Cheater Straw

Cheater Straw is a plant in Plants vs Zombies and Plants vs Zombies 2. He lowers the defense of the zombies that bite him in a 50%, making the plants deal twice as much damage. However this doesn't work with insta kill plants, flame peas or overtime damage. In Plants vs Zombies 1 he can be unlocked by growing the tree of wisdom to 100 feet, in Plants vs Zombies 2, he occasionally appears in the store and can be purchased for 100 gems.
== Origins ==
Cheater straw is based on a strawberry. a widely grown hybrid species of the genus Fragaria.
== Strategy ==
Although it's not stated in the almanac description, something that is worth noticing is that each zombie can only bite Cheater Straw one time, making a single cheater straw able to affect 15 zombies. Cheater Straw makes a very good combo with Melon-pult or Winter Melon since they will deal a total of 8 nds and 2 nds of splash damage, this combo is specially good against gargantuars, since as stated in his description, he tricks the zombies into eating him, meaning that non-eating zombies will still eat him and the gargantuar will ignore him afterwards allowing him to infect more zombies. He is also worth using with either Kernel-pult since it will compensate this plant's weak damage output.
== Almanac Entry ==
== Upgrades ==
=== Plant food effect ===
He will shoot a beam of zombie-infecting juice down his lane, infecting all the zombies in it.
=== Ail-mint ===
When boosted by Ail-mint, Cheater Straw will also poison the zombies that bite him.
== Leveling up ==
Level	Sun Cost	Toughness	Recharge
1 	100 	750 	20 Seconds
2 	100 	810 	19 Seconds
3 	100 	870 	18 Seconds
4 	100 	930 	18 Seconds
5 	75 	990 	17 Seconds
6 	75 	1050 	16 Seconds
7 	75 	1110 	15 Seconds
8 	75 	1170 	14 Seconds
9 	75 	1230 	12 Seconds
10 	50 	1290 	10 Seconds
== Gallery ==
Cheater Straw.png|Transparent Cheater Straw
Imitater Cheater Straw.png|Transparent Imitater Cheater Straw
CheaterStrawSeedPacket1.png|Cheater Straw's seed packet in Plants vs Zombies 1
ImitaterCheaterStrawSeedPacket1.png|Imitater Cheater Straw's seed packet in Plants vs Zombies 1
CheaterStrawSeedPacket2.png|Cheater Straw's seed packet in Plants vs Zombies 2
ImitaterCheaterStrawSeedPacket2.png|Imitater Cheater Straw's seed packet in Plants vs Zombies 2
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