Winterflurry

Winterflurry is a seedium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 and an upcoming premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies: Save The World. She is tied to the Feastivus event and was first introduced on the 9.5 update. She creates snow flurries which become larger as they travel down the lane. The damage of the snow flurry is increased by 2DPS per half a tile that it travels, but the damage will cap at 50DPS and will not increase further.
Winterflurry, like most other ice plants, is immune to the freezing winds of Frostbite Caves, although unable to warm nearby plants.
==About==
Winterflurry costs 200 sun and her ability allows her to create snow flurries which get larger and deal more damage as it travels down the lane. Said snow flurries can chill all zombies in a 1x1 area, reducing their speed by half. They can also extinguish the flame of Explorer Zombie and Torchlight Zombie's torch and Firebreather Zombie's fire.
Winterflurry can be unlocked once the player obtains 200 seed packets of her, and the player can do so by playing Arena during her tournament named "Winterflurry's Snowy Season!" which is available on December 7, 2021 to January 9, 2022, playing Frostbite Caves levels and obtaining seed packets from pinatas, or by buying Winterflurry's Early Access Bundle which contains enough seed packets to unlock her.
==Origins==
Winterflurry is based on the Ilex verticillata, also known as winterberry, which is a species of holly native to eastern North America in the Unites States and southeast Canada.
Winterflurry is a portmanteau of winterberry, the plant it is based on, and flurry, which describes its ability to create snow flurries.
== Almanac Entry ==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food Effect===
When given plant food, Winterflurry will create a large snow flurry which heads towards the center of the lawn, chilling and damaging (100DPS) any zombies in its path. This snow flurry will then fire multiple chunks of snow on the lawn, dealing a heavy 300DPS per chunk and freezing zombies that are hit by one. These snow chunks can also slow zombies in a 1x1 area like snow flurries.
===Winter-mint Effect===
When Winter-mint is on the lawn, Winterflurry now deals 90DPS with a maximum of 140DPS, with snow flurries now gaining 5DPS per half a tile. Her plant food effect will now deal 250DPS heading towards the center of the lawn and ice chunks deal 500DPS.
===Level Upgrades===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge(Fast)	Toughness(Typical)	Special(Damage Increase)	Special(Damage Increase)	Plant Food Effect	Plant Food Effect	*Damage 	Chill Duration	Chill Area	Range
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge(Fast)	Toughness(Typical)	Increase per Tile 	Maximum Increase 	Damage 	Freeze Duration 	*Damage 	Chill Duration	Chill Area	Range
1 	0 	0 	200 	10 seconds 	300 DPS 	2DPS 	20DPS 	300DPS 	3s 	30DPS 	5s 	1x1 	Straight
2 	50 	0 	200 	10 seconds 	350 DPS 	2DPS 	20DPS 	300DPS 	3s 	35DPS 	6s 	1x1 	Straight
3 	100 	0 	200 	9 seconds 	400 DPS 	3DPS 	30DPS 	300DPS 	3s 	40DPS 	7s 	1x1 	Straight
4 	200 	0 	175 	9 seconds 	450 DPS 	3DPS 	30DPS 	400DPS 	4s 	45DPS 	7.5s 	1x1 	Straight
5 	300 	0 	175 	8 seconds 	500 DPS 	3DPS 	30DPS 	400DPS 	4s 	55DPS 	8s 	1x1 	Straight
6 	400 	0 	175 	7 seconds 	550 DPS 	4DPS 	40DPS 	400DPS 	4s 	65DPS 	9s 	1x1 	Straight
7 	500 	0 	175 	6 seconds 	600 DPS 	4DPS 	40DPS 	400DPS 	4s 	75DPS 	10s 	1x1 	Straight
8 	600 	0 	150 	5 seconds 	700 DPS 	4DPS 	40DPS 	500DPS 	5s 	80DPS 	10s 	1x1 	Straight
9 	800 	0 	150 	5 seconds 	800 DPS 	5DPS 	50DPS 	500DPS 	5s 	85DPS 	10s 	1x1 	Straight
10 	1,000 	0 	150 	5 seconds 	900 DPS 	5DPS 	50DPS 	500DPS 	5s 	90DPS 	10s 	1x1 	Straight
 	 	0 	 	 	 	 	 	 	5s 	 	 	1x1 	Straight
 	 	0 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	1x1 	Straight
 	 	0 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	1x1 	Straight
 	 	0 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	1x1 	Straight
 	 	0 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	1x1 	Straight
*Damage shown is its base damage. 
