Potato Vine

Potato vine is a plant in Plants vs Zombies 2: It's about time. It creates Potato Mines on random tiles on the lawn every once in a while and can be planted on top of other plants.
== Origins ==
It is based on a potato plant (Solanum tuberosum) a plant in the Solanaceae family whose tubercles are commonly known as potatoes. The second name comes from its ability to be planted on top of other plants as many other plants with this ability are called vines.
== Ways of obtaining ==
Potato Vine can be obtained by collecting 200 of its seed packets during Potato Vine's Starchy Season in Arena or buying them from the shop.
== Upgrades ==
=== Plant Food effect ===
When fed with Plant Food, Potato Vine creates Primal Potato Mines instead of normal ones for the rest of the level. Already created Potato Mines are unaffected. The plant inside Potato Vine also activates its Plant Food effect.
=== Bombard-mint effect ===
When boosted by Bombard-mint its firing speed is reduced to 3 seconds, no matter of its level or if it was fed Plant Food or not. The Potato mines or the Primal Potato mines it creates are also affected by Bombard-mint.
=== Level Upgrades ===
Level	Seed packets	Coins	Sun cost	Recharge	Toughness	Firing Speed	Potato Mine Level
1 	0 	- 	225 	15 	150 	20 	2
2 	50 	- 	225 	14.5 	200 	19 	4
3 	100 	- 	225 	14 	250 	18 	6
4 	150 	- 	200 	13.5 	300 	17 	8
5 	200 	- 	200 	13 	350 	16 	10
6 	300 	- 	200 	12.5 	400 	15 	12
7 	400 	- 	175 	12 	450 	14 	14
8 	600 	- 	175 	11.5 	500 	13 	16
9 	800 	- 	175 	11 	550 	12 	18
10 	1000 	- 	150 	10 	600 	11 	20
Note: The Primal Potato Mines created by a Potato Vine fed with Plant Food are at the same level as the Potato Vine itself.
== Overview ==
Potato Vine is an infinite Potato Mine producer. It has a faster recharge speed than Potato Mine itself and it can be planted on other plants. As a bonus it prefers launching Potato Mines on the four rightmost columns. If all the tiles in those columns are full it will just launch Potato Mines on any tile.
However, it still has downsides. It doesn't care about any zombie, so the Potato Mines are thrown completely random. Also, the Potato Mines it launches are grounded plants, so they prove useless in many situations.
== Strategies ==
Potato Vines can be very powerful plants if used correctly. They can easily kill compact groups of zombies so it's advised to use Sweet Potato or Garlic. In addition, its Plant Food effect makes it even more efficient at taking down groups of zombies. In Far Future it is very useful against robot zombies due to their large hitbox and slow movement speed.
It has very low health though, so it's a good choice to plant it farther from the zombie horde. Pay attention to Prospector Zombies or any launched Imps, as they can quickly eat the Potato Vine. The Potato Mines it throws are completely useless against flying zombies as they will just float over them. Do not use this in tandem with Spikeweed or Spikerock because it cannot create Potato Mines on them and it will do nothing if the board is full of plants. Also, avoid bringing this in Pirate Seas or Big Wave Beach levels due to the lack of plantable tiles for Potato Mines. It's a poor choice in "Don't lose more than x plants" levels since Potato Mines count as lost plants.
== Trivia ==
* This plant was created because there are no new plants in Bombard-mint's family
* Although Potato Mines can be planted inside vines, it will not launch Potato Mines inside one due to the fact that zombies will have to eat the vine first in order to trigger the Potato Mine
* The Potato Mines it throws are lobbed projectiles,but they cannot be deflected by Parasol Zombie since they target a tile and not a zombie
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