Cactus

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

## **Tower Info**

**Cactus** shoots out powerful penetrative thorns that do good damage to bloons at high speed. Her upgrades are very good but her Ability can make her dangerously powerful against atrocious Bloons!

## **Upgrades**

***Left path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Increases attack range and projectile distance by 25.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Effect:** Allows lead popping power and thorns do three layers of bloon damage.

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Quadruples the pierce of Cactus's thorns, increasing the pierce from five to twenty overall. Thorns now do seven layers of bloon damage and increases velocity of thorns by 18.75%.

**Tier:** 4

***Right path upgrades***:

**Effect:** Shoots thorns 0.35 seconds quicker.

**Tier:** 1

**Tier:** 2

**Tier:** 3

**Effect:** Unlocks the Electric-powered ability for Cactus. When activated, Cactus's main attack does fourfold more damage and pierce with her thorns and makes them slower but increases lifespan of thorns by 50% for twelve seconds. Cactus's Ability has a recharge cooldown of 40 seconds after use and her main attack now does four layers of bloon damage instead of two.

**Tier:** 4

## **Strategy**

### **Summary**

Cactus is overall a decent plant when it comes to early game. She can be used in numerous ways to help you defend early bloons. She can pop Lead Bloons with the Heat-tipped Thorns upgrade and also increases the damage which makes sense for her toolkit.

### **Tips**

* **Cactus** is a okay starting plant to help you against the Bloons. It's high-piercing thorns can help you out during the early rounds whilst farming with Sunflowers to actually earn additional sun. Cactus can also pop the aforementioned Lead Bloons with the Heat-tipped Thorns which allows you to easily beat them and pop more bloons.
* **Cactus** has a super late game weakness so as MOAB class bloons, so plants like Threepeater and Dandelion has MOAB DPS for late game, because Cactus is a good clean-up plant and a good attacking plant for early/mid game.
* **Cactus** can be used strategically when it comes to targeting priorities. Set her to "Last" targeting and place her in the area when she can penetrate a ton of bloons with her thorns in a straightaway, allowing better clean-up and good strategical use of her.

## **Version History**

Cactus when she was released didn't change the meta that much. The new plant **Torchwood** has changed the meta because of buffing peashooters and making them robustly unstoppable (not quite). Cactus is a decent plant overall, but she has received some balances changes in 3.0 update to help out a little bit and she got buffed again in 4.0 to make her a better option for mid game.

V3.0

* Bigger Thorns price decreased ($350 → $300).
* Spiky Eyesight price decreased ($350 → $300).
* Faster Shooting attack speed decreased (1.25s → 1.15s).
* **[undocumented]** Powerful Thorns attack speed decreased (1.0s → 0.9s).

V4.0

* Unavoidable Thorns pierce increased from 15 → 20.
* Electric-powered Cactus now increases Cactus's attack damage from 2 → 4.
* Electric-powered Cactus ability duration increased from 10s → 12s.

V5.0
* Cactus was added to Card Battles, with four different type of cards for her.

## **Trivia**

* Cactus is a plant from the PvZ series, whose job to do is to fire out thorns at zombies which do damage. In PvZ2, her thorns pierce through zombies and also acts like a Spikeweed when they go close to her.