Sombrella Leaf

Sombrella Leaf is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Sombrella Leaf requires 250 seed packets to unlock for free.
When planted, Sombrella Leaf creates a shadow dome surrounding her in 3x3 area. Any plant inside the shadow dome will be hidden, thus cannot be attacked as zombies will just walk over without eating them, however Sombrella Leaf herself is vulnerable to being attacked and cannot hide other Sombrella Leaves from being attacked. The shadow dome is also capable of powering shadow plants, similar to Moonflower.
Sombrella Leaf's shadow dome also has a secondary functionality, being able to slow down all zombies inside the dome as well as preventing them from activating abilities unless said zombies' abilities are passive (i.e. Explorer Zombie, Parasol Zombie, Imp Dragon Zombie, etc...) Additonally, Sombrella Leaf can deflect certain attacks in 3x3 area, such as missiles/fireballs shot by Zombots, Octo Zombie's octopi, ZCorp HelpDesk's laptop and Zcorpion Zombie's vases,
== Origins ==
Sombrella Leaf gets her name and appearance from the Umbrella Leaf from original Plants vs. Zombies while the flower on the top of her leaves is taken from her Plants vs. Zombies Heroes incarnation.
Sombrella Leaf's name is portmanteau of "sombra", which is the Spanish word of "shadow" or "shade", referring to her shadowy abilities and appearance and "Umbrella Leaf", the plant she is based on.
== Almanac Entry ==
==Upgrades==
=== Plant Food effect ===
When fed Plant Food, Sombrella Leaf will flash, giving the screen lavender filter, hiding all plants except Sombrella Leaves from being attacked as well as slowing down and preventing zombies from activating their abilities for 10 seconds. Sombrella Leaf can only be activated her Plant Food ability one at a time.
=== Conceal-mint effect ===
When boosted by Conceal-mint, Sombrella Leaf can absorb an additional 850 DPS.
==Strategies==
Sombrella Leaf has many different functions to use: She can be used as a supporting plants to hide all plants in 3x3 area, rendering them invulnerable to all attacks, making it useful to plant powerful or expensive plants such as Winter Melon, Coconut Cannon, Banana Launcher, etc... near her. She can also be used as a substitute for Moonflowers if you prefer other sun-producing plants (i.e. Primal Sunflower, Twin Sunflower, Sun-shroom, etc...) or levels (such as Last Stand) where sun producing plants are not allowed to power up shadow plants. Her major weaknesses are her fragile HP, which has the same HP as a Puff-shroom, making her to get eaten quickly if a zombie manages to reach her and Sombrella Leaves cannot protect each other so defensive plants are needed to protect Sombrella Leaves (though they should be planted outside of shadow domes since they can render the defensive plants useless against zombies). Ranged zombies (i.e. Turquoise Skull Zombie, Gargantuar Prime, Hair Metal Gargantuar, etc...) pose a major threat to her.
Sombrella Leaf's secondary function can be used to debuff zombies, slowing down all zombies near her as well as preventing them from activating abilities, such as Tomb Raiser Zombie, Octo Zombie, Wizard Zombie, etc... though it should be noted that it is useless against zombies with passive abilities like Explorer Zombie as mentioned above. Again defensive plants should be needed to protect her, such as Pumpkin (can be planted on Sombrella Leaf without getting hidden), if the player doesn't own Pumpkin, then Infi-nut's Plant Food ability (must be planted on the same column as her) and Garlic should help.
She can also come handy in certain levels with Octo Zombies, Zcorpion Zombies, ZCorp HelpDesk and some Zomboss battles, especially the former two and the latter because she can deflect their attacks and nullifying them in the process.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
* This is the creator (The Maverick Hunter/Spark)'s first creation after two years, with the last creation I have created dated back in July 2020 and I have been absent throughout 2021.
*Sombrella Leaf doesn't have an unpowered form in-game, explained in Almanac entry.
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