Bad Apple

Bad Apple is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It is a seasonal plant, tied to Bad Apple's Naughty Season in . It is a temporary plant that does not stick around forever, and is capable of disrupting the zombie invasion considerably. While Bad Apple is on the lawn, all incoming zombies appear with 35% less health than they usually would have. For example, Basic Zombies which normally have 190 health would instead appear with health. This applies to everything, including bigger units like Gargantuars and Mecha-Football Zombies.
When powered, all zombies will additionally have their damage reduced as they get closer to your house - each tile traveled reduces their damage by 8%, for a maximum of a 72% reduction when they're on the final tile before causing you harm. In addition, they will have a 5% chance per tile to be dragged down into the dirt, for a maximum of a 45% chance when they reach the final tile. This chance to drag zombies into the dirt only triggers once per zombie. Powered Bad Apple also has an additional 40% chance to immediately drag a zombie down into the dirt every 10 seconds, and only 2 attempts are made per zombie.
Bad Apple disappears and its effects are dispelled after 21 seconds.
==Origins==
	Bad Apple is based on an apple, which is is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree. Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. Bad Apple trees do not exist and therefore cannot be cultivated anywhere.
== Almanac Entry ==
== Upgrades ==
=== Plant Food Effect ===
Bad Apple is an instant-use plant and does not have a Plant Food effect.
=== Conceal-mint Effect ===
When boosted with , Bad Apple's health reduction is increased by 50%, his strength sap per tile is increased by 100%, and his wormhole chance per tile is increased by 60% for the duration of the mint.
==Upgrade Levels==
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge(Very Slow)	Health Reduction	Instant Wormhole Chance	Instant Wormhole Cooldown	Lifetime	Strength Sap per Tile	Wormhole Chance per Tile	
1 	0 	0 	200 	50 sec 	35% 	40% 	10 sec 	21 sec 	8% 	5% 	
2 	10 	1,000 	175 	50 sec 	40% 	50% 	9 sec 	22 sec 	9% 	6% 	
3 	75 	5,000 	175 	50 sec 	45% 	60% 	8.5 sec 	23 sec 	10% 	7% 	
4 	200 	10,000	150 	50 sec 	50% 	65% 	8 sec 	24 sec 	11% 	8% 	
5 	400 	20,000	125 	40 sec 	55% 	70% 	7.5 sec 	25 sec 	12% 	9% 	
6 	750 	30,000	125 	40 sec 	60% 	75% 	7 sec 	27 sec 	14% 	11% 	
7 	1,000 	40,000	125 	40 sec 	65% 	80% 	6.5 sec 	29 sec 	16% 	13% 	
8 	1,250 	50,000	100 	40 sec 	70% 	85% 	6 sec 	31 sec 	18% 	15% 	
9 	1,500 	60,000	100 	40 sec 	75% 	90% 	5.5 sec 	34 sec 	21% 	18% 	
10 	2,000 	75,000	75 	30 sec 	80% 	95% 	5 sec 	37 sec 	24% 	21% 	
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===Mastery upgrades===
* Chance to Boost 
*Damage Pierce
==History==
===August 26th, 2022===
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==Strategies==
Bad Apple can be used to generally weaken the zombie horde. The 35% Toughness reduction he inflicts upon the zombies causes them to go down a lot quicker than they normally would, reducing the formidable Toughness of a from 3600 damage all the way down to a measly ! The Toughness reduction is more impactful on tougher zombies like that than it is on swarmier, scrawnier zombies. Those swarmier, scrawnier zombies will be pleading for mercy when Bad Apple unleashes his shadowy mischief all over them. Bad Apple is a powerful support plant that, if used with a solid defense, can help guide you to victory.
Bad Apple can unreliably destroy zombies instantly with dark wormholes that function much the same as or . Just like those plants, it will do major damage instead to things that can't be dragged down such as mechs or . Bad Apple usually clears a number of zombies off the board, and can clear even more zombies if you power him up with a or a , or something of that description.
==Demonstration==
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==Costumes==
== Gallery ==
BadAppleNew.png|Bad Apple HD
BadAppleNewCostume1.png|Bad Apple's costume
BadAppleNewPowered.png|Powered Bad Apple HD
BadAppleNewPoweredCostume1.png|Powered Bad Apple's costume
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