Spikeweed

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

## **Tower Info**

**Spikeweed** hurts bloons when they are close to him, releasing his spikes to deal painful damage onto them when they get hit. He can be upgraded to his counterpart Spikerock, which does insane amounts of damage to bloons when stepped on and has a fearsome ability which can make all Bloons' dreams go annihilated!

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases attacking range from 25 to 32.5.

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** Increases attacking range from 32.5 to 40.

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Further increases attacking range from 40 to 45, Spikeweed is now Spikerock that attacks doubly with its thorny spikes with a small delay, which does four layers worth of damage to bloons per swipe. Also increases the pierce per swipe from fifty to seventy-five.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** More increased attacking range and slightly more attack speed. Spikerock's thorns now deal seven layers worth of bloon damage per swipe, and does six bonus damage to MOAB class bloons. Spikerock's thorns are molten hot that can pop Lead Bloons additionally. Also further increases the pierce per swipe from seventy-five to hundred.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases attack rate from 0.7 seconds to 0.575 seconds.

**Tier:** 1

**Effect:** Increases attack rate from 0.575 seconds to 0.45 seconds.

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Further increases attack speed by tripling it, and damage of every hit inflicted to bloons is increased to three from two layers of damage.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Get Over Here! ability for Spikeweed. When activated, Spikeweed drags all Bloons in his location at a range of 120, dealing two layers of damage per tick which does one bonus damage to Ceramics and five bonus damage to MOAB class bloons per tick for six seconds duration. Spikeweed's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 35 seconds after use and his main attack now does four layers of bloon damage instead of three per swipe.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Spikeweed plays as a thorny plant who can pop Bloons at close-range combat, but can only be planted on the Bloon track/pathway to actually make him powerful as a melee plant. His role is to pop Bloons on the track by attacking them while they move along. He is very good offensively, but has some very good synergies with other plants to make him pugnaciously powerful against the Bloons that are in his vicinity.

### **Tips**

* **Spikeweed** is a powerful plant which can be used during the early game to kill Bloons when they step on him, dealing constant damage in his tiny attack radius. He can be used to actually pop Bloons, but has many powerful upgrades to help him deal with stronger Bloons.
* However, **Spikeweed** has a lead and camo weakness, so for him to pop Leads, his Ability and Molten Spikerock can pop Lead Bloons, but nearly every plant can deal with Camo Bloons such as Peashooter, Dandelion, Cabbage-pult and Gatling Pea etc.
* **Spikeweed** is very good against grouped Bloons, which counters some Plants' weaknesses overall which can also be used for clean-up when it comes to a MOAB class bloon having the bloon insides.

## **Version History**

Spikeweed was very strong when he was released in PvB, until version 2.0 he has been nerfed hard to make him more balanced compared to most Plants in the game along getting some buffs for his Ability upgrade. He is a relatively good plant still, but not all-powerful as of V2.0.

V2.0

* Base price increased from $450 → $500.
* Base attack now has a pierce cap of 50 (from infinite pierce).
* Cost of Intensive Spiking increased ($875 → $975).
* Cost of Spikerock increased ($925 → $1,075).
* Spikerock maximum pierce increased from 50 → 75.
* Molten Spikerock maximum pierce increased from 50 → 100.
* Cost of Molten Spikerock increased ($4,050 → $4,350).
* Molten Spikerock extra MOAB damage has been decreased from 8 → 6.
* Get Over Here! now adds +1 damage to Spikeweed's basic attack.
* Get Over Here! ability affection radius increased from 100 → 120.
* Get Over Here! ability now does +1 additional damage to Ceramics and MOAB class bloons when struck.

## **Gallery**

4 2-3 Spikeweeds attacking a horde of Ceramics and MOABs
## **Trivia**

* Spikeweed is a plant from the PvZ series, who attacks zombies if they step on it for small piercing damage in his tile radius.