Starfruit (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For other uses, see Starfruit (disambiguation).

Starfruit
Starfruits shoot stars in 5 directions.
Statistics
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Plant Food Power	16.67%
Range	5 Way
Family	Appease-mint
Plant Food effect	Shoots ten giant stars in five directions, dealing damage.
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	20 damage
Attack Rate	1.4 seconds
Range	Five Directions
Area	Single Target
Class	Ranged
Quality	Blue
Tags	Damage
Plant features	Yellow plant, short
In-game statistics
Unlocked	200 seed packets
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Starfruit Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Code name	starfruit
Just a small town fruit that travelled to the big city and found his way to the future. His favorite modes of transportation: conveyor belts, hoverboards, and rockets. WEEEE!

Starfruit is a seed packet Premium plant appearing in Plants vs. Zombies 2, obtainable for 200 seed packets.

Starfruit attacks by projecting stars (every 1.35-1.5 seconds) in five different directions whenever a zombie is in his line of fire: one to the left, one going up, one going down, one going to the upper right (gradient of 1/2), and the last going lower right (gradient of -1/2).

Each star deals 20 damage. If a zombie is exactly in front of him, with or without eating him, the zombie will be damaged by two of the five sides of Starfruit. As long as there is at least one enemy in range, Starfruit will send projectiles in all 5 directions.

About

For more information about this character, see Starfruit.

Starfruit returns in the Far Future update. He is a premium plant, which was available for purchase for $3.99. On August 24, 2016, Starfruit was available for 179 gems until August 27. In the 5.9.1 update, his cost price increased to $4.99.

After the 7.9.3 update on March 8, 2020, his status had been changed from a money premium plant to an unlockable seed-unlockable plant able to be unlocked with 200 seed packets. His sun cost has been increased to 150 sun. His projectiles move much faster than in the first game.

Almanac entry

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

Starfruit
	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 20 PLANT FOOD POWER 16.67% RANGE 5 Way Appease-mint Plant Food: Shoots ten giant stars in five directions, dealing damage. Starfruits shoot stars in 5 directions. Just a small town fruit that travelled to the big city and found his way to the future. His favorite modes of transportation: conveyor belts, hoverboards, and rockets. WEEEE!

Chinese version  (China only)

星星果可以向五个方向发射小星星。 范围：向五个方向开火 植物特征：黄色植物、矮个子 他是个来自小城镇的水果，来到大城市找到了未来之路。他最喜欢的交通方式是：传送带，[sic]螺旋桨直升机，[sic]和火箭。哇欧～～ In English: Starfruit can shoot small stars at five directions. Range: fires towards five directions Plant feature: yellow plant, short He is a fruit from a small town and found the path to the future in the big city. His favorite transportation methods are: Conveyor belts, helicopters, and rockets. Woooow~~

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When fed with Plant Food, Starfruit will shoot ten giant stars in five directions, each dealing 80 damage worth of damage to a single enemy.

Costumed (China only)

Plant Food ability has a longer duration and the projectiles will spin counterclockwise.

Appease-mint effect

When boosted by Appease-mint, Starfruit does an additional 175 damage per star.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Normal)	Plant Food Power (Damage)	Projectile Velocity	Range
1	0	0	150	5 seconds	300 damage	20 damage	80 damage	Normal	5 Way
2	10	1,000	150	5 seconds	350 damage	30 damage	120 damage
3	25	2,500	150	4.5 seconds	400 damage	40 damage	120 damage	+ 1.3x
4	50	5,000	125	4.5 seconds	450 damage	50 damage	180 damage
5	100	10,000	125	4 seconds	550 damage	60 damage	180 damage
6	200	20,000	125	4 seconds	600 damage	70 damage	280 damage
7	400	30,000	125	3.5 seconds	650 damage	80 damage	280 damage	+ 1.6x
8	800	50,000	100	3.5 seconds	700 damage	90 damage	380 damage
9	1,200	75,000	100	3 seconds	800 damage	100 damage	380 damage
10	1,600	100,000	75	3 seconds	900 damage	120 damage	480 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Energy Dart 能量镖	Starfruit has a 40% chance to launch a star dart, which can penetrate 2 zombies and cause damage. 星星果有40%的概率发射星星飞镖，可以穿透2个僵尸造成伤害。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Starfruit gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Enhanced Penetration 穿透增强	Starfruit has a 40% chance to launch a star dart, which can penetrate 3 zombies and cause damage. 星星果有40%的概率发射星星飞镖，可以穿透3个僵尸造成伤害。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Starfruit gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Starfruit may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Starfruit gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

