Sweet Potato (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

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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 available.

For more information about this character, see Sweet Potato.

Sweet Potato
Sweet Potatoes attract zombies from other lanes when they are close by.
Statistics
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	20 seconds
Toughness	4000 damage
Range	Multi-Lane
Family	Reinforce-mint
Plant Food effect	Heals itself and attracts all nearby zombies to its row.
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	300
Recharge	20 seconds
Toughness	4000 damage
Class	Tough
Quality	Green
Tags	Defensive, displace
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(ignore effect) (instantly defeat or does not eat)
Unlocked	100 gems
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Sweet Potato Puzzle Pieces, daily rewards
Costumes
Sweet Potato really is as sweet as she looks. Her favorite animal is the unicorn. Her favorite color is (and this is a direct quote) "all the colors in the rainbow." When she writes the letter "i", she draws a little heart where the dot belongs. Frankly, if it were anyone else, this amount of syrup would be sickening. But on her, well, it just seems right.

Sweet Potato is a special-edition gemium plant that first appeared in the 3.0.1 update of Plants vs. Zombies 2 for the Fall Food Fight Piñata Party event. She can attract zombies from adjacent tiles covering the 1x3 (vertical) area in front of the tile where she was planted in lane. She is also a defensive plant, possessing a toughness scale equivalent that of a Wall-nut. Like Ghost Pepper, Homing Thistle, Fire Peashooter, and Dandelion, she costed 109 gems to purchase. She was removed from the store on December 3, 2014.

Sweet Potato and other special-edition plants came back in the Luck O' the Zombie event. The plants were available for purchase from March 11, 2015 until March 24, 2015. She once again reappeared in the stores as of July 7, 2015 along with the new Piñata Parties advertising the availability of all the special-edition plants for a limited time. Her cost was reduced to 75 gems during the Summer Nights special event.

She returned on November 19, 2015 in a Fall Food Fight Piñata Party, and returned to the shop for 109 gems. She also returned in the March 28, 2016 and February 25, 2017 Piñata Party, but she was not listed in the Almanac nor was available to unlock at that time.

She returned in the Food Fight 2017 event. She could be bought by either using 100 Gems or by buying with the Food Fight Bundle.

She returned in the Food Fight 2021 and Food Fight 2022 events and could be bought for 50 and 100 gems respectively.

Origins

Sweet Potato is based on Ipomoea batatas, known as sweet potato, the tuberous root of the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, that is known for its incredibly sweet taste.

Her name is based on "sweet" because she attracts zombie with her sweetness along with her Almanac entry in Plants vs. Zombies 2, and "sweet potato", the plant Sweet Potato is based on.

Almanac entry

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

Sweet Potato
	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 20 TOUGHNESS 4000 RANGE Multi-Lane Reinforce-mint Plant Food: Heals itself and attracts all nearby zombies to its row. Sweet Potatoes attract zombies from other lanes when they are close by. Sweet Potato really is as sweet as she looks. Her favorite animal is the unicorn. Her favorite color is (and this is a direct quote) "all the colors in the rainbow." When she writes the letter "i", she draws a little heart where the dot belongs. Frankly, if it were anyone else, this amount of syrup would be sickening. But on her, well, it just seems right.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability (animated)

When given Plant Food, Sweet Potato fully heals herself and attracts all zombies in a 4x3 area. In the Chinese version, if not costumed, she will simply enter an invulnerable state for a period of time without fully healing herself at the end of the effect.

Reinforce-mint effect

When boosted by Reinforce-mint, Sweet Potato can absorb an additional 8500 damage, and have its plant food effect activated.

Level upgrade

Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Sluggish)	Starting Recharge	Toughness (High)	Range
1	0	0	150	20 seconds	15 seconds	4000 damage	Multi-Lane
2	10	1,000	150	19 seconds	14 seconds	4500 damage
3	25	2,500	150	18 seconds	13 seconds	5000 damage
4	50	5,000	125	18 seconds	13 seconds	5500 damage
5	100	10,000	125	17 seconds	12 seconds	6000 damage
6	200	20,000	100	17 seconds	12 seconds	6500 damage
7	400	30,000	100	16 seconds	11 seconds	7000 damage
8	800	50,000	75	16 seconds	11 seconds	7500 damage
9	1,200	75,000	75	15 seconds	10 seconds	8000 damage
10	1,600	100,000	50	15 seconds	10 seconds	8500 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Toughness Bonus

Costumed (China only)

Sweet Potato now fully heals herself along with the Sweet Potato's regular effect.

