Berrycade

Berrycade is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduced in the 8.9.1 update, and an upcoming plant in Plants vs. Zombies: Save The World. She prevents your other plants from getting eaten.
== About ==
Berrycade costs 150 sun to plant, and Berrycade's main use is to protect other plants that are behind it. She can also lob seeds that deals 45 DPS. The seeds are poisonous, and they poison the zombie for 2 seconds, dealing 10 DPS per second. They also reduce the zombie's speed by a quarter.
Berrycade can absorb up to 2000 damage, which is half of what a Wall-nut could absorb. 
Berrycade can be unlocked for 100 seed packets, and the player can do so by playing her tournament named "Berrycade's Guarding Season" which was available from November 7 to December 9, 2020. If you missed it, you can obtain her seeds from Modern Day piñatas.
== Origins ==
Berrycade is based on yew berries, also known as taxus baccata.
The seeds of the yew berries are said to be poisonous, which relates to Berrycade's ability to poison zombies with its projectile.
Berrycade is a pun on berry, which is the plant that she is based on, and barricade, meaning to block or defend something. It is mostly used for controlling, blocking, and forcing the flow of traffic in a desired direction.
== Almanac Entry ==
== Upgrades ==
=== Plant Food effect ===
When given plant food, Berrycade will release 5 huge seeds that will land on random zombies on the lawn. She also gets an armor that can absorb an additional 2000 damage. The seeds will deal 450 damage.
=== Reinforce-mint's effect ===
When Reinforce-mint is on the lawn, Berrycade's seeds will now deal 100 DPS instead of 45, and she will now absorb an additional 4500 damage. Her plant food will now deal 900 damage, and will absorb 1000 more damage. The poison stays the same.
== Strategies ==
Berrycade is unreliable alone. Stalling plants can be used so Berrycade can have more time to attack the zombies. Stallia is a good option, as she can slow down the zombies, and could be better if she is Level 5 higher, because she can knockback zombies away from her. She can be really effective with Iceberg Lettuce, because this gives more time to Berrycade to attack the zombie without losing any health at all whatsoever.
In Lost City, she can be used to counter Excavator Zombies, but she should not be used alone against Parasol Zombies as they will simply deflect her projectiles.
She should not be used against quick zombies, because her firing rate is too slow, and there is a high chance that the projectile will miss the zombie and instead hits the ground. It is not advised to use her against zombies like Ice Weasels and Zombie Chickens because she is far too slow to kill all of them single-handedly.
Her poison can ignore the armor of zombies, which can be potentially useful and hurt the zombie a little bit. However, it is not advised since her poison is too weak and unlike Goo Peashooter, his poison attack can stack up to 25x. Goo Peashooter is a better option for armored zombies.
Don't use her against Jester Zombies, because her seeds are solid projectiles and can be deflected by him.
Berrycade, Pokra, and Headbutter Lettuce synergizes quite well together. If Berrycade is still reloading, they can take care of the zombies trying to approach her. Berrycade can also weaken the zombies, and they will finish off the zombies. Headbutter Lettuce's butter and Pokra's slowing effect can also massively help Berrycade as she can take her time to reload while the zombies are stunned. And lastly, she can serve as a wall to protect them from getting eaten.
== Gallery ==
File:BerrycadeTile.jpg|Berrycade on a tile.
File:BerrycadeTransparent.png|Berrycade without background.
File:BerrycadeArmor.png|Berrycade's plant food armor.
File:BerrycadePF.png|Berrycade's plant food effect.
File:BerrycadePBG.jpg|Berrycade on a premium background.
File:BerrycadeSP.png|Berrycade's seed packet.
File:BerrycadeAttack.png|Berrycade attacking 
File:BerrycadeOrigin.jpg|Yew berries, the plant Berrycade is based from.
== Trivia ==
* Despite being able to poison zombies, she is not in the Ail-mint family. And also, despite being somewhat a catapult, she is not in the Arma-mint family.
** Her main use is to defend other plants, so she is on the Reinforce-mint family.
* Her low health was based on how berries are softer than nuts, so logically Berrycade would be weaker than other defensive plants.
* Berrycade would've normally dealt 15 DPS.
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