Sweet Potato

*Sweet Potatoes attract zombies from other lanes when they are close by.*

**Sweet Potato really is as sweet as she looks. Her favorite animal is the unicorn. Her favorite color is (and this is a direct quote) "all the colors of the rainbow." When she writes the letter "i", she draws a little heart where the dot belongs. Frankly, if it were anyone else, this amount of syrup would be sickening. But on her, well, it just seems right.**

**Sweet Potato** is the third plant available in Frostbite Caves Extra in *Alternate UniverZ*. She attracts zombies in adjacent lanes to her lane when they reach the first tile away from her.

Sweet Potato is unlocked after beating FCX-VI.

## Almanac entry

**Sweet Potato**

SUN COST: 150

RECHARGE: 22.5

TOUGHNESS: 400

RANGE: Multi-Lane

Sweet Potatoes attract zombies from other lanes when they are close by.
Sweet Potato really is as sweet as she looks. Her favorite animal is the unicorn. Her favorite color is (and this is a direct quote) "all the colors of the rainbow." When she writes the letter "i", she draws a little heart where the dot belongs. Frankly, if it were anyone else, this amount of syrup would be sickening. But on her, well, it just seems right.

## Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Sweet Potato fully heals herself and attracts zombies in a 3x7.5 area (3.75 tiles from behind and 3.75 tiles tiles in front) for 6 seconds.

## Costumes

* Current
* Pre 1.5

## Strategies

Sweet Potato allows the player to attract zombies into well-guarded lanes while setting safe zones for sun production and other supporting plants. She is especially useful for setting choke points and allow area of effect plants such as Boom Balloon Flower, Spikerock, and Lava Guava to maximize their damage potential. However, this plant's weaknesses are her high cost and sluggish recharge, and that she is usually not tough enough to take pressure from multiple lanes. Because of this, Sweet Potato needs to be used with great care.

There are two main ways of setting up Sweet Potatoes: placing them on the first, third and fifth lanes, or the second and fourth lanes. The second method is more cost efficient, but the Sweet Potatoes will also take more pressure and require replacement faster.

The player can also take advantage of the terrain modifiers in Pirate Seas and Frostbite Caves to set up Sweet Potato more efficiently - certain Frostbite Caves levels can, with proper setup, allow the player to funnel virtually all threats to a single lane, where they can effectively be destroyed with insta-kill plants such as Cherry Bomb or Jalapeño by simply moving all the zombies to the same lane and planting said insta-kill plant.

Another way to use Sweet Potato is to treat her as a supporting plant, while using other defensive plants such as Wall-nut, Tall-nut and Infi-nut to defend her. Chard Guard works particularly well with Sweet Potato, since it relies on his pushing ability rather than bulk to defend, he can deal with large groups of enemies from multiple lanes much more easily compared to other defensive plants. However, these defensive plants may recharge too slowly, in which time the zombies may have already eaten through the Sweet Potato.

Sweet Potato is handy to use in Save Our Seeds levels when the endangered plants are not in all the lanes. In these levels, you can use Sweet Potato to attract the zombies to lanes without endangered plants, and you will have a better chance to win. However, Sweet Potato should not be used in Save Our Seeds levels when the endangered plants are in all of the lanes, as it will be a waste of a seed slot, unless you are using a strategy involving moving the zombies to different lanes.

Sweet Potato can also be used with Escape Root for devastating results. Plant Escape Root behind Sweet Potato; the latter will attract zombies and once enough zombies are clustered up, tap Escape Root to swap it with Sweet Potato, upon which Escape Root will switch places with Sweet Potato and explode to take out the zombies, or severely harm Gargantuars.

A good strategy is to use Sweet Potato in conjunction with Phat Beet, due to its lack of range and affinity to attack large zombie density in adjacent lanes. Sweet Potato, however, can have anti-synergy with Iceberg Lettuce. If you plant Iceberg Lettuce in the lanes adjacent to Sweet Potato in front of her, she will attract zombies before Iceberg Lettuce can freeze them, causing you to lose the plant without any benefits.

When using Sweet Potato, watch out for non-eating zombies such as Mecha-Football Zombies, Gargantuars, Excavator Zombies, Punk Zombies, and other zombies with the ability to move or instantly destroy plants, as Sweet Potato can attract them too and cause major disruption in a given lane.