Wealth Wreath

Wealth Wreath is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 11.1 update alongside Dragon Bruit for the Wealth Wreath's Wacky Arena Season. It can be planted on most obstacles or the ground, and behave differently depending on where it is planted.
For the obstacle version, it will transform that obstacle into a diamond version of that object, and they will be on your side rather than the zombie's. They produce sun and coins at the same time, and zombies will have to eat them first to move forward.
For the floor version, it will stay there until a zombie step on them, in which it will bounce up and the zombie will wear them around their necks (Or on their head if they're a Gargantuar or machines). It will then remove all removable armor on that zombie such as buckets, golden shovels, wind up key etc and turn them into coins. That zombie will take double damage from all sources. Boss zombies can never wear them.
==Origins==
Wealth Wreath is based on the wreath, a ring shaped assortment of plants. Her name is a portmanteau of "Wealth" and "Wreath" as they both spelled similarly.
Her appearance is based on a ring, a jewellery often wear by people. This is based on the fact that wreath are ring shaped, therefore also explaining the diamond on top of her head.
Her ability is based on multiple things. Obstacle version is based on how people hang wreath on their door as decoration. While the floor version is based on how ring are wore by people, therefore zombies that are affected wears them. The fact that they are wearing them on their necks are based on lei, a type of wreath that are wore on your neck.
Her sun and money making ability comes from "Wealth" in her name, as one can say they're rich when they can afford plants in PvZ, therefore she can produce sun. She is also somewhat based on Grave Buster from PvZ1, where after they consumed a gravestone, they will produce a random pickup item, such as coins.
==Almanac Entry==
Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food effect===
Obstacle version of Wealth Wreath can't be fed Plant Food, however the floor version can. She will summon 2 Wealth Wreath onto zombies except flying ones, but instead of her regular function, the zombies will instead turn into diamond statues. Diamond Statues act similarly to ice blocks from Ice Bloom, but with more health, and drop coins when eaten or when the level is beaten.
===Contain-mint effect===
When boosted by Contain-mint, Floor version of Wealth Wreath will make zombies take 4 times damage, while obstacle version will be boosted to have 3 times the health of the original obstacle as well as dropping 75 sun. Her Plant Food will summon 5 Wealth Wreath instead of 2 as well.
===Level Upgrades===
Level	Seed packets	Coins	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge (Mediocre)	Floor Toughness (Typical)	Obstacle Toughness	Obstacle Sun Produce	Damage Multiplier	Plant Food Summon Amount	Range
1 	0 	0 	50 	10 seconds 	300 Damage 	1.5 times 	50 sun 	2 times 	2 	Tile
2 	50 	0 	50 	9 seconds 	350 Damage 	1.75 times 	50 sun 	2 times 	2 	Tile
3 	100 	0 	50 	9 seconds 	400 Damage 	1.75 times 	50 sun 	2.25 times 	2 	Tile
4 	200 	0 	50 	8 seconds 	450 Damage 	2 times 	50 sun 	2.5 times 	3 	Tile
5 	300 	0 	50 	8 seconds 	550 Damage 	2 times 	60 sun 	2.75 times 	3 	Tile
6 	400 	0 	50 	7 seconds 	600 Damage 	2.25 times 	60 sun 	3 times 	3 	Tile
7 	500 	0 	50 	7 seconds 	650 Damage 	2.5 times 	60 sun 	3.25 times 	4 	Tile
8 	600 	0 	50 	6 seconds 	700 Damage 	2.5 times 	65 sun 	3.5 times 	4 	Tile
9 	800 	0 	50 	6 seconds 	800 Damage 	2.75 times 	65 sun 	3.75 times 	4 	Tile
10 	1,000 	0 	50 	5 seconds 	900 Damage 	3 times 	75 sun 	4 times 	5 	Tile
===Mastery upgrades===
*Chance to Boost
*Toughness Bonus
=== Level upgrades ===
=== Costume Plant Food effect ===
Diamond Statues explode in 3x3 when eaten, dealing 1800 damage to all zombies in 3x3.
==Strategies==
Wealth Wreath isn't just about money as her name suggest, she is a rather powerful single-used support plant. She can be either transforming obstacles into sun producers or used for destroying zombies with high health easily.
