Fir Coat

Fir Coat is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2, first introduced in the 10.2.1 update along with Bun Chi for the Fir Coat's Blizzardous Arena Season. It is capable of being planted on top of plants, protecting them from freezing. It charges for 5 seconds before shooting a burst of 10 fir needles, each of which deal 20 damage. Each 3rd burst it shoots a snowstorm that chills and pushes zombies back and lasts for 3 seconds, similar to the tornadoes from Inferno. Fir Coat instantly recharges the snowstorm attack when affected by chilling winds or snowballs. Fir Coat is unlocked by using 250 Fir Coat Seed Packets.
Alternatively, it was available for 100 gems from 25th December, 2022 to 1st January, 2023 and tied to the release of Arctic Isles Part 2. Similarly, it is available for 275 gems from 20th December to 1st of January along with 100 Fir Coat Seed Packets as part of "Fir Coat Winter Bundle!". 
==Origins==
Fir Coat is based on fir, a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae. Fir Coat's name is a portmanteau of fir, and fur coat, clothing made from the preserved skins of animals.
Its relation to Feastivus references Christmas trees, festively decorated trees that are usually evergreen conifers, such as a fir, spruce, pine or an artificial tree of similar appearance, as well as fur coats being commonly used during winter.
==Almanac entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food effect===
When given Plant Food, Fir Coat will immediately release a big snowstorm that deals 200 damage per second and sucks in zombies from nearby lanes. This snowstorm travels to the end of the lane for 4 seconds. Any plant on Fir Coat will also activate its own Plant Food effect.
===Winter-mint effect===
When boosted by Winter-mint, Fir Coat gets an additional 20 damage per shot and recharges its attack quicker. Its snowstorms will get an additional 50 DPS.
===Level upgrades===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge(Sluggish)	Toughness(Typical)	Damage(Normal) 	Damage(Normal)	Damage(Normal)	SnowstormRange(intiles)
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge(Sluggish)	Toughness(Typical)	Normal attack (Per projectile)	Snowstorm* 	Plant Food* 	SnowstormRange(intiles)
1 	0 	0 	225 	20 seconds 	300 dps 	20 dps 	50 dps 	200 dps 	3
2 	50 	0 	225 	19 seconds 	300 dps 	25 dps 	60 dps 	225 dps 	3
3 	100 	0 	200 	19 seconds 	320 dps 	30 dps 	75 dps 	250 dps 	4
4 	150 	0 	200 	18 seconds 	350 dps 	35 dps 	80 dps 	275 dps 	4
5 	150 	0 	200 	17 seconds 	390 dps 	35 dps 	100 dps 	275 dps 	5
6 	400 	0 	175 	17 seconds 	450 dps 	40 dps 	110 dps 	300 dps 	5
7 	500 	0 	175 	14 seconds 	480 dps 	40 dps 	110 dps 	300 dps 	5
8 	600 	0 	175 	11 seconds 	510 dps 	40 dps 	110 dps 	300 dps 	5
9 	800 	0 	150 	11 seconds 	540 dps 	45 dps 	110 dps 	325 dps 	5
10 	1,000 	0 	150 	10 seconds 	550 dps 	50 dps 	125 dps 	325 dps 	5
*Per second.
===Mastery upgrades===
*Chance to Boost
*Damage Pierce
===Level upgrade===
==Strategies==
Like all chilling plants, Fir Coat's snowstorm attack is really ineffective with fire plants, as they remove the chilling effect from zombies.
Fir Coat is useful for taking out and stalling protected zombies such as Bucketheads due to Fir Coat's large damage and stalling ability, however it struggles to destroy hordes of conehead zombies by itself.
Fir Coat is useful for taking out zombies that release critters such as Chicken Wrangler Zombies and Weasel Hoarders due to Fir Coat's large amount of projectiles.
While Fir Coat has a large damage output and a stalling ability, it should be used as a support plant as it can be planted on other plants and has a large cooldown (Sluggish).
Fir Coat is incredibly useful in Frostbite Caves and its endless zone. Its ability to protect plants from freezing and to charge using winds and snowballs to release more snowstorms can help you a lot. 
A really good plant to use with Fir Coat is Laser Bean due to its infinite piercing ability and high damage. Fir Coat will also be able to stall zombies using its snowstorms, dealing even more damage to the zombies.
Stalling plants such as Stallia and Draftodil are useful with Fir Coat, due to the fact that zombies become incredibly slow when affected by all 3 plants.
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*Marthoon got the idea for this plant after reading Peashooter's almanac entry.
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