Phat Beet

For other uses, see Beet (disambiguation).

Phat Beet
Phat Beet thumps out damage every few seconds.
Statistics
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	15 damage
Range	3x3
Family	Enforce-mint
Plant Food effect	Thump [sic] the ground, dealing damage to surrounding zombies.
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	15 damage
Attack Rate	1 second
Range	3×3 Nearby
Area	AoE within Range
Class	Vanguard
Quality	Blue
Tags	Damage, area of effect
Plant features	Red plant
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Beating Neon Mixtape Tour - Day 1
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Phat Beet Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Costumes (China)
Code name	phatbeet
Phat Beet has been known to drop sick rhymes, dope grooves, and highly satisfactory jams, often within seconds of each other.

Phat Beet is the first plant obtained in Neon Mixtape Tour in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It attacks zombies by sending out shockwaves every second in a 3x3 area, each shockwave dealing 15 damage.

From anywhere between its fourth and sixth attack, Phat Beet will deal a critical hit, which is worth 45 damage.

Origins

Phat Beet's appearance is based on the beetroot, the taproot portion of the plant Beta vulgaris, simply known as the Beet in English.

This plant's name is a portmanteau of the expression "phat(excellent) beat" and "Beet," the type of real-life plant this plant is based on.

Almanac entry

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

Phat Beet
	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 15 RANGE 3x3 Enforce-mint Plant Food: Thump [sic] the ground, dealing damage to surrounding zombies. Phat Beets thump out damage every second. Phat Beet has been known to drop sick rhymes, dope grooves, and highly satisfactory jams, often within seconds of each other.

Chinese version  (China only)

魔音甜菜每隔数秒都会弹奏[sic]造成伤害。 植物特征：红色植物 魔音甜菜拥有劲爆的节奏和韵律，还有令人沉迷的曲子，不过只有短短几秒。 In English: Phat Beet plays string instrument every few seconds to deal damage. Plant feature: red plant Phat Beet has stunning rhythms and prosodies, also attractive songs, but only a few seconds long.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Attacking
	Plant Food

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

• 

  Plant Food stage 1

• 

  Plant Food stage 2

• 

  Plant Food animation

When fed Plant Food, Phat Beet stretches vertically and slams the ground with its body, dealing 400 damage to every zombie surrounding it in a 3x3 area and 200 damage to zombies within a 5x5 area but does not include the 3x3 area.

Enforce-mint effect

When boosted by Enforce-mint, Phat Beet's regular attack will do 90 damage, its powerful attack will do 270 damage, its plant food damage in the 3x3 area is increased to 1600 damage, and its plant food damage in the 5x5 area is increased to 800 damage. All of Phat Beet's attacks will deal more damage if it is at Mastery.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Moderate)		Plant Food Power (Damage)		Range
						Normal	Critical	Inner range	Outer range
1	0	0	150	5 seconds	300 damage	15 damage	45 damage	400 damage	200 damage	3x3
2	25	1,000		4.5 seconds	350 damage	25 damage	75 damage	400 damage	200 damage
3	50	2,000		4.5 seconds	400 damage	25 damage	75 damage	400 damage	200 damage
4	100	4,000		4.5 seconds	450 damage	35 damage	105 damage	500 damage	250 damage
5	125	6,000	125	4.5 seconds	500 damage	35 damage	105 damage	500 damage	250 damage
6	175	8,000		4 seconds	550 damage	35 damage	105 damage	500 damage	250 damage
7	250	10,000		4 seconds	600 damage	40 damage	120 damage	500 damage	250 damage
8	350	15,000		4 seconds	650 damage	40 damage	120 damage	600 damage	300 damage
9	450	20,000	100	4 seconds	700 damage	40 damage	120 damage	600 damage	300 damage
10	800	60,000		3.5 seconds	750 damage	40 damage	120 damage	600 damage	300 damage
11	1,000	75,000		3.5 seconds	800 damage	45 damage	135 damage	600 damage	300 damage
12	1,250	100,000		3.5 seconds	825 damage	45 damage	135 damage	700 damage	350 damage
13	1,500	150,000	75	3.5 seconds	850 damage	45 damage	135 damage	700 damage	350 damage
14	1,750	200,000		3 seconds	875 damage	45 damage	135 damage	700 damage	350 damage
15	2,000	250,000		3 seconds	900 damage	45 damage	135 damage	800 damage	400 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	[[File:{{{plant}}} Upgrade 1.png|x75px]] Phat Beat 魔音绕梁	Launches a critical hit once every 2-4 attacks 每震动2-4次发动一次重音击。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Phat Beet gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	[[File:{{{plant}}} Upgrade 2.png|x75px]] Resonance 音频震荡	Critical hits inflict 3x damage. 重音的强度不断增加，重音击的伤害变为攻击力的3倍。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Phat Beet gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Phat Beet may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Phat Beet gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	[[File:{{{plant}}} Upgrade 3.png|x75px]] Violent Rock 暴力摇滚	Fires a special attack every 8 seconds that knocks armor items off zombies level 8 or lower, while dealing 270 damage per second for 3 seconds. 每隔8秒可以发动一次特殊的震击，可以震落不高于八阶的僵尸的不稳定防具，并造成270/秒的伤害，持续3秒。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Phat Beet gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Costumed (China only)

Its shock wave knocks back any zombies it doesn't kill.

