds	6 seconds		6.5 seconds	7x9
9	1,500	60,000	25	11 seconds	6 seconds		6 seconds	7x10
10	2,000	75,000	25	10 seconds	5 seconds		5 seconds	8x10

*The time Magnet-shroom takes to destroy an object.
^Applies to both normal and Plant Food states.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Strong Magnetic Field 强力磁场	Can absorb the metal armor of level 2 zombies, the rest time is reduced to 8.5 seconds 可以吸取2阶僵尸的金属防具，休息时间减少为8.5秒
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Magnet-shroom gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Super Magnetic Field 超级磁场	Can absorb the metal armor of level 3 zombies, and the rest time is reduced to 7 seconds. 可以吸取3阶僵尸的金属防具，休息时间减少为7秒。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Magnet-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Magnet-shroom may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Magnet-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

Magnet-shroom can throw metallic objects at any zombie on the lawn.

Strategies

While quite different as he is from his first appearance, Magnet-shroom still has the same affect on metal item zombies. Magnet-shroom sacrificed his recharge speed to slightly hasten removal of metallic equipment from zombies.

The following section shows a list of objects affected by Magnet-shroom's ability:

• Bucket
• Metal grate
• Knight helm
• Yeti's head and arm (in older versions)
• Zombot Dark Dragon's nose ring (Stuns for 3 seconds)
• Punk Zombie's head
• Skull (only in the Chinese version)
• Galea
• Admiral helmet
• Pickaxe
• Carnie Imp's helmet
• Wind up key

Use Magnet-shroom only when you see Buckethead Zombies, Knight Zombies, Zombie Kings, Poncho Zombies, Punk Zombies, Carnie Imps, or Nutcracker Zombies. Because four of the zombies that he can steal objects from make appearances in Wild West, Dark Ages, Neon Mixtape Tour, and Thymed Events, it makes him a good plant to use in those four areas. He also recovers faster after killing Punk Zombies than he does after stealing normal metal objects.

His Plant Food ability allows him to cripple hordes of zombies by not only removing many metallic items at once, but dealing heavy damage to the zombies in front of him in his lane. Bear in mind that each metal object only deals 300 damage, so there will need to be a lot of zombies with them for his Plant Food ability to be useful offensively.

Additionally, his Plant Food ability is one of the few ways to momentarily stun the Zombot Dark Dragon, as this Zombot's fire breath attack cannot be stopped by simply giving Plant Food to any plant in its way - making him crucial in preventing your plants from being destroyed by the Zombot's fire breath attack, and allowing your plants a window of time to open fire.

In Arena, armors stolen by him counts as the armor being destroyed, earning the player full points. If boosted, he can simultaneously steal a sizable number of metallic armors from zombies on the screen, earning the player a massive amount of points as a result.

When used against singular zombies, it may be better to use Shadow-shroom rather than Magnet-shroom, as it can effect all zombies (including those without metallic armour), as well as have a better plant food. However, Shadow-shroom is a single use plant, and unless you use it with Moonflower it will have serious trouble dealing with hordes of zombies. There's also the fact that many more superior alternatives are avaliable.

In Endless Zones, Magnet-shroom is generally only good if used in conjunction with other Plant Food effects via Tile Turnip. Without his Plant Food effect, Magnet-shroom will quickly falter against the massive swarms of zombies. However, since his Plant Food effects up to 20 zombies on screen, using it in the middle of intense situations, such as huge waves, can make the zombies much easier for your offensive plants to handle. Punk Zombie's head cannot be used against other zombies during his Plant Food attack.

However, despite his seemingly strong magnetic nature, he cannot disable mechanized enemies from Far Future, Zombie Bulls or Rodeo Legend Zombie's bulls, vehicles from Sky City, Solar Car Zombie, Toy Car Imp, Cardio Zombie's treadmill, and Z-Mech, despite the fact that all of these enemies are metallic in some form.

