Ice Bloom

*Ice Bloom freeze, chill, and damage all zombies on the board, and more so in a 3x3 area around where they're planted*

### Special

Weak zombies in 3x3 area are iceblocked when defeated

## In-game statistics

### Codename alias

icebloom

**Even though Ice Bloom got the freezing zombies gig from her old college roommate, Ice-shroom, after he retired from the zombie-fighting life, she insisted that what she's doing with her role on the battlefield is totally different. She's not just some imposter or a sub-standard replacement, darn it! She's her own plant, and she wishes her peers would see her that way.**

**Ice Bloom** is a premium plant in *Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished*. She costs 75 gems to purchase.

When planted, Ice Bloom will deal 50 damage to and freeze all zombies on the screen for 7 seconds, after which zombies will remain chilled for an additional second (8 seconds total).

Zombies within a 3x3 area are frozen and chilled for an extra 2 seconds (10 seconds total), with Ice Bloom dealing 200 damage and trapping defeated zombies in iceblocks. Iceblocks act as small walls, each absorbing 300 damage before both the iceblock and the zombie inside is destroyed.

Zombies from Frostbite Caves and Furnace Zombie are immune to the freeze effect and will instead be chilled for the full duration, while the Holiday Spirit of Feastivus and PvZ Heroes zombies causes them to no longer be chilled by the time they unfreeze. Taco Imp is immune to both freezing and chilling effects, while flying zombies are completely unaffected.

Any zombies that Ice Bloom defeats outside the 3x3 area will not be trapped in iceblocks.

## Almanac entry

**Ice Bloom**

Ice Bloom freeze, chill, and damage all zombies on the board, and more so in a 3x3 area around where they're planted

Usage: weak zombies in 3x3 area are iceblocked when defeated

Even though Ice Bloom got the freezing zombies gig from her old college roommate, Ice-shroom, after he retired from the zombie-fighting life, she insisted that what she's doing with her role on the battlefield is totally different. She's not just some imposter or a sub-standard replacement, darn it! She's her own plant, and she wishes her peers would see her that way.

## Strategies

Ice Bloom is, in essence, a Plant Fooded Iceberg Lettuce without the Plant Food. Freezing the entire board buys time to deal extra damage, recharge seeds, reload uncharged attacks and more. And with added damage, any critically low health zombies are destroyed immediately on freezing.

While able to affect the whole board, Ice Bloom's effects are stronger in the 3x3 area where she is planted. Alongside increased freeze time and damage, any zombies defeated by the damage become iceblocks – a handy bonus for converting a pack of Basic Zombies and other low health zombies into useful meatshields. Unless dealing with a particularly dangerous bunch of zombies that require the extra freeze time, it is thus recommended to focus on planting Ice Bloom in areas where her damage and resulting iceblocks are most plentiful and likely to become of use.

However, Ice Bloom won't work in every situation. Any level involving flying zombies or freeze-immune zombies will immediately reduce Ice Bloom's reliability, so other plants should be used to help deal with them. Against flying zombies, Blover and co. can blow them away while Ice Bloom is occupied with stalling grounded zombies. Against freeze-immune zombies, it may be necessary to instead use a different single-use stalling plant such as Stallia or Thyme Warp.

## Balance changes

### Initial launch

* ▲ +100 Ice Block health
* ▼ +5 second recharge

### Version 1.2

* ▲ Now Plantable on Sewers
	+ Developer note: Fixed Ice Bloom not being plantable on sewers.

## Trivia

* Ice Bloom's "Snowy Graves" costume is based on Noelle from *Deltarune*.
	+ The name of the costume is a reference to the Snowgrave Route, an alternate narrative in *Deltarune Chapter 2* that Noelle plays a huge role in, as well as a spell she uses in the said route.
	+ Additionally, this costume is also one of the Feastivus Costume Contest winners, submitted by VesselUnknown#4064 and redrawn to better fit the game's art style.