Souladonna

Souladonna is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2, released in the 9.1.3 update.
Souladonna steals souls from random zombies every 10 seconds, leaving them quickly deteriorating until only 40 dps health is left. When a soul is stolen, she will store it in her berry to later use as a weapon. When a maximum of 3 souls is stored in her berry, she will release them from her berry onto three adjacent lanes centered on her lane one tile to the right of her. These souls when released, will transform into ghosts, stopping and haunting the zombies they encounter, dealing 20 dps damage every 0.5 seconds. Upon defeat or excavation by the player, she will leave behind one ghost shield on the tile she was planted on, and will protect the new plants planted there; these shields are stackable and have a maximum stack amount of 3 shields.
When powered by Moonflower, Gloom Vine, Noctarine or Conceal-mint and being transformed to her shadow form, she will form a protective shield around herself and the plant on the tile to the right of her. In addition, she will throw her berry onto a random tile after each time releasing the souls, creating a haunting tile, which will slow zombies down if they step onto it as well as dealing 15 dps damage per second.
When unable to steal any souls due to various reasons, the result of the following scenario will be as listed below:
#Unable to steal a soul because no zombies are present in range. In this case, she will keep the souls in her berry, even if the amount has reached the maximum amount of 3, in which she will not release them until new zombies spawn on the lawn in her target area.
#Unable to steal a soul because no targetable zombies are in range, but a non-targetable zombie is in range. In this case she will release the souls she currently have. When none are left, she will throw her berries at the zombie, inflicting 30 dps direct damage and 15 dps per second poison damage.
In any of the circumstances, if she loses her berry, she will create another one from her flower, and will use it as how it was before she lost it.
==Origin==
Souladonna is based on Atropa Bellandona, more commonly know as Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade, a poisonous perennial herbaceous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Her name is a portmanteau of "Belladonna" and "soul", the latter being a spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades and boosts ==
===Plant food effect===
When boosted with plant food, Souladonna will summon a large ghost at the leftmost tile of each lane, which runs down the lane, stunning and knocking back zombies, as well as dealing mass damage (100 dps per sec to its surrounding 1x3); during the process, one haunting tile will be created on a random tile of each lane. After the boost has ended, she will lose all souls stored in her berry.
===Conceal-mint effect===
When boosted with Conceal-mint, Souladonna will activate her shadow form. She will get an extra 2 soul storage in her berry making it 5 souls, which allows her to release a ghost on every lane of the lawn. She will also decrease her soul collecting interval by 3 seconds, and increase damage of every attack by 25 dps.
===Level Upgrades===
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Basic properties	Basic properties	Basic properties	Basic offense 	Basic offense 	Special ability	Special ability	Special ability	Special ability	Special ability 	Special ability
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Sun cost 	Recharge 	Toughness 	Ghost damage 	Soul stealing interval	Plant food 	Plant food 	Berry damage 	Berry damage 	Haunting tile damage	Shield durability (1 layer)
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Sun cost 	Recharge 	Toughness 	Ghost damage 	Soul stealing interval	Ghost damage 	Knockback 	Direct damage 	Poison damage 	Haunting tile damage	Shield durability (1 layer)
1 	0 	0 	275 	20 secs 	300 dp 	20 dp/0.5 secs	10 secs 	100 dp/sec 	1 tile 	30 dps 	15 dp/sec 	15 dp/sec 	500
2 	10 	1,000 	250 	19 secs 	350 dp 	25 	9.5 secs 	120 	1 tile 	40 dps 	20 	20 	650
3 	25 	2,000 	250 	18 secs 	375 dp 	30 	9.5 secs 	120 	1 tile 	40 dps 	20 	20 	800
4 	50 	5,000 	250 	17 secs 	400 dp 	30 	9 secs 	140 	2 tiles 	40 dps 	30 	30 	950
5 	100 	10,000 	225 	16 secs 	400 dp 	50 	8.5 secs 	140 	2 tiles 	40 dps 	30 	30 	1000
6 	150 	15,000 	225 	14 secs 	450 dp 	50 	8.5 secs 	140 	2 tiles 	50 dps 	40 	40 	1200
7 	200 	20,000 	225 	13 secs 	450 dp 	75 	7 secs 	150 	2.5 tiles 	50 dps 	40 	40 	1300
8 	250 	25,000 	200 	11 secs 	450 dp 	85 	6.5 secs 	160 	2.5 tiles 	50 dps 	50 	50 	1400
9 	500 	50,000 	200 	10 secs 	500 dp 	85 	6.5 secs 	180 	2.5 tiles 	65 dps 	50 	50 	1500
10 	1000 	100,000	200 	10 secs 	500 dp 	100 	5 secs 	200 	3 tiles 	80 dps 	60 	60 	1600
==Strategies==
Use Souladonna like Caulipower and Electric Blueberry. She is plant with long interval between attacks and is inconstant, therefore should not be used as your only means of offence. She can however, be quite helpful when stronger zombies appear on lawn, such and Gargantuars and Mecha-Football Zombie, as she can almost instantaneously defeat them due to her abilities. However, due to her inability to effectively tackle boss zombies such as Cardio Zombie and Roman Caesar Zombie. In order for her to effectively attack, other offensive and defensive plants should be used in order to protect her. 
Although unable to steal the souls of zombie bosses, the ghosts of which she summons can be quite helpful in attacking them. Similar to the tofu turkeys from Turkey-pult, the ghosts summoned by Souladonna does not disappear unless it drifts off the lane. This can be used as a similar strategy as Turkey-pult to counter bosses such as Zomboss Tuskmaster 10,000 BC, Cardio Zombie or others that does not change position regularly, where several of the same plant are planted and the projectiles will stack to deal massive damage continuously to the zombie. This can be used in some levels of both Arena and Penny's Pursuit.
==Gallery==
File:Souladonna icon.svg|Souladonna's icon
File:Almanacé Souladonna.svg|Souladonna's Almanac picture
File:Souladonna seedpacket.svg|Souladonna's seed packet
File:Souladonna seedpacketsprite.svg|Souladonna's seed packet sprite
File:Souladonna Unpowered HD.svg|Souladonna's unpowered form
File:Souladonna Powered HD.svg|Souladonna's shadow form
File:Souladonna ghost projectile.svg|Ghost released by Souladonna when maximum containment amount reached.
File:Souladonna Showcase.svg|A show case of Souladonna used in arena together with Dusk Lobber and Moonflower.
File:Vector Fraute Souladonna.svg|Souladonna's berry (held in hands/leaves)
File:Souladonna StolenSoul sprite.svg|Souladonna's stolen soul sprite
File:Souladonna Ghost shield sprite.svg|Souladonna's ghost shield sprite
File:Souladonna release animframe.svg|Souladonna releasing ghosts (shadow form), used in showcase
File:Souladonna stealingsouls animframe.svg|Souladonna stealing a soul (shadow form), used in showcase
File:Souladonna haunting tile.svg|Souladonna's haunting tile
==Trivia==
* She originally was designed to have the following abilities:
**In v1, she throws berries that slow down zombies and poisons them. (Very unoriginal, I know.)
**in v2, she throws anomalous berries that convert zombies into ghosts. (Inspired by Solar Sage? Yes.)
**v3 is the current version.
* Her shadow form picture's colour pallet was based on Nightshade from PvZ2, all apart from her shadow, which was based on Grimrose.
*The "275" sprite used in the seed packet was kindly given by @404That'sAnError originally for Undercurrant, but it was until now not used in the creation's seed packet picture.
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