Weeping Willow

Weeping Willow is the first premium plant unlocked in Grove of Gloom’s level path C (more about level paths here) in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World, after beating Level 3C. Weeping Willow acts similarly to Wall-nut, except that it has lower health, a slightly higher sun cost, and also creates a mist in a 3×3 area around her (similar to Ghost Pepper’s mist when she haunts zombies), which slows down zombies (halving their speed). However, when Weeping Willow is placed a location on the lawn where the player would not be able to see her, Weeping Willow will instantly kill all zombies on the lawn in a 5×5 area which are also unable to be seen by the player, and then leave the lawn (Gargantuars only take 1800 DPS worth of damage and get stunned for 3 seconds). Using Weeping Willow in this way will, however, freeze her seed packet for 20 seconds before it can continue to recharge or be usable.
==Origins==
Weeping Willow is based on the plant with the same name (scientific name Salix babylonica) and the weeping angel, a creature who turns to stone when looked at. If it weren’t looked at, however, it becomes extremely fast and dangerous (Weeping Willow’s attacking ability is based on this).
==Almanac entry==
Weeping Willow
Sun cost: 50
Recharge: Slow
Weeping Willows are defensive and stall zombies, but when they are not in the player’s view, they instantly kill zombies which also can’t be seen.
Special: Kills all zombies hidden from sight in a large area if Weeping Willow is also hidden.
Weakness: Seed packet gets freezed for a while if Weeping Willow is on the offensive.
One morning, Weeping Willow was getting ready to meet up with her friends, but then she accidentally looked at herself in her old mirror she intended to throw out, and she got petrified for 10 hours before her friends had to break into her home to find her. She eventually tossed that old mirror into a volcano.
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food power===
When fed with Plant Food, Weeping Willow creates a fog that covers a 5×5 area (even if there are plants on the lawn like Plantern to light up the fog), and kills off half of the zombies within that area while the other half gets petrified, being turning to stone and staying in place for 10 seconds before being turned back to normal (the health of these stone zombies do not get affected). The fog will disappear to reveal which zombies have been killed. Weeping Willow will also fully regenerate to full health.
===Stat tiers===
Stat 	Tier 1 	Tier 2 	Tier 3 	Tier 4	Tier 5
Toughness	1750 DPS 	
2250 DPS 	
2500 DPS 	
2750 DPS
(Unlock cost: 1 Toughness Token)	
3250 DPS
(Unlock cost: 2 Toughness Tokens)
Sun cost 	150 sun 	100 sun 	75 sun 	
50 sun
(Unlock cost: 1 Sun cost Token)	
N/A
Recharge 	45 seconds (freeze time: 30 seconds)	35 seconds (freeze time: 30 seconds)	30 seconds (freeze time: 30 seconds)	
25 seconds (freeze time: 25 seconds)
(Unlock cost: 1 Recharge Token)	
15 seconds (freeze time: 20 seconds)
(Unlock cost: 2 Recharge Tokens)
More about the upgrading system here.
==Strategies==
Weeping Willow is good in a sense that you can use two different abilities in one single plant. Weeping Willow in defensive form is better than Wall-nut in terms of Weeping Willow being able to slow zombies down in a 3×3 area, giving more time for plants to take down the zombies. Plus, despite Weeping Willow’s toughness being lower than a Wall-nut’s, because of her slowing ability, it would take more than twice as much time for a zombie to eat through Weeping Willow than Wall-nut. The only downfall of using Weeping Willow to defend, however, is that it has a slower recharge time and slightly higher sun cost than a Wall-nut. Weeping Willow when used to attack zombies is useful in a sense that if the player is to worry about whether there might be any incoming zombies hiding in any obscured areas, Weeping Willow can be used to clear them all out. To make use of Weeping Willow in an efficient manner, however, the player could purposely try to find out how many hiding zombies there are first (e.g. in the dark in the Grove of Gloom, place Planterns to look through the dark, then dig them up to utilize Weeping Willow, but this, however, can be a slightly tedious process), or try to stall as many zombies as possible to stay hidden, then use Weeping Willow for a cheap amount of 75 sun to instantly clear a whole lot of zombies in a wider area (in this case, the area refers to the obscured part of the lawn). Keep in mind, however, that playing Weeping Willow in this way will cause their seed packet to freeze, which renders this plant more of a cheap instant-kill but with a much longer recharge time.
==Easter Eggs==
If the player plays the game on October 31st, Weeping Willow will have a third degrade, which reveals an empty eye socket with a glowing eye in it.
==Gallery==
Weeping Willow HD.png|Weeping Willow (HD)
Weeping Willow's costume.png|Costume
Weeping Willow's 1st degrade.png|1st degrade
Weeping Willow's 2nd degrade.png|2nd degrade
Weeping Willow's 3rd degrade.png|3rd degrade (only can be seen on October 31st)
Weeping Willow seed packet.png|Seed packet
Slowing down zombies.png|Weeping Willow's mist slowing down zombies
==Trivia==
* Weeping Willow doesn't have an idling animation, due to her being petrified when the player views her.
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