Sword Fern

Sword Fern is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He shoots blue arrows that increases the damage a zombie takes, an armored zombie will take more damage.
Sword Fern shoots electrifying blue arrows that pass through zombies in his lane. The blue arrows doesn't deal any damage but if the zombie gets hit by enough amount of his projectiles, the zombie will start taking extra damage. 
If the zombie gets hit by 3 of Sword Fern's projectile, the zombie will take an extra 20 dps of damage if it takes damage. And everytime it gets hit by 3 projectiles, it will take another extra 20 dps of damage. 
The zombie will also glows a faint blue light if it is affected by Sword Fern's projectile.
However, if an unarmored zombie gets hit by 9 of his projectiles, then the zombie will stop getting affected by its projectiles, unless Sword Fern is at Level 10.
Sword Fern acts differently towards armored zombies, as instead of capping at 9 projectiles at level 1-9, it caps at 33 projectiles instead, which means armored zombies will be more easier to defeat.
Also, if there are armored zombies on Sword Fern's lane, his reload time will be 0.75 seconds instead of 1.5 seconds and his plant food power will deal double damage.
== Origins ==
Sword Fern is based on the real life plant with the same name (Polystichum munitum), is an evergreen fern native to western North America.
== Almanac Entry ==
Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.
== Upgrades ==
===Plant Food effect===
When given Plant Food, Sword Fern will rapidly shoot 5 sharp arrows that electrifies all zombies in its lane and adjacent lanes. The arrows will deal an extra 300 dps if Sword Fern is Level 1.
===Fila-mint effect===
When boosted by Fila-mint, Sword Fern will shoot sharp arrows similar to its plant food effect instead of its normal arrows for as long as the effect lasts.
===Level upgrade===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge (Mediocre)	Toughness (Typical)	Extra Damage	Plant Food Power (Damage)	Extra Damage Cap
1 	0 	0 	225 	25 seconds 	300 dps 	20 dps 	300 dps 	
9 hits (unarmored)
33 hits (armored)
2 	10 	1000 	225 	25 seconds 	325 dps 	30 dps 	350 dps 	
9 hits (unarmored)
33 hits (armored)
3 	25 	2500 	225 	25 seconds 	350 dps 	40 dps 	400 dps 	
9 hits (unarmored)
33 hits (armored)
4 	50 	5000 	225 	22 seconds 	375 dps 	50 dps 	425 dps 	
9 hits (unarmored)
33 hits (armored)
5 	100 	10,000 	225 	22 seconds 	400 dps 	65 dps 	475 dps 	
9 hits (unarmored)
33 hits (armored)
6 	200 	20,000 	225 	22 seconds 	450 dps 	80 dps 	500 dps 	
9 hits (unarmored)
33 hits (armored)
7 	400 	30,000 	200 	20 seconds 	475 dps 	95 dps 	525 dps 	
9 hits (unarmored)
33 hits (armored)
8 	800 	50,000 	200 	19 seconds 	525 dps 	105 dps 	550 dps 	
9 hits (unarmored)
33 hits (armored)
9 	1,200 	75,000 	200 	18 seconds 	550 dps 	110 dps 	600 dps 	
9 hits (unarmored)
33 hits (armored)
10 	1,600 	100,000	175 	16 seconds 	600 dps 	125 dps 	675 dps 	
12 hits (unarmored)
39 hits (armored)
== Strategies ==
Sword Fern is very good to use with supporting plant since itself cannot do damage and renders it useless. Sword Fern is also not effective with plants like Citron since it only shoots one projectile and takes a longer time to be able to be used again, and the extra damage is pretty low.
Sword Fern is quite effective to use with plants that shoot multiple projectiles like Repeater or a maxed-out Pea Pod, since zombies will take more damage.
Sword Fern is uneffective against Gargantuars or zombies like the Jurrasic Bully since they don't wear armor and they will only take an extra 60 dps if it takes damage.
== Gallery ==
Sword Fern (Pramtheicekitten).png|HD Sword Fern
Sword Fern Costumed.png|HD Costumed Sword Fern
Sword Fern Tile.png|Sword Fern in the almanac
Sword Fern SP.png|Sword Fern's Seed Packet
Sword Fern SP w:Sun.png|Sword Fern's Seed Packet with Sun Cost
Sword Fern Concept.png|Sword Fern's Concept Art
== Trivia ==
*Sword Fern used to be called Rosord but was later changed due to being too similar to Zorrose, a plant from PvZ2C.
*Sword Fern body is based on Enforce-mint.
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