Exploding Fruitcake (Fahoodz)

Exploding Fruitcake is a plant in PvZ2 and PVZ:TMT! He explodes in a 3x3 area like Cherry Bomb, but instead of being an instant and single-use, it will deal less damage but stays on the field! In PvZ2 he is available for a limited time in the Birthdayz Bash event via seed packets, and in TMT he is unlocked for free in 8-8.
==Overview==
Exploding Fruitcake is similar to the Doom Shroom in the Garden Warfare series, where he will explode dealing significant damage in an area around him, but will need to rest for a bit. In EF's case, he will deal 750 damage in a 3x3 area around him with a 10 second shot cooldown. (6 seconds to rest, 4 seconds to ready up attack) Keep in mind he also knocks zombies 2.25 tiles back to help himself to ready up his next attack. 
His Plant food for PvZ2 is to explode in a 5x5 area and dealing significantly more damage. Note that he will have to cooldown after.
His Zen Garden Boost for TMT will let him deal 10 dps area damage to zombies who are eating EF (similar to Torchwood's ability in PvZ2)
== Origins ==
Exploding Fruitcake, if it isn't obvious, is a plant version of the Exploding Fruitcake in PvZ Heroes.
Although this fruitcake is on the plants side, rather than the zombies.
==Almanac Entry==
== Strategy ==
Explosive Fruitcake is generally a Phat Beet and Cherry Bomb mixed into one, dealing high damage to zombies around it. Since its very similar to Phat Beet, the Gloomwalk strategy also applies to EF, planting EF in r2 and r4 far on the field, then Garlic in front of both of them. It also knockbacks zombies which is very helpful for him to stall a couple seconds for him to ready up his next attack and push back threats in adjacent lanes like Explorers, Gargantuars, etc. since it can disrupt their attack for a bit or just bring them further from the plant in front of the zombie. His knockbacks can also reset a Healer Zombies healing, Garg smash, and push back zombies to the water. (if you're using EF in Pirate Seas) 
As said already, EF greatly synergizes with Garlic due to being very similar to Phat Beet and Gloom-shroom. Like those plants, if you don't have Garlic unlocked yet, try to use Reinforce-mint plants to protect EF since it will constantly have to cooldown. Plants like Pumpkin for being able to protect EF without placing a plant a tile in front, Tall-nut for having much more durability and blocks flying zombies, lastly Primal wall-nut is great against zombies like All-star or many Gargs. But unlike Phat Beet, Winter-mint family plants are not very effective with EF since he's an Bombard-mint plant meaning that he will unfreeze any frozen/chilled zombies after explosion, nonetheless they're still helpful while EF is still on cooldown. 
EF has several weaknesses despite the high damage and synergies, the first one being Hunter Zombie/frost wind since if he throws snowballs at EF, it will reset his attack cooldown meaning if there's no plant infront of him, Hunter will constantly disrupt EF attack till he's frozen. Imp Dragon Zombie is immune to EF's damage due to him being an explosive plant, but his knockback still works. It's the other way around for Jurassic Bully/Jurassic Rockpuncher, they're immune to knockback but not EF's damage.
== Trivia ==
* It's Almanac description is a reference to its PVZH's flavored text, both talking about the fact that fruitcakes don't have much actual fruits in it
* This is my entry for the 13th anniversary Birthdayz pvzcc contest!
* EF's plant food shout is him saying "Happy Birthday" with a gift that will blow your mind ;)
* Ef's sounds are inspired by Nezuko's "hmph!" voice (her voice when she has her bamboo on her mouth, muffled basically)
== Gallery ==
NOTE: These will be updated soon! It's a bit rushed since I was busy during the making of this plant :/
File:Explodingfruitcake hd.png|Exploding Fruitcake HD
File:Explodingfruitcake atk1.png|EF Attack ready 1
File:Explodingfruitcake atk2.png|EF Attack ready 2
File:Explodingfruitcake atk3.png|EF Attack ready 3
File:Explodingfruitcake atk4.png|EF Attack ready 4 (about to explode!!)
File:Ef slepp.png|EF shot cooldown (slepp <3)
File:Efboom.png|EF Attack/projectile, Splat!!
File:Efseedpacket.png|EF seed packet
File:EF Ad.png|EF's advertisement (might update soon)
== Audio ==
Sound	Description
 	Exploding Fruitcake lighting a candle.
 	Exploding Fruitcake lighting the second candle.
 	Exploding Fruitcake lighting his third candle.
 	Exploding Fruitcake is about to explode!!
 	Exploding Fruitcake splat shout 1.
 	Exploding Fruitcake splat shout 2.
 	Exploding Fruitcake splat shout 3.
 	Exploding Fruitcake Splat!
 	Exploding Fruitcake Sleeping.
 	Exploding Fruitcake Waking Up
 	Exploding Fruitcake Plant food shout
 	Exploding Fruitcake Plant food Kasplat!
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