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Energy Decomposition 能量分解	Sweet Potato health increased to 6800. 甜薯的生命值上升至6800。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Sweet Potato gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Super Sweetness 超级甜度	Sweet Potato health increased to 9600. 甜薯的生命值上升至9600。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Sweet Potato gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Sweet Potato may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Sweet Potato gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

Sweet Potato allows the player to attract zombies into well-guarded lanes while setting safe zones for sun production and other supporting plants. She is especially useful for setting choke points and allow area of effect plants such as Banana Launcher, Spikerock, and Lava Guava to maximize their damage potential. However, this plant's weaknesses are her high cost and recharge rate, and that she is usually not tough enough from taking the pressure from multiple lanes. Because of this, Sweet Potato needs to be used with great care. If the player has Imitater, this halves the recharge time, enabling more frequent planting.

There are two main ways of setting up Sweet Potatoes: first, third and fifth lane, or second and fourth lane. The second method is more cost efficient, but the Sweet Potatoes will also take more pressure and require replacement faster.

The player can also take advantage of the terrain modifiers in Pirate Seas and Frostbite Caves to set up Sweet Potato more efficiently - certain Frostbite Caves levels can, with proper setup, allow the player to funnel virtually all threats to a single lane, where they can effectively be destroyed with insta-kill plants such as Cherry Bomb or Jalapeno by simply moving all the zombies to the same lane and planting said insta-kill.

Another way to use Sweet Potato is to treat her as a supporting plant, while using other defensive plants such as Wall-nut and Tall-nut to defend her. Chard Guard works particularly well with Sweet Potato, since it relies on his pushing ability rather than bulk to defend, he can deal with large groups of enemies from multiple lanes much more easily compared to other defensive plants. However, these defensive plants may recharge too slowly, in which time the zombies may have already eaten through the Sweet Potato. Therefore, Primal Wall-nut may be most helpful with her.

Sweet Potato, together with Primal Peashooter, can be a very powerful combination in Pirate Seas if planned well. The trick is to place Sweet Potato on a plankless lane to attract zombies with Primal Peashooter(s) placed behind Sweet Potato. The idea here is that Sweet Potato will attract zombies to the plankless lane which allows Primal Peashooter to push the zombies back and knock them into the water, killing them instantly. But beware for not all zombies can be attracted by Sweet Potato, and Primal Peashooter's knockback does not always happen. Also, beware that certain zombies cannot be drowned as knocking them off the edge can trigger a glitch, causing them to walk on the water. Though this strategy can be extremely useful, she is not recommended to be used standalone. Bringing instants, such as Blover or Hurrikale for Seagull Zombies, can improve the capability of this strategy. However, both of these plants are both acquired in much later worlds than Pirate Seas, so other plants may be better.

Sweet Potato is handy to use in Save Our Seeds levels when the endangered plants are not in all the lanes, like Neon Mixtape Tour - Day 5 and Ancient Egypt - Day 15. In these levels, use Sweet Potato to attract the zombies to lanes without endangered plants, and you will have a better chance to win. However, Sweet Potato should not be used in Save Our Seeds levels when the endangered plants are in all of the lanes, as it will be a waste of a seed slot, unless you are using a strategy involving moving the zombies to different lanes.

Sweet Potato can also be used with Escape Root for devastating results. Plant Escape Root behind Sweet Potato; the latter will attract zombies and once enough zombies are clustered up, tap Escape Root to swap it with Sweet Potato, upon which Escape Root will switch places with Sweet Potato turn into a random explosive plant which will explode and to take out the zombies, or severely harm Gargantuars.

Sweet Potato and Phat Beet strategy

A good strategy is to use Sweet Potato in conjunction with Phat Beet, due to its lack of range and affinity to attack large zombie density in adjacent lanes, making a Gloom-shroom-esque format.

