Smash Potato

Smash Potato is a special-edition event plant introduced in Plants vs. Zombies 2 and released for the Food Fight 2020 contest as well as the plant featured in Smash Potato's Spud-Crushing Tournament.
Serving as a fusion between Banana Launcher, Squash, and Kiwibeast, Smash Potato will jump into any tile directed by the player and do heaps of damage to zombies there while creating shockwaves in a 3x5 radius that do heaps of damage to all zombies. Unlike Squash though, after attacking Smash Potato will jump back into his own spot and take a rest before being able to continue attacking after 20 seconds, so he serves as a reusable, high damage Squash.
== Origins ==
Smash Potato is based off of a regular potato, a root vegetable plant of the Solanaceae family, which is a major factor in a Thanksgiving Feast which is what this plant was designed for.
Smash Potato is a portmanteau on the word mash potato (a traditional Thanksgiving Dish) and smash as in to smash something which is what this plant does.
== Upgrades ==
=== Plant Food Effect ===
When fed Plant Food, Smash Potato will jump into the second lane near the start and cause heaps of damage, than the fourth lane to do the same, than the middle lane before returning to his original position and causing a shockwave there
=== Enforce-mint Effect ===
When boosted with Enforce-mint, Smash Potato's damage will be increased to +1000 NDS (Direct) and +600 NDS (Splash), and will have a reload time of 2 seconds between attacks
=== Level Upgrades ===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins 	Sun Cost	Recharge 	Toughness	Damage 	Recovery Time
1 	0 	0 	200 	15 seconds	300 dps 	400 NDS (direct)
100 NDS (splash)	20 seconds
2 	10 	1,000 	200 	13 seconds	300 dps 	400 NDS (direct)
100 NDS (splash)	20 seconds
3 	50 	2,000 	175 	13 seconds	300 dps 	400 NDS (direct)
100 NDS (splash)	20 seconds
4 	100 	4,000 	175 	13 seconds	350 dps 	500 NDS (direct)
200 NDS (splash)	20 seconds
5 	125 	6,000 	175 	13 seconds	350 dps 	500 NDS (direct)
200 NDS (splash)	16 seconds
6 	175 	8,000 	150 	10 seconds	350 dps 	500 NDS (direct)
200 NDS (splash)	16 seconds
7 	250 	10,000	150 	10 seconds	350 dps 	600 NDS (direct)
300 NDS (splash)	14 seconds
8 	350 	15,000	150 	10 seconds	380 dps 	600 NDS (direct)
300 NDS (splash)	14 seconds
9 	450 	20,000	125 	10 seconds	380 dps 	600 NDS (direct)
300 NDS (splash)	14 seconds
10 	800 	25,000	125 	8 seconds 	400 dps 	700 NDS (direct)
400 NDS (splash)	10 seconds
== Almanac Entry ==
== Strategies ==
Smash Potato packs a very powerful punch, especially when you have multiple on the screen. Quick reaction times are needed especially in more difficult levels as Smash Potato has to be manually activated in order to attack. Due to their immense range, Smash Potatoes is especially good in a majority of Pirate Seas levels and is especially good in Endless Zones due to the large masses of zombies. Their recharge and recovery times do hinder this plant a lot of the time but because he will always go back to his original spot, he is still quite viable. If players are able to use this in levels with Power Tiles (in either Far Future levels or with Tile Turnip), then using a Smash Potato plant can ultimately win you the game each time.
Do be aware that this plant should still have plants protecting him as he doesn't have all that much health and is quite vulnerable while sleeping, so backing him up will be fruitful. He also cannot attack while immobilized. These glaring weaknesses is especially noticable against certain zombies like Wizard Zombie, Octo Zombie, Weasel Hoarder, Chicken Wrangler, and even the icy winds of Frostbite Caves. He can also instantly be destroyed by Gargantuar Prime's laser beams and Hair Metal Gargantuar's shockwaves so keep an eye out for these threats. 
== Gallery ==
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Smash 1.png|Old Smash Potato
Smash 3.png|Another Old Smash Potato
Smash 4.png|HD Smash Potato (Polished by )
== Trivia ==
* This is CCogStudios' third attempt at participating in an event, with the first attempt being Kowhai Basin, and the second being Spookcumber.
** This is CCogStudio's first ever contest-winning plant, scoring first in the 2020 Food Fight contest
* The artwork was initially designed by me, but polished up by the wonderful KyaOBeans, go check his stuff out!
* Smash Potato is a fusion of three different Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes plants, Starch-Lord (body), Smashing Pumpkin (eyes and eyebrow), and Smackadamia (mouth)
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