Intensive Carrot

Intensive Carrot is the sixth and last plant obtained in Neon Mixtape Tour in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He was first revealed in the Neon Mixtape Tour Side B development diary released on September 15, 2015.

Intensive Carrot is an instant-use plant. When selected, grayscaled sprites of plants that were defeated will appear on the tiles they used to be, assuming that the tiles are still unoccupied. When Intensive Carrot is planted on a grayscaled sprite, the fallen plant will be revived with half of its maximum health remaining.

Audio[]

Origins[]

Intensive Carrot is based on the carrot (Daucus carota sativus), a root vegetable, usually orange in color, though purple, red, white, and yellow varieties exist.

His name is a portmanteau of "intensive care," referring to treatment of patients which can extend to mean the revival of plants and "carrot," which is the real-life plant this plant is based on. The Vitamins part in his description also refers to how Carrots are a common source for certain vitamins.

One of his costumes is a head mirror, a device commonly associated with doctors, referencing his reviving ability.

Almanac entry[]

Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.

Intensive Carrot
	SUN COST 100 RECHARGE 20 Special Restore Life Usage Single, Instant Enchant-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Intensive Carrots bring eaten plants back to life. "How do I revive defeated plants?" asks Intensive Carrot. "In a word: Vitamins. Vitamins and sorcery."

Intensive Carrot

SUN COST 100 RECHARGE 20 Special Restore Life Usage Single, Instant Enchant-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Intensive Carrots bring eaten plants back to life. "How do I revive defeated plants?" asks Intensive Carrot. "In a word: Vitamins. Vitamins and sorcery."

Chinese version  (China only)[]

Upgrades[]

Enchant-mint effect[]

When boosted by Enchant-mint, revived plants restored by Intensive Carrot will have an additional 125% health.

Level upgrades[]

Costumed (China only)[]

The sun cost of the Intensive Carrot when using his costume will be decreased by 25 sun.

Level upgrades (China only)[]

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Religious Carrot 信仰萝卜	Revives plants at full health. 复活一个植物并恢复它100%的生命值。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Intensive Carrot gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Light of Resurrection 复活之光	Revived plants are invincible for 5 seconds. 复活一个植物并使他获得一个持续5秒的无敌光罩
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Intensive Carrot gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).

Note: Intensive Carrot cannot be upgraded to level 4.

Strategies[]

Intensive Carrot is a powerful plant, but his power to revive plants must be used properly to utilize his full potential. Intensive Carrot should be used only on plants that are worth reviving, most of which are represented in the list below.

• Sun Bean (better if boosted)
• Hypno-shroom (better if boosted)
• Electrici-tea (better if boosted)
• Electric Blueberry
• Toadstool
• Sweet Potato
• Spikerock
• Banana Launcher
• Mega Gattling Pea
• Tall-nut
• Melon-pult
• Winter Melon
• Chili Bean (better if boosted)
• Coconut Cannon
• Citron
• Explode-O-Nut (better if boosted)
• Explode-o-Vine (better if boosted)
• Missile Toe
• Caulipower
• Hot Date
• Boom Balloon Flower
• Boingsetta (trigger her on-planting ability)
• Explode-o-Vine (trigger his on-planting ability, better if boosted)
• Holly Barrier (gets all leaves back)
• Any other plant with a high sun cost or fairly slow recharge rate or a boosted plant

This makes it a good idea to quickly recover plants that were destroyed by Explorer Zombie, Gargantuar Prime or Turquoise Skull Zombie's lasers, MC Zom-B, All-Star Zombie or Super-Fan Imp as long as these zombies are defeated beforehand.

Even though Intensive Carrot might look useless or weak on first glance, he is actually very detrimental in some levels where the players need to plant the same plants repeatedly. For example, the players can easily saves the usage of Plant Food or cut the long cooldown from certain plants by planting Intensive Carrot on the defeated plants. This is notable on plants that is triggered when eaten like Bzzz Button, Electrici-tea and etc.

However, it should be noted that Intensive Carrot always revives plants at half health (unless it's upgraded or boosted by a Power Mint), and when it comes to plants such as Sun-shroom, Pea Pod, Potato Mine, Strawburst, Primal Potato Mine, Escape Root, Kiwibeast, Dazey Chain and Ultomato, they will always be revived to their initial stage, regardless of which stage they were in when they died, so using Intensive Carrot on them is generally a bad idea (unless Sun-shroom, Potato Mine, Primal Potato Mine, Strawburst, Primal Potato Mine, Escape Root, and Kiwibeast were boosted).

Intensive Carrot can be combined with Imitater to both revive two plants at once, and cut down on its recharge time. This is especially helpful in worlds where your front line could be destroyed easily, such as Neon Mixtape Tour and Modern Day.

