Thundercloudberry

Thundercloudberry is the upgrade plant of Electric Blueberry unlocked in Lightning Ridge's level path E (more about level paths here) in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World, after beating Level 5E. Every 24 seconds, Thundercloudberry will summon a thunderstorm that will enable controlled lightning strikes on five tiles strategically chosen by Thundercloudberry themselves. These lightning strikes are just like the ones from Lightning Ridge, instantly killing anything that is within the tile and creating a crater that lasts 45 seconds, or, if it was an electric plant, activates the Plant Food effect of said plant (you can differentiate these lightning strikes from the ones in Lightning Ridge because Thundercloudberry's lightning has an orange hue rather than a cyan hue).
The way Thundercloudberry selects which tiles to strike is by checking for the presence of zombies and electric plants and how close they are to Thundercloudberry. Thundercloudberry will, by default, aim for the closest two electric plants and closest three zombies to strike, and tends to prioritize plants and zombies in their lane, and will strike electric plants/zombies that are present in their lane even if there are other electric plants/zombies in a different lane that are distanced similarly from Thundercloudberry. Thundercloudberry also tends to prioritize zombies with more than 20% of their health or more than 100 DPS of health than those with lower, and, if there is a shortage of electric plants for Thundercloudberry to strike, Thundercloudberry will divert their lightning strikes to strike more zombies instead, and the same for vice versa (if there is a shortage of both, Thundercloudberry will summon less lightning strikes, and if no electric plants or zombies are present, Thundercloudberry will wait for at least one of the two to appear before summoning the thunderstorm).
==Origins==
Thundercloudberry's name is a portmanteau of the words 'thundercloud' and 'cloudberry'. The cloudberry (scientific name being Rubus chamaemorus) is the berry that Thundercloudberry is based on. 'Thundercloud' refers to Thundercloudberry's ability to control lightning strikes from thunderclouds.
==Almanac entry==
Thundercloudberry
Sun cost: 300
Recharge: Slow
Summons controlled lightning strikes which work just like those in Lightning Ridge.
What are the advantages of being able to have the power to control full-blown thunderstorms? Well, according to Thundercloudberry, the best advantage yet is being able to earn the nickname Zeusberry. "I mean c'mon, Zeusberry! It sounds cool, don't ya think?"
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food power===
When fed Plant Food, Thundercloudberry will release numerous electric sparks in a 5×5 area that lightly damages (for 20 DPS) and supercharges all zombies (making them take twice as much damage from further electric attacks) caught in the electric field before summoning a thunderstorm that strikes lightning on 20 different random tiles on the lawn in a rapid succession (these tiles will exclude all tiles that contain non-electric plants and have an increased chance to strike zombies rather than empty tiles).
===Stat tiers*===
Stat 	Tier 1 	Tier 2 	Tier 3 	Tier 4	Tier 5
Toughness 	50 DPS 	200 DPS	300 DPS 	
400 DPS
(Unlock cost: 1 Toughness Token)	
550 DPS
(Unlock cost: 2 Toughness Tokens)
Sun cost 	400 sun	350 sun	300 sun 	
250 sun
(Unlock cost: 1 Sun cost Token)	
200 sun
(Unlock cost: 2 Sun cost Tokens)
Recharge**	N/A 	N/A 	30 seconds	
N/A 	
N/A
* - Thundercloudberry attacks by summoning the exact same lightning strikes that are used in Lightning Ridge and do not have directly modifiable strengths or firing rates.
** - Upgrade plants cannot have upgraded nor degraded recharges.
More about the upgrading system here.
==Strategies==
Thundercloudberry is huge upgrade from Electric Blueberry because, despite their doubled cooldown time, Thundercloudberry is able to summon 5 lightning strikes, and also very cleverly uses some of them to even activate the Plant Food abilities of electric plants whenever possible (which proves good for defenses that utilize electric plant synergy, which is also recommended). They are also strategic in a way that they tend to prioritize those zombies that still have a significant amount of health left, which avoids the unnecessary use of lightning strikes on low-health zombies which could easily be defeated by other plants in the meantime. But despite their powerful ability, however, due to their high cost and the fact that both Thundercloudberry and Electric Blueberry (their downgrade which they require to be planted on) have slow recharges, Thundercloudberry takes a long time to set up, and, just like their downgrade, they need to be supported by other plants rather than being used as a main plant, so this needs to be kept in mind before deciding to use Thundercloudberry in any defense.
==Gallery==
Thundercloudberry.png|Thundercloudberry (HD)
Thundercloudberry remake.png|Remake by Endy
Thundercloudberry's concept art.png|Thundercloudberry's concept art by Bean
Thundercloudberry's costume.png|Costume
Thundercloudberry's seed packet.png|Seed packet
==Art credits==
*Credits to Bean for the concept art.
*The final design was done by someone who does not wish to be credited.
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