Wild Berry is a premium rare plant card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the 
Kabloom class. It costs 2
to play and has 4
/1
.
It has the 
Anti-Hero 2 trait and its ability moves it onto another random lane when it is played. Its closest zombie counterpart is Space Pirate.
Origins
It is based on a raspberry, the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus Rubus of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus Idaeobatus; the name also applies to these plants themselves.
Its name is based on "wild berry," a berry found in the wild, and the flavor wild berry, which tastes like various types of berries. It may also be a combination of "wild," meaning untamed and unpredictable like its ability to move to random lanes, and "berry," the real-life plant it is based on.
Its description makes a reference to its ability.
Statistics
- Class: Kabloom
- Tribe: Berry Plant
- Traits: None
- Ability: When played: This moves to a random lane.
- Set - Rarity: Premium - Rare
Card description
What one word best describes Wild Berry? "Unpredictable."
Update history
Update 1.16.10
- Rarity change: Uncommon → Rare
Update 1.60.79
- Trait added: Anti-Hero 2
Strategies
With
Wild Berry is a wonderful aggro card, due to its ability to hit face for a massive 6 damage, having a 50% strength advantage over Split Pea. The random moving is barely a downside, as a savvy player will usually be able to manipulate it into entering the right lane; however, if there are multiple zombies in open lanes, it becomes impossible to get Wild Berry to hit face. It should also be noted that its movement effect triggers before Black Hole and Hunt cards, so they will still counter Wild Berry.
Wild Berry's weakness; is that it is very frail, and any damage or any health-lowering effect will easily destroy it. Aggro can often get around this; while Bungee Plumber and especially Nibble get a lot of value off of destroying a 2 cost card like Wild Berry, they can only run 4 copies of these cards, while you are running a lot more than 4 high-strength, low-health threats, such as Blooming Heart, Split Pea, Rotobaga, etc. It is not worth holding Wild Berry if you see them pass with 1
left over, as aggro really hates going to the later turns, and if you don't force out their removal they can hold it and win long-term.
The bigger problem for Wild Berry is splash, i.e. effects that damage multiple plants, as this completely defeats the purpose of running many low-health cards to bait out single-target removal. However, Barrel of Deadbeards is the only relevant splash card found in competitive decks.
In terms of synergies with Wild Berry, the obvious one is Photosynthesizer to increase its health. However, this has two issues; firstly, many zombie cards like Electrobolt and Cyborg Zombie can easily counter a 3 health Wild Berry and leave you with 1 less sun and a mediocre conjure; secondly, Spudow aggro is usually outclassed by control. The real winner for Wild Berry aggro is Captain Combustible, as Gatling Pea provides the finisher Kabloom desperately needs, and his superpowers work extremely well with its gameplan. Embiggen works similarly to Photosynthesizer in putting Wild Berry above cards like Bungee Plumber, Nibble, and Barrel of Deadbeards, with the added damage helping to reduce the opponent's life to 0 as quickly as possible. However, the real star of the show is Time to Shine, which does an immediate 6 damage if they leave the Wild Berry's lane open, or 10 damage if you also happen to have Blazing Bark.
It can be a good play to protect Wild Berry from a zombie with a Team-Up card if you happen to have one, but this scenario is not particularly concerning; if it is alive in an open lane the turn after you played it, that implies that it hit face, fulfilling its purpose, and if it can then trade with a zombie afterwards, it has already gotten an incredibly amount of value.
Overall, Wild Berry is highly recommended for Kabloom aggro decks, in particular with Captain Combustible, whose aggro decks are quite solid in the current metagame.
Against
Wild Berry threatens to immediately deplete almost a third of your health; therefore, taking it out immediately with a Trick is highly recommended. Bungee Plumber, Nibble, and Extinction Event can all take it out easily, and any deck that can should be running many copies of these cards. If you have these cards in your hand, you should always save brains for them on turn 2 against a Kabloom hero, unless you are very confident you can outpace them even if they get a Wild Berry to hit you.
Rustbolt and Neptuna will usually have to rely on playing Black Hole on turn 1 to prevent Wild Berry from hitting face. Rustbolt can often get away with running Beam Me Up, which can counter it as well, but Neptuna's only other option is to play Sumo Wrestler in an open lane to ensure that Wild Berry will get pulled into its lane if they play it, though if they anticipate this and get Wild Berry into the Sumo Wrestler's lane (or play a different plant like Split Pea in said lane), it can get very bad very quickly. Huge-Gigantacus and Super Brainz usually can't afford to run Beam Me Up, however, so they have to rely on Teleporting in a 1 cost card like Imposter, or try to come back after taking the damage.
Gallery
Plants vs. Zombies Wiki has a gallery for Wild Berry.
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In other languages
Please note that only official translations are used.
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Name |
Description
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 English
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Wild Berry
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 Simplified Chinese
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野草莓
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meaning "Fragaria vesca" (wild strawberry)
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 Traditional Chinese
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野生莓果
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lit. "Wild Berry"
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 French
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Baie sauvage
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"Wild berry"
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 German
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Wildbeere
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"Wildberry"
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 Italian
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Bacca selvatica
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"Wild berry"
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 Japanese
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ワイルドベリー
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English name transliterated into Japanese
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 Korean
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야생 베리
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"Wild Berry", "Berry" is transliterated
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 Brazilian Portuguese
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Frutinhinsana
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 Russian
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Дикая ягода
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"Wild Strawberry"
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 Spanish
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Baya silvestre
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"Wild berry"
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Trivia
- Prior to update 1.2.11, there was a glitch that occurred when Seedling transformed into Wild Berry that caused it not to switch lanes, resulting in the next turn never coming. This forced the player to concede if they wanted to end the glitch.
- Chompzilla can use this plant in some AI missions, despite her not leading the Kabloom class.
- If a zombie with the Hunt trait is on the field and then Wild Berry is played, that zombie will move to the lane Wild Berry was originally on, not the lane Wild Berry moves to.
- Wild Berry is the only Anti-Hero plant card to not have "Poison" in its name.
- It is therefore also the only other Anti-Hero plant not mentioned in Poison Oak's flavor text.
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