Blastberry Vine

*Blastberry Vines can be planted on top of other plants to provide increased defense and an additional attack in the form of lobbed projectiles that break into explosive bomblets.*

## In-game statistics

### Codename alias

blastberry

**Blastberry Vine snickers to himself. He imagines lobbing bomblets. He's been reading up on it and he knows it's gonna make a big splash when it happens. "Soon," he whispers.**

**Blastberry Vine** is a premium plant in *Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished*. He costs 75 gems to purchase.

Blastberry Vine lobs berries (every 2.85-3 seconds) that explode mid-air to break into 3 smaller, explosive bomblets over a lane, dealing 10 damage per bomblet to any zombies hit by them. He can be planted on top of other plants much like other vine plants, providing extra protection to the plant inside of it without taking up planting space.

## Almanac entry

**Blastberry Vine**

Blastberry Vines can be planted on top of other plants to provide increased defense and an additional attack in the form of lobbed projectiles that break into explosive bomblets.

Blastberry Vine snickers to himself. He imagines lobbing bomblets. He's been reading up on it and he knows it's gonna make a big splash when it happens. "Soon," he whispers.

## Plant Food effect

When fed Plant Food, Blastberry Vine lobs 3 explosive berries that further break into five bomblets that deal 60 damage each, as well as activating the Plant Food effect of the plant he is planted on, if any.

## Strategies

With reduced damage and decreased sun cost versus his Vanilla counterpart, Blastberry Vine now functions as a sun dump, stacking additional area damage on top of another plant while granting it slight protection. While inefficient as a standalone attacker, this damage can be used as a form of crowd control to whittle down the health of the front of the horde, making it easier for other offensive plants to take care of them. This makes Blastberry Vine a good option for handling levels with high zombie density. As a downside however, he will often struggle against singular, hardy targets such as Brickhead Zombie and Robo-Cone Zombie.

Despite appearances, Blastberry Vine's bomblets cannot deflected nor blocked by Jester Zombie and Parasol Zombie, making him a viable option for these two. Due to the bomblets dealing damage over multiple targets, he is also a good option against Dark Summoner Zombie, Troglobite and Camel Zombies, among other zombies that can bring other zombies or obstacles alongside them.

Pea Vine is a notable alternative to Blastberry Vine as they have the same sun cost and are both vine plants, with their differences being their area of effect and damage. While Blastberry Vine's focus on group damage makes him weak against single targets, Pea Vine's pea-based damage makes him much more adept in dealing with single targets. Pea Vine also can be buffed by Torchwood to deal double damage with additional splash damage, eroding the sun cost inefficiency that the two vines otherwise share. Considering this, it may be more worthwhile to use Pea Vine in levels with low zombie density, and/or in strategies involving the use of Torchwood.

## Balance changes

### Initial launch

* ▲ +100 Health
	+ Not listed in the changelogs
* ▲ -25 Sun
	+ Incorrectly listed in the changelogs as +25 sun
* ▼ -5 damage
	+ Incorrectly listed in the changelogs as -10 damage
* ▼ -2 berry bomblets

## See also

### Vine plants

* Pumpkin
* Shine Vine
* Gloom Vine
* Pea Vine