Bloom Banshee

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Bloom Banshee is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. She is a seasonal plant, tied to Bloom Banshee's Shrieking Season in . She is a high-health defensive plant that can resist many zombies attacks, but emits spooky fog that turns zombies in a 3x3 area around herself invisible. Invisible zombies can't be seen directly by plants, but they can be indirectly damaged through splash damage, attacks that target a specific tile vs. a specific zombie, and through power-ups. Projectiles will pass through invisible zombies, because otherwise the invisibility wouldn't really mean anything. This means that, while she can stall zombies for a long time, those zombies can't be easily damaged.
Since Bloom Banshee isn't exactly a physical plant, she's got a few interesting properties.
*She can be planted on water in .
*She cannot be carried away by Zombie Parrot.
*She cannot be crushed by crashing zombies. If or run into her, they will stop pushing ice blocks or the arcade machine and just go ahead.
*She cannot be transformed into sheep by and can't be covered by octopus from .
*She cannot be pulled by and can also block him from pulling other plants behind her.
*She is immune to freezing winds in and snowballs from .
==Origins==
	Bloom Banshee's name is not based on a particular plant but instead a combination of "Bloom" and a "Banshee", which is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening. Her name is connected to the mythologically important tumuli or "mounds" that dot the Irish countryside, which are known as síde (singular síd) in Old Irish.
	Bloom Banshee is visually inspired by a ghost, which is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes to realistic, lifelike forms.
== Almanac Entry ==
== Upgrades ==
===Plant Food Power===
When fed Plant Food, Bloom Banshee winds up for 3 seconds and then strikes, draining 40% Toughness from all zombies in a 3x4 area in front of her and adds three times the stolen Toughness to her own (for example, a single Basic Zombie loses 76 Toughness, and then Bloom Banshee gains 228 Toughness). If the zombie has more than 1000 Toughness, she will only gain twice the stolen Toughness. Extra Toughness has no limit, ignores zombie armor, and can exceed her regular max Toughness. A maximum of 20 zombies can be affected, specifically the 20 zombies with the highest Toughness in the area.
=== Reinforce-mint Effect ===
When boosted with , Bloom Banshee's toughness is increased by 6000 damage for the duration of the mint.	Visual representation of Bloom Banshee's Plant Food range
==Upgrade Levels==
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge(Mediocre)	Toughness	Plant Food Power(Drain)
1 	0 	0 	75 	30 sec 	8000 	40%
2 	10 	1,000 	75 	29 sec 	8500 	42%
3 	75 	5,000 	70 	28 sec 	9000 	44%
4 	200 	10,000	70 	27 sec 	9500 	46%
5 	400 	20,000	65 	26 sec 	10000 	48%
6 	750 	30,000	65 	24 sec 	11000 	50%
7 	1,000 	40,000	60 	23 sec 	12000 	52%
8 	1,250 	50,000	60 	22 sec 	13000 	54%
9 	1,500 	60,000	55 	21 sec 	14000 	57%
10 	2,000 	75,000	50 	20 sec 	15000 	60%
===Mastery upgrades===
*Chance to Boost
*Toughness Bonus
==History==
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==Strategies==
Bloom Banshee is a very cost-effective wall, costing only 75 sun while having the same amount of Toughness as a . This does however come at the cost of making nearby zombies invisible and invulnerable, which shifts her role slightly from being a purely defensive plant who could be used to keep zombies at bay while plants attack them to something more like a staller who can buy you time but does not allow for the zombies attacking her or even the zombies around her in the area to be damaged. Bloom Banshee's spooky fog affects an area around her, so if the zombies are already invisible you can plant more Bloom Banshees in the fog to have more high-Toughness barriers with less and less of an individual downside per plant.
In terms of Bloom Banshee's Plant Food power, which benefits greatly from there being a large number of bulky zombies like or to drain Toughness from. Using plants that can move zombies around the lawn like or even can be useful to maximize both the amount of damage Bloom Banshee can do as well as the bonus Toughness she can gain. Bloom Banshee does not care about armor, so even if you've done something terribly wrong and your lawn is covered in a great herd of several thousand , Bloom Banshee's benefits will be minimal.
==Demonstration==
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==Costumes==
== Gallery ==
BloomBanshee.png|Bloom Banshee HD
BloomBansheeDegrade1.png|First degrade
BloomBansheeDegrade2.png|Second degrade
BloomBansheeDegrade3.png|Third degrade
BansheeFog.png|Bloom Banshee's spooky fog
BloomBansheeCostume1.png|Bloom Banshee's costume
BloomBansheeCostume2.png|Bloom Banshee's first degrade with costume
BloomBansheeCostume3.png|Bloom Banshee's second degrade with costume
BloomBansheeCostume4.png|Bloom Banshee's third degrade with costume
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