Buttercup

*Buttercup butters butter onto attacking zombies, stunning them with butter. Smooth!*

## Almanac statistics

### Special

Creates butter tiles which affect any zombie that steps on them

### Price from shop

20

**Buttercup is, for lack of a better word, instant. She's straight to the point, she never complains about her purpose, dealing with life as is. "See that?", referring to her flat 25 sun cost. "It's not too little, it's beyond reasonable. Would ye want me costlier? Quit complainin'."**

**Buttercup** is a Timeless Avenue gauntlet plant in *Alternate UniverZ*. She throws butter at any zombie that attacks her, which stuns them for 4 seconds and leaves a butter puddle on the tile for 8 seconds. Zombies that touch the buttered tile will be damaged and buttered, but the butter puddle will also be destroyed.

## Almanac entry

**Buttercup**

SUN COST: 25

RECHARGE: 30

TOUGHNESS: 450

DAMAGE: 60

BUTTER DURATION: 6

Buttercup butters butter onto attacking zombies, stunning them with butter. Smooth!
Special: creates butter tiles which affect any zombie that steps on them
Buttercup is, for lack of a better word, instant. She's straight to the point, she never complains about her purpose, dealing with life as is. "See that?", referring to her flat 25 sun cost. "It's not too little, it's beyond reasonable. Would ye want me costlier? Quit complainin'."

## Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Buttercup will throw 20 butter into her own tile and the three tiles in front, above, and below her, dealing 60 damage to zombies, stunning them with butter for 12 seconds and leaving butter puddles for 15 seconds.

## Strategies

Although Buttercup is a defensive plant, unlike most of her fellow defensive plants, she is not recommended to be used as a direct defense from the zombie horde, as she has rather low health. Instead, her low sun cost allows her to stall zombies effectively, giving you time to focus on other rows and reinforce defenses in them. Buttercup can also work as a cheap blocker to some other threats such as the Barrel Roller Zombie, as she is not exactly a plant that you would want to prioritize defending. She also deals a few damage, so she can somewhat be used to finish off zombies.

Buttercup's Plant Food effect is useful it if there are many dangerous zombies (such as Zombie Bulls and Reanimator Zombies) and critters (such as Zombie Chickens, Ice Weasels and Zombie Parrots). The more she is planted behind, the more butter she will throw during the Plant Food effect, but considering that she is generally planted in the front row as a defensive control plant, her Plant Food effect cannot play its biggest role. In comparison with Kernel-pult's Plant Food effect, Buttercup's may be worse at first glance as it only affects three rows, but the butter Buttercup throws has the advantages of crowd controlling.

It is not recommended to use Buttercup in front of those who will not eat plants (such as Gargantuars), as she can only attack one time or she won't attack at all. Planting vine plants such as Blastberry Vine, Power Vine and Pumpkin on top of Buttercup is also unreasonable, because she must be attacked by a zombie close-up to release her ability.