Pepper-mint

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This item is only obtainable during certain events. However, it can still be used if you have already obtained it. It is currently not available.

Pepper-mint
Pepper-mints set off lane-wide bursts of flame when planted and provide a temporary boost to all Pepper-mint plants on the lawn.
Statistics
Sun Cost	0
Recharge	85 seconds
Duration	6 seconds
Usage	Single, Instant
Attack Rate	1 second
Fire	100 damage
Family	Pepper-mint
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(immune to fire)
Unlocked	Spending 100 Mints
Pepper-mint likes heat. He's down with flames, he digs on fire, he's a total madman for oxidization and ignition. If he sees you rubbing two sticks together, he'll come over and ask about it. He can't help himself.

“	The Pepper-mint family comprises fire plants.	”
—Penny

Pepper-mint is a Power Mint plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He sets the entire board on fire, dealing significant damage to the zombies and thawing frozen plants. Pepper-mint can also boost Pepper-mint Family plants.

Pepper-mint Family plants include:

• Snapdragon
• Jalapeno
• Jack O' Lantern
• Ghost Pepper
• Hot Potato
• Pepper-pult
• Fire Peashooter
• Lava Guava
• Hot Date
• Pyre Vine
• Inferno
• Meteor Flower

Like other Power Mints, Pepper-mint cannot be imitated or affected by other mints. He remains on the lawn for six seconds at level one.

Pepper-mint can be purchased from the store with 100 mints while he is available.

Origins

He is based on the Lamiaceae, also known as mint, with its full name specifically referring to a mint, Peppermint, which is a hybrid of spearmint and watermint.

However, the word "pepper" (specifically, the chili pepper, a vegetable commonly depicted as hot/fiery) is emphasized, hence his appearance and ability, thus making his name a portmanteau of "pepper" and "mint."

Almanac entry

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

Pepper-mint
	SUN COST 0 RECHARGE 85 DURATION 6 Usage Single, Instant Pepper-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Pepper-mints set off lane-wide bursts of flame when planted and provide a temporary boost to all Pepper-mint plants on the lawn. Pepper-mint likes heat. He's down with flames, he digs on fire, he's a total madman for oxidization and ignition. If he sees you rubbing two sticks together, he'll come over and ask about it. He can't help himself.

Pepper-mint boosts

When boosted by Pepper-mint, the following plants will receive the following boosts:

• Fire Peashooter's peas will receive an additional 240 damage. Additionally, she will have a 25% chance to shoot a plasma pea when boosted, with said plasma pea receiving an additional 330 damage (or dealing 330 damage if she is not at level 5+). Her Plant Food effect will also receive an additional 300 damage per tick (8 ticks in total) while boosted.
• Ghost Pepper will do an additional 60 damage while haunting zombies, and her Plant Food effect will do an additional 200 damage per tick (7 ticks in total) while haunting zombies.
• Hot Date's fiery trail will do an additional 1800 damage.
• Hot Potato will do an additional 60 damage (or do 60 damage if she is at level 1) to zombies on her tile. She will also gain the ability to melt octopi from Octo Zombies if she is not at level 5+.
• Inferno's normal and Plant Food fire tornadoes will do an additional 48 damage per tick. He will also warm plants in a larger area as if he was at level 10 and the damage he deals to ice is increased to 500 damage.
• Jack O' Lantern's range will increase to 5 tiles, he will receive an additional 550 damage per tick, and his plant food damage will deal an additional 350 damage per second.
• Jalapeno's damage is increased by 2400 damage.
• Lava Guava's explosion gains an additional 600 damage, and his Plant Food effect will also receive an additional 60 damage per tick over the duration.
• Pepper-pult will warm plants in a larger area as if he was at level 15, and his peppers' damage will increase by 200 damage, with the splash damage also receiving an additional 40 damage.
• Pyre Vine's flamethrower damage is increased by 260 damage, his Plant Food's damage is increased by 4800 damage, and the length of his flamethrower is increased to 10 tiles. He can take an additional 600 damage. He will also warm plants in a larger area as if he was at level 10 and the damage he deals to ice is increased to 500 damage.
• Snapdragon's damage will increase to 180 damage, and his Plant Food effect damage will increase to 4400 damage. He will deal more damage if he is at Mastery.
• Meteor Flower can deal an additional 350 damage per meteor strike, and it will shoot an additional 3 meteor strikes every time it attacks.

