Bookworm

Bookworm is a plant in Plants vs Zombies 2 added in the 10.5.3 version. Bookworms will aim at the zombie closest to them in their lane, and they will attack zombies in the lanes above and below with a straight projectile with a damage equivalent to 40% of the original zombie's health. The Bookworm will not defend its own lane, only taking the source of damage from it to attack in the adjacent ones.
The attacks happen at a rate of 5 seconds. For every attack, Bookworm will previously recognize the zombie in his lane in order to fluctuate its damage if the zombie's health changed. If the zombie was destroyed altogether, then Bookworm will take its damage source from the zombie behind. He will not attack if a zombie is not present in his lane. 
==Origins==
	The term bookworm, although originally referring to a species of insect, is most notably used as a colloquial term for someone who highly enjoys reading. In this case, Bookworm combines both of these concepts in a worm that reads to perform his ability. The worm itself is in an apple, an edible fruit that is the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. This is a nod to the commonly seen worm sticking out of an apple in drawings or cartoons.
==Almanac Entry==
== Upgrades ==
=== Plant food effect ===
When fed with , Bookworm will drain the health of the 5 toughest zombies completely, destroying them and using that as damage evenly distributed across all the other zombies.
=== Enchant-mint effect ===
When boosted by , Bookworm will attack zombies utilizing 200% of the zombie's health. 
== Level upgrades==
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge(Sluggish)	Toughness(Typical)	Special(Damage)	Range
1 	0 	0 	225 	20 seconds 	300 dps 	40% 	StraightMulti-Lane
2 	10 	1,000 	225 	19 seconds 	350 dps 	44% 	StraightMulti-Lane
3 	25 	2,500 	225 	17 seconds 	400 dps 	48% 	StraightMulti-Lane
4 	50 	5,000 	200 	16 seconds 	450 dps 	52% 	StraightMulti-Lane
5 	100 	10,000 	200 	14 seconds 	550 dps 	56% 	StraightMulti-Lane
6 	200 	20,000 	200 	13 seconds 	600 dps 	60% 	StraightMulti-Lane
7 	400 	30,000 	175 	11 seconds 	650 dps 	64% 	StraightMulti-Lane
8 	800 	50,000 	175 	10 seconds 	700 dps 	68% 	StraightMulti-Lane
9 	1,200 	75,000 	175 	8 seconds 	800 dps 	72% 	StraightMulti-Lane
10 	1,600 	100,000	175 	7 seconds 	900 dps 	76% 	StraightMulti-Lane
==Strategy==
Bookworm is notoriously remarkable in levels with sturdy zombies, as these are the ones who take his power to major heights. Consequently, Bookworm will greatly thrive in the later portions of levels where the more resistant zombies begin to spawn. In s and , Bookworms can excel thanks to the frequency and increase of high health zombies within every wave.
While this ability is good on paper, it is relevant knowing that Bookworm has negative synergies with most attacking plants. Since he will take the health of the zombie in his lane while not actually damaging it, placing other plants to continuously deplete its health can be counterintuitive towards Bookworm's potential. As such, he should only be used as a support plant for your main strategy and not the main focus of your seed selection. Nevertheless, there are still some extremely efficient strategies that can be pulled off with the support of defensive plants. With most notably, the player can easily manipulate the positioning of zombies to increase Bookworm's damage and destroy the lesser threats. 
One of the most pivotal aspects of using Bookworm is precise zombie placement. Since he is not able to defend himself, it becomes a major priority to keep the strongest of zombies alive and in front of the lane to get true value out of him. can flawlessly reduce zombies' speed to keep them in front, but not close to Bookworm to risk his demise. In keeping the strongest zombie in front of him, can carefully be placed in other lanes to lure smaller zombies to Bookworm's targets and make quick work of them. Using such a strategy can turn the tide of the level, reducing zombie waves to leave only the bigger zombies to handle with hard hitting plants.
==Balance changes==
===Update 10.5.4===
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==Gallery==
Bookworm HD.png|HD Bookworm
Bookworm SP.png|Bookworm's seed packet
Bookworm SS.png|Bookworm being used in a level
== Trivia ==
*This page was a team build between RandomShroom and Fun Animator.
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