Winter Squash

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For more uses, see Squash (disambiguation).

Winter Squash is a premium super-rare plant card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the PvZH Smarty Icon.pngSmarty class. It costs 4SunPvZH.png to play and has 2StrengthPvZH.png/6HeartPvZH.png.

It does not have any traits, and its ability instantly destroys all zombies, including those in gravestones, that receive the PvZH Frozen Icon.pngFreeze effect. This ability persists until all Winter Squashes are removed from the field.

Origins

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It is based on the plant in real life with the same name.

Its appearance is based on the plant in Plants vs. Zombies with a similar appearance, and also a pun on "winter," referring to its ice blue color, icicles, earmuffs, and shivering motions, which are commonly associated with winter.

Statistics

  • Class: Smarty
  • Tribe: Squash Plant
  • Traits: None
  • Ability: When a Zombie or Gravestone becomes frozen, destroy it.
  • Set - Rarity: Premium - Super-Rare

Card description

"My complexion is more of a summer."

Update history

Update 1.2.11

Update 1.4.14

  • Ability animation change: Winter Squash now blows ice shards at the frozen zombie, compared to simply breathing at it before.

Update 1.16.10

  • Rarity change: Rare → Super-Rare
  • Ability change: Winter Squash can now benefit from Cool Bean, instantly destroying all gravestones that are frozen.

Update 1.22.12

  • Ability wording change: Winter Squash's ability now mentions that it also destroys frozen gravestones.

Strategies

With

Winter Squash is a very useful plant, most of it due to its useful ability. It is one of the key plants in a PvZH Frozen Icon.pngFreeze deck, as it instantly destroys any zombie regardless of stats, as long as it gets frozen. This allows you to easily deal with any threat, as even one Iceberg Lettuce spells doom to a zombie, even those as powerful as Zombot 1000 or Octo Zombie. Winter Melon is another example of such a card, as Winter Melon's Splash Damage trait allows it to freeze up to 3 zombies per attack, instantly destroying all of them.

Cool Bean can benefit this plant if you are against heroes that rely on gravestones as Cool Bean can freeze all gravestones and in turn, Winter Squash can destroy them. And finally, Jolly Holly can destroy zombies next door while dealing a lot of damage in the way. However, Rolling Stone can destroy it easily. So be careful playing this plant as it is risky to do that.

Every Smarty Hero can use Winter Squash effectively:

  • Citron and Beta-Carrotina can protect Winter Squash from PvZH Deadly Icon.pngDeadly zombies thanks to their arsenal of Team-up  plants. They can also boost Winter Squash's health to make it last longer with cards like Photosynthesizer and Steel Magnolia. They can also make it inmune from any attacks with Force Field, with Citron having access to Root Wall and Peel Shield.
  • Nightcap can boost its strength with Storm Front, such as it becomes immune to most hard removals. He can also use damaging tricks like Berry Blast to prevent powerful zombies from destroying it, or to stall for the first turns until Winter Squash is playable. He can also play it on Pair Pearadise or use Imitater just in case it gets destroyed, although there are much better plants to use with these cards.
  • Green Shadow can use anti-trick cards like Umbrella Leaf and Black-Eyed Pea to make her opponent think twice before using tricks on Winter Squash or outright prevent them from playing them. She can also move zombies out of the way, and boost Winter Squash if a zombie may confront it. Her card draw allows her to get freezing cards in her deck quickly, and one of her Superpowers, Big Chill, works well as it destroys a targeted zombie while getting another card back.
  • Rose can heal Winter Squash with cards like Aloesaurus if it is low on health, she can also play it earlier with cards like Solar Winds and Twin Sunflower. She can use stat-degrading cards or hard removals to support Winter Squash for zombies that it can't destroy. And just like Green Shadow, Rose also gets to use Big Chill as one of her Superpowers.

Any Smarty Hero can play it on the aquatic lane with Lily Pad to provide extra protection, although unless supported by other cards, many instant kills aren't avoided with this strategy.

Speaking of insta-kills, tricks such as Rolling Stone and Knockout are very likely to be used against this plant due to its low strength and it being an important plant in a PvZH Frozen Icon.pngFreeze deck, however, the above strategies can prevent this.

Even if you only consider its stats, it is still a decent plant. While its strength is poor, it has 6 health, which lets it survive a hit or two from most zombies. However, without any PvZH Frozen Icon.pngFreezing cards, it is much less useful, so remember to include them in your deck if you decide to use this. 

Against

Combined with its high health and its ability, Winter Squash is annoying and dangerous at the same time. It can wreak a lot of havoc upon your zombies, especially if your opponent is running a PvZH Frozen Icon.pngFreeze deck. However, it is not invincible and has quite a lot of counters.