Strategies

Phat Beet shares its strengths and weaknesses with Gloom-shroom and Gloom Vine. Its AOE attacks can deal heavy damage but is greatly hampered by the lack of range. It is very effective in the rightmost columns to keep the far end of the lawn tame.

A strategy with Gloom-shroom being replicated with Phat Beet.

Phat Beet can be fairly powerful with the help of Sweet Potato or Garlic, but if you use it in Frostbite Caves, Hot Date is also a good option, since Hot Date is able to warm plants. Phat Beets can be planted in the second and fourth lanes with a Sweet Potato or Hot Date on the remaining ones. This leaves lots of room for Phat Beet to accumulate damage. Of course, Sweet Potatoes, Garlic, and Hot Date will require replacement eventually. For more damage, Spikeweed or Spikerock can be planted near the Sweet Potatoes. Explode-o-Vine is by far the best plant to assist this strategy, as he can deal enough damage to wipe out clusters of zombies, and tank them with his above-average durability for a vine, which combined with his fast cooldown greatly alleviates defensive pressure on your plants of choice.

Phat Beet is useful against the Imps thrown by Gargantuars, especially higher levels of Endless Zones. Filling the 2nd or 4th column with them and leaving some space in the 3rd should be more than enough to wipe them out. You can then use other plants to dispatch Gargantuars.

In Ancient Egypt and Dark Ages, Phat Beet can be useful for clearing out Tombstones. In Wild West, Phat Beet is useful to put on minecarts. Combined with Sweet Potato, Phat Beet can cause great damage to the zombies, including Zombie Chickens or be placed at the back of the lawn to combat Prospector Zombies.

In Big Wave Beach, Phat Beet is useful against Octo Zombies, since a group of them can quickly kill his thrown octopus and free the trapped plant. In addition, Phat Beet is a good plant against low tides, especially if Magnet-shroom is used against Pompadour and Bikini Buckethead. Phat Beet's attacks can damage Snorkel Zombie, even when submerged. In Frostbite Caves, ice floes should be used to one's advantage to create an effective strategy with Phat Beet as long as there are no Weasel Hoarders or Dodo Rider Zombies. He cannot fully take down an Ice Weasel in one hit (unless it is leveled up or it is a critical hit).

In Frostbite Caves, Phat Beet is very useful against Ice Weasels, wiping the out in large groups when given the chance. As mentioned before, Phat Beet can also be used in conjunction with Slider Tiles to safely deal damage.

Both in normal levels and Endless Zone, Phat Beets work well with Winter Melon or Sap-fling because they can slow down the zombies as Phat Beet attacks. To increase the damage, Spikerock can be used.

Phat Beet is also one of the few plants immune to Boombox Zombie's ability, and can be a serviceable counter.

Phat Beet works great in combination with Homing Thistle in a checkered pattern. Homing Thistles can easily take out threats from range and Phat Beets wipe them out up close. As long as you account for Homing Thistle's weaknesses in dealing with swarms, this combo is effective in most worlds.

Balance changes

Update 4.4.1

• ▼ Plant Food ability damage in inner radius reduced from 700 to 400.
• ▼ Plant Food ability damage in outer radius reduced from 400 to 200.
• ▼ Plant Food ability outer range radius reduced from whole board to 5x5.

Related achievement

	Beet It Complete a level using only Phat Beets to defeat zombies

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Phat Beet
Simplified Chinese	魔音甜菜	lit. "Magic Sound Beet"
French	BetteGrave
German	Fette Bete
Italian	Barbanvedi
Brazilian Portuguese	Beat Rhaba	From beat and beterraba
Spanish	Remolacha tremenda

Trivia

• In the official Plants vs. Zombies Facebook page, PopCap refers to it as "Phat Beat" in some of their posts.
• Its eyes are darker in-game than it is on its seed packet, the "Beet It" achievement icon, and his Endless Zone card.
• It is the only non-ground and non-instant-use plant that cannot be affected by the ballad jam.
• It, Dandelion in Plants vs. Zombies Online, Kiwibeast, Gloom Vine, and Gloom-shroom are the only non-instant-use attacking plants with a 3x3 range around themselves.
• In the Neon Mixtape Tour Side A trailer, it was referred to as 'Phat Beets.' This was probably an error or that the trailer was referring to more than one Phat Beet.
• When the level is over and there is a lawn obstacle (e.g. a tombstone) in its range, it will keep attacking it until it is destroyed.
• In the Neon Mixtape Tour Side A trailer, it is seen using its Zen Garden watering animation while sleeping.
• Its level upgrades in the Chinese version reused Winter Melon's upgrade icons as its level 2 name is based on a word called "余音绕梁" which means "long and graceful music."
  • As of an unknown update, it now has its own upgrade icons.
• Its costume with black hat and red sunglasses is named "Run P.V.Z.".

See also

• Gloom-shroom
• Gloom Vine
• Kiwibeast
• Beet It
• Dandelion

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