Kernel-pult

**Kernel-pult** is a attacking plant that is available for Plants vs. Bloons.

## **Tower Info**

**Kernel-pult** hurls corn kernels and sometimes butter at attacking bloons which does low damage, but the butter does good damage and can stun Bloons! He has a very long range but a relatively slow attack speed. He may be corny and buttery simultaneously, but his Ability can be very buttery for Bloons!

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases kernel and butter projectile speeds from 550 to 775.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Increases Butter chance to two corn kernel attacks from four corn kernel attacks, corn kernels and butter does twice as much damage and butter now stuns Bloons for seven seconds instead of five.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Further increases butter chance to one corn kernel attacks from two corn kernel attacks, corn kernels can pierce through two Bloons at a time that does six layers of damage and butter now stuns Bloons for 12.5 seconds instead of seven which does twelve layers of bloon damage which can also stun MOABs and DDTs for 2.5 seconds and BFBs for 1.25 second.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Hurls kernels and butter 0.4 seconds quicker.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Butter Away! ability for Kernel-pult. When activated, Kernel-pult sprays out up to 100 butters at all concurrent Bloons onscreen, dealing six layers of bloon damage and four extra damage to MOAB class that stuns regular Bloons for fifteen seconds, but MOABs will get stunned for 1.5 seconds. The butters can also permanently slow Bloons down by 50% of their movement speed after getting buttered. However it takes 0.5 seconds delay for Kernel-pult to fire butters at all Bloons. Kernel-pult's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 20 seconds after use.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Kernel-pult plays as a lobbing plant who hurls corn kernels and butter at atrocious Bloons at a long-range distance. He does low damage to bloons, in shorter maps, Kernel-pult is worth using with tons of space so he can control. Grouped bloons are problematical since Kernel-pult struggles against them with low-piercing kernels and butter, similar to Cabbage-pult and has a relatively slow attack speed. However, Kernel-pult needs to attack with four corn kernels in order to get the Butter attack ready to be thrown at Bloons.

### **Tips**

* **Kernel-pult** is a not-so-good starting plant to help you hold the Bloons off because his kernels do low damage which makes him weak early game. The only problem is he can't keep up with grouped Bloons due to his mediocre attack speed. Use plants like Peashooter or Dandelion to help fend off grouped Bloons whilst Kernel-pult does damage against spaced Bloons which he's good against.
* His Butter Away! ability can help you against Bloons in some situations such as Ceramic Bloons and such, making them get stunned for fifteen seconds which seems ludicrous, which is mostly effective against situational things like rushes and MOAB class bloon insides.
* **Kernel-pult** has a mild lead weakness and Regen Bloon weakness, so meaning that only Kernel-pult's butter attack can pop Leads and Regens can be overwhelming for him since his attack speed is slow as heck. Kernel-pult is mostly a support plant, but not great for damage, he can actually help out against Ceramic Bloons because of the long stun duration of the butter.
* **Kernel-pult** falls off late game due to lack of utility, besides that he can butter DDTs on round 46 and above to stun them momentarily with his Ability and the Butter Is Inevitable upgrade which allows him to stun MOAB class except for ZOMGs.
* The new recent buffs/changes for **Kernel-pult** is going to make him more useful against Bloons. A notable change is his Butter Away! ability that can permanently slow Bloons down after getting buttered by 50% which can allow some good plays with Kernel-pult if you micro his Ability and use it at the right moment against Bloons.

## **Version History**

Kernel-pult suffered to go into the meta due to lack of utility. V2.0 significantly buffed him to make him a little bit better against Bloons, and V3.0 buffed him again to make him more useful at stalling Bloons and made his Ability a lot more buttery now but in the latest update he received another round of balance changes which are mainly buffs again to help him out a little bit more in later updates. He is the only plant to receive buffs by far.

V2.0

* Base price decreased from $350 → $325.
* Base corn kernel and butter projectile speeds increased from 500 → 550.
* Cost of Faster Kernels decreased ($100 → $80).
* Cost of Stronger Kernels decreased ($250 → $220).
* Cost of Faster Lobbing decreased ($200 → $150).
* Fortuitous Butter corn kernel attacks needed for butter attack decreased from 3 → 2.
* Butter Is Inevitable corn kernel attacks needed for butter attack decreased from 2 → 1.

V3.0

* Base attack speed decreased (3s → 2.5s).
* Base butter stun duration increased from 4s → 5s.
* Faster Lobbing and Powerful Kernels upgrades uses the same attack speed benefits like Cabbage-pult.
* Fortuitous Butter butter stun duration increased from 5s → 7s.
* Butter Is Inevitable butter stun duration increased from 6s → 10s.
* Butter Is Inevitable MOAB butter stun duration increased from 1.5s → 2s.
* Butter Is Inevitable BFB butter stun duration increased from 0.75s → 1s.
* Butter Away! ability butter stun duration increased from 10s → 15s.
* Butter Away! ability MOAB butter stun duration increased from 1s → 1.5s.
* Butter Away! ability butters can now permanently slow Bloons up to MOABs and DDTs down by 20% after getting buttered.
* **[undocumented]** Butter Away! ability butters also permanently slows BFBs and ZOMGs by 20% even though they can't get buttered/stunned.

V3.5

* Base price decreased from $325 → $275.
* Butter Is Inevitable butter stun duration increased from 10s → 12.5s.
* Butter Is Inevitable MOAB butter stun duration increased from 2s → 2.5s.
* Butter Is Inevitable BFB butter stun duration increased from 1s → 1.25s.
* Butter Away! ability butter permafrost slowdown effect increased from 20% → 30%.

V4.0

* Fortuitous Butter corn kernel damage increased from 3 → 4.
* Fortuitous Butter butter damage increased from 6 → 7.
* Butter Is Inevitable attack speed decreased from 2.5s → 2.3s.
* Butter Is Inevitable corn kernel damage increased from 4 → 6.
* Butter Is Inevitable butter damage increased from 10 → 12.
* Butter Away! ability butter permafrost slowdown effect increased from 30% → 50%.

## **Gallery**

Four 2-4 Kernel Pults using their Butter Away! ability to butter against a multitudinous amount of Ceramic Bloons
## **Trivia**

* Kernel-Pult is a plant from the PvZ series, whose job to do is lob kernels and butter against the zombie onslaught.

* Kernel-Pult is the only plant in PvB to ever receive a lot of buffs in updates but not a single nerf due to his lacklustre usage.