Noctarine

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“	Plant Noctarines to create damaging gas clouds	”
—Penny

Noctarine is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 9.1.1 update. Noctarine explodes upon planting, wherein he creates a cloud of gas in a 3x3 area that continuously damages zombies (except Healer Zombie and Treasure Yeti). Zombies within the area will take more damage from shadow plants.

Alongside said gas, Noctarine also produces a shadow aura that is able to power shadow plants similarly to Moonflower. Because of this, he is an environment modifier.

In addition to being able to power shadow plants, Noctarine is a shadow plant himself. When Noctarine is powered by plants such as, Moonflower, Conceal-Mint, Gloom Vine, or even other Noctarines, the gas cloud he creates is able to slow down zombies and cause them to have a chance to explode themselves, dealing 10% damage of zombies' max health in a 3x3 area. In addition to the probability, the explosion trigger condition also requires that the zombie's health is equal to or less than twice the damage of the gas cloud.

Origins

Prunus persica var. nucipersica

Noctarine is based on the nectarine (Prunus persica var. nucipersica), a cultivar of peach (Prunus persica) that famously lacks fuzzy skins and is regarded commercially as a different fruit from the peach.

Noctarine's name is a portmanteau of nectarine, the plant he’s based on, and the prefix "noct-", which is used to refer to something pertaining to the night, referring to the fact that he is a shadow plant.

Almanac entry

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

Noctarine
	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 15 DAMAGE 40 Shadow Damage Boost 2.10 Gas Duration Gas Duration Zombie Explosion Damage 0.10 Usage Single, Instant Conceal-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Noctarines are shadow plants that explode and create clouds of damaging and slowing gas. For a plant churning with internal gases, Noctarine's opinions are shockingly conventional. "Jaws is a good movie," he says. Like, NO KIDDING, Noctarine!

Upgrades

Conceal-mint effect

When boosted by Conceal-mint, Noctarine's powered gas will do an additional 140 damage, his damage boost will be increased by 2.5 times, and his corpse explosion damage will do an additional 10%.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Damage				Damage Boost		Gas Duration		Slow Duration	Explosion Chance
					Himself	Normal Gas	Powered Gas	Corpse Explosion	Normal	Powered	Normal	Powered
1	0	0	150	15 seconds	0 damage	20 damage	40 damage	10%	1.5x	2.1x	10.5 seconds	15.5 seconds	15.5 seconds	25%
2	50		125	14 seconds			60 damage		1.6x			16.5 seconds	16.5 seconds	30%
3	100		100	13 seconds		40 damage				2.2x	11.5 seconds			35%
4	200			12 seconds			80 damage		1.7x			17.5 seconds	17.5 seconds	40%
5	300			11 seconds		60 damage				2.3x	12.5 seconds			45%
6	400			10 seconds			100 damage		1.8x			18.5 seconds	18.5 seconds	50%
7	500		75	9 seconds		80 damage				2.4x	13.5 seconds			55%
8	600			8 seconds			120 damage		1.9x			19.5 seconds	19.5 seconds	60%
9	800			7 seconds		100 damage				2.5x	14.5 seconds			65%
10	1,000		50	6 seconds			140 damage		2x			20.5 seconds	20.5 seconds	70%

Mastery upgrade

• Damage Pierce

Strategies

Noctarine can be used in tandem with Grimrose and especially Shadow-shroom, as both are single-use plants and Noctarine's use as an instant complements them well, producing a temporary shadow aura to power them when needed where other plants may not suffice. He actually already has very good uptime, even at level 1, and this can be further increased with upgrades to improve his coverage.

Noctarine also forms an exceptional and surprising synergy with Gloom Vine, since Gloom Vine powers him immediately, and his attacks also cover a 3x3 area, allowing it to also deal bonus damage.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Noctarine
German	Noktarine
Spanish	Noctarina
French	Noctarine
Italian	Nottarina
Brazilian Portuguese	Noturnarina

Trivia

• In version 9.0 of the game, Noctarine was included on Conceal-mint's list of family plants despite not being released yet.
• Noctarine is the only shadow plant to be an explosive plant and the only shadow plant to be an instant-use plant.
• Noctarine's powered gas can't actually slow zombies down.
• Noctarine can power Moonflower briefly, but the gas he leaves can't power her at all.
• Noctarine's gas is actually internally classified as a plant, having the codename noctarinecloud, due to this it has some weird interactions:
  • It can drown in the water tiles of Big Wave Beach or be destroyed by some zombies.
  • Vine plants or Lily Pads that are on the same tile as it cannot be dug up.
  • It can be modded to be selectable as a regular plant, though it does absolutely nothing when placed down.
• Sometimes a powered Noctarine would create normal gas. This was fixed in the 9.6.1 update.

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