Dandelion

**Dandelion** is a attacking plant that is available for Plants vs. Bloons.

## **Tower Info**

He's fuzzy, he's fluffy and he's also ferocious. **Dandelion** sends out explosive seed bombs at vicious Bloons, dealing heavy damage on impact and does splash damage. His Ability will send out powerful but immense seed bombs at Bloons onscreen but he has many powerful upgrades to help you defend.

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases Dandelion's attack range by a small amount and his seed bombs move 22.22% faster.

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** Allows Dandelion's seed bombs to pop the aforementioned Bloons. Also his seed bombs further moves quicker, increasing the speed by 18.18%.

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Dandelion's seed bombs can penetrate through bloons up to three times, dealing extra damage the more they hit or hit grouped Bloons. More effective against stronger Bloons.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Dandelion's seed bombs can pop seven layers per explosion, and they do twenty-three extra damage to MOAB class bloons. Increases the explosion AOE pierce by ten and range by thirty.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Seed bombs' explosion pierce increased to forty and AOE radius by twenty.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Seed Sign: Rainmaker ability for Dandelion. When activated, Dandelion instantly sends out ten powerful huge seed bombs on the top of the screen that has a lot of AOE, but deals ten damage to bloons and fifty bonus damage to MOAB class bloons. Dandelion's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 25 seconds after use and increases main attack seed bomb damage by one and attack speed to 1.3 seconds from 1.5 seconds.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Dandelion plays as a powerful attacking plant whose good against Bloons. His seed bombs are capable of popping Lead Bloons because they do AOE damage, and has very good upgrades such as allowing his seed bombs to penetrate through bloons for more explosive power and can be upgraded for a lot more extra MOAB popping power.

### **Tips**

* **Dandelion** is a good plant to help deal with Lead Bloons and a decent starting plant to go for but Dandelion's main weakness is that he struggles against spaced Bloons, even if he has Unstable Seed Bombs bought.
* **Dandelion** can be a good damage dealer against MOAB class if you have Anti-MOAB Explosions upgrade bought. However, it is effective if MOABs are grouped up, letting Dandelion's seed bombs do crazy amounts of damage to them. His Rainmaker Ability can be useful against Bloons in certain situations.
* Spamming Anti-MOAB Explosions on your **Dandelions** can be devastating, especially going late game. Since it has excellent MOAB damage when there are MOABs grouping up, you can pop them quicker. The only downside is Dandelion is weak against a sole ZOMG with the aforementioned upgrade, grouped ZOMGs can make his ability much stronger against them. You can set Dandelion's targeting priority to "Strong" to help deal with MOABs if you're doing this upgrade.
* Pair **Dandelions** up with Draftodil for a seed bomb mayhem. Using or placing Draftodil's ability or right next to Dandelions can make them react to the breeze, which can deal massive damage onto Bloons especially if you have already maxed your Dandelions out for mega MOAB damage.

## **Version History**

Dandelion was a good plant overall during the release of PvB, he did struggle against fast Bloons because of his slow projectile speed. The released version did make some decent buffs and changes to Dandelion, and V5.0 has changed/buffed his ability upgrade and his Ability to make it more useful now, because he felt okay and needed something to make him worthwhile in the meta.

V1.0
* Base attack seed bomb projectile speed increased from 200 → 225
* Long Range Seed Bombs seed bomb projectile speed increased from 240 → 275
* Anti-Black Explosions seed bomb projectile speed increased from 275 → 325
* Unstable Seed Bombs price increased ($1,750 → $1,900)
* Anti-MOAB Explosions price increased ($7,000 → $10,000)
* Anti-MOAB Explosions seed bombs' damage increased from 5 → 7
* Anti-MOAB Explosions seed bombs' extra MOAB damage increased from 15 → 23
* Anti-MOAB Explosions seed bombs' AOE additive bonus increased from 15 → 30
* Anti-MOAB Explosions seed bombs' AOE pierce additive bonus increased from 5 → 10

V5.0

* Seed Sign: Rainmaker price increased ($5,250 → $5,750).
* Seed Sign: Rainmaker also increases his seed bombs damage from 4 → 5.
* Seed Sign: Rainmaker also increases his attack rate from 1.5s → 1.3s.
* Seed Sign: Rainmaker ability large explosive seed bombs bonus moab damage increased from 30 → 50.

## **Trivia**

* Dandelion is a plant from the PvZ series, whose job to send out seed bombs at zombies which do AOE damage. Also his seeds can be blown off by plants who blow a stream of air.

* During development of PvB, Dandelion would be moved to replace Bloonchipper but he has replaced Bomb Shooter whilst Melon-pult was going to replace Bomb but moved to Bloonchipper replacement.