Solar Flare

Description

Solar Flare is a dynamic and expressive character with a bold personality, a striking appearance, and a lively way of interacting with her surroundings. Below is a detailed and accurate breakdown of her character based on the images provided.

Personality

Confident & Charismatic: She carries herself with self-assurance, always looking in control of a situation. Whether she’s casually leaning against an arcade machine or boldly kicking a trashcan, she exudes confidence. Playful & Mischievous: Her expressions and dialogue reveal a fun-loving, slightly mischievous nature. She enjoys teasing others and engaging in lighthearted antics. Sassy & Witty: She has a sharp, sarcastic sense of humor, often making witty remarks. She enjoys making fun of situations in a playful way. Adventurous & Energetic: She is always on the move, taking action without hesitation. She seems to enjoy excitement and is not afraid to get involved in chaotic situations. Sociable & Friendly: She easily interacts with others and seems to enjoy company. She even persistently knocks on her friend's door to invite them to the arcade. Slightly Impulsive: She doesn’t always think before acting, as seen when she kicks the trashcan without checking what’s inside. Strong & Protective: Despite her playful and teasing nature, she shows a level of protectiveness, as seen when she saves person in the trashcan later invites them to hang out.

Gender

Female

Species

Plant-human Hybrid

Pronouns

She/Her

Full Name

Solar Flare

Strategies

Solar Flare makes a difference by making lots of sun, which in turn she can use to her advantage by playing high-cost plants and tricks early. Her two classes, Kabloom and Solar, allow her to use aggressive combos of playing lots of plants to dish out huge damage while making enough sun for her to do that. Thanks to the two aforementioned classes, Solar Flare also has access to both Anti-Hero plants like Poison Oak and Strikethrough plants such as Laser Bean, allowing for reasonably good direct damage to the zombie hero. Solar Flare's signature superpower, Sunburn, is what makes her one of the easier heroes to play as, because it can either damage a turn 1 threat or chip the zombie hero, and the extra sun allows her to play cards faster. Her other superpowers, on the other hand, are on the defensive side: Weed Whack and Scorched Earth are all about lowering zombies' stats, while More Spore is used to block zombies and swarm the field early on. Solar Flare is undeniably, the most aggressive plant hero in the game, even more so than Night cap. Not only can Solar Flare utilize the Pineclone+Molekale strategy like most Kabloom Heroes, she can also combine devastating early-game hitters such as Haunted Pumpking, Anti-Hero cards such as Poison Ivy, high-strength plants such as Zapricot and Strikethrough plants such as Astrocado together, resulting in an extremely aggressive deck with lots of damage. Solar Flare can also use heavy control and endless removal cards such as Toadstool, Wing-Nut, Squash, and Berry Blast to dispatch any zombie the enemy hero tries to play. Coupled with massive sun production via cards like Solar Winds and Sunflower Seed, Solar Flare can easily dominate the game with a quick finisher such as Kernel Corn or Cornucopia, if she ever gets to play them. Solar Flare can take this a step further by incorporating Imitater, Pair Pearadise, and cards such as Astro Vera into her control decks, making her virtually unkillable.

Appearance

Physical Appearance: Plant-Human Hybrid: She has a sunflower head, giving her a unique and vibrant look. Green Skin with Freckles: Her body is plant-like, covered in green skin with some darker freckles. Athletic & Curvy Build: She has a toned yet curvy physique, emphasizing her strength and agility. She appears quite fit. Casual & Stylish Outfit: Black crop top with a leaf symbol, showing her midriff. Denim shorts, giving her a laid-back and sporty vibe. Thigh-high black stockings with white stripes, adding to her stylish and slightly rebellious look. Red shoes, which complement her energetic persona. Goggles on Head: This accessory makes her look adventurous, like she’s always ready for an action-packed moment.

Likes

Arcades & Gaming: She frequently visits the arcade and even insists on going despite it being closed. This suggests she loves video games and competitive fun. Action & Adventure: She enjoys being in the middle of the action, whether it’s fighting zombies or engaging in playful antics. Teasing & Jokes: She enjoys messing with her friends in a playful way, making witty or sarcastic remarks. Sunlight & Warmth: Given her nature as a sunflower-based character, she likely thrives in sunny environments. Spending Time with Friends: She actively seeks out company, as seen when she persistently invites her friend to the arcade.

