Lily of Alchemy

*Lily of Alchemy lobs flower buds and has a chance to throw armor-piercing, stalling potions.*

### Special

Potions slow down zombies and pierce through armor

## In-game statistics

### Codename alias

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**Lily of Alchemy learned the ancient art of potion-making from Old Man Josslehoof, who taught her the exact ingredients for the perfect, top secret anti-Zombie chemicals in her potions. Old Man Josslehoof also lives in a sewer and frequently combats giant dwarf overlords, according to Lily. What a guy.**

**Lily of Alchemy** is a plant in *Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished* and the third plant obtained in Steam Ages. She is unlocked after beating Steam Ages - Day 11.

While she normally lobs flower buds that deal 40 damage to zombies, she has a 25% chance to throw an armor-piercing potion that deals 100 damage to her target and reducing their speed by 50%.

## Almanac entry

**Lily of Alchemy**

Lily of Alchemy lobs flower buds and has a chance to throw armor-piercing, stalling potions.

Special: potions slow down zombies and pierce through armor

Lily of Alchemy learned the ancient art of potion-making from Old Man Josslehoof, who taught her the exact ingredients for the perfect, top secret anti-Zombie chemicals in her potions. Old Man Josslehoof also lives in a sewer and frequently combats giant dwarf overlords, according to Lily. What a guy.

## Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Lily of Alchemy will lob 5 waves of big purple buds at every zombie onscreen. These buds deal 35 damage to zombies and stall them for 15 seconds.

## Strategies

Being one of the few plants with armor-piercing damage, Lily of Alchemy can be an incredibly helpful plant in any level that is heavily populated with armored zombies such as Buckethead Zombie, Poncho Zombie and Knight Zombie. Her status as a lobbing plant also allows her to bypass tombstones and other obstacles to directly hit other armored targets like Coal Miner Zombie and Pharaoh Zombie.

On the other hand, Lily of Alchemy's performance against non-armored zombies is quite mediocre, being a direct symptom of her armor-piercing potions only dealing enough damage to halve the health of basic zombie variants. Not all armored zombies are easy for her to deal with either, as the higher health of zombies like Newspaper Zombie makes them resistant to her attacks. And with these potions being thrown at random, multiple Lilies will need to be planted in each lane to narrow down inconsistency issues.

To make up for Lily of Alchemy's mediocre damage versus non-armored targets, her armor-piercing potions inflict the stall effect, slowing targets. Like Kernel-pult's butter, this may be used to hold back single targets, including targets as tough as a Gargantuar. However, dedicated stalling plants like Sap-fling and Snow Pea can slow multiple zombies without the dangers of random chance. Since the stall effect is stronger than sap and chilling (50%, 30% and 40% slowdown respectively), Lily of Alchemy's stalling potions can work on top on dedicated stalling plants, but she shouldn't be relied upon specifically for slowing zombies.

Goo Peashooter is a notable alternative to using Lily of Alchemy. While being twice as expensive to plant, Goo Peashooter's poisonous peas are designed to efficiently destroy armored targets without random chance, only needing one planting per lane to do so. The poison also better deals with tougher armored zombies like Newspaper Zombie; however, high health targets like Robo-Cone Zombie can easily tank the poison and some zombies are entirely immune, resulting in both plants finding their use in different armor-populated levels.

## Balance changes

### Initial launch

Compared to PvZ2C version 3.2.5:

* ▲ Now has a 25% chance of throwing a potion that pierces armour, applies stall effect and does 100 damage
* ▲ Recharge: 20s -> 17.5s
* ▲ PF Effect hits all zombies instead of a single zombie with each wave
* ▲ PF Effect applies stall effect to all zombies hit
* ▼ Regular Projectile Damage: 30 -> 20
	+ Incorrectly listed as 30 in-game
* ▼ No longer poisons zombies
* ▼ PF Effect does less damage

### Verson 1.1.4

* ▲ Regular Projectile Damage: 20 -> 40
	+ Listed in the changelogs as 30 -> 40
* Target Audience: General
	+ Dev Comment: Lily of Alchemy can brew up a storm where it counts, but whenever she can't, she can be left helpless against even the weaker zombies. A damage increase to 40 for her standard projectiles will match the damage of Cabbage-pult, and should make it easier to defend herself whenever she's not hurling powerful potions.

## Trivia

* Lily of Alchemy shares the same sound effects with Cabbage-pult.
* Lily of Alchemy's "Septic Scepter" costume is based on BagelNathanBrian's OC, one of the *Reflourished* developers.
	+ When equipped with the "Septic Scepter" costume, she occasionally does a silly face while idling.
* Lily of Alchemy's "Our Lady's Tea" costume is one of the Harvest Festival Costume Contest winners, submitted by josuescout301 and redrawn to fit the game's art style.