Electrici-tea

*Electrici-teas electrocute the eating zombies in a flurry of electrical discharges*

## Almanac statistics

### Unlocked by beating

WW-III

**You see, Electrici-tea never actually signed the Official Alternate UniverZ Inclusion Contract - he was just that charismatic! He's heard his prodecessor (whom he replace due to the former's very harsh case of floral flu) is feeling better than ever. How exciting!**

**Electrici-tea** is the second plant available in Wild West in *Alternate UniverZ*. When Electrici-tea is eaten, a cloud is summoned above the zombie that ate him, instantly electrocutes the zombie and damaging other nearby zombies.

Electrici-tea is unlocked after beating WW-III.

## Almanac entry

**Electrici-tea**

SUN COST: 50

RECHARGE: 30

TOUGHNESS: 300

BOLT DAMAGE: 50

RANGE: Multi-Hit

Electrici-teas electrocute the eating zombies in a flurry of electrical discharges
You see, Electrici-tea never actually signed the Official Alternate UniverZ Inclusion Contract - he was just that charismatic! He's heard his prodecessor (whom he replace due to the former's very harsh case of floral flu) is feeling better than ever. How exciting!

## Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Electrici-tea sends multiple lightning bolts that deal 500 damage to attack zombies on screen, which lasts for 3 seconds.

## Costumes

* Current
* Pre 1.5

## Strategies

Electrici-tea's main niche is that he can instantly destroy a zombie, although the zombie needs to eat him in order to work. His ability to instantly neutralize an eating robotic zombie is notable, as otherwise, most mechs like Robo-Cone Zombie or Disco-tron 3000 can survive a single insta-kill plant like Cherry Bomb or Jalapeño. Other tough zombies like Pharaoh Zombie, Blockhead Zombie and Webhead Zombie can also be defeated easily by Electrici-tea. He can also be a simple way to take care of the early game, as with his low sun cost, you can defeat early zombies quickly and save up for heavier plants later.

The zaps that he shoots out upon being defeated are extremely weak, only doing slight damage. Thus, Electrici-tea can only really make use of these zaps as a form of defense against Zombie Chickens, as Lightning Reed, Phat Beet or Electric Currant do a much better job compared to his zaps.

Although Electrici-tea has many strengths, it also has many weaknesses. For one, Electrici-tea is near useless against zombies that don't eat, such as Explorer Zombie or Excavator Zombie, as they can prevent Electrici-tea from being eaten, thus negating the entire use of the plant. Electrici-tea can also be avoided through Breakdancer Zombies. Another weakness is that being smashed by a Gargantuar will not cause Electrici-tea to explode, effectively nullifying the plant and wasting sun. Finally, it is advised that you avoid using Electrici-tea in levels where you can't lose plants, as Electrici-tea's main draw is being eaten, which counts against this objective.

## Balance Changes

### Version 1.0.1

* Bolt damage: 50 > 150
* Bolt bounces: 5 > 3

### Version 1.2

* Bolt damage: 150 > 50
* Plant Food damage: 400 > 300
	+ Dev Note: Electrici-tea could honestly be called the most braindead plant pick in AltverZ. It's a cheap, really reliable instant that can often kill multiple weak zombies at once, and even instakills a mech which eats it. Reducing the bolt damage should significantly weaken its' zombie-sniping abilities and bring it down to the power of other instas.

### Version 1.4

* Plant Food damage: 300 > 500
	+ Dev Note: why did we even nerf this not like anyone uses tea's PF

## Trivia

* Its Almanac entry is a reference to *AltverZ'* earlier development phases; when the mod used to be based off vanilla's 7.8.1, Chili Bean had a bug which didn't kill zombies, therefore Electrici-tea was used as a replacement.
	+ Prior to Chili Bean's addition to the game, Electrici-tea's almanac description was as follows: "Electrici-Tea's been worried about his friend lately. He wasn't going to make the cut into this game, but because Chili Bean is ill, he had to be on his place."