Worm
Slow and stubborn, heads straight for the flower.
- Champion: Grub Lord Wriggles - Splits into wrigglers when killed.
Bestiary
Know your pests.
Pests
Every pest dies to its own spray colour; the wrong colour only coats it.
Slug
Tanky flower-muncher that leaves a slippery slime trail.
- Champion: Sir Slimealot - Floods the bed with slime.
Wasp
Fast swarmer that hunts YOU. Watch for the red sting circle.
- Champion: The Red Baron - Calls wasp squadrons.
Aphid
Keeps its distance and lobs acid. Step out of the red circles.
- Champion: Plague Mother - Spits blight on the flower.
Drummer Beetle
Drums to make nearby pests faster and tougher. Take it out first.
- Champion: Warchief Boombeat - Drums earthquakes.
Hexer
An aphid shaman that curses the gardener from afar. Raise a WARD while it chants, or kill it first.
Gilded Beetle
A treasure beetle that flees and digs away. Catch it with the spray colour it shows before it escapes and it bursts into gear.
Pests by act
Each act draws its own mix from these, so every run meets different pests.
Gnat Swarm
A cloud of gnats nibbling the gardener. Single shots barely thin it: area spells and reactions tear it apart.
Woodlouse
Curls into an armoured ball and barrels at the flower, then uncurls to rest. Hit it while it rests.
Cabbage White
Flutters over the garden laying eggs. Spray the eggs before they hatch into worms.
Leafcutter Ant
Cuts a leaf off the flower and carries it to a pipe. Catch it before it escapes and the growth comes back.
Lovebug Pair
Two flies joined tail to tail. Wound the pair and the angry couple charges twice as fast.
Deer Tick
Pounces onto the gardener and drains life until you dash, raise the Ward or drink a flask.
Flea Beetle
Hops aside when you aim straight at it. Lead your shots or use an area spell.
Tomato Hornworm
Grows with every bite. Left chewing for 8 seconds it pupates into a cutworm moth elite.
Mole Cricket
Digs underground (watch the dirt trail) and surfaces beside the flower. Hit it the moment it pops up.
Stag Beetle
Lowers its antlers over a red lane and charges. It is dazed if it rams the wall.
Garden Spider
Shoots web blobs: webs slow you, a direct hit wraps you for a second. Dash out.
Shield Bug
Its front carapace blocks most damage: flank it. It leaves a stink cloud when it dies.
Earwig
Snatches pollen and runs for a pipe. Kill it to get the pollen back doubled.
Honeydew Ant
Pulses honeydew that heals the pests around it. A priority target.
Centipede
Killed, it splits into two halves, and the halves split once more.
Cutworm Moth
Drifts over you dropping sleep dust: inside the cloud you move and fire slower.
Processionary Caterpillars
A conga line of five following its leader. Kill the leader and they scatter; their hairs leave itching poison.
Termite Builder
Raises mud pillars that block your shots and paths. The pillars crumble when it dies.
Antlion
Digs a sand pit that drags you toward its jaws. Dash out over the rim.
Cicada
Its sonic scream (a growing ring) silences your spells within 6 m for 3 seconds.
Bombardier Beetle
Hit from the front, it fires a boiling jet back along your line of fire. Flank it.
Dung Beetle
Rolls a ball that grows as it swallows pollen. Kill it to spill everything.
Dragonfly
Straight strafing runs across the arena after a lane tell. It never stops to fight.
Orchid Mantis
Camouflaged until it is close, then a telegraphed blade arc.
Locust
Leaps in long arcs; every landing is a small shockwave.
Firefly Bomber
Its lantern brightens, it dives at you and bursts. Dash away.
Tent Nest
A silk tent that keeps spawning caterpillars until it is destroyed.
Root Weevil
Burrows under the flower and infects it from below. Spray its mound at the pot.
Spittlebug
Lobs foam: standing in it drains your spray and douses sprinklers.
Hornet
A bigger armoured wasp with a double lunge.
Mealybug
Regrows a waxy shield that soaks damage every few seconds.
Zombie Ant
Its spores raise fallen pests as husks unless the bodies are composted or it dies first.
Glow-worm
Dims the garden around it; only its own lantern shows where it is.
Leaf Katydid
Moves only while you aim away from it. Look at it to pin it.
Dew Mimic
A water beetle disguised as a dew drop. It bites when you walk over it; a faint magenta glint gives it away.
