Grody Grape

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Grody Grape is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. She is a seasonal plant, tied to Grody Grape's Noxious Season in . She is an offensive plant who sends toxic fumes down the lane, which deal constant damage to zombies as they pass by and have infinite pierce, and those fume clouds are fired every 5.35-5.5 seconds. The fumes cover a full tile in area (0.5 tiles to the left and right as well as up and down to total a full tile), and pass down the lane at a rate of 1 tile every 2 seconds. Zombies standing in the fume cloud will take 20 damage every 0.1 seconds, which stops the moment they're no longer in contact - to maximize damage, you'll want to keep zombies in the damage zone for as long as possible.
The fume cloud inflicts a stalling effect similar to that of which slows zombies down by 50%, and lingers for about 5 seconds after contact is stopped. If the target isn't moving, an example being if they're preoccupied eating a wall plant or some other plant, it will take 20 ticks of damage, or 400 damage total, per cloud. The average zombie, who takes 5 seconds to travel a tile, will take some amount of damage that is less than if they were stationary. Do you want to know exactly how much damage they'd take? Do you? Well, figure it out yourself. I'm not a math person.
Fume clouds can be blown faster by or , which is absolutely not a good thing by any means, at least under normal circumstances. Since the cloud is going to be zooming off the screen, it's going to be dealing far less damage than it normally would. There are, however, some potential edge cases where you really need to apply the slowing effect to a whole lane of zombies very quickly, but Hurrikale already does that and there's better ways to stall lanes. But it's funny. To use this incredibly powerful attacker you must give up one of the other most broken plants.
Starting at level 5, Grody Grape's fume clouds will deal 25% more damage to grid items, such as tombstones, surfboards, or octopi. The damage boost increases as Grody Grape is upgraded further.
==Origins==
	Grody Grape is based on a grape, a term referring to fruiting berry of vines belonging to the genus Vitis.
	Grody Grape's name is a combination of "grape", referencing the fact that she is based on a rape, and "grody", which means very unpleasant or disgusting and references her toxic capabilities. The main inspiration for the name was an ability in called .
	Grody Grape's ability to attack by creating clouds that deal constant damage was inspired by the Legendary Upgrade in Battle for Neighborville. Except in this case, it's not steam that's being blasted; it's noxious fumes. Now you're starting to understand what makes this grape so "grody", aren't you!
== Almanac Entry ==
== Upgrades ==
===Plant Food Effect===
When fed Plant Food, Grody Grape sends a giant fume cloud down three lanes which has a hitbox of 3x3 tiles instead of just one. The fume cloud deals 20 damage of damage every 0.1s, meaning that stationary targets would take a total of 1200 damage. It also inflicts a slightly more potent slowing effect which still acts as a 50% slow but lingers for 15 seconds instead of just 5 seconds. The giant fume cloud can still be blown away by or , so be careful!
=== Ail-mint Effect ===
When boosted with , Grody Grape's fume clouds are fired every 2.35-2.5 seconds instead of every 5.35-5.5 seconds and they float down the lane at half the usual speed for the duration of the mint.
==Upgrade Levels==
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Damage 	Fume Cloud Vertical Reach	Fume Cloud Horizontal Reach	Zombie Slow	Cloud Travel Speed	Grid Item Damage Bonus	Plant Food Power(Giant Cloud Damage)
1 	0 	0 	300 	15 sec 	300 	20 	0.5 tiles 	0.5 tiles 	50% 	2 sec 	 	20
2 	10 	1,000 	300 	14 sec 	350 	20 	0.5 tiles 	0.5 tiles 	50% 	2 sec 	 	20
3 	75 	5,000 	275 	13 sec 	400 	22 	0.5 tiles 	0.5 tiles 	55% 	2 sec 	 	22
4 	200 	10,000	275 	12 sec 	450 	22 	0.5 tiles 	0.5 tiles 	55% 	2.25 sec 	 	22
5 	400 	20,000	250 	10 sec 	550 	22 	0.5 tiles 	0.6 tiles 	55% 	2.25 sec 	25% 	22
6 	750 	30,000	250 	10 sec 	600 	24 	0.5 tiles 	0.6 tiles 	60% 	2.25 sec 	50% 	24
7 	1,000 	40,000	225 	7 sec 	650 	24 	0.5 tiles 	0.6 tiles 	60% 	2.5 sec 	75% 	24
8 	1,250 	50,000	225 	7 sec 	700 	26 	0.5 tiles 	0.6 tiles 	60% 	2.5 sec 	100% 	26
9 	1,500 	60,000	200 	7 sec 	800 	26 	0.5 tiles 	0.6 tiles 	65% 	2.5 sec 	125% 	26
10 	2,000 	75,000	175 	5 sec 	900 	28 	0.5 tiles 	0.75 tiles 	65% 	2.75 sec 	150% 	28
===Mastery upgrades===
*Chance to Boost
*Damage Pierce
==History==
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==Strategies==
Grody Grape has a massive damage output for her comparatively low sun cost, making her an excellent choice in Last Stand levels. On her own, Grody Grape is more than capable of handling but can sometimes struggle to take out more, even with her built-in slow effect, but she excels when combined with other plants. Her clouds synergize greatly with wall plants, such as or , as they will keep zombies from moving around too much and will maximize the amount of damage that they take. An even better synergy is with knockback plants like or , as they can allow zombies to be hit by the same fume cloud twice for even more damage. In the case of Blockoli, the knockback paired with the stun means those zombies will be in for a world of pain.
Zombies that are already stationary, such as or , will take massive damage from Grody Grape and can be defeated quickly. The slower the zombie moves, the more damage Grody Grape will be able to rack up - fast-moving zombies such as will be safer than slow-moving zombies such as . This also applies to stationary grid items, such as tombstones, and that power is only amplified as Grody Grape is upgraded since it gains bonus damage to those grid item targets starting at level 5. Not only will all of Grody Grape's other stats being improving, but it will become an even better counter to grid items - such as those pesky giant tombstones in Arena.
Grody Grape uniquely has some anti-synergies, for example with Blover or Hurrikale. Those plants will blow Grody Grape's fume clouds down the lane at rapid speeds in a similar fashion to how they blow away flying zombies, which applies the slowing effect to all of the zombies but won't deal much (if any) damage to them. This also applies to the Plant Food effect's giant fume cloud, but due to how large that cloud is it will still deal some amount of damage. This means you'll want to be careful using those kinds of blowing plants in a strategy where you're also running Grody Grape.
==Demonstration==
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== Gallery ==
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GrodyGoooP.png|Grody Grape HD
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GrodyCostume1.png|Grody Grape's fourth costume (Peashooter)
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==Trivia==
*Grody Grape first appeared in Plants vs. Zombies: Road Trip with a surprisingly similar ability and design.
**Before this page was renovated in 2023, the ability was completely different: it exploded and intoxicated plants in a 3x3 area, causing zombies that attacked them to be poisoned.
**This ability was reworked due to it overlapping with another plant, , and because the Road Trip ability generally worked better.
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