Buttercup (PvZ: BfN)

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Buttercup is a playable plant class in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. She specializes in buttering zombies, stopping them from following through with their devious deeds for a few moments. Her abilities range from area control to burst damage, embracing the Hybrid spirit as a multi-purpose character.
Butter is a status effect separate from regular stunning because it does not interrupt attacks or abilities. It simply "pauses" them for a moment or two, depending on how long it lasts. It basically freezes the zombie in time, whether they're in the air or on the ground, and continues their ability or attack or their falling to the ground like a CHUMP after it expires.
==Description==
===In-game description===
Buttercups butter zombies with buttering butter, stopping them in their tracks. Her diss tracks also slap.
==Primary Weapon==
Buttercup's primary weapon is the Buttering Butter, a close-range heavy-arc butter projectile that deals 20 direct damage with 15 splash damage in a 2-meter area for a total of 35 impact damage and butters zombies (directly or indirectly) hit by it for 0.5 seconds. Buttering Butter fires at a rate of 90 RPM (rounds per minute) or RPS (rounds per second) with impact DPS ( for just splash), and can be used 8 times before needing to reload for 2 seconds.
==Abilities==
===Build Me Up===
When activated, Buttercup immediately gains +25 overhealth that doesn't expire, but at the same time is partially temporary. If Buttercup loses this special overhealth, it does not come back - her passive health regeneration does not cover it. This ability stacks up to 3 times, adding a maximum of +75 overhealth for an effective total of 175 health including her 100 base health. Additional overhealth from Sunflower will stack with Build Me Up, but the cap will calculate based off the 100 base health. The ability's recharge is very long, but each time an enemy is buttered it is reduced by 6 seconds. It takes 90 seconds to recharge on its own, though.
===Slippery Splash===
When activated, Buttercup covers a 30-meter area around her in liquid butter after a brief delay of around 1.5 seconds, which is very very slippery for zombies (but a-okay for plants!) to walk on. When zombies walk on the butter, they'll start to slide as though they were walking on ice, making it difficult for them to change directions when they're in motion, stop moving altogether, and it just overall is super annoying. The butter only lasts for 10 seconds, so you better... or shall we say, BUTTER... use it wisely! It also affects rolling or sliding projectiles from zombies such as the Imp Punt or the Overheated Dinner. It takes 25 seconds to recharge.
===Butter Barrage===
When activated, Buttercup unleashes a flurry of 8 Buttering Butter projectiles from her main attack over a period of 3 seconds. This attack has a decently wide spread, meaning that you won't usually hit more than around two butters on a single zombie, but against something like a Z-Mech you BUTTER believe they're going to be seriously injured. Since there's a total of 8 projectiles that each deal 35 damage, that's potentially up to 280 damage if you get lucky. However, most of the time you'll be relying on splash damage with this ability, which isn't weak either - 8 projectiles with 15 splash damage is still 120 damage. It takes 18 seconds to recharge.
==Upgrades==
==Balancing changes==
February 6th, 2022
*Buttering Butter
**Increased direct damage from 15 -> 20
**Increased splash damage from 10 -> 15
**Increased impact damage from 25 -> 35
**Also affects Butter Barrage
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