Dough-nut

Dough-nut is a premium plant added in the 11.2.1 update of Plants vs. Zombies 2 alongside Electric Peel as part of "Dough-nut's Dense & Defensive" Arena Season.
Dough-nut is a defensive plant that has the same health as Wall-nut but with a higher sun cost. However Dough-nut has one defining ability, which is that he can heal all other plants in the same column by 25% of their max health when a layer is eaten off. The healing works on any type of plant, but most effective on other defensive plants including itself. Additionally, if the plant is instantly kills by any mean (Torch, Gargantuar smash etc.), the healing ability will also activate. However it cannot bring back other Dough-nut's layers, only healing the health, so that more than one Dough-nut can't infinitely heal each other.
==Origins==
Dough-nut is based on a doughnut or donut as the name suggest, which is a type of sweet snacks that is popular in many countries. The appearance of Dough-nut is based on the ring doughnut, as well as having pink frosting and multicolored sprinkles on it, making it similar to a cartoonish doughnut that people would recognized.
The plants it is based on are walnuts, the seeds of walnut trees. It is based on Wall-nuts from PvZ1, one of the most iconic plant of the series, which is where its defensive nature comes from, based on the fact that Wall-nut is a defensive plant, which in turn is based on Wall-nut's name having "wall" and their hard shells.
Dough-nut's name is a portmanteau of "Doughnut" and "Nut", referencing the origin of the plant and the type of plant is is based on.
Dough-nut's healing ability comes from the fact that food in video games often heal the player, even if the food is unhealthy in real life. Example of doughnuts healing the player can be seen in Undertale, the Kirby series and more.
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food effect===
When fed with Plant Food, Dough-nut will jump up and throw sprinkles onto all other plants in the same column, healing them for 50% of their max health. This will also heal Dough-nut to full, allowing it to heal more if he has layers eaten off already.
===Reinforce-mint effect===
When boosted by Reinforce-mint, Dough-nut can absorb an additional 6000 damage, heal for 50% max health when a layer gets eaten and his Plant Food effect will activate, the Plant Food healing is also increased to 80% of max health. If Dough-nut is at max health, only the Plant Food will activate.
===Level Upgrades===
Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge (Sluggish)	Toughness (High)	Healing 	Plant Food Healing	Area
1 	0 	0 	125 	25 seconds 	4000 Damage 	25% 	50% 	Column
2 	50 	0 	125 	24 seconds 	4200 Damage 	27.5% 	50% 	Column
3 	100 	0 	125 	24 seconds 	4400 Damage 	30% 	50% 	Column
4 	200 	0 	125 	23 seconds 	4600 Damage 	32.5% 	60% 	Column
5 	300 	0 	125 	23 seconds 	4800 Damage 	35% 	60% 	Column
6 	400 	0 	125 	22 seconds 	5000 Damage 	37.5% 	60% 	Column
7 	500 	0 	125 	22 seconds 	5250 Damage 	40% 	70% 	Column
8 	600 	0 	100 	21 seconds 	5500 Damage 	42.5% 	70% 	Column
9 	800 	0 	100 	21 seconds 	5750 Damage 	45% 	70% 	Column
10 	1,000 	0 	100 	20 seconds 	6000 Damage 	50% 	80% 	Column
=== Mastery upgrades ===
* Chance to Boost
* Toughness Bonus
== Strategies ==
Dough-nut is the core to almost every defensive plant strategies. While it seems like Dough-nut would be terrible against the hordes of instant-killing zombies, its ability shines through. He excels at dealing with large group of zombies during a wave and can support all other defensive plants within the same column it is in.
First and foremost, the healing ability when damaged. The main reason why Dough-nut is so good at stalling is due to his ability to heal all plants within the same column by 25%. While it doesn't seem much for any average toughness plants, it can be extremely useful when paired with other defensive plants such as Primal Wall-nut or Tall-nut. It is powerful against groups of zombies in level without instant-killing zombies, which we will get to later. This effect can support other defensive plants, as mentioned before, Primal Wall-nut is exceptionally good as it can withstand another instant-kills attack, helping to reduce to problem with how many zombies that can ignore walls in this game. Pumpkin is also useful, though only if its not on Dough-nut, as Dough-nut needs to be eaten to activate his ability. Tall-nut can be useful against just about any other zombies that isn't instant-kill or doesn't eat, their high health and tall height gives them an extra advantage since Dough-nut can heal even more health compared to other walls.
Secondly, its ability to help defend against instant-killing zombies. Dough-nut's ability still works even when instantly killed, meaning it can be useful even in levels with them, while the lane Dough-nut was in might be in danger, it make sures that other lanes' defensive plants can still withstand incoming attacks, giving you time to deal with the lane Dough-nut was in and not have to worry about the others. Some high damage zombies might take multiple hit to actually destroy Dough-nut entirely, such as MC Zom-B or Barrel Roller Zombies, meaning you can take advantage of this to heal up multiple time.
Dough-nut is without any weakness, particularly against zombies that don't damage it like normal. Specifically: Mecha-Football Zombie, Excavator Zombie, Octo Zombie, Wizard Zombie and Fisherman Zombie. For Octo Zombie and Wizard Zombie, they are as annoying to deal with as with any other defensive plants. Quickly take them out with plants like Dartichoke or Banana Launcher. For Mecha-Football Zombie, Excavator Zombie and Fisherman Zombie, they serve as Dough-nut's biggest weakness, as not only do they ignore Dough-nut's healing ability, they also move Dough-nut away from the column he is in, rendering his ability useless unless there is another defensive plants there. This can be extremely dangerous to deal with as it invalidate the entire strategy. Best way to deal with them are different, Excavator Zombie has the least health, but is seen the most often in a level, use Laser Bean to deal with them quickly and don't plant Dough-nut too far in the front columns. For Mecha-Football Zombie, they have high health but can be stunned for a while with E.M. Peach, bring them to levels if you want to use Dough-nut in the same level. As for Fisherman Zombie, Tangle Kelp can take care of them, though be careful as Tangle Kelp does have long recharge, so keeping some aerial or aquatic plants such as Rotobaga or Electric Peel can help delay Dough-nut from getting pulled away.
Finally, Aloe can be a good synergy with Dough-nut, as Aloe can heal Dough-nut on their own, giving Dough-nut more health and layers to support plants in other columns as well as their own, the one downside being that Aloe's healing is not fast or strong enough to heal back when too many zombies are eating Dough-nut. In the Chinese version, Heavenly Peach or Hoya Heart can also do the job well. Another way to heal him is with Wall-nut First Aids, which can instantly heal Dough-nut, with the cost of his sun cost and recharge.
== Gallery ==
File:Dough-nut HD.png|Dough-nut HD
File:Dough-nut Degrade 1 HD.png|Dough-nut Degrade 1 HD
File:Dough-nut Degrade 2 HD.png|Dough-nut Degrade 2 HD
File:Dough-nut Degrade 3 HD.png|Dough-nut Degrade 3 HD
File:Dough-Nut Lawn.png|Dough-nut from Strikes Back, the original design of this plant.
== In other languages ==
== Trivia ==
* Dough-nut is the third Strikes Back plant to receive their own page, the other being Cosmic-pult and Peach Ball.
** Dough-nut is also the second to receive a redesign, as Cosmic-pult has the same appearance as it does in Strikes Back and PvZ2.
** Dough-nut's ability is also similar to his Strikes Back counterpart, but with increased health and more details, thier Plant Food ability is the same.
* Dough-nut will reappear in the final kingdom of Plants vs. Zombies: Kingdom of Taco.
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