Strawburst

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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.

Strawburst
Strawbursts grow a berry for small, medium, or huge damage!
Statistics
Sun Cost	400
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Growth Speed	10/15 seconds
Area	3x3
Usage	Tap to Use
Family	Bombard-mint
Plant Food effect	Launches a huge strawberry that explodes on impact that deals damage to all zombies on the lawn.
Usage	Tap to fire
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	300
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	200 damage
Attack Rate	5 seconds
Range	Whole Lane to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Ranged
Quality	Orange
Tags	Damage, manual, area of effect
Plant features	Red plant
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(deflects smaller berries)
Unlocked	NA: $6.99 · EU: €5.49 · UK: £4.99
Unlocked (China)	Collect ten Strawburst puzzle pieces
Costumes
"Big is good," says Strawburst. "Though small's pretty choice as well. And you should never discount medium. I just like sizes, really."

“	Tap the Strawburst to fire. Strawburst's berry grows over time.	”
—Penny

Strawburst is a special-edition premium lobbed-shot plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that can be bought for a limited time during the Summer Nights event. He also made a brief return during the Food Fight Piñata Party and was available in stores during the 2016 Valenbrainz event.

As his description states, he has three types of damage depending on how long the player waits for its berry to grow. Upon contact with zombies, the initial small berry deals 200 damage to a single zombie, the medium berry deals 400 damage on a 3x3 area, and the largest berry deals 900 damage, also on a 3x3 area.

Additionally, if a zombie reaches Strawburst and tries to eat him, he will self-destruct, dealing damage to the zombie depending on which state his berry is currently at, with the small berry dealing 200 damage on a single area.

It takes the plant 10 seconds to grow from small to medium, and 15 seconds to grow from medium to big. After firing a berry of any size, he needs 7.5 (5 in Chinese version) seconds to regrow. This means the total time between firing a berry and it growing back to a big berry is 32.5 (30 in Chinese version) seconds.

Origins

Strawburst is based on the widely cultivated red fruit strawberry, belonging in the Fragaria genus. Visually, he is presented as an upside-down strawberry.

His name is a portmanteau of "strawberry" and "burst." Being a verb, burst means "to break from internal pressure"; therefore, it refers to how Strawburst's berries explode or rather burst on contact with the zombies. It might also be a reference to Starbursts candies.

Almanac entry

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

Strawburst
	SUN COST 400 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 Special Growth Speed AREA 3x3 Usage Tap to Use Bombard-mint Plant Food: Launches a huge strawberry that explodes on impact that deals damage to all zombies on the lawn. Strawburst grows a berry for small, medium or huge damage! "Big is good," says Strawburst. "Though small's pretty choice as well. And you should never discount medium. I just like sizes, really."

Chinese version (China only)

爆炸草莓可以造成三种不同程度的高额伤害 植物特征：红色植物 大的这个？小的这个？放心，我会把它们都扔到你脸上！我爱敌人就和爱炸弹一样，因为他们都快要爆炸啦！ In English: Strawburst can deal three different levels of damage Plant characteristics: red plant The big one? The small one? Don't worry, I'll throw them all in your face! I love my enemies as much as my bombs, because they're about to explode!

Audio

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Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food animation

When fed with Plant Food, Strawburst will instantly grow to full size and laugh while a huge strawberry drops from the sky, which explodes after 5 seconds and deals 400 (900 in Chinese version) damage to all zombies on the lawn.

Bombard-mint effect

When boosted by Bombard-mint, Strawburst only takes one second to grow between each stage.

Overall, it takes about 9.5 seconds after being fired for Strawburst to grow back to his full size while boosted.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Projectile Velocity	Special (Growth Speed)		Area
							Small	Medium
1	0	0	400	5 seconds	300 damage	Normal	10 seconds	15 seconds	3x3
2	10	1,000	400	5 seconds	350 damage		8 seconds	14 seconds
3	25	2,500	375	4.5 seconds	400 damage	+ 1.3x	8 seconds	14 seconds
4	50	5,000	375	4.5 seconds	450 damage		7 seconds	12 seconds
5	100	10,000	350	4.5 seconds	550 damage		7 seconds	12 seconds
6	200	20,000	350	4 seconds	600 damage		7 seconds	12 seconds
7	400	30,000	325	4 seconds	650 damage	+ 1.6x	6 seconds	11 seconds
8	800	50,000	325	3.5 seconds	700 damage		6 seconds	11 seconds
9	1,200	75,000	325	3.5 seconds	800 damage		5 seconds	10 seconds
10	1,600	100,000	300	3 seconds	900 damage		5 seconds	10 seconds

Note: Its damage cannot be upgraded.