Sweet Potato can be considered better option than Hot Date if you are going to use ice plants because Hot Date possibly thaws out zombies you wouldn't want. A good plant to combine her is with Cold Snapdragon, both could be put together in a similar way to the Phat Beet strategy mentioned above.

Sweet Potato, however, can have anti-synergy with Iceberg Lettuce. If you plant Iceberg Lettuce in the lanes adjacent to Sweet Potato in front of her, she will attract zombies before Iceberg Lettuce can freeze them, causing you to lose the plant without any benefits.

When using Sweet Potato, watch out for non-eating zombies such as Mecha-Football Zombies, Gargantuars, Excavator Zombies, and other zombies with the ability to move or instantly destroy plants as Sweet Potato can attract them too and cause major disruption in a given lane.

Sweet potato can be used to force a zombie to switch lanes and stopping the push of Arcade Zombies and Troglobites.

Balance changes

Update 5.5.1

• ▲ Sun cost decreased from 300 to 150.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Sweet Potato
Simplified Chinese	甜薯	"Sweet Potato"
French	Patate douce	lit. "Sweet potato"
German	Süßkartoffel	German word for sweet potatoes, portmanteau of süß and kartoffel.
Italian	Patata dolce	lit. "Sweet potato"
Brazilian Portuguese	Batata-doce	lit. "Sweet-potato"
Spanish	Boniato	The Spanish name for sweet potatoes

Trivia

• Jetpack Zombie, Disco Jetpack Zombie, Blastronaut Zombie, Zombie Bull, Rodeo Legend Zombie, Balloon Zombie, Zombie King, Imp Cannon, Fisherman Zombie, Carnie Cannon and Barrel Roller Zombie with his barrel are the only zombies that cannot be attracted by her ability.
• She can make a Shield Zombie switch lanes while his shield is activated, but doing so will cause the Shield Zombie to detach from his shield as the shield cannot switch lanes.
• If two Sweet Potatoes are placed in such a way that their attraction ranges overlap and they both try to attract the same zombie, they will cancel each other out and the zombie will ignore both Sweet Potatoes altogether. It will only be attracted to her once when the other(s) is or are gone.
  • Sweet Potatoes that use their Plant Food ability have higher priority and therefore, the zombies will ignore the previously said statement and be attracted to the one that was fed with Plant Food only if the zombie is in range of her.
  • If a zombie is at the back or at the bottom of her while fed with Plant Food, she will attract the zombie behind and the eating animation will also be backwards, the zombie facing the right side of the lawn.
    • If the zombie is a Gargantuar that has not yet thrown its Imp and then its health goes below half and it is not currently attacking the Sweet Potato, it will throw the Imp backwards to the third column (much like a hypnotized Gargantuar). The Imp will then walk to the right and eat plants like a Prospector Zombie as it was spawned backwards and was never actually affected by the plant, thus preventing it from reaching The Player's House.
• There is a glitch after feeding her with Plant Food while planted on a Lily Pad on water: any zombies that move backwards to eat her will instead eat the Lily Pad, inadvertently destroying the Sweet Potato.
• If the player places her behind an Infi-nut's barrier, and then feeds her Plant Food, she will pull zombies through the barrier.
• Zombies pushed back by Fume-shroom and Hurrikale, or a pull from Chomper's Plant Food ability can get attracted by her.
• If a zombie is attracted by a her onto a slider tile, the slider tile will take no effect while the zombie is on that tile.
• According to the credits, she is voiced by Becky Allen.
• Her costume may be a reference to Sailor Moon.
• She is the only plant in the Chinese version not to have a different Plant Food effect when costumed.
• According to the texture file of the plant, there was planned, but never used, a third degrade of the Sweet Potato, making her lose the Sweet Potato's left side "clothing."
• She, Perfume-shroom, Hot Date and Blooming Heart are only the plants that make hearts in gameplay.
• She, Machine Gun Pomegranate and Strawburst are the only plants to laugh or chuckle when performing their Plant Food abilities.
• She and Sap-fling so far are the only plants to have their sun cost changed throughout the update history of Plants vs. Zombies 2.
  • Coincidentally, both are special-edition plants.

See also

• Garlic
• Hot Date
• Lane Changer plants

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