Bassil

Bassil is a free, available plant in Plants vs Zombies 2: It's About Time. Bassil is unlocked after the player completes the Locked and Loaded level in Neon Mixtape Tour - Day 31.
==Overview==
[[File:Bassil Overview.jpg|left|thumb|290x290px|Bassil attacking Boombox Zombie, Bass Zombie, and Punk Zombie with Thrilling Jazz.]]
When planted, Bassil uses his bass guitar to play and adapt to 3 scary, but different genres of music, in a level. The damage dealt to zombies affected by the music, depends on his level.
Bassil uses different genres of music:
===Rock Terror===
Bassil plays formidable rock music when facing a large horde of zombies, creating loud, powerful, prickling sound waves that damages and knockbacks multiple zombies at once. Rock Terror music can also break metal objects, such as buckets, helmets, or screens, that some zombies use as armor for protection.
===Thrilling Jazz===
Bassil plays hair-raising and not so...calming jazz music when facing a mixed group of zombies, near him. Creating instant, shocking sound waves that boosts the attack speed of adjacent plants, to speed up the attacks, in a wave. Thrilling Jazz music can also deflect projectiles, such as balls, cones, or rockets, that some zombies throw or launch at plants.
===Spooky Funk===
Bassil plays terrifying funk music when facing a tricky situation, creating scary but groovy and catchy sound waves that distracts and confuses zombies. Spooky Funk music can also make zombies dance uncontrollably, making them easy targets for other plants.
== Soundtracks ==
Genre 	Audio
Rock Terror 	
Thrilling Jazz	
Spooky Funk 	
==Origins==
Bassil's name is a portmanteau of "Bass" which is a bass guitar, the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings/courses, and "Basil", also called great basil, is a culinary herb of the family Lamiaceae (mints), a flavorful, leafy green herb that originated in Asia and Africa. It can add unique flavor to your sauces, salads, and soups. Bassil's hair is supposed to be Basil, but dark in shade, to represent the season.
Bassil's appearance is based on a Basil, with it's head representing the stem, that connects with the basil, similar to real hair and a human head.
His ability refers to music, presumably, spooky and Halloween music, which added a flavor into Bassil's Rock, Jazz, and Funk genres of music.
==Almanac Statistics==
==Upgrades==
[[File:Bassil-effect.jpg|left|thumb|254x254px|Bassil with Electric Peashooter, Phat Beet, Bonk Choy, and Kernel-pult.]]
===Plant Food effect ===
When fed Plant Food, Bassil swiftly plays a powerful 'Thrilling Jazz' for 5 seconds, quickly boosting every plant on the lawn's haste, increasing their attack damage by twice as high as the current. Bassil is also immune to any projectile from zombies, while the Plant Food effect is still on.
===Fila-mint effect===
When boosted by Fila-mint, Bassil's seed packet recharge lowers down by 25%, and Bassil gets 1-3 Plant Food effects every now and then.
===Costumed===
The zombies affected by Bassil's sound waves/music, receives twice as much damage. The plants boosted, will receive a longer haste (6.5 seconds, depending on it's level).
===Level Upgrades===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge 	Toughness 	Range 	Plant Food Power
(Haste)	Music Time 	Max Targets
(Zombies) (When 5 or more tiles away)
1 	0 	0 	250 	30 seconds	300 damage	5 tiles 	5 seconds 	5 seconds 	6 zombies
2 	60 	6,000 	250 	29 seconds	300 damage	5 tiles 	5 seconds 	5.5 seconds	6 zombies
3 	180 	12,000	250 	28 seconds	300 damage	5 tiles 	4.5 seconds	6 seconds 	7 zombies
4 	300 	18,000	250 	27 seconds	300 damage	5 tiles 	4.5 seconds	6.5 seconds	7 zombies
5 	420 	24,000	250 	26 seconds	300 damage	5 tiles 	4 seconds 	7 seconds 	8 zombies
6 	540 	30,000	250 	25 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	4 seconds 	7.5 seconds	8 zombies
7 	720 	36,000	250 	24 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	3.5 seconds	8.5 seconds	9 zombies
8 	840 	48,000	250 	23 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	3.5 seconds	8.5 seconds	9 zombies
9 	1,020 	54,000	150 	23 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	3 seconds 	8.5 seconds	10 zombies
10 	1,200 	60,000	150 	23 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	3 seconds 	8.5 seconds	10 zombies
 	 	 	150 	23 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	 	8.5 seconds	
 	 	 	150 	23 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	 	8.5 seconds	
 	 	 	150 	23 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	 	8.5 seconds	
 	 	 	150 	23 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	 	8.5 seconds	
 	 	 	150 	23 seconds	500 damage	7 tiles 	 	8.5 seconds	
 	 	 	150 	23 seconds	 	 	 	8.5 seconds	
 	 	 	150 	23 seconds	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	150 	 	 	 	 	 	
==== Mastery upgrades ====
*Chance to Boost
* Damage Pierce
===Level Upgrades===
==Strategies==
Bassil can be use anytime and anywhere. You can use Bassil in levels where there's Ladder Zombie, Pogo Zombie, Jester Zombie, Gargantuars, Mechanized Walkers in Far Future, and more. It's better to have other plants that can deal with these zombies as well to speed up the process. 
Plant Foods are a must. If there are a tons of knockback (like Bonk Choy), projectile-based (like Peashooter or Kernel-pult), and magic-based plants (like Caulipower or Witch Hazel) on your lawn, Bassil's Plant Food effect can boost them all up, haunting more zombies and protecting the lawn from the dead. 
It's also beneficial to plant Bassil beside weaker plants, or where there's tons of plants, to either help them attack, or boost them.
Bassil has great combos when partnered with other musical-based plants, Phat Beet, which shoots ground-breaking shock-waves, while Bassil can boost, he can help by playing powerful music, that has sound waves which deals damage, and will connect with Phat Beet's. The chances on 3 types of music are random and are luck-based.
Some plants can conflict it's abilities with Bassil, in timing, such as Thyme Warp, but he can still boost him, when still on the lawn.
Bassil has weaknesses, so when encountering a zombie that Bassil can get interfered with, choose plants before a level starts, that can deal with it, plant it in-front, and Bassil can boost it, along. 
==Related achievement ==
== Gallery==
File:Bassil-HD.png|HD Bassil
File:Bassil-gif.gif|Bassil (GIF Animation Test)
===Costumes (created by other users)===
File:Vision Improve-mint .jpg|Vision Improve-mint (by AmericanEditor350/Pvzfowlfan)
File:Bassil’s 2nd Costume (China only).jpg|(China-only) An Eyepatch with the color of Mulberry Blaster (by AmericanEditor350/Pvzfowlfan)
==In other languages==
(Note: These translations aren't official.)
==Trivia==
*Bassil isn't available for usage in Frostbite Caves and Big Wave Beach.
*Bassil's look actually depicts a teenage boy who loves playing with his bass guitar, the leaves represents the wavy hair, and the dark-green towel wrapped around his head depicts a tenugui, with dark-green clothes. He somewhat also looks like a mummy, with everything wrapped, his eyes are still visible, this is a spooky reference! 
**Bassil's head was originally supposed to look like a real, thin stem, but the face doesn't fit, so, it was changed.
*This is Neptunio's 3rd creation. One of my not-so-good creations.
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