Starfruit stands out from other projectile-based plants for specializing in attacking lanes other than the lane he is planted on. His strength lies in his relatively high firepower potential for his cost, as well as the ability to neutralize enemies attempting to attack plants from the back, such as Prospector Zombie and zombies lifted from Pterodacytls.

However, like the first game, he suffers from his projectiles being awkward in his position with no way to defend himself from zombies directly ahead of him. There are ways to get around this, such as utilizing ice floes in Frostbite Caves, or guiding the horde with Garlic and Sweet Potato.

Starfruit faces competition from Rotobaga, whose firing pattern also allows her to hit enemies from adjacent lanes. Compared to Rotobaga, Starfruit exchanges firepower for greatly increased range, since he can attack enemies from much further compared to Rotobaga and therefore will find more use against stronger enemies as it would give more time for Starfruit to damage enemies. A column of Starfruits is a decent choice against Chicken Zombies and Ice Weasels as his high-velocity projectiles will reach these zombies faster compared to Rotobaga.

Starfruit is an excellent choice against Imps thrown by Gargantuars or Zombie Bulls, Prospector Zombies and zombies carried by Pterodactyls; placing a column of Starfruits in the column where the aforementioned zombies would land, they would be quickly neutralized from the stars coming from either above, below, or behind. Columns of Starfruits in Big Wave Beach is very good against Octo Zombies, as the Starfruit's rapid, multi-directional attack can quickly destroy the octopuses thrown by them. Overall, Starfruit is generally a better choice than Rotobaga, but Rotobaga benefits as she is able to be planted on water tiles in Big Wave Beach without the aid of Lily Pad.

Starfruit also faces competition in the Chinese version with his female counterpart, Angel Starfruit, as both have lots of similar characteristics. But both have their own advantages:

Starfruit when at least level 2 can pierce zombies with its stars, but Angel Starfruit can also do that, but only at level 5. But Angel Starfruit when level 3 can shoot both red stars which deal extra damage and blue stars which are ice-like projectiles and behave like ice projectiles as well and she also does more damage. Both are good choices, but when it comes to piercing, Starfruit is better, but in situations with Explorer Zombies and tough nuts, use Angel Starfruit.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Starfruit
Simplified Chinese	星星果	lit. "Star Fruit"
French	Carambole
German	Sternfrucht
Italian	Frutto a stella
Brazilian Portuguese	Carambola	lit. "Star Fruit"
Spanish	Frustrella

Trivia

• For some reason, in the Chinese version advertisement of his Plant Food upgrade the first picture shows the Starfruit with both his international costume (afro and mustache) and his Chinese costume (antennae) on the same Starfruit. He does not have the afro and mustache costume in the Chinese version.
• As of the Power Plants update, he shoots his projectiles much faster.
• His entry references that he is tied with Far Future.
• He is the fourth plant to have its status changed from a premium plant to a seed-unlockable plant, the first being Blooming Heart, then Hot Date, Explode-O-Nut, and Starfruit respectively.
• If a boosted Starfruit is planted directly under a Gargantuar, all of his projectiles will hit it, unlike Rotobaga.

See also

• Rotobaga
• Star
• Angel Starfruit

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