Hypno
Gabriel Molle
Hypno is a bipedal, slightly humanoid Pokémon that has yellow skin. It has triangular ears with brown interiors, sleepy-looking eyes, and a large nose. On its neck, it has a ruff of white fur, which is longer on the female. Hypno has five fingers on each hand and holds a pendulum in its left. The pendulum resembles a flat, silver ring and is used for hypnotism. Hypno is never seen without it. It has three toes on each foot, which also have a pink pad on the undersides.
Hypno is able to put people to sleep by swinging its pendulum. It is known to reside away from humans and on less-traveled roads. While it awaits its prey, it polishes its pendulum. If anyone comes by, Hypno will hypnotize them and eat their dreams. It carries away people having good dreams and is even known to have stolen a child at one point. However, in the Alola region, it preys primarily on Komala, and cases of Hypno targeting humans are notably rare. Some Hypno are even known to assist doctors in hospitals when their patients cannot sleep at night. In the Trainers' School in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, a Hypno is shown to be capable of creating illusions, namely by disguising itself as a human and causing illusory children to appear.
Hypno is based on a tapir, hypnotist, and baku, or dream eater spirit, of Japanese mythology. It also looks similar to a proboscis monkey. Aspects of Hypno's behavior also resemble various fairies, goblins, bogeymen, and other supernatural entities in European folklore.
Antoine Desloin is the lead singer of the Mercy Killers, going by the name of Hypno-Hustler. He and his band were scheduled to perform at a nightclub called "Beyond Forever". When the club's manager catches Hypno-Hustler robbing his safe, Hypno-Hustler used his hypnotic equipment on the manager. When it came time to perform, Hypno-Hustler and his band used their hypnotizing equipment on the audience in a plan to rob them as well. Peter Parker was at the club at the time and changed into Spider-Man. During the fight, Spider-Man discovered that Hypno-Hustler's headphones protected him from his own hypnotic music. Spider-Man managed to remove them from Hypno-Hustler causing him to become a victim of his own hypnosis. When the audience was free of the hypnosis, Hypno-Hustler and his Mercy Killers were webbed up and left for the police.[3]
The Hypno-Hustler can perform hypnosis with the aid of his guitar, and when teamed with his backup band, The Mercy Killers, can perform mass hypnosis. His boots can emit knockout gas on demand, and have retractable knives in the soles.
In the alternate future of Spider-Man: Reign as conceived by Kaare Andrews, in which many superheroes had grown old and retired, Hypno-Hustler is an aged supervillain, now sympathizing with Spider-Man. Realizing that Spider-Man is coming out of retirement and the Reign will be challenged, he attempts to help by using his old hypno-music from a boombox to distract Reign officers and encourage citizens to revolt. However, his boombox loses battery power and the Reign officers swiftly retaliate with deadly force, killing him immediately.[10]
Hypno-shroomWhen zombies eat Hypno-shrooms, they will turn around and fight for you.Almanac statisticsSun CostRecharge7520 secondsSpecialAreaZombie HealingSingleIn-game statisticsUnlocked by beatingDark Ages - Night 23Health50BoostFast RechargeCodename
aliashypnoshroomHypno-shroom has no trouble persuading zombies to fight on behalf of the plants. But he has yet to convince one to cluck like a chicken. "One day," he says. "One day."PreviousNext
Hypno-shroom converts the zombie that eats him to the player's side, causing it to turn around to attack other zombies and damageable grid objects. The zombie retains its current health, and in some cases, special abilities when converted. He doesn't affect zombies that attack him through means other than eating, such as crushing or burning. Upon coming into contact with him, Zombie Chickens and Ice Weasels will be hypnotized without damaging him.
Hypno-shroom is unique amongst other instant-use plants in that he does not flat-out kill zombies that eat him, but instead convert the zombie to fight for the player, dealing high damage to their former allies (that is, assuming they can survive). Due to the nature of hypnotization in this game, it is highly recommended to target zombies with high toughness and/or eating DPS, such as Buckethead Zombie and Newspaper Zombie. His unique hitbox allows for easier targeting of desired zombies; however, if the wrong zombie eats Hypno-shroom, this can directly harm the plant's overall effectiveness, especially compared to other types of on-death effects provided by plants like Chili Bean and Electrici-tea. Furthermore, there are some zombies that do not rely on eating, which can hamper his performance if many of them are in the level.