He also cannot steal several metallic objects that grant the zombies their abilities. (Ra Zombie's golden staff, Barrel Roller Zombie's barrel, Zombie King's scepter, Fisherman Zombie's fishing rod, Parasol Zombie's parasol, Excavator Zombie's golden shovel, Imp Porter's backpack or tent, MC Zom-B's microphone, Boombox Zombie's boombox, Roman Shield Zombie's shield, Healer Zombie's caduceus, ZCorp HelpDesk's laptop, Gong Zombie's gong, Swordsman Zombie's sword, Nunchaku Zombie's nunchucks, Cavalry Zombie's lance, Lightning Gun Zombie's lightning gun, Lost Doctor Zombie's syringes, Lost Guide Zombie's metal detector, Bass Zombie's guitar, Riot Police Zombie's baton and shield, Gentleman Zombie's umbrella, Coal Miner Zombie's wheelbarrow, Furnace Zombie's furnace, Sculptor Imp Zombie's awl and hammer, Perfume Zombie's perfume bottles, or Bubble Gun Imp's bubble gun.)

Moreover, he is useless against most other types of tougher headwear that a normal zombie can come with, such as bricks, ice blocks, and fossils. He also cannot steal buckets and football helmets from Buckethead Adventurer Zombies while this zombie is being carried by a bug, and from All-Star Zombies, respectively.

Related achievements

	Your Hat, Sir! Destroy a Zombie using only Magnet-shroom

	Head Banger Use a magnet-shroom on a Punk Zombie

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Magnet-shroom
Simplified Chinese	磁力菇
French	Champi-aimant
German	Magnetpilz
Italian	Calamifungo
Brazilian Portuguese	Ímãgumelo	Portmanteau of ímã and cogumelo
Spanish	Magnetoseta

Trivia

• He was first seen in the end of Plants vs. Zombies 2 second trailer of Google Play, thus making him a confirmed mushroom.
• His costume alludes Magneto's (a villain from the X-Men comics) cape.
• Unlike the first game, he now has a "Mediocre" recharge. However, the time it takes for it to attract a metal object, dissolve it, and attract another one is five seconds faster.
• Unlike in the first game, Magnet-shroom cannot attract helmet by a All-Star Zombie.
• He does not have eyebrows in this game.
• His magnet detaches itself from the mushroom cap when using its Plant Food ability, or while being watered in the Zen Garden.
• His range is not shown in the Almanac.
• When a metal object has been attracted by him, the player can see the object shrinking.
  • If he is transformed by a Wizard Zombie while attracting, the object does not shrink.
• The last night of Dark Ages gives the player a boosted Magnet-shroom for the Zomboss battle. The last day of Big Wave Beach also has Lily Pad as a mandatory boosted plant. These are the only Zomboss battles that have this feature.
• If the player uses Plant Food on him when a Treasure Yeti's head or arm is fallen on the ground, Magnet-shroom will attract it.
• He is the only plant that has two achievements related to him - Your Hat, Sir! and Head Banger.
• If he drags a metallic item but gets frozen, the item will unrealistically become stuck mid-air with his animation.
• He is the only plant that can (technically) damage zombies protected by Glitter Zombie's rainbow by stealing Neon Buckethead's bucket and Punk Zombie's head.
  • He can also gain points in Arena if he steals the head of Punk Zombie or a bucket from a Buckethead Zombie.
• In the case of Contain-mint plants being weak or ineffective against zombies, Magnet-shroom can still take away metallic objects when he reaches Mastery 100+.
• He has a faster ability recharge time if he grabs Punk Zombie's head, unlike other metallic objects.
• Despite being made of rocks instead of metal, he can steal both Cave Buckethead's and Jurassic Buckethead's bucket.
  • This also applies to Buckethead Pirate Zombie and Buckethead Samurai Zombie as their buckets are made of wood instead of metal but still can be stolen by him.
• The metal object will drop if the plant is removed when the metal item is still stuck on it.
  • This is one of the only ways to see a defensive equipment to drop without it being destroyed. Other examples include poison effects like Shadow-shroom/Goo Peashooter/Imp Pear/Chili Bean, Hypno-shroom's Plant Food effect, Grimrose/Conceal-mint/Shadow Peashooter and certain other instant-kill plants like Cherry Bomb.
• It is possible for Zombie Kings instantly restore removed knight helms, especially when multiple are on the field at the same time.

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)

• When the player uses Sunflower Singer's Plant Food effect while a Magnet-shroom is charging, the metal object stays in the mid-air even after he has been fed Plant Food or dug up.

See also

• Metallic objects
• Your Hat, Sir!
• Head Banger

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