Sap-fling

*Sap-flings create zombie-slowing puddles of sap.*

**You've gotta see Sap-fling's throwing arm to believe it. He may be young, but everyone agrees ... the kid's got TALENT. Scouts from some of the biggest Pinecone Ball teams have been keeping a close eye on him. He could be headed to the majors. Oh sure, some knock him for his incredibly sticky spitball. But he only uses all-natural sap, so it's entirely legal.**

**Sap-fling** is the event seedium of Holiday Cheer in *Alternate UniverZ*. He flings sap at zombies that lands on the tiles of the board, reducing any occupying zombies' footspeed and eating damage to 40% of normal and dealing slight damage in a 1x1 area.

Sap-fling can be unlocked through its seed packets, which are obtained through beating Holiday Cheer and completing world quests or purchasing directly from the store.

## Almanac entry

* Normal
* Pro

**Sap-fling**

SUN COST: 100

RECHARGE: 15

TOUGHNESS: 600

DAMAGE: 10

FIRING RATE: 2.9

RANGE: Lobbed

Sap-flings create zombie-slowing puddles of sap.
Special: slows down zombies who walk in puddle by 40%
Pro Status: -1s attack cooldown, doesn't work at nighttime

You've gotta see Sap-fling's throwing arm to believe it. He may be young, but everyone agrees ... the kid's got TALENT. Scouts from some of the biggest Pinecone Ball teams have been keeping a close eye on him. He could be headed to the majors. Oh sure, some knock him for his incredibly sticky spitball. But he only uses all-natural sap, so it's entirely legal.

**Sap-fling**

SUN COST: 100

RECHARGE: 15

TOUGHNESS: 600

DAMAGE: 10

FIRING RATE: 1.9

RANGE: Lobbed

Sap-flings create zombie-slowing puddles of sap.
Special: slows down zombies who walk in puddle by 40%
Pro Status: -1s attack cooldown, doesn't work at nighttime

You've gotta see Sap-fling's throwing arm to believe it. He may be young, but everyone agrees ... the kid's got TALENT. Scouts from some of the biggest Pinecone Ball teams have been keeping a close eye on him. He could be headed to the majors. Oh sure, some knock him for his incredibly sticky spitball. But he only uses all-natural sap, so it's entirely legal.

## Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Sap-fling throws 20 pinecones randomly on the lawn, turning into sap puddles which will stay for 20 seconds.

## Costumes

* Current
* Pre 1.5

## Strategies

As a plant with slowing down effect for an entire tile, Sap-fling can be used as a substitute for chilling plants such as Snow Pea or Winter Melon for suppressing the crowd. While Sap-fling barely deals any damage to enemies, that makes it a greater form of stalling as this can help suppress the arrival of later zombie waves. its relatively low cost and synergy with fire-based plants like Pepper-pult, Fire Peashooter, and Snapdragon make Sap-fling a more practical choice in normal levels as well.

The slowing effect of the sap allows plants with limited range or one tile effect such as Bonk Choy, Ghost Pepper and Spikerock to deliver more damage against zombies as they move slower inside their shooting range. This effect is also very useful for plants with slow fire rates, like Laser Bean, Fume-shroom, Bloomerang, Dandelion, and other lobbed-shot plants as these plants can deliver more shots against zombies.

Sap-fling particularly shines in Frostbite Caves, with his ability to work with fire plants. Furthermore, ice floes can bottle the zombies up, so with a swift Hurrikale push or Chard Guard toss, all the zombies will be in one tile, allowing Sap-fling to slow all the zombies down and let splash damage plants do more damage, such as Pepper-pult and Dandelion.

Sap-fling also works well with slow attacking or charging plants such as Coconut Cannon, Boom Balloon Flower and Void Orchid, as it gives them enough time to use their ability. Sap-fling also works well with Zoybean Pod, as it slows down zombies, giving enough time for Zoybean Pod to deploy more Zomboids, also making them deal more damage while zombies deal less damage to them.

Avoid using Sap-fling against Breakdancer Zombie as he can kick other zombies past the sap. Using Sap-fling with Lava Guava is a bad idea as well because he removes the sap with his lava puddle.

## Balance Changes

### Version 1.1

* Plant Food does damage.
* Plant Food sap duration: 10 > 20
* Plant Food pinecone count: 20 > 25

### Version 1.1.2

* Sap duration: 2 > 3
* Attack speed: 3.1 > 2.9
* Now correctly doesn't stall the Jetpack Zombies in FFX-VIII.

### Version 1.6.2

* Sun cost: 100 -> 125
	+ Dev Note: Contrary to what some may think, Sapfling is an absurdly effective staller. It had to recieve a tiny cost nerf to stay in line.