Vampaya

Vampaya was a plant that was SUPPOSED to appear in , but was scrapped for unknown reasons.
It will immediately fall asleep when first planted, and will remain in this state for 10 seconds. After said amount of time has passed, Vampaya wakes up and flies towards a random zombie before perching on top of their head to bite it. It will bite zombies for three seconds, draining 30 health per second, before it flies off and returns to its starting tile, where it will sleep for 20 seconds. The 20 second sleeping period is subsequent for every time Vampaya wakes up to attack.
== Origin==
Vampaya is based on Carica papaya, better known as the papaya, papaw, or pawpaw, a flesh-bearing fruit originating from the tropics of America, and a vampire, a creature with fanged teeth, pale skin, and with a weakness for sunlight and garlic from Transylvanian times. Vampires suck the blood from their victims with a bite to the neck and can turn into a bat, referencing Vampayas ability to bite zombies and steal their life by turning into a bat. His name is a combination of "vampire" and "papaya". The blood-sucking bit is bowdlerized to a grape juice obsession in Vampaya's case, most likely to attain the family-friendly of PvZ2. Not that it matters that much, considering Vampaya no longer exists.
His plant food effect is a reference to Little Red Riding Hood.
==Almanac entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food effect===
What Large Fangs You Have - Vampaya wakes up and sinks its fangs into the ground, targeting two 3x3 areas and draining the health from zombies there. Zombies will be temporarily stopped while Vampaya's fangs are sticking out of the ground.
===Ail-mint effect ===
When boosted by Ail-mint, Vampaya's resting time is reduced by 5 seconds.
==Strategies ==
Vampaya appears on the surface to be a wall that costs too much to do so little, with long waiting times in between very small bursts of healing from attaching to a completely random target. Coupled with its extremely small health pool for a wall plant, this may make Vampaya appear to be completely and utterly unreliable. This is because it is. Or at least, it was, before it was completely and utterly pulverized from existence for being worthless.
Every job that Vampaya potentially could take for a defense, every niche it could possibly fill, is completely and utterly dominated by another plant. As a random attacker, it cannot even defeat a single Basic Zombie if it even decides to attack one, while its competition here can defeat quite literally any zombie they choose to target, with occasional added benefits. As a wall, it has the lowest health of its class, even managing to surpass a leafless Chard Guard and the notoriously weak Endurian. Even a Vamporcini, an already bad plant, who saps health from zero other zombies, has more health than this plant at its best. Even its healing is completely and utterly worthless; bundle any aforementioned wall with an Aloe, and you will have more consistent and more useful healing than the pitiful 90 that Vampaya will grant itself every 20 seconds. However, what really kills its use case is its horrendous price; 300 sun is more than EVERY plant mentioned thus far individually, and even most, if not all combinations of wall plants with an Aloe! Somehow this plant gets to be more expensive than Caulipower, and not even manage to do more than deal less damage than a light gust of wind to the zombies.
The only somewhat interesting part of Vampaya is its Plant Food effect, which targets two 3x3 areas of zombies and stuns them briefly as it leeches off them. The only decent part of this plant, this effect still somehow manages to be outclassed. While the effect will most likely heal Vampaya to full (mostly because it has very little health to heal off in the first place), this is only because of its large targeting areas. Using Plant Food on any other wall will heal that plant to full instantly and also achieve some other ultierior effect. Vampaya does not have this. Vampaya has nothing except alcohol to turn to. Even the stun is unsubstantial; it pales in comparison to the full-screen freeze and slows of Iceberg Lettuce and Stallia. Though decent, the effect is outclassed and overall a waste of a valuable resource. It will not save you. It will not help you. It will fail you, like you failed yourself by picking Vampaya. Ouch.
If you unlocked Vampaya through wasting your time acquiring seed packets or, heaven forbid, spending money, you should save yourself more embarrassment in your future endeavors by keeping it in your seed select and never, ever choosing it, perhaps keeping it as some sort of trophy or interesting talking point to bring up with guests at dinner. It is almost certain that it will not help you as much as you can help it by setting it free from the responsibilities of its seed packet and letting it get an office job or fast food clerk station. It will be more fulfilled that way. Good riddance.
==Gallery==
Vampaya AnonymousUser.png|Vampaya HD
Vampaya_flying.gif|Vampaya flying
Winged_Vampaya_1.png|Vampaya flying animation 1
Winged_Vampaya_2.png|Vampaya flying animation 2
==Trivia==
*His almanac entry pokes fun at how much he sucks, both in and out of universe.
*Even Crazy Dave can't stand him.
*As of 2024, Vampaya has been subject to a decent number of changes. Oddly enough, most of these changes happened AFTER it was scrapped. See a full list of them below.
**Vampaya was fully awake upon being planted and could act instantly.
**Rather than taking a few meager bites from a zombie, it would sap their health until the zombie either dies or Vampaya gets all its health back, before returning. Oddly enough, its toughness was also 300 rather than 1200.
**He would sleep for 10 seconds upon returning rather than 20.
**It was part of the Conceal-mint family before being changed to be part of the Ail-mint family instead. When powered by Moonflower, he would have been able to steal health from zombies surrounding his initial target and share it with other plants to heal them at the cost of being unable to restore his own health. This was presumably changed because Vampaya would have been unable to retain his powered form out of Moonflower's shadow aura.
**Its almanac entry was originally: What's better than a papaya? Why, a vampire papaya of course! Sadly, this vampire is a bit of a buzzkill. Always bringing down the party with his gloomy presence. He carries his book with him to read out loud and further everyone's boredom. Some people just think he doesn't belong in this world.
***The last line is a reference to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
**Perplexingly, his plant food effect was originally called "What Sharp Fangs You Have" whereas now, it's called "What Large Fangs You Have". It is unknown why it was changed.
*In universe, the reason he's no longer in the game is because the rest of the plants got fed up with his lazy and unhelpful attitude. He does have the potential to return, although this is very unlikely, consider what ended up replacing him.
*Thank you, Creepes, for conceiving the strategies section (or should I say diss track?) for this abominable piece of trash!
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