Melon-pult

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

## **Tower Info**

**Melon-pult** hurls watermelons that inflict splash damage to bloons when they hit them, dealing a lot of damage at a long-range distance. Has many useful upgrades, including the ability to upgrade to a Winter Melon to stall Bloons which is good!

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases melons projectile speed from 400 to 675.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Winter melons has even more AOE on them and can slow MOAB class bloons by 30% for five seconds when they got hit. Melons' projectile speed is increased to 800 from 675, does eight damage to bloons now and child Bloons are now slowed down by 65% for seven seconds instead of the 50% slowdown and five seconds duration.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Hurls melons 0.5 seconds quicker.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Melons Away! ability for Melon-pult. When activated, Melon-pult shoots out a massive burst of four waves of thirty melons at all concurrent Bloons onscreen, dealing six layers worth of bloon damage and nine bonus damage to MOAB class bloons. Additionally, the giant melons can also knock Bloons backwards when they get hit, but does not affect ZOMGs. Melon-pult's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 30 seconds after use and main attack does +2 bonus damage to all Bloons.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Melon-pult plays as a lobbing plant who hurls powerful watermelons at atrocious Bloons at a long-range distance which deals splash damage on hit. He does high damage to bloons, in shorter maps, Melon-pult is worth using with tons of space so he can control. Grouped bloons are not that problematical since Melon-pult does AOE damage to them, making him the most effective plant against grouped Bloons overall. Compared to other pulting plants, Melon-pult is still very good against grouped Bloons but does have some weaknesses overall.

### **Tips**

* **Melon-pult** is a decent starting plant to go for if you decide for the early game. His high-damaging melons makes him worth using for the firepower if you needed it necessary to help you out. Grouped Bloons are no problem since Melon-pult counters them with splash damage, however his attack speed is slow and you need something to help Melon-pult against even spaced Bloons.
* **Melon-pult** is weak against Bloon rushes, so meaning that Melon-pult will struggle against spaced Bloons due to his relatively slow attack speed. Many plants can help Melon-pult against spaced Bloons which is somewhat situational but can be a good support against spaced Bloon rushes.
* **Melon-pult** is pretty good during the late game because the ability to slow even ZOMGs by 30% with Nova Melons is insanely good for a support plant to do that. This can help certain comps and strats such as Dandelion spam and Threepeater + Torchwood during the late game.

## **Version History**

Melon-pult was a very good plant, but has lacked in usage rate until V3.0 came out. V3.0 changed him a little by tweaking his Ability and make his Ability upgrade make his main attack do more damage to Bloons now. However, Melon-pult is still good overall.

V3.0

* Melons Away! now increases Melon-pult's main ATK damage by 2 (3 → 5).
* Melons Away! now increases Melon-pult's main ATK damage versus Camo Bloons by 3 (5 → 8).
* Melons Away! ability melon count maximum decreased from 50 → 30
* Melons Away! ability melons can knock Bloons (excluding ZOMGs) back by 250% less of their movement speed for 0.15 seconds.
* Getting Healthy Eyesight also increases Melon-pult's damage to Camo Bloons by 1.
* **[bug]** The bonus damage to Camo Bloons now acts up against Bloons which aren't Camo, dealing too much damage than intended. Also Melon-pult's main attack damage was increased at base.

V3.5
* **[bug fix]** Melon-pult's damage was reduced significantly due to the Camo Bloon damage extra bonus mechanic being bugged.

## **Gallery**

A Melon-Pult using Melons Away! ability against 20 BFBs
## **Trivia**

* Melon-Pult is a plant from the PvZ series, whose job to do is lob powerful watermelons at the zombies for damage.