==Strategies==
Winterflurry should not be used as the player's primary or only offensive plant. By herself, she is not very reliable, as her firing rate is a bit slow and can only target one zombie at a time. Winterflurry is best used with piercing plants as they can take care of multiple zombies at once and protect Winterflurry from any zombie heading towards her. High-damage plants can also be used, as Winterflurry can help them and vice-versa. Winterflurry can slow down incoming zombies and let them recharge a little longer and possibly deal more damage, and they can protect Winterflurry while she is recharging. Avoid using her with fire plants, as they remove the chilling effect of Winterflurry.
To maximize the ability of snow flurries to gain more damage, Winterflurries must be planted at the leftmost column. This allows snow flurries to gain and most likely have maximum damage.
Her chilling ability allows her to group zombies. The player can place a random plant near a group of zombies to stall them, resulting in them being grouped in one tile, allowing Winterflurry to chill all of those zombies.
Her plant food effect is quite strong. Ice chunks also have a 1x1 tile AoE like snow flurries, meaning the player can also group zombies to be heavily damaged and frozen by them.
In Frostbite Caves, Winterflurry's plant food effect is a little less useful due to most zombies being immune to freezing. But, it can still be useful due to its heavy damage. As for the plant itself, she could be useful especially because of her immunity to the freezing winds.
Do not use Winterflurry in levels that contain Zombie Chickens, Ice Weasels, Zombie Turkeys, and Zombie Monkeys as their speed and the amount they spawn in can easily overwhelm her. Use melee plants or piercing plants instead to defeat them.
==Gallery==
File:WinterflurryHD.png|HD Winterflurry
File:WinterflurryCostumedHD.png|HD Winterflurry (costumed) (santa hat)
File:WinterflurryTile.png|Winterflurry in-game
File:WinterflurryTileCostumed.png|Winterflurry in-game (costumed)
File:WinterflurrySP.png|Winterflurry's seed packet
File:WinterflurrySPImitated.png|Winterflurry's seed packet (imitated)
File:WinterflurryCreatingHD.png|Winterflurry creating a snow flurry (HD)
File:WinterflurryCreating.png|Winterflurry creating a snow flurry in-game
File:WinterflurryAttackingHD.png|Winterflurry attacking (HD)
File:WinterflurryAttacking.png|Winterflurry attacking in-game
File:WinterflurryZenGarden.jpg|Winterflurry in the Zen Garden
File:WinterflurryProjectileHD.png|Winterflurry's projectile (HD)
File:WinterflurryPremiumBG.jpg|Winterflurry in a premium background
File:WinterflurryPremiumTile.png|Winterflurry in a premium tile
==Trivia==
===General===
*This is an entry for the Feastivus Contest 2021.
*The creator's entry was supposed to be a different plant, Wintergleam, which is based on the wintergreen. Wintergleam had two versions:
**The original Wintergleam, which would emit heat and damage nearby zombies.
**The second Wintergleam, which would shoot berries but with the added benefit of glowing in the dark, lighting up dark places.
**The original was scrapped because it sounded like a Phat Beet but with heat, and the second one was scrapped because it sounded like a Peashooter but with berries, and its glow-in-the-dark function is not needed in any of the worlds in the game (Plants vs. Zombies 2).
*Winterflurry was intended to have a different almanac entry:
**"Plants always think that me and Inferno are similar," says Winterflurry. "But we're different, okay? He pushes back and burn zombies. And I chill and damage zombies. He creates tornadoes, I create snow flurries. There's a VERY big dfference!"
**It was scrapped due to the creator not liking it.
*The creator almost didn't want to join this year's Feastivus Contest due to not knowing what to do with her art and being busy. But, the creator joined anyway.
*Her almanac entry refers to the famous fast food restaurant McDonald's and their ice cream brand McFlurry.
===Plants vs. Zombies 2===
*Unlike most plants, Winterflurry has a unique animation for being unlocked and levelling up. Her Zen Garden animation shows her shivering, meanwhile in her unlocking and levelling up animation, she is shown jumping up in the air.
**This is also the only time where we can see the bottom part of Winterflurry that's covered in snow.
*Her seed packet does not show the snowflakes that are floating around her.
===Plants vs. Zombies: Save The World===
*Winterflurry is an upcoming plant in the game.
Category:Chill Plants
Category:Slowing plants
Category:Attacking plants
Category:Winter-mint Family plants
Category:Ice Plants
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