Frostbite Creeper

Frostbite Creeper is an exclusive plant obtainable for 100 gems during the 2021 Feastivus event. It can also be unlocked with 150 seed packets during “Frostbite Creeper’s Creepy Season” due to be released in mid-summer 2022. 
Frostbite Creeper attacks zombies in his lane every 10 seconds and gives them frostbite. When he attacks, he lowers his body and presses his hand-like leaves on the ground, creating a path of frost which extends in his lane until it encounters a zombie, excluding octopi, chickens, turkeys, weasels and monkeys. These animal zombies will receive a chilling effect as well as some slight damage from the frost as well. The frost will also freeze tombstones, which will make them more vulnerable to attacks from other plants, especially plants in the Pepper-mint family. When the frost reaches a zombie, an ice spike will be created piercing all zombies on that tile, giving them frostbite. When a zombie is given frostbite, they will receive damage each certain amount of distance they cover, the damage per distance will also increase the further they advance on the lawn. However the frostbite and chilling effect will gradually wear off; it will also be taken off when the zombie is attacked by fire-related projectiles. Other special effects include that he is unable to attack across the sea in Pirate Seas, and that in Big Wave Beach his attack will be spread a chill in a 3x3 area around the icicle protrusion.
==Origins==
Frostbite Creeper is based on Winter Creeper (Euonymus Fortunei), a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to east Asia; and Frostbite, a skin injury that occurs when exposed to extreme low temperature, causing tissues inside to freeze.
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food Effect===
When fed Plant Food, Frostbite Creeper will freeze the entire lawn, dealing 50 dps damage to all zombies. After the Plant Food effect, his frostbite damage will become permanent as well as chilling the zombies more as they advance, eventually freezing them into ice blocks, similar to that of Ice Bloom.
===Winter-mint Effect===
When boosted with Winter-mint, Frostbite Creeper's attack cooldown will be reduced by 2 seconds, while the ice piercing damage will increase by 50 dps, frostbite initial damage increase by 10 dps, dipd (damage increase per distance) increase by 5 dps, frostbite duration increased to permanent.
=== Level Upgrades===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Attack "Cool"down	Icicle piercing damage	Frostbite initial damage	Frostbite DIPD	Frostbite duration
1 	0 	 	200 	20 	350 	10~11.5 secs 	15 dps 	10 dps 	10 dps 	4 tiles
2 	50 	 	175 	18 	400 	9.5~10 secs 	20 dps 	13 dps 	10 dps 	4 tiles
3 	100 	 	175 	18 	450 	9~10.5 secs 	25 dps 	15 dps 	10 dps 	5 tiles
4 	200 	 	150 	16 	500 	8.5~9 secs 	30 dps 	18 dps 	10 dps 	5 tiles
5 	300 	 	150 	16 	550 	8~8.5 secs 	35 dps 	20 dps 	10 dps 	6 tiles
6 	400 	 	150 	14 	600 	7~8 secs 	40 dps 	25 dps 	10 dps 	6 tiles
7 	500 	 	150 	14 	650 	6~6.5 secs 	45 dps 	27 dps 	10 dps 	7 tiles
8 	600 	 	125 	12 	700 	5.5~6 secs 	50 dps 	30 dps 	10 dps 	7 tiles
9 	700 	 	125 	12 	750 	5~5.5 secs 	55 dps 	35 dps 	10 dps 	permanent
10 	800 	 	125 	10 	800 	4.5~5 secs 	60 dps 	40 dps 	10 dps 	permanent
==Strategies==
Frostbite Creeper is a slow attacking plant that deals a noticeable amount of damage, and the fact that its special frostbite is similar to poison but per distance unit instead of time makes it optimum when countering fast moving zombies such as All Star Zombie. In addition to such, his frostbite is given to all zombies that are pierced by the icicle ground projectile i.e. all those that are on the same tile, this means that his attack can be useful against a large cluster of zombies on a single tile. In Big Wave Beach, his icicle attacks spreads the chilling effect to zombies in a 3x3 area around it, which allows it to be used as a cheaper substitute for Winter Melon. His attacks ignore grid items and animal zombies, but inflict damage to them if his frost path comes across them.
The disadvantages are however, that firstly, its attacks can be cancelled out when the frostbitten zombie is attacked by a Pepper-mint family plant; secondly, its attacks cannot travers the sea in Pirate Seas; and thirdly, its attacks deal little damage to zombies from Frostbite Caves. It is important to note still, that these limitations are only contained within a few worlds.
==Gallery==
File:Frostbite Creeper HD.png|Frostbite Creeper HD image
File:Fbc icon.png|Frostbite Creeper's Icon
File:Fbc packet sprite.png|Frostbite Creeper's seed packet without tags
File:Fbc packets avec tags.png|Frostbite Creeper's seed packet with tags
File:Fbc almanac.png|Frostbite Creeper's Almanac Entry
==Trivia==
*This plant was originally named as the namesake plant Winter Creeper, which is also its origin.
** It was later changed because it repeats the first word of the name of Winter Melon.
* It was then changed to Frost Creeper, which is again scrapped
**This was for the fact "Winter" has two syllables, while "Frost" only has one syllable and sounded slightly incomplete (to the creator).
*The name is the settled as Frostbite Creeper.
**Frostbite has two syllables, does not repeat with any other plant, and hints at his abilities.
*The creator did not have time to create a stunning animation. Otherwise it would have been fabulous.
*The snow at his root is a reference to Missile Toe.
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