Starfruit (PvZ2)

*For other uses, see Starfruit (disambiguation).*

## **Starfruit**

* PvZ2
* PvZ2C

Starfruits shoot stars in 5 directions.

### Costumes (China)

Just a small town fruit that travelled to the big city and found his way to the future. His favorite modes of transportation: conveyor belts, hoverboards, and rockets. WEEEE!

Starfruit is a seed packet Premium plant appearing in *Plants vs. Zombies 2*, obtainable for 200 seed packets.

Starfruit attacks by projecting stars in five different directions whenever a zombie is in his line of fire: one to the left, one going up, one going down, one going to the upper right (gradient of 1/2), and the last going lower right (gradient of -1/2). Each star deals 20 damage. If a zombie is exactly in front of him, with or without eating him, the zombie will be damaged by two of the five sides of Starfruit.

## About

*For more information about this character, see Starfruit.*
Starfruit returns in the Far Future update. He is a premium plant, which was available for purchase for $3.99. On August 24, 2016, Starfruit was available for 179 gems until August 27. In the 5.9.1 update, his cost price increased to $4.99.

After the 7.9.3 update on March 8, 2020, his status had been changed from a money premium plant to an unlockable seed-unlockable plant able to be unlocked with 200 seed packets. His sun cost has been increased to 150 sun. His projectiles move much faster than in the first game.

## Almanac entry

**Starfruit**

SUN COST: 150

RECHARGE: 5

TOUGHNESS: 300

DAMAGE: 20

PLANT FOOD POWER: Damage

RANGE: 5 Way

FAMILY: Appease-mint

Starfruits shoot stars in 5 directions.

Just a small town fruit that travelled to the big city and found his way to the future. His favorite modes of transportation: conveyor belts, hoverboards, and rockets. WEEEE!

## Upgrades

### Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Starfruit will shoot ten giant stars in five directions, each dealing 80 damage per shot worth of damage to a single enemy.

#### Costumed (China only)

Plant Food ability has a longer duration and the projectiles will spin counterclockwise.

### Appease-mint effect

When boosted by Appease-mint, Starfruit does an additional 175 DPS per star.

### Level upgrade (China only)

 Combat Training
 Cell Activation
 Fighting Power

## Strategies

Starfruit stands out from other projectile-based plants for specializing in attacking lanes other than the lane he is planted on. His strength lies in his relatively high firepower potential for his cost, as well as the ability to neutralize enemies attempting to attack plants from the back, such as Prospector Zombie and zombies lifted from Pterodacytls. However, like the first game, they suffer from their projectiles being awkward in their position with no way to defend themselves from zombies directly ahead of them. There are ways to get around this, such as utilizing ice floes in Frostbite Caves, or guiding the horde with Garlic and Sweet Potato.

Starfruit faces competition from Rotobaga, whose firing pattern also allows her to hit enemies from adjacent lanes. Compared to Rotobaga, Starfruit exchanges firepower for greatly increased range, since he can attack enemies from much further compared to Rotobaga and therefore will find more use against stronger enemies as it would give more time for Starfruit to damage enemies. A column of Starfruits is a decent choice against Chicken Zombies and Ice Weasels as his high-velocity projectiles will reach these zombies faster compared to Rotobaga.
Starfruit is an excellent choice against Imps thrown by Gargantuars or Zombie Bulls, Prospector Zombies and zombies carried by Pterodactyls; placing a column of Starfruits in the column where the aforementioned zombies would land, they would be quickly neutralized from the stars coming from either above, below, or behind. Columns of Starfruits in Big Wave Beach is very good against Octo Zombies, as the Starfruit's rapid, multi-directional attack can quickly destroy the octopi thrown by them. Overall, Starfruit is generally a better choice than Rotobaga, but Rotobaga benefits as she is able to be planted on water tiles in Big Wave Beach without the aid of Lily Pad.

## Trivia

* For some reason, in the Chinese version advertisement of his Plant Food upgrade the first picture shows the Starfruit with both his international costume (afro and mustache) and his Chinese costume (antennae) on the same Starfruit. He does not have the afro and mustache costume in the Chinese version.
* As of the Power Plants update, he shoots his projectiles much faster.
* His entry references that, in the Chinese version, he's a Far Future plant.
* He is the fourth plant to have its status changed from a premium plant to a seed-unlockable plant, the first being Blooming Heart, then Hot Date, Explode-O-Nut, and Starfruit respectively.

## See also

* Rotobaga
* Star
* Angel Starfruit