Dislikes

Boredom: She doesn’t seem like someone who enjoys sitting still or doing nothing. She’s always up to something. Rules & Restrictions: She bends the rules when needed, like trying to find another way into the arcade when it’s closed. Weakness or Cowardice: She prefers boldness and might not have much patience for overly timid individuals. Overly Serious People: Given her playful nature, she probably doesn’t get along well with overly strict or humorless characters.

Behavior & How She Acts

Highly Expressive: Her facial expressions are exaggerated and lively, making her emotions very clear. Physically Active: She moves a lot, whether it’s kicking, posing confidently, or dramatically reacting to something. Casual & Chill: Even in chaotic situations, she remains laid-back and playful. She’s rarely flustered. Persistent & Determined: If she wants to do something, she’ll keep pushing until it happens (like insisting on going to the arcade). A Bit Messy: She doesn’t mind getting sweaty or dirty, as seen when she casually complains about the arcade seats making her sweat.

Voice & Speech Style

Confident & Playful Tone: She likely has a lively, teasing tone when she speaks. Casual & Relaxed: She speaks in a natural, laid-back way, often using slang or playful phrases. Slightly Husky or Smooth Voice: Given her bold personality, she might have a slightly husky or smooth voice with a flirtatious edge. Expressive & Animated Delivery: Her voice would likely change in tone depending on her mood, adding energy and excitement to her words.

Final Impression

Occupation

Superhero

Origin

She is the hero version of the Sunflower, a famous recurring plant in the Plants vs. Zombies series, who in turn is based on the common Sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Her fiery form and ability of flight are based on the Marvel Comics character Human Torch, with her enthusiastic personality being based on the Johnny Storm incarnation. Her fiery form may also allude to the Fire Flower from the Garden Warfare series. Her name is a combination of "solar," a term relating to the sun, and "flare," a sudden brief burst of bright flame or light, which in turn may refer to "solar flare," a brief eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface. Her name could probably be an allusion to the DC Comics character Starfire, or a reference to the Solar Flare Beam, an ability for the Sunflower in Garden Warfare series as well. The name of her "Corn-pocalypse Now" deck is a reference to the movie Apocalypse Now. Her description references how her signature superpower (Sunburn) burns zombies. Plants vs. Zombies Heroes

Friends / Allies

Plants Crazy Dave The Player

Powers/Skills

Pyrokinesis Solar generation

Hobby

Fighting Zombies. Video games

Enemies

Zombies Dr. Zomboss

Type of Hero

Elemental Superheroine

Power and Abilities

Solar Flare's ability is similar to that of Fire Flower, as she can perform flaming attack to zombies, but she can spread her flames in a radius. She is also skilled with video games and music.

Background

After the malfunction of the Hero-Tron 3000, a Peashooter, a Sunflower, a Wall-nut and a Bonk Choy got hit and later became Green Shadow, Solar Flare, Wall-knight and Grass Knuckles respectively. When the player completed the quest "Get a New Plant Hero" by beating one game, there is a choice between Solar Flare and Spudow. If not, the player can have another choice of choosing her and Chompzilla after completing the quest: "Get a New Plant Hero! (Final)". If the player did not choose her, she requires 750 gems to unlock. In her introduction comic strip, Crazy Dave asked Solar Flare to help him with the zombies surrounding them. She used her fire power to burn them. After they were defeated, Dave, Green Shadow, a Sun-shroom, and a Fume-shroom celebrated by having s'mores using her fire.

Biography

In Impfinity's Wild Ride, after Inpfinity caused mischief in the Sharkbite Shores Amusement Park, Green Shadow, Solar Flare, Wall-knight and Grass Knuckles tracked him down and managed to destroy his belt that creates the copies, erasing every clone along the way. Impfinity was captured but managed to escape on a rollercoaster carriage. In Junkyard Ambush, she returned alongside Green Shadow and Spudow to find a tire for Penny, but Rustbolt suddenly attacked them. Green Shadow and her fought him back, but he hit them with a spatula. However, Spudow managed to weaken him with a giant magnet and they finally found the tire for Penny. In Ice Zombie Cometh, she was chilling in a water park until Brain Freeze froze the entire park to make this place for his own. Solar Flare was frozen in an ice block until she managed to melt the ice with her power, sinking Brain Freeze in the water and regained the water park again. In Attack of the tentacles!, Neptuna attacked Solar Flare, Grass Knuckles and Chompzilla while playing beach volleyball. She attacked them with Octo-Pets, but Solar Flare used her power to fry all of them. The heroes later used the volleyball net to capture her and the rest of the Octo-Pets. In Dance-Off at the Disco, Electric Boogaloo entered the disco and attacked Green Shadow and Spudow with his power, but Solar Flare used her DJ skills to help them fight him back, and they eventually win a trophy and defeated the Zombie Hero. In Zombopolis Apocalypse!, Solar Flare was upset when Super Brainz replaces the Mayor's Statue with himself. The Plant Heroes tried to attack him but failed to his cleverness, but until he was distracted by the mirrors, the heroes got their chances to attack him. Super Brainz was be seen in a reporter outfit when the heroes put the Mayor's statue backup

