Applayer

Plant file · Mysterious Swamp — Center

Applayer

Sends homing notes to heal plants and dispel zombie buffs.

Sun200
Recharge30s
Durability400

Lore

Applayer lives in seclusion in Mysterious Swamp and joins the team after the A-route clears the “Swamp-3-A” level. She is both a performer and a herbalist: eighth notes heal plants and remove negative statuses, while legato notes remove buffs from zombies. Eighth notes do not remove hypnotism.

The Almanac takes her name from the Classic of Poetry, Xiao Ya, Lu Ming: “You! You! The deer cry, eating the apple‐like leaves of the wild. I have honored guests; harp and flute are played.” The character “苹” is read literally as “apple” here. With her friend Artemisia annua, she once developed a drug of great significance, earning the respect of nearly all plants and even some zombies. Apple Mortar (PvZ1) is treated in her family lore as the ancestor who “broke rite and music by adopting foreign weapons.”

Mechanics

Role

Healing · Cleansing · Buff removal

  • Base data: 200 sun; 30s recharge; 2400 cs playing interval (300 cs per performance); 400 HP.
  • Eighth notes (A-type) heal plants and clear slow and freeze; they do not remove charm.
  • Legato notes (B-type) clear speed-up and Silver Chariot / Silver Chariot Requiem activations on zombies.
  • Note lifetime: 1000 cs; each valid hit spends one application.
  • The playing interval is fixed, so clustering Applayers is not always good.
  • Corchid increases the number of times notes take effect.

Interactions & counters

  • CorchidOn a Corchid platform each note's applications rise from 2 to 5; per-salvo cap rises from 8 to 20.
  • Honey BambooWhen an A-type note hits a Honey Bamboo whose HP is below max, it spends all remaining applications for +1 HP with wear remaining 1.
  • SP MajoristA-type notes can remove hostile beamed eighth notes; the hidden trigger also requires an A-type note to clear the Mysterious Swamp Center upper-left stone.

In-game tooltip

Applayer sends out notes. Notes will heal a plant and remove negative effects from it or remove the positive effects from a zombie.