Chillily

Chillily is the ninth plant unlocked in Blizzard Peaks in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World, after beating Level 21A. Chillily shoots ice shards that slow down zombies on impact, albeit they will chill and slow them down to 90% of their current speed (or 95% if it's a Gargantuar). Chillily’s chilling effect stacks with all other pre-existing chilling effects on zombies, including those from Chillily themselves, so zombies that are continuously hit by Chillily’s ice shards will gradually become slower (e.g. if a zombie is hit by two ice shards from Chillily, they will be slowed down to 90% of 90% of their current speed). Once a zombie reaches below 25% of its regular speed when they are hit by another ice shard, they will freeze to death and turn into stationary ice statues that have 1.5 times the health of the zombie that they still had immediately before they got frozen. If a zombie hasn’t been affected by Chillily’s ice shards for a while (as long as the amount of time it takes for a zombie to lose a regular chilling effect), all of the stacked slowing effects gained by the zombie will wear off.
==Origins==
Chillily's name is a portmanteau of the words 'chill' and 'lily'. Lilies usually refer to plants in the genus Lilium, but can also refer to a large number of other plants that use the same name (usually due to how they also look like lilies). Chill refers to Chillily's ability to chill zombies and slow them down before making them freeze (when chilled and slowed down enough).
==Almanac entry==
Chillily
Sun cost: 200
Recharge: Sluggish
Shoots ice shards that cause zombies to move gradually slower. Zombies freeze to death and become ice statues when slowed down enough.
Weakness: Frozen zombies get tougher and harder to destroy
"Hello there!" says Chillily. "My name is Chillily! But since that's confusing to pronounce for new acquaintances, you can call me Chilly instead. Or you can call me how my close friends would call me, Chee. Or even better, Hee, or probably the best option yet: E."
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food power===
When fed Plant Food, Chillily will unleash a whirlwind of ice shards down the lane which spans 3 lanes wide, slowing zombies down by 50% their current speed (stacks with pre-existing slowing effects), damaging them for 500 DPS and then turning them into ice statues as usual if their speed is low enough to pass the 25% threshold.
===Stat tiers===
Stat 	Tier 1 	Tier 2 	Tier 3 	Tier 4	Tier 5
Strength 	10 DPS 	15 DPS 	20 DPS 	
25 DPS
(Unlock cost: 1 Strength Token)	
30 DPS
(Unlock cost: 2 Strength Tokens)
Toughness 	50 DPS 	200 DPS 	300 DPS 	
400 DPS
(Unlock cost: 1 Toughness Token)	
550 DPS
(Unlock cost: 2 Toughness Tokens)
Sun cost 	300 sun 	250 sun 	200 sun 	
150 sun
(Unlock cost: 1 Sun cost Token)	
100 sun
(Unlock cost: 2 Sun cost Tokens)
Recharge 	30 seconds	25 seconds 	20 seconds 	
15 seconds
(Unlock cost: 1 Recharge Token)	
10 seconds
(Unlock cost: 2 Recharge Tokens)
Firing rate	2 seconds 	1.75 seconds	1.5 seconds	1.25 seconds
(Unlock cost: 1 Firing rate Token)	1 second
(Unlock cost: 2 Firing rate Tokens)
More about the upgrading system here.
==Strategies==
Chillily's ability to freeze zombies to death by hitting them a certain number of times rather than being dependent on how much health the zombie has is a very powerful ability. When you do the Math, on their own, it would take Chillily 14 hits to be able to turn a zombie into an ice statue (unless the zombie was too weak to be able to tank all of the damage before 14 hits have been made or if the chilling effect was given time to wear off somewhere in between shots), or twice as many (28 hits) for a Gargantuar. Not only this, with a defense utilising ice synergy, Chillily becomes even more powerful. Using regular chilling plants like Snow Pea can already bring the speed of zombies down to 50%, taking Chillily only half the number of hits they require to freeze zombies to death. Using an even more powerful ice plant like Ice Sage, whose ice bolts slow down zombies that they hit directly to 25% of their regular speed, already have slowing effects that help immediately reach the speed threshold required for Chillily to freeze a zombie to death.
Of course, however, there are still downsides to Chillily that still need to be considered. Although zombies are counted as defeated when they are frozen by Chillily, they will still remain as ice statues on the lawn and act as obstacles for plants, and, additionally, these obstacles will have 1.5 times the health of the zombie that they had immediately before they got frozen. As an example, if you pit a Chillily against a Buckethead Zombie and make them fight on their own, the amount of damage that they would've dealt to the zombie before they got frozen would've been less than the amount of additional health the zombie accumulated from being frozen, if you do the Math. To counter this, it would be better to use Chillily's freezing ability as a utility ability rather than the main ability you rely on to defeat zombies. To do that, you can pair Chillily with other offensive plants so that the health of frozen zombies will become lesser and a smaller burden to deal with for your defenses. Another downside of Chillily's ability is that it does not do well against hordes of numerous zombies rather than a few. Before Chillily can land enough hits to freeze a zombie, that zombie would've been slowed down to a point where it would be easier for other zombies behind it to overtake the slowed zombie, rendering the slowed zombie unable to be targeted by Chillily until the faster zombies have been defeated or the chilling effect has worn off to allow that zombie to catch up with the previously faster zombies (which is not ideal). A possible way to counter that would be to pair Chillily with more zombie-slowing plants to reduce the number of shots required to freeze zombies, making it at least somewhat easier for Chillily to deal with hordes of zombies.
==Gallery==
Chillily.png|Chillily (HD)
Chillily's concept art.png|Chillily's concept art by Bean
Costume (Chillily).png|Costume
Seed packet (Chillily).png|Seed packet
Chillily preparing to fire an ice shard.png|Chillily preparing to fire an ice shard
Chillily firing an ice shard.png|Chillily firing an ice shard
==Art credits==
*Credits to Bean for the concept art.
*Credits to Chicken for the final design.
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