Chili Bean

*Chili Beans deliver a crippling bout of gastrointestinal distress.*

**He's not blushing, he's trying to hold it in.**

**Chili Bean** is the event seedium of Chilifest in *Alternate UniverZ*. When a zombie eats him, they will be stunned for 1.5 seconds before dying, unleashing a trail of gas behind them that stuns other zombies in the lane for 7.5 seconds.

Chili Bean is unlocked by obtaining 20 seed packets, however normally these cannot be purchased directly. Instead, every purchased seed packet for other plants will have a small (percentage unknown) chance to come with a Chili Bean seed packet as a bonus. Chili Bean seed packets can be purchased directly during events, such as Chilifest, Feastivus and Valenbrainz.

## Almanac entry

* Normal
* Pro

**Chili Bean**

SUN COST: 50

RECHARGE: 30

TOUGHNESS: 300

STUN DURATION: 7.5

RANGE: Touch

Chili Beans deliver a crippling bout of gastrointestinal distress.
Special: eating zombie is destroyed and releases stunning gas
Pro Status: +7.5s stun duration, +1 Plant Food duplicate, doesn't work at nighttime

He's not blushing, he's trying to hold it in.

**Chili Bean**

SUN COST: 50

RECHARGE: 30

TOUGHNESS: 300

STUN DURATION: 15

RANGE: Touch

Chili Beans deliver a crippling bout of gastrointestinal distress.
Special: eating zombie is destroyed and releases stunning gas
Pro Status: +7.5s stun duration, +1 Plant Food duplicate, doesn't work at nighttime

He's not blushing, he's trying to hold it in.

## Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Chili Bean will create two additional Chili Beans, landing on unoccupied tiles. If only one tile is unoccupied, only one Chili Bean will spawn. If there are no unoccupied tiles on the entire field, nothing beneficial will happen. Pro Status adds an extra duplicate.

## Costumes

* Costumes
* Skins

## Strategies

Chili Bean is very useful as a "clutch plant" for quickly picking off tough zombies such as Buckethead Zombies, Blockhead Zombies, and Poncho Zombies, particularly when they appear unexpectedly during ambushes or are threatening endangered plants. The gas attack further expands his "clutch" ability by immobilizing enemies behind him, such as using one to kill a Knight Zombie and immobilize a Zombie King behind him.

Using his Plant Food ability with Power Tiles or Tile Turnips can also flood the lawn with plenty of Chili Beans. He has a major drawback in that he requires the enemy to be able to eat and digest him, which means he is ineffective against some of the strongest zombies in the game, as they either do not eat plants (such as Gargantuars) or are immune to the effect (such as the machines in Far Future).

Compared to Electrici-tea, Chili Bean usually perform better from mid-game onward as he can be used as a lane stun rather than small chip damage, but Electrici-tea can damage every zombies that eat, unlike Chili Bean who's useless against Far Future mechs, as well as stopping zombies like Reanimator Zombie from dropping thier obstacles. As a weaker alternative to Chili Bean, you can use Stunion, as he is cheaper and works more quickly, but he only stuns zombies, as opposed to Chili Bean killing one and stunning the rest in the lane. However, Stunion does not require a zombie to eat him to activate his ability.