Remember that a plant cannot be revived if another plant was pushed or pulled by Mecha-Football Zombie, Fisherman Zombie, Punk Zombie, Qigong Zombie, Qigong Gargantuar, or Ankylosaurus to tile where it was defeated. Jurassic Rockpuncher's ability will also prevent you from reviving a plant so you should be careful when they're around.

Intensive Carrot only registers the latest destroyed plant on a tile and each new one planted will override this, including vine plants which usually allow other plants to be place on them. As such, if one wishes to revive a vine plant, they should refrain from planting there until Intensive Carrot has been used. It will also not register plants that are removed by the shovel, nor many plants that destroy themselves.

Gallery[]

Intensive Carrot has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages[]

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Intensive Carrot
Simplified Chinese	复活萝卜	lit. "Resurrection Radish" (Carrot is called "foreign radish" in Chinese)
French	Médicarotte	From "Medicament" and "Carotte"
German	Intensiv-Karotte
Italian	Carota intensiva
Brazilian Portuguese	Cenoura do Poder	"power carrot" in portuguese
Spanish	Zanahoria intensiva

Trivia[]

• His appearance could possibly be based on a drill, as he drills into the ground.
• He's the only Enchant-mint story-mode-unlocked family plant that can be boosted; the others are either unlocked through spending gems, spending real currency, collecting seed packets, or can't be boosted by Enchant-mint.
  • Its classification is likely attributable to how he practices sorcery according to his almanac entry.
• If a revived plant is boosted through a gem purchase or the Zen Garden, then it will activate its boost again. The revived plant will still have its health reduced as the degeneration happens after the boost. However, if a Plant produces armor as part of its PF effect, the armor is not affected.
• When he is used on a fallen Chard Guard, the Chard Guard will grow back all of its leaves, although the health penalty still applies.
• If he is used on an eaten duplicated Spore-shroom, the plant will give back sun when dug up, relative to Spore-shroom's level.
• It is possible to revive a Guacodile if it was either crushed by Surfer Zombie's surfboard while on land, frozen blocks, Imp Porter's backpacks, or Arcade Zombie's arcade machines, even though it prompts the Guacodile to rush and prevents it from being revived.
• It used to be possible to revive Power Lily if it was destroyed by a Hair Metal Gargantuar's shock wave prior to older updates.
• The sound playing while he revives a plant seems to have a remix of some sort in a part of the rap jam.
• Grayscaled textures of defeated plants show no costumes unless it is a limited-time edition one.
• Before the 10.6 update, Intensive Carrot didn't affect Lily Pad, even if the tile wan't covered with water.
• He is the second plant which can turn into another plant, with the first one being Imitater and the third being Escape Root.
  • Coincidentally they are all roots.
  • However, Intensive Carrot can be planted on Plank lanes in Pirate Seas, unlike Escape Root.
• In Modern Day - Day 25, he is the only plant given, since he is used to revive the pre-placed plants in order to defeat the zombies. The player must strategize the order of plants they would like to revive and must be careful of pushing threats such as Punk Zombie.
• If Intensive Carrot is used after a level is finished, another copy of the greyed out sprite will appear on the same tile.
• In Save Our Seeds level when a plant is eaten by a zombie. He will not revive them.
• Holly Barrier's summoned leaves and PF leaf damage raises drastically when revived, instakilling almost any zombie that eats. The Leaves will not do the knockback effect, however.

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)[]

• Prior to the 2.2.3 update, he could revive instant-use plants and single plants to duplicate their effects. For example, if a Power Lily was used and vanishes, Intensive Carrot will cause it to spawn more plant food; if he was used on a Cherry Bomb, they will explode again.
  • This still applies to Gold Bloom, who will produce a burst of sun.
• Certain level 4 plants when revived will create various glitches:
  • Sunflower, Twin Sunflower, Primal Sunflower, Repeater, Laser Bean, Homing Thistle, Bowling Bulb, Sap-fling, Fire Peashooter, Chili Bean, Torchwood, Hypno-shroom: Plant Food animations play only. For Torchwood and Hypno-shroom, their animations remain even though they are not yet fed with Plant Food.
  • Imitater: Remain idle on screen. This is also the only way to see him idle beside Almanac and/or testing game files.
  • Oak Archer, Fume-shroom, Primal Peashooter, Lotuspot: Deal heavy damage.
  • Sun-shroom, Pyro-shroom, Cryo-shroom, Pea Pod: Return back to when they are first planted on lawn
  • Citron, Coconut Cannon, Caulipower, Pumpkin Witch, Banana Launcher, Missile Toe: Uncharged given they were either fully charged or were recharging.
  • Heavenly Peach: Grants immunity shield to itself.