Leprecorn

Leprecorn is a premium plant introduced in 11.6.9 update of Plants vs. Zombies 2. Leprecorn was introduced as part of Leprecorn's Unlucky Luck Arena season for the 2024 Luck O' the Zombie event. He can be unlocked obtaining 250 seed packets from his Arena season or from the store.
He lobs coins from his pot of gold, targeting zombies in his lane that have the least amount of health. When a zombie with the lowest amount of health has their health reduced to only 10% left, he will fire a rainbow beam from his pot that hones in on the zombie and deals 5000 damage to it, producing a gold coin if it's destroyed.
==Origins==
Like plants such as Kernel-pult and Cob Cannon, Leprecorn is based off of maize (Zea maize), also known as corn, and a Leprechaun, a supernatural being in Irish folklore that partakes in mischief and hide pots of gold at the end of rainbows.
His name is a portmanteau of corn, the real-life plant he's based on; and "leprechaun," the Irish creature he's based on.
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food effect===
When given Plant Food, he will sing a small Irish jig while a large pot of gold drops from the sky, landing onto the zombie closest to your house and dealing 500 damage to all zombies in the tile. The pot of gold cannot be moved by zombies at all and while it can be on top of plants it cannot be planted over if the plant underneath is destroyed. The pot of gold has 1500 toughness and, upon being destroyed the pot will blow up in a 3x3 radius, dealing 1500 damage to all zombies in its radius and producing gold coins for each zombie destroyed.
===Enchant-mint effect===
When boosted by Enchant-mint, He gains additional 165 damage per firing attack, decreases his firing rate by 1.5 seconds, and summons an additional pot of gold when given Plant Food that lands in a different lane.
===Level upgrades===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge (Sluggish)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage* (Normal)	Damage* (Normal)	Rainbow Trigger 	Plant Food (Pot of Gold)	Plant Food (Pot of Gold)	Projectile Velocity	Firing Rate 	Range
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge (Sluggish)	Toughness (Typical)	Coin 	Pot of Gold 	Rainbow Trigger 	Health 	Damage (Massive) 	Projectile Velocity	Firing Rate 	Range
1 	0 	0 	200 	30 seconds 	300 damage 	35 	500 	Zombies at 10% health	1500 	1500 	Normal 	3 seconds 	Lobbed
2 	50 	0 	200 	29 seconds 	300 damage 	35 	500 	Zombies at 10% health	1500 	1500 	Normal 	3 seconds 	Lobbed
3 	100 	0 	200 	27 seconds 	325 damage 	35 	500 	Zombies at 10% health	1600 	1500 	Normal 	3 seconds 	Lobbed
4 	200 	0 	175 	27 seconds 	325 damage 	38 	550 	Zombies at 10% health	1600 	1500 	Normal 	3 seconds 	Lobbed
5 	300 	0 	175 	27 seconds 	325 damage 	38 	550 	Zombies at 11% health	1700 	1700 	+1.3x 	3 seconds 	Lobbed
6 	400 	0 	150 	25 seconds 	375 damage 	38 	550 	Zombies at 11% health	1700 	1700 	+1.3x 	2.75 seconds 	Lobbed
7 	500 	0 	150 	25 seconds 	375 damage 	40 	550 	Zombies at 11% health	1700 	1700 	+1.3x 	2.75 seconds 	Lobbed
8 	600 	0 	150 	25 seconds 	400 damage 	40 	600 	Zombies at 11% health	1700 	1700 	+1.3x 	2.75 seconds 	Lobbed
9 	800 	0 	150 	22 seconds 	400 damage 	40 	600 	Zombies at 13% health	1725 	1725 	+1.6x 	2.25 - 2.5 seconds	Lobbed
10 	1,000 	0 	125 	22 seconds 	400 damage 	42 	600 	Zombies at 13% health	1725 	1800 	+1.6x 	2.25 - 2.5 seconds	Lobbed
*Per projectile
Note: Its rainbow damage cannot be upgraded.
==Strategies==
Leprecorn, on its own, is a pretty average offensive plant. It's much weaker than other catapult plants like Cabbage-pult, costing 200 sun but only dealing 35 damage, but its ability to target lower health zombies first and produce coins from their destruction do make it a good option to assist plants and grind for coins. Leprecorn works quite well with piercing and splash damage plants like Bloomerang, Lightning Reed, and Laser Bean as they can clear out weaker zombies even quicker, allowing Leprecorn to shoot out rainbows more often. Due to the high amount of low health zombies in Neon Mixtape Tour, especially Punk Zombie, Glitter Zombie and MC Zom-B, Leprecorn excels at cleaning up the more annoying zombies and giving you room to breathe.
Magnet-shroom is another plant that pairs well with Leprecorn, due to removing metal objects such as Buckets and Knight Helmets and making those zombies weak targets for Leprecorn to pick off. In fact, Magnet-shroom might be better paired with this plant instead of other aoe plants since Magnet-shroom makes zombies weaker rather than chipping away at all zombies including the weaker ones. Zombies with higher health can be stalled out with defensive plants and plants like Spikeweed or Spikerock to lower their health before instantly killing it with the rainbows. This allows for Gargantuars to instantly be killed when it reaches 360 health, and more annoying zombies like Wizard and Octo zombies to be killed faster. Poison plants like Shadow-shroom and Goo Peashooter allows armoured zombies like Bucketheads and Knights to be dispatched even faster since poison ignores armour; while normal zombies will have their health drained even faster.
Leprecorn's Plant Food is a good defensive option as well since it essentially drops weaker Explode-o-Nuts that drop onto the zombies closest to your house. Since the pots of gold deal high damage upon dropping, then explode in a wide radius, it allows Leprecorn to drop zombie hordes and gives him more opportunities to use his rainbow attacks AND give you more coins.
==Gallery==
File:LeprecornHD.png|Leprecorn HD
File:Leprecorn2.png|Leprecorn Lawn
==Trivia==
*This is another contest entry from Krayleb, who hasn't been an active participant in contests recently.
*Leprecorn in his entirety is a sprite-stitch of different cards from Plants vs. Zombies Heroes. 
**His body is taken from Corn Dog, his facial hair and hat come from Leprechaun Imp, his Pot of Gold comes from the zombie trick of the same name, and his smile comes from High-Voltage Currant.