Leechee

Leechee is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that was introduced in the 8.3.1 update. When it makes contact with a zombie, it will latch onto it and damages it overtime. Once it has killed the zombie, it will turn into a seed packet which you can place anywhere. 
Once replanted, the Leechee will act like a Wall-nut with the health matching that of a health of the zombie it has sapped. (i.e. sapping a Zombie, which has has 200 damage per shot, will let the Leechee take 200 damage per bites.)
Leechee requires 250 seed packets to unlock for free. The player can do so by replaying Modern Day to earn Piñatas from the piñata tracker.
==Origins==
Leechee is based off of the Litchi chinensis, also known as the lychee, and the leech, a parasitic worm that sucks the blood of an animal. Its costume and flavor text is a reference on how plague doctors used leeches as a form of treatment. The flavor text alone also references some lines from SCP-049.
==Almanac entry==
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==Ugprades==
===Plant Food effect===
When fed with Plant Food prior to sapping a zombie, Leechee will grow in size physically. It will then sap the zombie near it three times faster than normal. Once it has finished sapping the zombie, he will leave a boosted seed packet.
Planting the boosted seed packet will plant a Leechee that not only has thrice the amount of health he sapped, but also has an additional layer of metal armor that could withstand 8000 DPS, or one Gargantuar smash. The latter will always be the Plant Food effect of Leechees after they have sapped a zombie.
===Level upgrades===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge(Mediocre)	Toughness(Typical)	Sap time 	
1 	0 	0 	75 	10 seconds 	100 dps 	per 2 seconds 	
2 	10 	1,000 	75 	10 seconds 	100 dps 	per 2 seconds 	
3 	25 	2,500 	75 	10 seconds 	200 dps 	per 1 second 	
4 	50 	5,000 	75 	10 seconds 	200 dps 	per 1 second 	
5 	100 	10,000 	75 	10 seconds 	200 dps 	per 1 second 	
6 	200 	20,000 	50 	5 seconds 	200 dps 	per 1 second 	
7 	400 	30,000 	50 	5 seconds 	300  dps 	per 0.5 second	
8 	800 	50,000 	50 	5 seconds 	300  dps 	per 0.5 second	
9 	1,200 	75,000 	50 	5 seconds 	400 dps 	per 0.5 second	
10 	1,600 	100,000	50 	5 seconds 	400 dps 	per 0.5 second	
==Strategies==
Leechees are capable of being useful, however it heavily depends on which zombie it decides to sap. Sapping a regular zombie or a Zombie Chicken or an Ice Weasel will render the plant to be quite useless, due to it only being able to take a significantly low amount of normal damage bites in that state. It is heavily recommended that it saps onto armored zombies such as Conehead Zombies, Buckethead Zombies, Brickhead Zombies, and even Gargantuars. While it will take a lot of time for a Leechee to sap these zombies due to their high health, the pay-off is heavily worth it, with the Leechee potentially being stronger than the regular Wall-nut or even the Tall-nut as a result. However, compared to the Primal Wall-nut, it is still unable to withstand 3 smashes from a Gargantuar, so it cannot be considered as superior compared to all the other defensive plants in all qualities. It is recommended to use Pumpkin on it in order to give it an additional shell of defense.
It is also recommended to use slowing plants or immobilizing plants such as Iceberg Lettuce, Stunion, and/or Stallia to slow down the currently being sapped zombie and give Leechee more time to sap it without letting the zombie in question make more progress towards the house.
==Gallery==
Leechee HD.png|HD Leechee
Leechee costume.png|HD Leechee with a costume
Leechee sucking HD.png|HD Leechee sucking the health out of a zombie.
Leechee Seed Packet Sun.png|Leechee's seed packet
Leechee Seed Packet.png|Leechee's seed packet without the sun cost
Leechee sucking a zombie.png|A Leechee sapping a Buckethead Mummy
Leechee sucking a zombie2.png|Leechee sucking a Jurassic Fossilhead
Leechee seed on the floor.png|Leechee's seed packet after it had just sapped a zombie
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