Poison Ivy (PvZ2)

Poison Ivy is a premium vine plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2, first introduced in the 9.0.1 update, along with Solar Sage. She is an Arena plant with her own season titled "Poison Ivy's Poisoning Season!" and she can be unlocked by collecting 250 seed packets hidden inside Modern Day Piñata and Seasonal Plant Piñata.
Poison Ivy can be planted on top of other plants to provide layers of protection, and any Ail-mint family plants planted on top of her will be provided with significant damage boost. Any zombie contacting her will get stunned for 8.5 seconds and poisoned for 30 seconds. She can poison zombies three times before disappearing. Note that she cannot use this ability once being crushed or burned by fire sources.
In Chinese version, Poison Ivy's poison ability on default is decreased to 2 usages before disappearing.
==Origins==
She is based on a plant with the same name in real-life (Toxicodendron radicans). Her design being a vine plant and her ability being poison any zombies upon contact is a reference on how real-life poison ivies can grow as vines and can irritate the host's skin.
==Alamanac entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food ability===
When being fed with Plant Food, Poison Ivy blows a huge poisonous bubblegum which will poison all zombies in 2x3 square radius in-front of her.
=== Ail-mint effect===
When boosted with Ail-mint, Poison Ivy's health now increased to 300dps and her Plant Food effect also stun zombies for 10 seconds.
=== Upgrades ===
===Costumed===
Now blows a pink bubblegum which has a piercing effect, poisoning two zombies in a single row.
==Strategies==
Poison Ivy's main role is similar to other vine plants and poisonous plants as well, where her main purpose is to protect the plant inside it while countering armored enemies when they're getting too close. Although, you must use her ability wisely as she can poison zombies three times before disappearing. She has a lot of similar cons to Shadow-shroom; a spinning Jester Zombie will destroy her without triggering her ability, and Healer Zombie and Zombie Medusa are immune to her poison ability.
Poison Ivy can be paired with melee plants, such as Bonk Choy and Wasabi Whip. They can be a great combo to deal against a horde of zombies. Her stun ability also worked when paired Spikeweed, Spikerock, and Iceweed. Combining them with the poison effect, they can drain the enemy's health drastically.
Avoid using her against a horde of zombies (unless being fed with Plant Food), as they will gobble her up and forcing her to use her poison ability, wasting her attack count.
==Gallery==
File:Poison Ivy Remastered.png|HD Poison Ivy
File:Poison Ivy Bubbleblow.png|A render of Poison Ivy blowing a bubble gum for the second ability.
File:Poison Ivy Costume China.png|Poison Ivy's costume (China only)
File:Poison Ivy Seed Packet (1).png|Poison Ivy's seed packet
File:Poison Ivy Seed Packet with Sun.png|Poison Ivy's seed packet with sun tag
File:Poison ivy ail boost.png|Poison Ivy boosts a Fume-shroom in-game.
===Old===
File:Poison IvyHD.png|HD Poison Ivy
=== Concept ===
File:Poison ivy sketch.png|Poison Ivy's remake sketch upon development
==Trivia==
*Despite her poisoning ability doesn't trigger when being crushed or burned, Barrel Roller Zombie Rodeo Legend Zombie, and Head Office Impgantuar are the only insta-kill zombies that can be poisoned normally, with Barrel Roller Zombie will have his barrel destroyed and himself getting poisoned upon contacting her, and Rodeo Legend Zombie get poisoned normally after trampling her.
*Originally, the poisoned zombie will turn around and infect other zombies on their way, at maximum of three. This is discarded when the creator found out that real-life poison ivies' rashes cannot spread from person to person, thus the maximum count is moved to how many times she can poison them before disappearing.
===Archived===
*In her early iteration, she has various attacks and abilities depending on situations, both when planted alone or if any plants planted on top of her.
**If she was planted alone on the field, the player can tap on her to fire green berries on her back in a lobbed way. The berries she launches are explosives and will deal a splash damage on contact (60 on a targeted zombie and 20 for a splash damage). The limit number of berries she launches was three and she will no longer recharge the berries, similar to Holly Barrier.
**If any plants were planted inside of her, she will act like a barrier. However, she will boost any Ail-mint's family plants (excluding Ail-mint herself) planted inside her for a limited time span. The duration is similar to any Power Mints' time duration before their disappearance, albeit 10 seconds; meaning that after 10 seconds passed, she will no longer boost them anymore.
***Out of all of her abilities from her previous iteration, the family boost is the only one carried back here, although without the 10 seconds duration span.
Category:Vine plants
Category:Remakes