Acorn Spartan

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Acorn Spartan is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It is a seasonal plant, tied to Acorn Spartan's Historic Season in . Acorn Spartan is a defensive plant with a few special abilities beyond simply having elevated health. His main attack is a special Shield Throw in which Acorn Spartan throws his shield down one of three lanes at the closest zombie, dealing 80 damage and 2 tiles of knockback to the first zombie it hits. After it's hit its target, it bounces to up to 3 additional zombies in a similar fashion to , carrying the zombies it hits along with it. For each bounce, all carried zombies take 80 damage, for a maximum of 320 damage if the shield hits 4 targets.
When the shield bounces for the last time or if it hits a target and there's no one else nearby, it pushes all carried zombies back 2 tiles and begins to spin in place for the next 10 seconds, blocking the zombie advance with 4000 damage of health. The spinning shield also deals 10 damage of damage every 0.5 seconds in a 0.8-tile area (the damage hitbox extends 0.4 tiles to the left and right) as well, and the shield uses the same 4000 damage health pool until it's destroyed. When it's destroyed, Acorn Spartan can't throw it again until he receives a new shield which takes 22 seconds. After the 10 seconds are up, Acorn Spartan recalls his shield and then cools down for 8 seconds before he can throw it again.
Acorn Spartan's shield works sort of like Infi-nut's forcefield where it forces zombies to eat it, but it can't resist any instant kills. If a Gargantuar or Gargantuar-like zombie smashes the shield, it will immediately break, and then the zombies will be able to progress forwards as normal, which is no good, right? Acorn Spartan also has a unique interaction with where if his shield passes through it will be set on fire and deal twice as much impact damage, though the spinning damage and other stats remain unchanged. You can also shovel the spinning shield to force it to be recalled, but the remaining time (of the 10 seconds) is added onto the 8 second cooldown.
Starting at level 5, Acorn Spartan's spinning shield has a 10% chance to knock zombies back 2 tiles when it does damage.
When a zombie gets within 2 tiles of Acorn Spartan, he will poke the zombie with his spear, dealing 40 damage and pushing them back 4 tiles. He will also push them either into the lane above or below at random. He can do this no more than once every 4 seconds, and this only targets a single zombie. No bouncing or area effects. If the zombie is thrown into a grid item, such as a gravestone, the grid item will be destroyed.
==Origins==
	Acorn Spartan is based on , which in turn is based on the bamboo, an evergreen perennial flowering plant in the subfamily Bambuseae of the grass family Poaceae.
	Acorn Spartan is personally based off an acorn, a nut and a seed of an oak.
	Acorn Spartan is also based on a Spartan soldier. Subjected to military drills since early manhood, the Acorn Spartans became one of the most feared and formidable military forces in the ancient Leek world, attaining legendary status in their wars against Peppersia. At the height of Sparta's power – between the 6th and 4th centuries BC – other Leeks commonly accepted that "one Acorn Spartan was worth several acorns of any other state."
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food Effect===
When fed Plant Food, Acorn Spartan enters an Enraged state which triples his damage output, allows him to regenerate his shield twice as fast, and allows him to throw his shield immediately after after recalling it. If Acorn Spartan was waiting for his shield to regenerate when he was fed Plant Food, he immediately gets his shield back. The Enraged state lasts for 10 seconds.
In addition, Acorn Spartan's spear and shield are upgraded to gold, which causes them to deal 50% more damage and resist 50% more damage respectively. This is a permanent effect.
===Reinforce-mint Effect===
When boosted with , Acorn Spartan's Plant Food effect is activated, and he can have an unlimited number of shields on the lawn without any need to recall them for the duration of the mint.
