Party Citron is the Legendary Party variant of Citron in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. Like other Party variants, Party Citron has a Legendary ability named "Party Time!" which is activated if Party Citron gains enough vanquishes. While "Party Time!" is activated, Party Citron gains a massive speed and damage boost. Like all of the other Legendary variants, it only takes two stickers to unlock Party Citron.
However, like other party variants, Party Citron's stickers cannot be found in sticker packs (excluding Infinity Packs). Instead, the player must instead open Eternity Chests in Infinity Time to find stickers to unlock him. The player must collect at least 25,000 Time Shards to have a chance at unlocking him, or by buying a character sticker from Rux's Bazaar.
Party Citron partied so hard that he ripped open the very fabric of time and was sent back to the Battle of Zomburbia. If he has any hope of getting home, he'll have to party harder than he's ever partied before.
In-game description
Vanquish foes to fill his meter and initiate Party Time, where you'll move quicker and deal extra damage!
Primary weapon
The Party Citron's primary weapon is the Party Laser. It fires a beam that deals 11 - 4 impact damage depending on range at a rate of 400 ticks per minute. The beam also does 2 splash damage with a blast radius of 0.5 meters. The Party Laser has infinite ammo, though if fired for too long it will overheat, disabling the weapon for a short time.
When Party Time! has been achieved, the weapon's damage will increase to 13 - 5 impact damage, once again depending on range, though the splash damage remains unchanged, including its blast radius.
Abilities
Party Time!
Party Time! is the variant ability for Party Citron. By getting vanquishes (including shared vanquishes), the bar for Party Time! fills up. When the meter is filled up, Party Time! activates (giving Party Citron a temporary speed and damage boost as well as damage resistance until the bar either depletes or until he is vanquished). If Party Citron is Vanquished before the meter is filled, the meter will reset (though being revived will prevent it from resetting).
Stronger than its Peel Shield counterpart, this shield can withstand more incoming damage, but has a much shorter duration. It also changes color so you know when it's almost destroyed!
Charge, then launch yourself at your enemies to inflict big damage!
Strategies
With
Party Citron benefits the most from being a Party Variant, as his damage outside of "Party Time!" is already greater than his stock counterpart, making him a very dangerous threat at close range. A big bonus from "Party Time!" is that he becomes incredibly fast when he uses his Hyper Ball ability, arguably becoming one of the fastest characters in the game. Party Citron's ability to get in and out of the action makes him a great choice for pushing objectives. Yes the Citron class is able to hold it's ground the longest out of the plants, but that doesn't make it invincible. Try to travel with other plants to increase your chances of surviving long enough to fill your legendary meter. At close range, characters such as the Engineer, the All-Star and Super Brainz (their variants included) can be vanquished with great ease due to their size. Try to focus your aim on them during your fights. If you are skilled enough, Party Citron can vanquish Imps incredibly fast. Don't go for them unless you are confident that you won't miss your attacks.
Against
Party Citron is a tough character to beat solo. Imps that aren't in their Mechs are very effective counters to Party Citron. As an Imp, your small size makes it very difficult for plants to hit you. This fact is especially noticeable when fighting most Citron players. If you happen to encounter a Party Citron, chuck a Gravity Grenade at it, then follow up with your primary fire. If you don't manage to vanquish Party Citron while he is trapped, activate you Imptaka ability to finish him off. As a bigger Zombie, Party Citron has a much better time landing hits on you. Try to throw off his aim by jumping around while attacking him (Unless you are an All-Star or Super Brainz). Try to vanquish him at a distance as Party Citron is only a real threat at close range. His large size means that landing hits on him should be easy. Ice variants of any Zombie character are especially effective against Party Citron.
He is the only Citron variant to not have any unique tattoos.
Before the Graveyard Variety Pack DLC, his laser looked the exact same as the Orange Beam (Citron's laser).
He is the only Citron that has a laser whose primary weapon name doesn't end with Beam. The reason for so is because the Party Beam is already taken by Party Brainz.