Upgrades

Level upgrades

Note that Pepper-mint's recharge is 30 seconds shorter during the Improve-mint event.

Level	Seed Packets	Upgrades
		Sun Cost	Recharge	Duration	Toughness	Fire Duration	Fire Damage Tick	Fire Damage per Tick
1	0	0	85 seconds	6 seconds	300 damage	3.5 seconds	0.49 seconds	100 damage
2	100		80 seconds	7 seconds	350 damage	3.5 seconds		110 damage
3	150		80 seconds	8 seconds	400 damage	3.5 seconds		115 damage
4	200		75 seconds	9 seconds	450 damage	4.5 seconds		120 damage
5	300		75 seconds	10 seconds	550 damage	4.5 seconds		125 damage
6	400		75 seconds	11 seconds	600 damage	4.5 seconds		130 damage
7	500		70 seconds	12 seconds	650 damage	5.5 seconds		135 damage
8	600		70 seconds	13 seconds	700 damage	5.5 seconds		140 damage
9	800		70 seconds	14 seconds	800 damage	5.5 seconds		145 damage
10	1,000		60 seconds	15 seconds	900 damage	6.5 seconds		150 damage

Strategies

Pepper-mint's family contains a high number of plants, so there are a variety of strategies in which Pepper-mint can be used in. In addition, most of the plants in Pepper-mint's family deal high amounts of damage, so using Pepper-mint in combination with these plants is ideal, as some of these plants deal very large amounts of damage when paired with him. For example, a boosted Lava Guava deals a massive 800-1200 damage on eruption, while other plants like Fire Peashooter and Pepper-pult deal extremely high amounts of damage. It should also be noted that the Pepper-mint family lacks reliable splash damage output, as Snapdragon, Jack O' Lantern and Pyre Vine have a limited range, Pepper-pult has a relatively slow recharge and his splash damage is low.

Outside of this, Pepper-mint may seem like a full-board Jalapeno, but he will only do a total of 800 damage at level one, making the instant effect act more as a softener rather than an instant-kill, unlike Bombard-mint or Jalapeno, which can do extreme damage. It should also be kept in mind that Pepper-mint's boost will not activate until several seconds after he is planted.

Due to his effect however, Pepper-mint is very effective at clearing the lawn of hazards such as tombstones and octopi. He can also thaw plants very quickly in Frostbite Caves. It should be brought into levels with many tombstones, like Ancient Egypt - Day 26, to melt them all immediately.

It is not recommended to bring Pepper-mint to levels where you can't lose plants, as like other mints, he will disappear after a while, which counts as losing a plant .It is a poor choice to them against Imp Dragon Zombies, as they are immune to fire. His family doesn't interact well with ice-based effects, so alternatives like Sap-fling or Stallia are to be used with instead. Pokra also works well with this family, as she does high damage, her slow effects are not impeded by fire, and the family itself does in fact support her well with various damaging options.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Pepper-mint
French	Pyro-menthe
German	Flammenminze
Italian	Fiam-menta
Brazilian Portuguese	Aqueci-menta	portmanteau of aquecimento and menta
Spanish	Menta piperita

Trivia

• Despite not being a fire plant, Ghost Pepper is in the Pepper-mint Family. This may be simply because she is a pepper, and because ghost peppers are notoriously spicy and hot/fiery.
• His fire trails are similar to Jalapeno's fire trail.
• Despite being a fire plant, Wasabi Whip is not in his family, as that plant is specialized instead in close-range melee attacks (Enforce-mint).
• Up until the 7.6.1 update, Torchwood was a part of his family, and would absorb an additional 2000 damage when boosted by Pepper-mint. He later became part of the Appease-mint family, most likely because of his relation to peashooting plants. His boost also instead increases the damage of his newly-added burning zombies on contact and setting the entire lane on fire when eaten.
• If one exits the game when Pepper-mint's flames are burning and returns, the sprite will last until the end of the game.
• When boosted by a Pepper-mint, Hot Date will change to the starting appearance, but cannot actually gain any additional health.

See also

• Power Mints
• Jalapeno

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