Loch Cress

The sinister Loch Cress Monster is a powerful plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that shoots powerful water bullets at a distance. The bullets do good damage and knock back the zombies 1 tile. Fires every 4 seconds. Every 10 seconds, Loch Cress will hide underwater for a period of 10 seconds. While underwater, Loch Cress will cast a watery damage aura that will constantly damage everything in the area around it and slow down by 20%, and Loch Cress cannot be attacked while hiding. It's the ultimate kind of win!
Loch Cress, due to its aquatic ways, can be planted on way with the key difference being that it will constantly hide without ever surfacing. This means not only will it be safe from most zombie attacks but it will also cast that luxurious damage aura, eliminating everything around it. It's like having two plants in one, at least in wet situations. An excellent change of pace! The aura damage is calculated every second, so if something hypothetically moved really fast it could miss out. That's what the slowing effect is for!
Loch Cress can be planted on top of itself to immediately change the form from hiding to fighting or from fighting to hiding. Not very useful, but it's there!
== Origins ==
Based on the Loch Ness Monster and Watercress. The Loch Ness Monster, is believed to be a large, aquatic creature inhabiting Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, while watercress is a lot less mysterious as a leafy green vegetable known for its peppery flavor and is commonly used in salads and as a garnish in various cuisines worldwide. I came up with this idea when I rebooted last year, but didn't have the time to make it a page! Well, now's the time!
== Almanac entry ==
==Upgrade Levels==
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades	Upgrades	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Damage 	Knockback	Hiding Time	Aura DPS	 	
1 	0 	0 	300 	10 sec 	300 	100 	1 	10 sec 	50 	 	
2 	10 	1,000 	275 	10 sec 	350 	120 	1 	10 sec 	50 	 	
3 	100 	5,000 	275 	10 sec 	400 	140 	1 	10 sec 	50 	 	
4 	200 	10,000	250 	10 sec 	450 	160 	1.2 	10 sec 	75 	 	
5 	400 	20,000	250 	10 sec 	550 	190 	1.2 	10 sec 	75 	 	
6 	750 	30,000	225 	10 sec 	600 	230 	1.2 	10 sec 	75 	 	
7 	1,000 	40,000	200 	10 sec 	650 	280 	1.5 	10 sec 	100 	 	
8 	1,250 	50,000	200 	10 sec 	700 	340 	1.5 	10 sec 	100 	 	
9 	1,500 	60,000	175 	10 sec 	800 	400 	1.5 	10 sec 	100 	 	
10 	2,000 	75,000	150 	10 sec 	900 	580 	2 	10 sec 	125 	 	
 	 	 	150 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	150 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
== Upgrades ==
=== Plant Food effect ===
When fed Plant Food, Loch Cress will send out a monsterous call to all other Loch Cresses. Each Loch Cress in a 5x3 area will fire a series of 10 water bullets, and will shock the area around it for 150 damage immediately.
=== Appease-mint effect ===
When boosted by Appease-mint, Loch Cress's damage is increased by 200 for the duration of the mint, and its knockback is doubled. Wowza!
== Strategies ==
Loch Cress is a great damage dealer, but the hiding makes it unreliable. It might be immune to most zombie attacks, but it can't attack while hiding. Use with caution! Multiple Loch Cress can time their hiding timers so that there is always someone keeping the lane on lock down against the pesky zombies. Those zombies sure are nasty! The aura that it emanates while hiding deals more damage per second than the regular water bullet attack at the cost of not having as much range and not having the knockback. A single Loch Cress using its ranged attack would be able to indefinitely stall a single zombie it it weren't for the hiding mechanism! 
Another effective strategy for Loch Cress in Plants vs. Zombies 2 revolves around its unique hiding ability. Since Loch Cress remains invulnerable and emits a damaging aura while submerged, strategically planting it in key positions can control waves of zombies effectively. If one was feeling daring and had a lot of sun to work with, they could do a variant of the traditional Gloom-shroom and Garlic strategy from the original Plants vs. Zombies again with . Since Loch Cress will hide indefinitely and casts a fairly strong aura when in the water, Aqua Vine is the perfect candidate for the job. Just be mindful of how expensive that combo is, as it will set you back 325 sun a pop!
== Gallery==
HD Loch Cress
== Trivia ==
*The original concept for Loch Cress had lane-diverting properties instead of knockback, but that was deemed to be too useless.
**In addition, she originally didn't have an aura which made the plant do absolutely nothing when planted on water. Wow!
*Loch Cress' favorite color is green, because that's the color she is!
**I bet you didn't know Loch Cress was a woman
*Loch Cress doesn't like to go out at night because she's shy
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