Nightshade

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

## **Tower Info**

**Nightshade** hurls petals that does huge damage to a single bloon. He may be like a deadly nightshade, but he has many powerful upgrades to make him pugnacious against the Bloons and destroy them quick!

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Decreases the attack rate from 4.5 seconds to 3.75 seconds between Nightshade's attacks.

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** Further decreases the attack rate from 3.75 seconds to 3 seconds between Nightshade's attacks.

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Nightshade attacks every 2.1 seconds from 3 seconds and his petals now do ten layers of bloon damage (nine layers if Luminescence is bought).

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Increases Nightshade's petal pierce to five from one, petals do ten more damage to regular bloons and they can inflict massive damage onto MOAB class bloons which is an hundred extra damage onto them. The petals can also pop Lead Bloons and if Luminescence is bought, increases his attack range by fifty and reduces attack delay slightly.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Decreases Nightshade's attack delay between petals from 1.2 seconds to 0.9 seconds.

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** This upgrade makes Nightshade luminescent, allowing him to detect camo, doubles his attack range and decreases petal damage by one (from six to five) against Bloons. His attack delay for petals is reduced to 0.6 seconds from 0.9 seconds.

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Increases petals' pierce to three from one and they can poison Bloons when they hit them. The poison damage is 2/sec against Bloons for a ten second duration.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Killer Petals ability for Nightshade. When activated, it'll make Nightshade fling out three powerful superpetals in a targeted area, dealing four hundred damage to bloons for each superpetal. Also it makes his attacks do damage fourfold to bloons with nearly threefold more poison DoT damage when they hit bloons. Nightshade's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 25 seconds after use.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Nightshade plays as a melee plant at first, but a shadow plant with long-range attacks when he has Luminescence. Nightshade does a lot of damage to stronger Bloons, and he is weak against grouped Bloons due to lack of pierce on his petals and his relatively slow attack speed.

### **Tips**

* **Nightshade** is a terrible starting plant to go for. His main focus is to deal huge damage to spaced Bloons, he gets quickly overwhelmed by grouped Bloons (i.e. Red Bloon spam) due to his slow attack speeds. Get something like Peashooter or Lightning Reed to help you out against early Bloons.
* **Nightshade** has two weaknesses: Lead Bloons and Bloon Rushes. Nightshade can't pop Lead Bloons unless if he's powered by the Ability, has Empowered Nightshade upgrade bought or Deadly Nightshade upgrade bought to poison Leads because that's his main weakness. Bloon rushes will quickly overwhelm him due to his low range and slow attack speed, getting Pugnacity may help him a little but still not enough.
* **Nightshade's** Killer Petals ability is very powerful against MOAB class bloons. Those superpetals may be viciously powerful enough to pop the BFB layer, but it can help against MOAB rushes but the downside is that it is useless against very weak Bloons.
* The buff for **Nightshade** did make him a little bit better against more powerful Bloons now.

## **Version History**

Nightshade has received a decent-sized buff in 3.0 update due to him not being used that much as a new plant. He is a relatively good plant overall, because he's pugnaciously robust and shadowy to have in your team.

V2.0
* Nightshade was added to the game.
* **[bug, possibly V3.0]** Nightshade's main attack can pop Lead Bloons.

V3.0

* Nightshade's base attack range increased (80 → 90)
* Pugnacity attack speed decreased (2.5s → 2.3s)
* Empowered Nightshade empowered petals extra MOAB damage increased from 70 → 85
* Killer Petals main attack damage after ability usage increased from 12 → 20
* Killer Petals superpetal damage increased from 300 → 350
* **[bug fix]** Killer Petals main attack after ability usage now correctly poisons Bloons compared to the x-3 upgrade.
* **[bug fix]** Killer Petals main attack after ability usage now correctly has the right pierce compared to the x-3 upgrade.

V3.5

* Faster Attacking attack speed decreased (4s → 3.75s)
* Even Faster Attacking attack speed decreased (3.5s → 3s)
* Pugnacity attack speed decreased (2.3s → 2.1s)
* Empowered Nightshade empowered petal damage to bloons increased from 15 → 20
* Empowered Nightshade empowered petals extra MOAB damage increased from 85 → 100
* Killer Petals main attack damage after ability usage increased from 20 → 24
* Killer Petals main attack damage after ability usage poison DoT rate decreased from 0.25s → 0.2s
* Killer Petals main attack after ability usage can pop Lead Bloons with the powered petals.
* Killer Petals superpetal damage increased from 350 → 400
* **[bug fix]** Nightshade's attack at base no longer pops Lead Bloons, but now requires Empowered Nightshade or Deadly Nightshade (with the poison DoT) to actually pop them now.

V4.5
* The Hybrid Nightshade (3-3) was added, can only be encountered on the map "Cards".

## **Gallery**

4-x Nightshade and Ability NightshadeNightshade when he has Luminescence bought4-2 Nightshade, because he's powerful and luminous!
## **Trivia**

* Nightshade is a plant from the PvZ series, whose job to attack zombies with powerful petals and can be powered up by Moonflower.