Arco-e-iristal

Arco-e-iristal is a plant obtained as a reward for complating the hard levels of in the . They are a tap-to-aim plant similar to and , the main difference is that Arco-e-iristal will rush to the opposite position and emit a pulse that damages nearby zombies: the distance traveled depends of how far was aimed in comparition to their original position. Arco-e-iristal stays on the same place for 3 seconds and then returns to their original position. After returning to their original position, Arco-e-iristal emits a rainbow light to announce that they can be launched again.
Arco-e-iristal is a flying plant, meaning that they can be placed on the tiles of Sky City and the water from BIg Wave Beach.
==About==
Like it was indicated before, Arco-e-iristal needs the player to set the angle and length of their travel by pulling back on them. When relased, Arco-e-iristal will rush into the oposite direction and acommodate to most suitable row. After that, they will emit a damaging pulse that deals 1200 damage on a 1x1 area, plus of 900 of splash damage on a 2x3 area in front of them.
Arco-e-iristal stays on the same place for 3 seconds, being vulnerable to being eaten by zombies; they have three visual states of degradation and can be healed with the use of Wall-nut First Aid. After 2 seconds Arco-e-iristal returns to their original position and after 0.2 seconds of delay, they emit a shiny light to announce that they can be used again.
The tile in wich Arco-e-iristal is placed counts as a plant iself, meaning that it can be planted on. Similar to Ghost Pepper, this square is totally ignored by zombies unless they return to it. In this case they can be targeted by most zombies again. 
==Origins==
Arco-e-iristal is based on the Combretum rotundifolium, also known as the monkey brush vine, a plant of the genus Combretum that can be found on some countries of South America. Their name is based on the portuguese words "arco-íris" (rainbow), "e" (and) and "cristal" (crystal).
Their design is partially based on Legeluga, a Legend Rare Cat on the gacha mobile game The Battle Cats. Legeluga's design was inspired by Killer Queen, a character from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.
Their ability is based on a cringy concept that the author of this page made when it was 5-6 years old, that concept was about a balloon plant similar to the actual but with an ability similar to Arco-e-iristal's.
==Almamac entry==
Note: The Almanac Entry is shown in English instead of Chinese 
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food effect===
When fed with Plant Food, Arco-e-iristal will move and target four random groups of zombies, if there are less than four zombies they can attack the same group for multiple times. Unlike the regular attack, this one deals the same damage on all the 2x3 area instead of dealing splash damage.
====Costumed====
With costume, the attacks made by Arco-e-iristal always relase seven stars when attacking, regardless of if they have been upgraded or not. 
===Level upgrades===
==Strategies==
Arco-e-iristal is a very versatile plant that can be used for multiple ways; first, it can deal with tough zombies like Buckethead, target potentially dangerous zombies like Wizard or Octo and deal with dangerous swarms of Chicken and Weasel. However, you need to be careful with two things: one is their 20 seconds recharge, limiting you of getting multiple of them during the first flags. The second one is the 3 seconds in wich they stand on place, making them vulnerable to attacks from zombies, specially instant-killing zombies like Gargantuar.
Due to thier elevated health, Arco-e-iristal can be used as a stalling plant to protect specific plants or to evoid zombies to enter to your house. They can also be used to block specific zombies; for example, they can be used to block All-Star's rushing, force zombies like Explodeing Zombie to use their abilities, or stall zombies like Jack-in-the-box to stop them to travel further in your defenses. 
==Trivia==
* Arco-e-iristal haves special interactions with the following zombies and elements:
** Tombstones, surfboards and tents created on their tile can't be destroyed, but continue blocking attacks and performing their abilities.
** Zombie Parrot can get bugged if Arco-e-iristal moves when they are being stolen.
** Qigong zombie can move them even if they are moving, same thing with Fisherman
** Mecha-Football is unable to push them.
** Wizard, Octo, Archmage and Witch can disable them, even if they are moving
** Other zombies can interact normaly with them when they are on the original tile and when they rest after launched.
* The phrase "Can't even have [REDACTED] on Sky City" is a reference to the Ohio memes that were popular arround 2023.
Category:Manually controlled plants