Sweet Potato

*Sweet Potatoes attract zombies from other lanes when they are close by.*

**Sweet Potato really is as sweet as she looks. Her favorite animal is the unicorn. Her favorite color is (and this is a direct quote) "all the colors in the rainbow." When she writes the letter "i", she draws a little heart where the dot belongs. Frankly, if it were anyone else, this amount of syrup would be sickening. But on her, well, it just seems right.**

**Sweet Potato** is a plant in *Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished* and the seventh plant obtained in Holiday Mashup. She is unlocked at Holiday Mashup - Day 26.

Sweet Potato can attract zombies from adjacent tiles covering the 3x1 (vertical) area in front of the tile where she was planted in lane. She is also a defensive plant, possessing a toughness scale slightly higher than that of a Wall-nut.

## Almanac entry

**Sweet Potato**

Sweet Potatoes attract zombies from other lanes when they are close by.

Sweet Potato really is as sweet as she looks. Her favorite animal is the unicorn. Her favorite color is (and this is a direct quote) "all the colors in the rainbow." When she writes the letter "i", she draws a little heart where the dot belongs. Frankly, if it were anyone else, this amount of syrup would be sickening. But on her, well, it just seems right.

## Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Sweet Potato fully heals herself and attracts all zombies in a 3x4 area.

## Strategies

Sweet Potato's ability to divert adjacent zombies to her lane provides excellent utility for a defensive plant. Damage coming from offensive plants can be concentrated onto the lanes that Sweet Potatoes populate, harnessing the power of plants such as Jack O' Lantern, Banana Launcher and Jalapeno that specialize in single lane destruction. Meanwhile, the other lanes can be instead utilised for sun producers, or for various plants that can attack over other lanes, ranging from directional attackers like Rotobaga and Electric Currant, to full range plants like Homing Thistle and Electric Blueberry.

Unlike Garlic, who has similar zombie redirection capabilities, Sweet Potato does not need to be eaten for her diversion to go into effect. This allows for a wider range of zombies to be attracted to her, including mechanised zombies and Gargantuars. She does however, only have one tile of attraction range, and is still vulnerable to being outranged, moved or destroyed by various zombies - Wizard Zombie, Mecha-Football Zombie and Explorer Zombie, for a few examples.

It is important to note that due to the pressure of funneling multiple lanes of zombies into one, Sweet Potato is uniquely challenging to maintain. As she shares the recharge of a standard Wall-nut, she can substitute three walls with a single planting, making for a relatively rapid rate of protection. However, the increased concentration of hordes also makes it easier for the zombies to break through the wall and invade the main defense. So, Sweet Potato's durability is best augmented through various other plants, such as stalling plants, such as Sap-fling and Iceweed that slow the zombies down, Aloe's healing and Pumpkin's doubling layer of protection. Sweet Potatoes can also be brought back into the fray more frequently through Intensive Carrot and Imitater, as long as there is enough sun to do so.

Alternatively, if maintaining Sweet Potato is a bit too much to handle, Hot Date may serve well as a substitute. Although he has much less health, he can provide the same type of diversion effects, alongside being able to destroy zombies that eat him and whittle away at the health of armored zombies in his lane.

## Balance changes

### Version 1.4

* ▲ HP: 4,000 -> 5,000
	+ Developer note: To make Sweet Potato just a more reliable pick, we've increased her HP.