Plant

## B-Skin

Unlocked by defeating the Nuclear Throne in under 8 minutes as Plant

## C-Skin

Unlocked by killing 2000 enemies in one run as Plant

*The combination of Plant's snare, movement speed, and ability to move the camera make it a sniper character that's good at dodging projectiles and is able to outrun enemies or block itself from them.*

## Special

Plant can shoot vines that significantly slow down enemy movement, but don't prevent enemies from shooting. The vines are less effective on bigger enemies.

The snare must connect with a wall, a prop, or an enemy before you can use it again. Only one vine can be active at a time, for the vines disappear as soon as you shoot another seed.

If you hold down the button while using this ability, the camera focuses on the vines, allowing you to see further ahead. Vines also provide light in dark areas and stop fire from Fire Traps.

## Throne Butt

Plant's Throne Butt makes its vines kill anything under 30% health.

If you also have the Scarier Face and/or Glass Arm Cannon mutation, Plant's ability will kill enemies basing on their reduced max health. For example, if an enemy's health was reduced from 100 to 75 by Glass Arm Cannon, the enemy will die on 22 HP which is 30% of 75 HP. Additionally, if you have both Scarier Face and Glass Arm Cannon, you can kill ensnared enemies almost twice as fast as you would normally.

## Ultra Mutations

Snare is more effective.

Each Sapling has 10 HP and can explode upon taking 10 or more damage.
Each blood explosion deals 4-12 damage and destroys any projectiles in the blast radius.
Blood explosions don't destroy walls and do no damage to the player.
Enemies killed on a snare have a chance to drop additional items.
Snares can destroy any projectile.

## Gameplay

Plant's extra speed makes it good at keeping its distance from enemies. Holding down the button that activates its special causes the camera to focus on the vines giving the player extra vision of what's going on ahead. Those special features make Plant a pretty good sniper and with Throne Butt it kills enemies and Bosses even faster. The vines can block narrow corridors, stopping enemies from getting too close to you, which is helpful in the sewers and labs as most enemies in these areas are fast melee enemies. Using vines on enemies capable of spawning more enemies (Big Green Rats, Giant Maggots, Maggot Nests) will trap them as they spawn, making killing these enemy types incredibly easy. With the Killer ultra mutation, this method will also spawn lots of saplings at once. However, the snare won't stop things such as Giant Maggots from burrowing or Ravens and Lil' Hunter from flying away.

Plant is also a capable melee character, as it can easily catch up to enemies and safely attack snared enemies that deal contact damage. its Throne Butt also makes melee weapons one shot more easily.

## Tips

### Useful Mutations

* Throne Butt - Effectively reduces enemy HP by a third for anything you can snare with the vines. It also saves ammunition, especially so with weapons that use multiple ammo per shot.
* Scarier Face - Combined with Throne Butt, this drops the threshold for a one-hit kill with the vines.
* Glass Arm Cannon - Reduces enemy HP even further, and combined with Throne Butt will kill enemies with ease.
* Plutonium Hunger - Along with vines, this can make Plant one of the safest characters in the game.
* Euphoria - Slows down projectiles making them even easier to avoid.
* Extra Feet - Added to its already increased movement speed, this mutation makes Plant faster than any other character (though it can be hard to control).
* Hammerhead - When in danger, run through a wall and put a vine at the entrance. Make it an L shape to avoid bullets.
* Gamma Guts - Snare an enemy susceptible to contact damage with vines, and then rush it for a free hit.

### Unlocking B-Skin

Choosing fast firing and melee weapons will help clear rooms faster. Throne Butt and Scarier Face/Glass Arm Cannon will also make defeating bigger enemies and bosses quick

The Claustrophobia gamemode significantly reduces run times, and if you have trouble doing it normally, will make it much easier.

### Unlocking C-Skin

The easiest way to kill lots of enemies to gain strong weapons, and after looping pick Crown of Blood or Crown of Apocalypse. Both of these crowns will significantly increase the enemy count in each stage, reducing the time it takes 2000 enemies. Taking Impact Wrists and Scarier Face/Glass Arm Cannon along with one of these Crowns will clear rooms very quick as the enemies will snowball into each other.

## Trivia

* Plant is a vicious killer. It is the most aggressive and brutal killer in all of the wasteland.
* Plant, before changing into a murderous mutant, used to be a simple plant.
* Prior to update #43, walking over the vines with Plant would remove them.
* Plant is one of the original five characters.
* As Plant is the fastest moving character in the game, its B-Skin colors are a reference to Sonic the Hedgehog, from one of Paul Veer's favorite game franchises.
* Plant's B-Skin used to have different colors, which was changed in update #48.
* Plant's unused race\_back is "Enemies killed while snared give more drops", but this is already one of its Ultras.