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades

Level	Upgrades	Description
	[[File:{{{plant}}} Upgrade 1.png|x75px]] Rapid Growth 1 急速成长1	25% chance to regenerate a medium projectile immediately after launch. 在发射完草莓炸弹后，有25%概率直接成长为中草莓。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Strawburst gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	[[File:{{{plant}}} Upgrade 2.png|x75px]] Rapid Growth 2 急速成长2	20% chance to renegerate a large projectile after launch. 在发射完草莓炸弹后，有20%概率直接成长为大草莓。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Strawburst gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Strawburst may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Strawburst gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	[[File:{{{plant}}} Upgrade 3.png|x75px]] Blasting Feast 爆浆盛宴	Projectiles leave puddles that slow zombies. Small and medium puddles persist for 2 seconds, while large puddles last 4 seconds. 草莓炸弹爆炸后会遗留对应攻击范围的草莓酱，使经过的僵尸减速。小草莓和中草莓的草莓酱持续2秒，大草莓的草莓酱持续4秒。
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Strawburst gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Strategies

Strawburst draws potency from both his various modes of firing and his large splash radius: The small strawberries allow the player to neutralize weak threats early on without having to wait for long like other controllable plants; the medium strawberries can quickly destroy large amounts of zombies as long as they are not tougher than Conehead Zombie; and the large strawberries can easily deal heavy damage. It rivals the Chinese-exclusive Cob Cannon and demolishes Gargantuars. This power, however, comes with a massive 400 sun price tag, making Strawburst not the most practical choice in a normal level.

Strawburst is also particularly vulnerable to ambushes - not even Infi-nut's force field will prevent him from exploding, and Endless Zones with constant ambushes such as Pyramid of Doom, Tiki Torch-er, and Icebound Battleground can make him impossible to use. Planting a Pumpkin over him can alleviate this problem. Overall, it requires a lot of support and setup in order to work but when established successfully, the player can easily wreak havoc with Strawburst.

Another thing to note is that of the three berries, only the small one can be deflected or blocked. This makes Strawburst a reasonable choice against threats such as Jester Zombie and Parasol Zombie as long as the player is patient enough to wait for the medium or large berry.

Strawburst can also be used in conjunction with Power Tiles naturally occurring in Far Future or generated by Tile Turnip, even though the damage dealt by his plant food ability is rather underwhelming. A group of boosted Strawbursts (4 or more) can still deal massive amounts of damage and clear the screen of most threats. Plant Food will also fully regenerate Strawburst, so if he's ready, fire him beforehand.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Strawburst
Simplified Chinese	爆炸草莓	lit. "Exploding Strawberry"
French	Fraise-badaboum	"Badaboum Strawberry"
German	Erdbeerbömbchen
Italian	Fragoloska
Brazilian Portuguese	Morangranada	Portmanteau of morango and granada
Spanish	Fragaria

Trivia

• His growth stages resemble an unripe, ripening, and ripe strawberry.
  • He shares this quality with Ultomato, whose growth stages resemble a ripening tomato.
• In Last Stand levels and Piñata Parties with pre-planted Strawbursts, they always start with the small berry when the player waits during setup regardless of time, and medium one when the level commences.
• When placed right behind an undamaged tombstone, the first berry launched will always end up hitting the tombstone, even if there is a zombie in his lane.
  • This also occurs with Spore-shroom
• Regardless of what stage he was in when defeated, Intensive Carrot will always revive him to his on-planting stage.
  • This also applies to Potato Mine, Pea Pod, Sun-shroom, Primal Potato Mine, Escape Root, Kiwibeast, Cryo-shroom, and Pyro-shroom.
• He was shown in the Food Fight trailer for 2015 but was not available until the end of the Food Fight Piñata Parties.
• According to the credits, he is voiced by Scott Porterfield.
• In version 5.0.1, when there were no zombies in his lane, the berry would land on the leftmost tile of the lane instead of flying offscreen like in previous versions.
• He is the first plant to have a special death animation, exploding when a zombie is too close to him.
  • However, counting Bambrook and Level 2 Tall-nut in the Chinese version, he is the third plant to have a special death animation.
• Strawburst, Explode-O-Nut, Explode-o-Vine, and Boom Balloon Flower are the only plants in the Bombard-mint family that are not single-use.
  • Coincidentally, both Strawburst and Explode-O-Nut were first seen in the Summer Nights event.

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)

• With the international version release year being mid-2015 and the Chinese version release year being early 2020, Strawburst has the second longest gap between the release of international and Chinese version, being roughly five years, surpassing Aloe's three years record.
  • Jack O' Lantern later surpassed Strawburst's five years record with the international version release year being late 2015 and Chinese version release year being late 2022, making the gap seven years.

References

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