Starfruit

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

## **Tower Info**

**Starfruit** shoots stars at attacking bloons in 5 direction which does good damage, but has very devastating upgrades to make you robustly strong enough to defend your lawn!

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Tier:** 3

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Shoots stars 0.25 seconds quicker.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Super Stars ability for Starfruit. When activated, Starfruit shoots out 10 big stars in 5 directions of himself which does eight layers worth of bloon damage each and twelve extra damage to MOAB class per star. Each star has four pierce each, total damage from all big star hit on a bloon is 400 and for MOABs is 1,000. Starfruit's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 25 seconds after use. Also increases Starfruit's main attack pierce by one.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Starfruit plays as a control plant who fires stars at pugnacious Bloons in five areas. His main role is to help you defend early game bloons and help against mid-game with his powerful upgrades and also very good late game as well. Since Starfruit has a lead weakness without Ability or the Vivacious Stars upgrade. Starfruit has excellent stats, but has a very devastating ability to help destroy bloons and MOAB class bloons in seconds.

### **Tips**

* **Starfruit** is a powerful starting plant to go for against Bloons. It's most efficient cost allows you to defend and getting Awesome Stars will allow you to defend till Leads come out. Also this plant allows you to greed hard with Sunflowers, since it's sheer power can help you out during early and mid game.
* **Starfruit** has a lead weakness, so you must have the Vivacious Stars upgrade in order for Starfruit's stars to pop Lead Bloons and also his Super Stars ability. Because Starfruit excels early game, the 4th tier upgrades are expensive for him and plants like Dandelion can fend off early Leads.
* **Starfruit** spam can be devastating if you have a very good economy. It can even destroy ZOMGs during midgame, however Starfruit is outclassed by the new Peashooter + Torchwood combo strat, which makes him mostly redundant against it. Adding a Melon-pult can help you out, with Winter Melon upgrade, you can stall even MOABs allowing your Starfruits to quickly destroy them before they get past.

## **Version History**

Starfruit when he was released had his attack angle for stars bugged and was okay. This was later fixed in the 2.0 update of PvB and the first update of there made some crazy but ludicrous buffs to Starfruit. It allowed Vivacious Stars to give lead popping power and his Ability was massively buffed etc. However, in the new update, Starfruit has been nerfed slightly due to him being a little too overpowered for the price of his upgrades.

V2.0

* Base attack speed decreased (1.75s → 1.5s).
* Piercing Stars price decreased ($350 → $300).
* Penetrative Stars price decreased ($350 → $300).
* Faster Shooting price decreased ($300 → $250).
* Star Vision price decreased ($300 → $250).
* Awesome Stars price increased ($1,250 → $1,400).
* Vivacious Stars price increased ($6,500 → $6,800).
* Vivacious Stars star count increased from 8 → 10.
* Vivacious Stars now allows Starfruit's stars to pop Lead Bloons.
* Super Stars now allows Starfruit's stars to pierce +1 more bloons (1 → 2).
* Super Stars big stars' pierce increased from 1 → 5.
* Super Stars big stars' damage to bloons has decreased from 15 → 8.
* Super Stars big stars' extra MOAB damage has increased from 0 → 12.
* **[bug fix]** Starfruit's attack angle now correctly matches the shape of a star.

V3.0

* Base price increased from $500 → $550.
* Awesome Stars price increased ($1,400 → $1,550).
* Vivacious Stars price increased ($6,800 → $7,200).
* Super Stars price increased ($4,000 → $4,200).

V4.5

* Awesome Stars price increased ($1,550 → $1,700).
* Vivacious Stars price increased ($7,200 → $7,600).

V5.5

* Base price increased from $550 → $600.
* Piercing Stars price increased ($300 → $350).
* Penetrative Stars price increased ($300 → $350).
* Awesome Stars price increased ($1,700 → $1,900).
* Vivacious Stars price increased ($7,600 → $8,200).
* Powerful Stars price increased ($1,000 → $1,100).
* Super Stars price increased ($4,200 → $4,400).
* Super Stars big stars' pierce decreased from 5 → 4.

## **Gallery**

Two Starfruits using their Super Stars Ability against a BFB
## **Trivia**

* Starfruit is a plant from the PvZ series, whose job to do is fire five stars in five areas against zombies.

* Starfruit was one of the most spammable plants in PvZ due to the power of him.

* Before the 2.0 update, Starfruit's attack angle was bugged (which wasn't in a star formation), causing him to be more effective against bloons below him because it attacked strangely.