Snake Fruit

Snake Fruit is an upcoming plant being introduced in the 11.0.1 update in Plants vs. Zombies 2 and the 3.2.1 update of the Chinese version. He is a gemium plant that can be purchased from the in-game shop for 100 Gems in the international version, and a plant obtained from unlocking Jurassic Marsh in the Chinese version. 
When planted, Snake Fruit fires off 3 snakes at the strongest 3 zombies on screen. If zombies are of equal strength (health), the snakes will target the closest zombies to your house. Each snake deals 1000 damage and does not have any splash damage or debuff applied. The snakes also fire in 0.5 second intervals. When the third snake fires, the inside flesh of Snake Fruit is also fired out to a random zombie on the lawn. This flesh has 1 health and deals no damage upon contact. When the zombie eats this flesh, they will be healed by 30% of their health. Additionally, they will gain 15% movement speed.
Snake Fruit's seed packets are obtainable from the Daily and Fruit Plant piñatas, and from the Mesopotamian Riverside piñata, in the international version. He can be leveled up by obtaining 550 and 600 stars respectively.
==Origins==
Snake Fruit is based on the salak fruit, commonly referred to as the snakeskin fruit or snake fruit. It is a fruit native to the Java and Sumatra Islands in Indonesia, growing from salacca palms.
The fruit gets the 'snake fruit' name from the skin's resemblance in look and texture to real snakeskin. Go figure.
==Appearance==
Snake Fruit itself is an off-whitish fruit flesh, bearing a shape similar to that of a teardrop or pear. He is constricted by three small brownish boa constrictors, as a play on his 'snake fruit' nickname.
When applying his costume in the international and Chinese versions of PvZ2, the constrictors gain small palm leaves on their heads and their color slightly brightens.
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Level upgrades===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades	
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge(Slow)	Damage 	
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge(Slow)	Damage 	
1 	0 	0 	100 	22 seconds 	1000 dps	
2 	10 	1,000 	100 	21.5 seconds 	1100 dps	
3 	25 	2,500 	100 	21 seconds 	1200 dps	
4 	50 	5,000 	75 	20.5 seconds 	1400 dps	
5 	100 	10,000 	75 	20 seconds 	1600 dps	
6 	200 	20,000 	75 	19 seconds 	1800 dps	
7 	350 	30,000 	75 	18 seconds 	2100 dps	
8 	500 	50,000 	75 	17 seconds 	2400 dps	
9 	750 	75,000 	75 	16 seconds 	2700 dps	
10 	1,000 	100,000	50 	15 seconds 	3000 dps	
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===Level upgrades===
===Arma-mint effect===
When an Arma-mint is on the lawn, Snake Fruit's snakes do an additional 800 dps, and his snakes fire instantly.
===Costumed===
When his costume is equipped in the Chinese version of PvZ2, Snake Fruit will gain an additional snake, and his flesh gains a snake that will strangle the first zombie that tries to eat the flesh.
==Strategies==
Snake Fruit is a very strong plant when it comes to reliably dispersing of strong zombies. His cheap price allows him to be easily accessible, and he synergizes well with many other plants. Specifically, when used with other Arma-mint plants like Melon-pult and Stickybomb Rice, he is very good at taking out zombies that they may struggle with.
He also synergizes relatively well with strategies built around weaker, "strength in numbers" plants like Lightning Reed. Plants like these can struggle against bulky zombies like Brickhead Zombies and Gargantuars. However, he can provide a boost in damage to assist these plants against the stronger undead.
Likely his greatest strength. however, is his incredible potential for the early-game. When getting down your sun-producers, it may be difficult at times to kill the hoard at the same time. However, his low price, combined with high damage, allows you to kill the early hoard without busting a sweat. Plus, his relatively decent recharge means you should be covered for the first few swarms of zombies.
It's important to note that Snake Fruit is not without his downsides, his main one being his side effect of dropping the beneficial flesh randomly. If trying to target stronger zombies like the aforementioned Brickheads, they could actually regain some health back and benefit with a couple buffs to undo some progress this plant made.
Another downside would be his lack of crowd control. Snake Fruit does not have any attacks that directly affects groups of zombies at his base form. This can mean when trying to use him as a method of crowd control, you'd likely have more success with a Cherry Bomb or Primal Potato Mine.
==Trivia== 
*This plant was created by Orthodontist Zombie.
*This is the second plant themed around the Salak palm (kinda).
**The first belongs to Salak palm, created by PlanterzCreatorz in 2013.
*This is my first article in a year!
**If you're wondering (which you're not), the last article I created is here.
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