Playing PvZH Deadly Icon.pngDeadly zombies is one of them, as they instantly destroy Winter Squash in one attack. Since it has 2 strength, Rolling Stone, Weed Spray, and Celestial Custodian (when played in an environment) are good choices against it, and as a last resort, you can play Locust Swarm to instantly destroy it.

Be careful playing Mixed-Up Gravedigger while this is on the field, as if your opponent plays a Cool Bean, all your zombies will be destroyed.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language Name Description
United States of America English Winter Squash
China Simplified Chinese 冬窝瓜
Traditional Chinese 冬南瓜 南瓜 more often means pumpkin.

Trivia

  • It is the only instant-kill card that cannot instantly destroy fighters by itself.
  • It is one of two plants to have the word "winter" in its name, the other being Winter Melon.
    • Unlike Winter Melon, however, Winter Squash does not freeze zombies, but destroys frozen ones instead.
  • It is one of the eight plant cards with the ability to instantly destroy zombies that is not in the PvZH Solar Icon.pngSolar class, the others being Witch Hazel, Shrinking Violet, Grave Buster, Shamrocket, Doom-Shroom, Blockbuster, and Garlic.
  • Unlike Squash, Winter Squash doesn't squash zombies, but attacks like all other plant fighters do.
    • It is also in the Smarty class instead of Solar.
      • However, like Squash, Winter Squash's ability instantly destroys a zombie.
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Uncommon
Premium Potato Mine · Cactus · Gardening Gloves · Sea-Shroom · Water Chestnut · Pea-Nut · Steel Magnolia
Galactic Photosynthesizer · Spikeweed Sector · Plantern
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Triassic Marine Bean · Primal Wall-Nut
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Token Cards Hothead
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Uncommon
Premium Poison Mushroom · Berry Angry · Mushroom Ringleader · Poison Ivy · Pair of Pears · Bluesberry · Sizzle
Galactic Banana Bomb · Mushroom Grotto · Invasive Species
Colossal Puff-Shroom
Triassic Veloci-Radish Hatchling · Hot Lava
Rare
Premium Shroom for Two · Wild Berry · Petal-Morphosis · Sour Grapes · Poison Oak
Galactic Cosmic Mushroom · Lava Guava
Colossal Cro-Magnolia
Triassic Shelf Mushroom
Super-Rare
Premium Punish-Shroom · Sergeant Strongberry · Cherry Bomb · Grapes of Wrath
Galactic Astro-Shroom · Banana Launcher · Pair Pearadise
Colossal Fireweed · Imitater
Triassic Strawberrian
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Token Cards Hothead
Superpowers Mush-Boom · Blazing Bark · Tater Toss · Sunburn · Meteor Strike · More Spore · Storm Front
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Common Peashooter · Torchwood · Cabbage-Pult · Fertilize · Flourish · Grow-Shroom · Repeater
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Premium Bonk Choy · Pea Pod · Sweet Potato · Fire Peashooter · Skyshooter
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Super-Rare
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Colossal Split Pea · Grape Power
Triassic Savage Spinach
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Galactic Captain Cucumber · Onion Rings
Colossal Gatling Pea
Triassic Apotatosaurus
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Superpowers Devour · Power Pummel · Precision Blast · Blazing Bark · Embiggen · Holo-Flora · Time to Shine
PvZH Smarty Icon.png Smarty
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Common Snowdrop · Weenie Beanie · Snow Pea · Cattail · Smoosh-Shroom · Threepeater
Uncommon
Premium Iceberg Lettuce · Shellery · Rescue Radish · Spring Bean · Vanilla · Carrotillery
Galactic Mars Flytrap · Planet of the Grapes · Leaf Blower
Colossal Grave Mistake · Pear Pal
Triassic Primal Peashooter
Rare
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Galactic Cosmic Bean · Melon-Pult
Colossal Tricorn
Triassic Lily Pad
Super-Rare
Premium Sow Magic Beans · Bean Counter · Snapdragon · Winter Squash
Galactic Laser Cattail · Bog of Enlightenment · Cool Bean
Colossal Jelly Bean
Triassic Rotobaga · Shrinking Violet
Legendary
Premium Brainana · Winter Melon · The Great Zucchini
Galactic Shooting Starfruit · Dark Matter Dragonfruit
Colossal Lima-Pleurodon
Triassic Bird of Paradise
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Token Cards Magic Beanstalk · Sappy Place
Superpowers Peel Shield · Mush-Boom · Precision Blast · Goatify · Genetic Amplification · Big Chill · Transmogrify · Whirlwind · Lieutenant Carrotron · Lightspeed Seed
PvZH Solar Icon.png Solar
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Common Bellflower · Sunflower · Mixed Nuts · Squash · Smashing Pumpkin
Uncommon
Premium Morning Glory · Fume-Shroom · Pepper M.D. · Water Balloons · Venus Flytrap · Bloomerang · Metal Petal Sunflower
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Rare
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Super-Rare
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Colossal Cob Cannon
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