Blister Beetle
Bursts into blistering acid that hurts pests too. Lure a crowd onto it.
Soldier Beetle
Takes the hits meant for pests near it. Kill it first or shoot around it.
Assassin Bug
A long needle shot after a thin laser lane. Step out of the line.
Mosquito
A proboscis beam drains the flower from range. Step into the beam to cut it.
Summoned
What the bosses and nests call into the fight.
Egg Clutch
Hatches unless sprayed.
Rat
A rat broken free of the Rat King.
Bunny
Nibbles the flower.
Crow
Steals pollen for the Scarecrow.
Vine Head
A head of the Bindweed Titan.
Stone Gnome
Moves only while you look away.
Slime Blob
Crawls back to the Plasmodium to heal it.
Bosses
One boss per act, picked for the run; the Bindweed Titan waits at the end, five more in Endless.
Mega Worm
Bark-armoured glutton. Charges down lanes at the flower.
The Great Snail
Hides in its shell, rolls and floods the bed with slime; the head is the target.
Old Moldwarp
Burrows under the lawn and erupts under the flower or you; throws dirt clods, calls mole crickets.
The Rat King
Seven rats knotted by their tails. At every quarter of its life a rat breaks free and runs for the flower.
Nettle Knight
A sting aura that poisons, thorn-lance thrusts down lanes, nettle patches.
Warren Buck
Digs burrows and bursts out of one, thump quakes, bunnies that nibble the flower.
Tsar Colorado
Lays egg clutches that hatch into larvae; its armour stripes break off one by one.
Magpie Baron
Steals drops and pollen, dive-bombs lanes and hoards in a nest. Break the nest to spill it all.
Queen Wasp
Calls swarms and dive-stings the gardener.
Spider Matriarch
Webs whole lanes, drops from above, spiderling swarms.
Stag King
Grabs and throws the gardener, arena-wide charges, enrages at half life.
Nutcracker Squirrel
Shells the arena with acorns from the tree tops, comes down to hammer. Its tail is the weak spot.
Flytrap Queen
Rooted. Trap mouths sprout around the arena and snap; she swaps between them.
Death's-head Hawkmoth
Dusk falls, dust clouds dull you, a squeak stuns. The skull on its back takes double damage.
Hornet Citadel
A paper fortress: hornet sorties and glowing gun ports. Break the walls and the queen comes out.
Termite Queen's Mound
A walking mound: soldiers on the walls, workers rebuild. Break the walls to expose the queen.
Mother Beetle
Horn charges and earth-shaking drum quakes.
Mantis Empress
Blink-strikes, crescent blades and mirror images; only the real one glows.
The Blight
A colossal fungus whose weak spray changes each phase; spore clouds infect the flower.
The Corpse Flower
A rival flower with its own bloom. If it blooms first its stench enrages every pest.
Army Ant Warlord
Ant columns march down lanes; a living shield of ants guards the warlord.
Giant Hogweed
Sap splashes that burn, seed-head barrages.
The Scarecrow
Scythe sweeps, a crow flock that steals pollen, a pumpkin lantern that sets the straw alight.
Hercules Beetle
Pincer grab and slam, a flight phase with dives, horn shoves toward the walls.
Bindweed Titan
A giant bindweed with a head of every spray. Cut the heads, then the heart.
Gnome Warlord
Stone gnomes advance only while you look away; a fishing hook pulls you in.
The Plasmodium
A spreading slime mould; hits split off blobs that crawl back to heal it.
Honey Fungus Lord
A mycelium network: mushroom rings pop up and the heart moves underground.
The Garden Serpent
Coils around the flower and squeezes, strike lunges, shed skins as decoys.
Topiary Minotaur
Reshapes the hedges into a maze and charges through them.
Elites and Champions
Elites carry an affix; champions are named giants with a power of their own.
Swift+60% speed
Armoredtakes 40% less damage
Regeneratingheals 3% per second
Gluttonousbites twice as hard
Toxicleaves a poison trail
Grub Lord WrigglesWorm champion: Splits into wrigglers when killed
Sir SlimealotSlug champion: Floods the bed with slime
The Red BaronWasp champion: Calls wasp squadrons
Plague MotherAphid champion: Spits blight on the flower
Warchief BoombeatDrummer Beetle champion: Drums earthquakes
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