Blooming Heart

*Blooming Hearts lob projectiles that infatuate zombies, causing increasing damage the more they hit.*

### Special

Damage increases across multiple Blooming Hearts

## In-game statistics

### Deals

40 (projectile)
+10 per damage stack
110 damage to infatuated zombies

### Average DPS

First 7 hits - 24.779
Infatuated - 38.938

### PDE

First 7 hits - 35.310
Infatuated - 55.487

### Codename alias

bloominghearts

**Blooming Heart loves zombies. She gets guff from her fellow plants over it, but she stands firm. She's into zombies and makes no apologies about it.**

**Blooming Heart** is a plant in *Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished* and the sixth plant obtained in Holiday Mashup. She is unlocked at Holiday Mashup - Day 19.

Blooming Heart lobs hearts every 2.75-2.9 seconds that deal 40 damage. If the target is a zombie, the zombie will become infatuated, causing it to take +10 damage from all Blooming Hearts. This effect stacks up to 7 times, for a maximum of 110 damage to fully infatuated zombies.

## Almanac entry

**Blooming Heart**

Blooming Hearts lob projectiles that infatuate zombies, causing increasing damage the more they hit.

Special: damage increases across multiple Blooming Hearts

Blooming Heart loves zombies. She gets guff from her fellow plants over it, but she stands firm. She's into zombies and makes no apologies about it.

## Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Blooming Heart will throw big projectiles at every zombie on screen, dealing 200 damage initially, and increases by 40 each time they hurt the same zombie.

The maximum damage she can deal is 300 damage. Also, if a zombie is hurt by Blooming Heart's Plant Food effect, it will bear more damage even when hurt through normal attack, which increases by 20 damage each time, up to 7 times.

## Strategies

Blooming Heart's infatuation effects can allow her to deal great emotional damage to single targets. Once zombies are fully infatuated, Blooming Heart puts out damage that challenges even Red Stinger as a efficient, low cost attacker.

However, it is important to mind Blooming Heart's initial ramp-up period, wherein zombies are yet to be fully infatuated and her damage is relatively poor. To get around this, it is highly recommended to not rely on a single Blooming Heart per lane; instead, planting multiple Blooming Hearts per lane will allow their combined force to infatuate zombies much faster, allowing the emotional damage to reach its greatest potential. This can be further supplemented with stalling plants such as Sap-fling, Stunion and Snow Pea, to buy the time needed for zombies to become fully infatuated.

Blooming Heart shares some similar offensive limitations to that of Red Stinger. While effective for the cheap price, Blooming Heart's reliance on infatuation effects and single target damage can be overwhelmed by larger hordes. Blooming Heart in particular is quite vulnerable to ambushes from the likes of Relic Hunter Zombie and Low Tides, which infiltrate and hurt the defense before emotional damage can set in.

Keeping all of this in mind, supplementing Blooming Heart with stalling plants like Snow Pea will help buy time for infatuation to set in. Multi-hit/AoE plants like Bloomerang, Spikeweed and Laser Bean can weed out weak zombies, ensuring that emotional damage is focused on high health targets. To deal with ambushes, consider using multi-lane plants like Starfruit and Homing Thistle, or whatever other plants that are able to directly counter the relevant zombies.

## Balance changes

### Verson 1.1.4

* ▲ Fire Rate: 2.85s-3s -> 2.75-2.9s
* ▲ Damage Cap: 90 -> 110
* Target Audience: General
	+ Dev Comment: Blooming Heart has been seen as an underwhelming plant by many for a while now. Statistics-wise, that sentiment holds up. Even at its maximum DPS, she barely out-damaged the likes of even Red Stinger (in its full offense stage) or a powered Nightshade, similarly priced plants who didn’t need the same buildup as she did. A higher damage cap will allow for it to truly sting once a zombie is fully infatuated, while a fire rate to match the Cabbage/Kernel-Pult buffs will make the process of getting there just a bit faster.