For the obstacle version, she can be used on a lot of objects to make them completely useless for zombies, such as tent, arcade machines, surfboard and caduceus. Her most useful world would be Dark Ages, as transforming Plant Food or Sun tombstone also give you their content before being transformed, there are a lot of tombstones around and the sun production can be helpful since you don't get a lot of sun in Dark Ages. You can also treat them as a defensive plant as well, placing melee plants behind them or even use vine plants to cover the obstacles. Shine Vine can work well with it as it still help with the sun production even if its not an Enlighten-mint plant. Another world you can use them well for is Renaissance Age, since you can plant them on statues, marble mound and crashed flying machines, a lot more different obstacles than other worlds. If you planted over a statue, the zombie that is inside will never come out, so its a cheap way to get rid of them. Other notable obstacles in the Chinese version are lances, wheelbarrows, speakers from Bass Zombie. Do remember that it can't be planted on frozen blocks or octopus, as they have plants or zombie within them, therefore Hot Potato would be a better choice against them.
Another thing to beware about for the obstacle version is other plant that does simialr things, such as Grave Buster or Tomb Tangler. For Grave Buster, it is cheaper and more reliable for removing tombstones, as you can't shovel up obstacle version of Wealth Wreath to remove them, only zombies can destroy them. High level Grave Buster can also destroy zombies with the explosion. Of course Wealth Wreath would still be more useful in places such as sun production and defense. Speaking of defense, Tomb Tangler also come to mind. It offers more offense and health that doesn't rely on the obstacle itself. However not only is Tomb Tangler based around on RNG, but higher level Wealth Wreath often has more health than Tomb Tangler does at the same level.
For the floor version, she can be used alongside instant-used plant to deal with high health zombies like Gargantuar very easily. Even at level 1, you can plant one Wealth Wreath and one Squash to instantly defeat a Gargantuar. She can also remove objects like Bricks or even Golden Shovel, so dealing with them will be much easier. Other armor she can remove include Poncho Zombie's poncho and metal grate, newspaper, sunday edition newspaper, camel and Roman shield, pharaoh's sarcophagus and computers. She is very powerful when taking out armored threats, but be careful of zombies that are high health without removable armors, such as machines. Her biggest weakness is flying zombies, as they do not step on Wealth Wreath, meaning she has no way of making them wear her. Blastronaut Zombie, Pelican Zombie, Balloon Zombie (With balloon) and most of Sky City's zombies can easily ignore her without any trouble.
Her Plant Food effect is also no joke. While it might be similar to a weaker Ice Bloom effect at first glance, the statues have more health and can instantly kill zombies reguardless of their health, so it can be a good stalling option. If the field only have two or less high health zombies, it is guaranteed that they will be transformed, saving you the time to defeat them and providing strong walls as well. This faces competition with other instant killing Plant Food effect such as Electric Blueberry and Caulipower, both of which defeats more zombies and can target flying zombies, but have no side effect outside of that, so if you're bringing them in a level, it depends on the situation to whether you want to defeat more zombies or have defense for later. It is also worth noting that Wealth Wreath's recharge and sun cost are both lower than the two mentioned, meaning at a pinch you can quickly plant Wealth Wreath instead of them and Plant Food her to get rid of zombies.
She is a great money maker if you have enough plant food or high level of her. Bring her to levels with high obstacles or a lot of armored zombies can grant you a lot of coins.
==Gallery==
File:Wealth Wreath Almanac.png|Wealth Wreath on the almanac
File:Wealth Wreath HD.png|HD Wealth Wreath
File:Wealth Wreath Costume.png|HD Wealth Wreath Costume
File:Wealth Wreath Seed Packet.png|Wealth Wreath Seed Packet
File:Wealth Wreath on Grave (Diamond).png|Wealth Wreath on a tombstone (Notice how it turned diamond)
File:Wealth Wreath on Dark Ages Grave.png|Wealth Wreath on a Dark Ages tombstone
File:Wealth Wreath on Basic.png|Wealth Wreath wore by a Basic Zombie
File:Wealth Wreath in-Game.png|Wealth Wreath Gameplay Image showing her obstacle version.
== In other languages ==
==Trivia==
*Her Chinese level 5 upgrade name is a reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically the name of Part 4 "Diamond is Unbreakable".
*Wealth Wreath's diamond is yellow only because it can produce sun.
*She was going to be a Feastivus plant, but outside of wreath being associate with Christmas, it doesn't have a lot relating to Feastivus or ice.
*Wealth Wreath is one of the only plant outside of Enlighten-mint family to produce sun, this is because Wealth Wreath's obstacle and armor removing powers are more significant and both are for Contain-mint instead.
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