Seakura

Seakura is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 released as part of Seakura's Submerged season. When planted, Seakura explodes, relasing pink petals on an X shape. Similar to , he can be planted directly on water and cannot be planted on Lily Pads, he also leaves a shallow puddle after exploding. When planted on water or inside , Seakura's petals mark zombies with a "pink seal", when a zombie with a pink seal gets defeated, it will relase weaker petals on a smaller X, however, this attack will only travel one tile on every direction. Unlike many other plants, the seal can be applied to Healer Zombie, Medusa Zombie and Magician Zombie; albeit this first zombie is able to remove the seal from others, anulating its effect.
==Origins==
Appearance-wise he is based on the soft coral genus Dendronephthya, a genus that is part of the family Nephtheidae; as well on the Cherry blossom or sakura, more specifically the Prunus serrulata species. His ability was partialy inspired by Jalapeno and Chilly Pepper.
The mark of his amphibious ability was partially inspired by the concept of Witch' Kisses on the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica, with the mark itself resembling the icon. His alamac description is a reference to how Dendronephthya are notoriously difficult to keep in aquariums.
==Almanac entry==
==Upgrades==
=== effect===
When boosted by , Seakura will do an additional 2400 damage and the petals left by marked zombies will do an additional 400 damage.
===Level upgrades===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge(Slow)	Damage(Massive)	Special(Seal damage)	Area
1 	0 	0 	225 	35 seconds 	1800 damage 	400 damage 	X
2 	10 	1,000 	225 	34 seconds 	1900 damage 	450 damage 	X
3 	25 	2,500 	225 	33 seconds 	2000 damage 	500 damage 	X
4 	50 	5,000 	225 	32 seconds 	2100 damage 	550 damage 	X
5 	100 	10,000 	200 	25 seconds 	2200 damage 	600 damage 	X
6 	200 	20,000 	200 	24 seconds 	2300 damage 	650 damage 	X
7 	400 	30,000 	200 	23 seconds 	2400 damage 	700 damage 	X
8 	800 	50,000 	200 	22 seconds 	2400 damage 	750 damage 	X
9 	1,200 	75,000 	200 	21 seconds 	2400 damage 	800 damage 	X
10 	1,600 	100,000	175 	20 seconds 	2400 damage 	800 damage 	X
==Strategies==
Seakura's X shape makes it difficult to correctly calculate the most efficient position in order to take down as much zombies as posible. Due to this, most of the time you won't be using his amphibious ability, unless you're on Big Wave Beach or other counted levels that count with water on them. 
Seakura's seconary ability of leaving a puddle can be useful in combination with SeaFlora and Banana Peel, as it provides them a new option to use their abiliites. 
==Trivia ==
* In real life corals aren't classified plants, while Cherry blossoms are.
* Seakura was originally planned to be a multi-usage plant, however due to Bombard-mint being choosen as Chandelure's theme for Mintest, it was reworked.
* As said on the origins section, the mark left by Seakura resembles the Plant Food icon
**A beta concept included Seakura being able to attach Plant Food to zombies, but it was scraped probably because of his multi-hit capabilities
*The idea of a Dendronephthya-based plant started thanks to Windows 10 wallpaper system.
Category:Aquatic plants
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