Snowy Carrot

Snowy Carrot is a powerful plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that explodes when planted, generating a bodacious blizzard in a 3x3 area that she calls the "Frost Nova". The Frost Nova starts off with a 20% speed reduction through a persistent chill effect and 1 DPS (!!!) of damage every 0.5 seconds, but this gradually increases over 86 seconds until the Frost Nova is dealing 8 DPS per 0.5 seconds (wow, how impactful!) and is inflicting a 80% slow! The Frost Nova only lasts for 90 seconds, meaning just those last 4 seconds get to experience the maxed out effect. Once the Frost Nova goes away at 90 seconds, it bursts out in an icy explosion to deal a final 200 DPS of damage and freeze zombies in place for 10 seconds.
Snowy Carrot's Frost Nova has its duration increased by 3 seconds for each Winter-mint family plant (or other icy plants for the matter, even if not in the family) or decreased by 3 seconds for each Pepper-mint family plant (or other fiery plants for the matter, even if not in the family) in the area when it is cast. Planting these plants in an existing Frost Nova will have no effect on its duration or other potency - just like you'd expect!
Snowy Carrot's Frost Nova will also temporarily ice over water in Big Wave Beach, allowing you to plant your plants there and causing those tiles to count as ground tiles for zombies such as the magnificent Snorkel Zombie or the less-than-magnificent Surfer Zombie. It also has the added benefit of freezing over Slider Tiles in Frostbite Caves which prevents them from functioning (as they are frozen over), which can be both a good thing (if it's a good thing) or a bad thing (if it's a bad thing).
== Origins ==
This plant is a mixture of a snowman and a carrot! You see, it's a carrot because those are typically used for snowmen, and it's a snowman because it's Feastivus time! In November! How marvelous. She's a girl because I said so and I have supreme and ultimate godlike control and power over gender like that. Snowy Carrot is whoever I want her to be. Be fearful! Be scarce!
== Almanac entry ==
== Winter-mint effect ==
When boosted by Winter-mint, the maximum chill power is increased from 80% to 93% and the cold ramps up twice as quickly.
== Strategies ==
Snowy Carrot is a generally effective plant and should be considered as a longer-term alternative to more conventional stallers such as Iceberg Lettuce, Stallia, or even in certain situations Chard Guard. Her gradual increase in both damage (though it never amounts to very much and is basically pointless) and slowing effect means that her value only increases over time while making her less immediately effective against dangerous zombies. If you're in a level you've played before and you know when a big wave of zombies is going to appear, you can drop Snowy Carrot a little bit ahead of time to catch them off guard when they least expect it so you get more value out of it - this means you won't have to suffer through the 20% speed reduction and can jump to something a little bit more meaningful once they appear.
Snowy Carrot's ability to ice over water in Big Wave Beach could make it a more cost efficient alternative to the Lily Pad in certain situations, since it costs 125 sun to freeze over 9 tiles instead of planting 9 Lily Pads for 225 sun, plus you get the added Frost Nova slow and damage, but in most situations it's probably more consistent to just bring Lily Pad as you don't have to worry about Lily Pads going away after a little while. Snowy Carrot's freezing over Slider Tiles won't come into play very often, but it could be useful in some situations potentially.
== Trivia ==
* Is she Snowy Carrot or Icy Carrot? Nobody knows!
* Snowy Carrot is made of snow, not suspiciously blue ice
** I am begging you, please believe me
*** Take my word on this one, I am on my knees!
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