==Upgrade Levels==
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Shield Durability	Shield Targets	Shield Impact Damage	Shield Knockback Chance	Shield Throw Cooldown	Shield Regenerate Time	Spear Poke Damage	Spear Poke Cooldown	Spear Poke Pushback	Plant Food Power(Rage Duration)
1 	0 	0 	500 	15 sec 	600 	4000 	4 	80 	 	8 sec 	22 sec 	40 	4 sec 	4 tiles 	10 sec
2 	10 	1,000 	475 	15 sec 	700 	4250 	4 	90 	 	7.5 sec 	21 sec 	45 	3.8 sec 	4.25 tiles 	10.5 sec
3 	100 	5,000 	450 	15 sec 	800 	4500 	4 	100 	 	7 sec 	20 sec 	50 	3.6 sec 	4.5 tiles 	11 sec
4 	200 	10,000	425 	15 sec 	900 	4750 	5 	110 	 	6.5 sec 	19 sec 	55 	3.4 sec 	4.75 tiles 	11.5 sec
5 	400 	20,000	400 	13 sec 	1000 	4500 	5 	120 	10% 	6 sec 	18 sec 	60 	3.2 sec 	5 tiles 	12 sec
6 	750 	30,000	375 	13 sec 	1200 	5000 	5 	140 	15% 	5.5 sec 	16 sec 	70 	3 sec 	5.25 tiles 	13 sec
7 	1,000 	40,000	350 	13 sec 	1400 	5500 	5 	160 	15% 	5 sec 	14 sec 	80 	2.9 sec 	5.5 tiles 	14 sec
8 	1,250 	50,000	325 	13 sec 	1600 	6000 	6 	200 	20% 	4.5 sec 	12 sec 	90 	2.8 sec 	5.75 tiles 	15 sec
9 	1,500 	60,000	300 	10 sec 	1800 	7000 	6 	240 	20% 	4 sec 	10 sec 	100 	2.7 sec 	6 tiles 	16.5 sec
10 	2,000 	75,000	275 	10 sec 	2000 	8000 	7 	280 	25% 	3.5 sec 	8 sec 	120 	2.6 sec 	6.5 tiles 	18 sec
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===Mastery upgrades===
* Chance to Boost 
*Damage Pierce
==History==
===August 16th, 2023===
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==Strategies==
Acorn Spartan is a powerful ranged attacker and a remarkable stalling plant. His spinning shield can be used to keep groups of zombies at bay, as well as clumping them up. If there are several spread-out targets the shield will bring them all together at its final destination, meaning you can easily take them out with a or a quickly-planted , or further stall them with something like a or . Alternatively, one could use the likes of or to preemptively get zombies closer so that they can all be hit by Acorn Spartan's shield and take the maximum damage possible.
Acorn Spartan's spinning shield is great for keeping zombies at bay, as it can resist a lot of damage and does enough itself to keep unruly and away. It can even block flying zombies such as the devious or the malevolent , or even, heaven forbid, the godswampulus . The spinning shield has a high amount of health, meaning that it can block all but the strongest attacks - anything like an or is more than capable of destroying the shield instantly! Be careful when using Acorn Spartan around those zombies, as if it groups them up with its bouncing shield it won't last for long.
One may look at Acorn Spartan's last ditch Spear Poke attack and scoff at it, but this is not to be done. It is a powerful move that allows Acorn Spartan to get potential bad actors out of its way, such as Gargantuars! If a Gargantuar were about to crush Acorn Spartan, and he had Spear Poke ready to go, he'd be able to send Gargantuar not only back a number of tiles but also completely out of the way as well! Acorn Spartan's Spear Poke does come with some tangible downtime, meaning he won't be able to save himself from swarms of zombies if he doesn't have his shield on him. Bring cover!
==Demonstration==
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==Costumes==
==Gallery==
AcornSpartanHD.png|Acorn Spartan HD
WarSpartan.png|Acorn Spartan's first costume
EyebrowSpartan.png|Acorn Spartan's second costume
SmirkingSpartan.png|Acorn Spartan's third costume
RageSpartan.png|Acorn Spartan in enraged state
RageSpartan2.png|Acorn Spartan's first costume in enraged state
RageSpartan3.png|Acorn Spartan's second costume in enraged state
RageSpartan4.png|Acorn Spartan's third costume in enraged state
UpgradedSpartan1.png|Acorn Spartan with upgraded weaponry
UpgradedSpartan2.png|Acorn Spartan's first costume with upgraded weaponry
UpgradedSpartan3.png|Acorn Spartan's second costume with upgraded weaponry
UpgradedSpartan4.png|Acorn Spartan's third costume with upgraded weaponry
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