Rocket Leaves

Rocket Leaves is a premium instant-kill plant available in Plants vs. Zombies 2, and is unlocked during Summer Night events. 
When Planted, Rocket Leaves will leap off his stem and latch on to the nearest headgear zombie in a 3 tile range, and will hold onto their headgear until the zombie is defeated. Upon defeat, the zombie will stand in place, before having their head fly off and crashing into a group of zombies in the same lane. 
The damage dealt by the explosion is proportionate to the headwear type, rather then the amount of health the zombie has left. 
Rocket Leaves requires 250 seed packets to unlock, which are dropped during the Summer Nights event, with the probability increased if the zombie is ashed. 
==Origin==
Rocket Leaves is based on the Eruca vesicaria, an edible annual plant, in the family Brassicaceae used as a leaf vegetable for its fresh, tart, bitter, and peppery flavor.
It is also known as "rocket leaves", "ruchetta", "rucola", "rucoli", "rugula", "colewort", and "roquette". 
==Overview==
By utilizing zombie armor, Rocket Leaves will allow you use regular zombies for your own benefit, with the damage dealt dependent on the type of armor. The information is as follows:
Headwear Type	Damage Dealt	Additional Notes
Cone 	300 DPS 	Surviving Zombies are temporarily stunned.
Bucket 	900 DPS 	Surviving Zombies are knocked backed and stunned. (Stun time is shorter than cones).
-Head Zombies	2400 DPS 	Larger Groups of zombies drop coins. (Previous effects are not applied, plant food only).
In addition, 200 damage is done to zombies in a 3x3 area when a head blasts off to find a target.
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food Effect===
If no zombies are nearby, Rocket Leaves will become powered up when given plant food, replacing zombie armor with one that gives them Machined toughness, but dealing the highest damage possible using Rocket Leaves. 
===Bombard-Mint Effect===
When powered up by Bombard-Mint, the damage required to defeat a zombie is decreased by 20%, while the damage dealt on defeat is increased.
==Strategies==
While being an 'Instant-Kill' plant, it more accurately fits as a delayed kill plant instead, requiring you to defeat a zombie in order to activate it's effect. However, when used in tandem with other plants it can lead to some useful strategies: 
* When combined with Hypno-shroom or Caulipower, zombies affected will deal extra damage when defeated, allowing you to get a bit more use out of a zombie.
*Stunning zombies with plants allows them to remain in place in order deal damage to zombies in the surrounding area before blast off.
*Shrinking Zombies with Shrinking Violet and Enforce-mint will allow you to deal high damage quicker, as the damage value is tied to the type of headgear, rather than how much health it has.
Some caution must be taken when using Rocket Leaves' plant food effect, as doing so will create a high health threat that will give you a high reward upon it's defeat, should there be a group of zombies. 
Additionally, using plants such as Imp Pear and Chili Bean on an effected zombie will not create a bomb, as the headwear is not destroyed. 
==Gallery==
RocketLeavesPvZ2HD.png|HD Rocket Leaves
RocketLeavesSeedPacket.png|Seed Packet
File:RocketLeavesCostume1HD.png|Rocket Leaves' first costume (Armor and Facial Hair)
File:RocketLeavesCostume2.png|Rocket Leaves' second costume (Cat Ears)
==Trivia== 
*Rocket Leaves originally started as a bell pepper, named Cap-Sicum.
*His costumes reference anime;
**His first costume references Jackal from Fist of the North Star, a gang leader who uses underhanded tactics and dynamite to avoid fighting enemies directly.
**The second costume is inspired by the stand Killer Queen from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, with it's ability to turn things into bombs by touch, and Cattail's hat.
*** Both characters use explosives as their primary form of combat.
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