With hypnotized high-toughness zombies being strong meatshields that can also leave a serious dent on the zombie horde, Hypno-shroom becomes very potent in worlds that prominently feature tough zombies like in Far Future and Jurassic Marsh, where even some of the the healthiest zombies can often be converted, in contrast to single-use plants like Squash that struggle with such high levels of health. Hypnotized zombies can also be affected by various zombies and mechanics, such as Zombie King, Slider tiles, evil potions and Dinosaurs, often to the player's benefit. Plus, zombie summons created by zombies such as Chicken Wrangler Zombie, Weasel Hoarder and Disco-tron 3000 will also be allied to the plants' side, providing additional and even recurring sources of bonus damage. Hypno-shroom's Plant Food effect is especially powerful with the ability to transform a zombie into a Gargantuar, often having enough power to clear an entire lane. It is also recommended to pair him with stalling plants like Snow Pea and Sap-fling as their effects slowing the eating and walking speed of the opposition can indirectly increase the potency of hypnotized zombies.
A notable competitor to Hypno-shroom that also specializes in hypnotization is Caulipower. While Hypno-shroom can only hypnotize one zombie when planted, Caulipower can continuously hypnotize zombies from time to time, and can also hypnotize zombies that cannot eat (including Gargantuars), which can give the latter plant an advantage in levels that are heavily populated with such targets. However, Caulipower has a much more expensive sun cost and higher recharge compared to Hypno-shroom, and as such requires good management of sun producers to get as many Caulipowers as possible on the lawn. This caveat isn't as prevalent with Hypno-shroom, but he does require constant planting as an instant-use plant. The question of bringing Hypno-shroom, Caulipower, or even both at once for decks involving hypnotization can depend greatly on the situation.
Hypno-shroomWhen zombies eat Hypno-shrooms, they will turn around and fight for you.Almanac statisticsSun Cost75 > 125 > 175Recharge40 > 25 > 15Starting Recharge15Unlocked by beatingS-5 or 19-2Hypno-shroom has no trouble persuading zombies to fight on behalf of the plants. But he has yet to convince one to cluck like a chicken. "One day," he says. "One day."Hypno-shroom is a single-use mushroom who is a plant in ECLISE. He is unlockable after beating 19-2 or S-5. Hypno-shroom converts the zombie that eats him to the player's side, causing it to turn around to attack other zombies and damageable grid objects. The zombie retains its current health when converted while also absorbs 10% less damage from other zombies. He doesn't affect zombies that attack him through means other than eating, such as crushing or burning. Upon coming into contact with him, Zombie Chickens and Ice Weasels will be hypnotized without damaging him.
Unlike in the first game, hypnotized zombies will usually not retain their special abilities, while other zombies will have their special abilities glitched. For example, Turquoise Skull Zombie will use its crystal skull to burn zombies, but the laser will head to the player's house, and all Neon Mixtape Tour special zombies will not activate their special abilities regardless of jam. The only exception to this are the abilities regarding creating additional zombies, as any hypnotized units such as Disco-tron 3000 and Chicken Wrangler Zombie/Weasel Hoarder will create hypnotized zombies to fight for the player.
Hypno-shroom suffers from the lack of viable targets, and the hypnotized zombie's lacking performance against their former allies. Hypno-shroom's Plant Food is also deceptive-looking - the Gargantuars take a long amount of time to smash individual zombies and cannot take much punishment in return, and thus are incredibly vulnerable to rushes of weaker enemies, in particular, Zombie Chickens and Ice Weasels since the Gargantuar is not capable of doing area damage. Anyways, effective zombie to hypnotize is an enraged Newspaper Zombie or a tough Robo-Cone Zombie, as the former will most likely destroy several zombies before being destroyed itself, while the latter can absorb great damage and stall zombies well. A hypnotized Gargantuar Prime has an advantage as it smashes two times each time it encounters an enemy, which allows it to quickly take out the other mechanical enemies who will often resist a single smash. Also, in levels with Zombie Kings, this can easily defeat any of them since the Zombie Kings still grant zombies knight helms when Peasant Zombie are hypnotized, effectively making him last longer and will easily eat the Zombie King, not to mention Magnet-shroom does not steal armor items from hypnotized zombies.
Hypno-shroom benefits from the usage of Intensive Carrot since he must be eaten for his ability to take effect. Imitating Intensive Carrot with Imitater can therefore greatly cut down the cooldown between Hypno-shroom uses, providing that the player does not plant another plant on the tiles with Hypno-shroom. A Jalapeno or just any other area-damage plants can also help out, by destroying groups of weak zombies so that the surviving zombies that are usually stronger will be hypnotized. Freezing or slowing plants also help out as they prevent the zombies from attacking, giving the hypnotized one more time to kill the zombies.
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