Puff-shroom

**Puff-shroom** (also **Puffshroom**) is a attacking plant that is available for Plants vs. Bloons.

## **Tower Info**

**Puff-shroom** shoots spores at attacking bloons which does decent damage, but deserves as a great starting plant with some good upgrades to feed off the bloons and is very cheap to get. However, Puff-shroom only lasts for up to eight rounds before fainting and his Ability makes himself and other Puff-shrooms fire a multitudinous amount of spores!

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases attack range by 20, spore projectile speed by 125 and distance by 25.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Puff-shroom's spores are poisonous, increasing the pierce of them by one and bloons that got hit by them will get poisoned for damage every 0.75 seconds. The poison effect lasts for up to five seconds, and Puff-shroom's spores are capable of popping lead and Spore Sprayer spores does four damage instead of three.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Increases the poison damage tick rate to 0.25 seconds from 0.75 seconds and poison effect now lasts for up to ten seconds. Puff-shroom's spores have two more pierce and do three layers of bloon damage, Spore Sprayer spores now does seven damage instead of four, and getting this upgrade will allow Puff-shroom to indefinitely stay in the battlefield without fainting.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

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

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Spore Sprayer ability for Puff-shroom. When activated, it'll make Puff-shroom and all concurrent Puff-shrooms fire out up to 45 spores which does three layers worth of bloon damage each, and destroying bloon havoc for three seconds. Puff-shroom's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 40 seconds after use and also allows Puff-shroom to indefinitely stay in the battlefield without fainting.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Puff-shroom plays as a mushroom plant who fires spores at atrocious Bloons. His main role just like Peashooter's is to help you defend early game bloons and help against mid-game with his powerful upgrades. Puff-shroom is basically like Peashooter, but has a relatively short-range attack but a very cheap plant to place down. The only problem is that Puff-shroom has a lifespan of eight rounds which makes sense, but this plant is a must-have during the early game.

### **Tips**

* **Puff-shroom** is a good starting plant to help you hold the Bloons off. It's low piercing spores can help out during the early rounds whilst farming with Sunflowers to actually earn additional sun. Reason why Puff-shroom is versatile is because it's very cheap and can help you out long-term.
* **Puff-shroom** has a mild lead weakness, so getting Poisonous Spores will allow his spores to pop them.
* **Puff-shroom** falls off super late game due to lack of MOAB popping power even with ability spam. It's somewhat situational because Spore Sprayer can allow you to defend very well against bloons.

## **Version History**

Puff-shroom when he was released didn't do much to Bloons and didn't affect the meta. He had a low use rate, and he wasn't good late game. Puff-shroom received a big buff on the 2.0 update on PvB which makes his 4th tier upgrades allowing him to last forever. The first update buff did actually nerf him a little bit, which made him underused. Puff-shroom has received some buffs in 3.0 to make his Ability more powerful and vice versa.

V1.0
* Poisonous Spores price increased ($500 → $600).
* Poisonous Spores now allows Puff-shroom's spores to pierce and pop Lead Bloons
* Toxic Spores price increased ($2,750 → $2,850).

V2.0

* Long Range Spores price decreased ($50 → $40).
* Piercing Spores price decreased ($100 → $80).
* Faster Shooting price decreased ($50 → $45).
* Luminous Eyesight price decreased ($100 → $90).
* Toxic Spores and Spore Sprayer (4th Tier upgrades) bought on Puff-shroom now allows him to last indefinitely on the battlefield.

V3.0

* Poisonous Spores price decreased ($600 → $550).
* Spore Sprayer ability duration increased from 2s → 3s.
* **[undocumented]** Spore Sprayer ability maximum spore count increased from 30 → 45.
* Spore Sprayer ability has doubled the attacking range for Puff-shrooms whilst ability is active (from infinite but now fires if there's no bloons in radius).

V4.0

* Long Range Spores price decreased ($40 → $30).
* Piercing Spores price decreased ($80 → $60).
* Faster Shooting price decreased ($45 → $35).
* Luminous Eyesight price decreased ($90 → $75).
* Poisonous Spores now increases the damage of spores from Spore Sprayer from 3 → 4.
* Toxic Spores now increases the damage of spores from Spore Sprayer from 3 → 7.

V4.5

* Spore Sprayer price increased ($3,750 → $4,250).
* Spore Sprayer ability cooldown time increased (30s → 40s).
* Base lifespan round duration decreased from 10 → 8. 4th Tier upgrades are unaffected.

## **Gallery**

Ten Puff-shrooms attacking 2 ZOMGs and a BFB with Spore Sprayer ability activated
## **Trivia**

* Puff-shroom is a plant from the PvZ series, whose job to do is shoot out purple spores against the zombies.

* Puff-shrooms in PvZ and PvZ2 are free and plantable because they were overpowered in Night levels and such.