Orange Juice

Orange Juice is a seedium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 and was first introduced on the 10.4.1 update. 
He costs 150 sun, and he fires orange juice at zombies every 3 seconds, dealing light damage and slowing down zombies by 20% for 2 seconds.
Once he deals a total of 50DPS to zombies, he moves on to his next stage, which reduces his damage but slows down zombies more. He has five stages:
Stage	Damage	Slowing Effect
1 	15DPS 	20%
2 	12DPS 	30%
3 	9DPS 	40%
4 	7DPS 	50%
5 	5DPS 	60%
Orange Juice can be unlocked by getting 500 crowns during his Arena Tournament named "Orange Juice's Vitamin C-son!" which runs from July to August 5th, 2023. He can also be unlocked by getting 250 seed packets for him, that can be obtained through his Arena Season, Modern Day piñatas, or during a Plant of the Week feature.
Him and Hot Cocoa are both featured in the "Breakfast Buddies Bundle" which is available on the Store for $9.99.
==Origins==
Orange Juice is based off of citrus sinensis, commonly known as orange or sweet orange, a small evergreen tree originally domesticated in subtropical Asia.
Orange Juice's name is a portmanteau of orange, the plant he is based on, and orange juice, a liquid extract of the orange tree fruit, produced by squeezing or reaming oranges.
The name of his arena tournament is a pun on the words Vitamin C and season.
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food Effect===
Orange Juice fires ten juice blobs that deal 50DPS and slow down zombies by 60%, while also temporarily upgrading to Stage 5 for 15 seconds. If he is already Stage 5, he will only fire blobs. When the 15 seconds is up, Orange Juice will return to his original stage.
===Contain-mint Effect===
Orange Juice's juice blobs gain +10DPS for each stage. His slowing effect is increased by 15% more for each stage and lasts for 3 more seconds. His Plant Food effect gains +50DPS for each blob and now slows down zombies by 75%.
==Strategies==
Orange Juice seems a bit weak at first, but when you get a couple of them to Stage 5, they can be a pretty useful asset.
Orange Juice is meant to be a secondary/support attacker, so do not use him as your main or your only attacker on the lawn. His Stage 1 DPS is the same as a Peashooter, but with a slower firing rate. His later stages also decrease his damage, so he will struggle to kill even a single basic.
Due to his slow firing rate, and the fact that he can only target one zombie at a time, he struggles with large hordes of zombies even with his slowdown effect. This is another reason why he also should not be used as the player's main attacker. However, piercing plants can be paired with him to deal with this.
He can be paired with one-shotters such as Citron and Ultomato. Not only does he help chip away some of the zombies' health, his slowdown effect gives much needed time for them to charge up their attack and finish off zombies.
Unlike ice plants, Orange Juice synergizes well with fire plants because they do not remove the slowdown effect inflicted by him. 
==Gallery==
===General===
File:OrangeJuiceHD.png|HD Orange Juice 
== Trivia ==
* Before turning into what he is now, Orange Juice was supposed to be a radioactive orange that poisons zombies.
* Orange Juice was supposed to have ten stages, but the creator thought that that was too much, so he reduced it to five stages.
* He was also supposed to defeat a certain amount of zombies instead of dealing a certain amount of damage to upgrade to his next stage.
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