Battle Strategies: With

However, Solar Flare has a few weaknesses: her lack of Amphibious plants, as well as poor anti-gravestone and anti-trick defenses. Although the first weakness can be patched by damaging and instant-kill cards like Berry Blast, Sour Grapes, Squash, and Three-Headed Chomper, she will certainly have to watch out for the latter, because the only way Solar Flare can keep her plants alive for long is to use force, which both gravestones and tricks easily bypass. Solar Flare also lacks severely in card draw. She could play Petal-Morphosis, Sage Sage, and 2nd-Best Taco of All Time, but the last example is the only reliable option. Instead, she can play Conjuring cards like Cosmic Flower or Cosmic Mushroom, or make multiple plants per card with Shroom for Two, Pair of Pears, Cornucopia, Veloci-Radish Hunter, and the like. None of Solar Flare's superpowers translate well into the late game, either. More Spore and Scorched Earth are solely for the early game, while Sunburn only does a pitiful 2 damage, and 1 additional sun barely makes a difference if you and your opponent are way too far into the game already. There may be instances where Weed Whack may perform well in the late-game, but thankfully, what Solar Flare lacks in this area she more than makes up for with powerful plants, which can finish the game earlier than usual.

Strategies: Spores Galore

This deck is based on placing multiple mushrooms with use of Shroom for Two and Mushroom Grotto, then boosting them with Buff-Shroom. If you fail to remove all of them, Solar Flare may end up playing Pineclone, followed by Molekale, to end the game in her favor. Also, you have to beware of Astro-Shroom, who can do damage to you every time a plant is played, and Astrocado, who can do quite some heavy damage to your hero. The Chickening or Weed Spray is recommended to remove the mushrooms. The best hero to use is Z-Mech, who can use both of the aforementioned tricks and use sheer damage against the stronger plants.

Battle Strategies: Against

Solar Flare is dangerous for her ability to gain sun much faster than any other plant hero. This allows her to play strong cards like Power Flower or Dandy Lion King early, so you should bring cheap cards that can help deal with them like Nibble or Bungee Plumber. A good strategy is taking out plants that generate sun, such as Sunflowers and Metal Petal Sunflowers, as soon as possible, to prevent high-costing cards from being played early. Alternatively, you can allow the Sunflowers to live while dealing with other cards being played. Tricks like Weed Spray and The Chickening can destroy most of Solar Flare's plants should she have only low-strength or low-health cards on the field. This way you can make Solar Flare run out of cards quickly, giving you an advantage. A prime example is when she uses Berry Angry, since it only adds 2 strength and so does not prevent Weed Spray from destroying them. Another way to easily defeat Solar Flare is to play Amphibious zombies on aquatic lanes, since Solar Flare has no Amphibious cards, which allows the player to damage her directly from here. However, she can easily destroy them with damage since Amphibious zombies do not have the gravestone trait. You can also play as a hero that specializes in gravestones, since Solar Flare doesn't have many options against them. The only way for Solar Flare to try to stop gravestone decks is Conjuring Spyris from Cosmic Flower. While Solar Flare possesses many damaging or instant-kill tricks, ironically, she herself is very weak to them, lacking access to anti-trick plants such as Black-Eyed Pea, Brainana, or Forget-Me-Nuts. As such, trick decks are very effective against Solar Flare. Gravestones are also useful, as they are immune to Solar Flare's removal tricks until the next turn, guaranteeing that their abilities will activate or that they will be able to attack at least once. In the end it may simply boil down to an even match, or depending on the conditions and the employed tacti

Battle Strategies: Bloom And Boom

This deck relies on the usage of many flowers, which Solar Flare may start with Blooming Hearts. She will also try to play Solar Winds on empty lanes in an attempt to play Dandy Lion King or Briar Rose early. Deadly zombies and instant-kill tricks are useful against this deck. The best hero is Impfinity, who has access to damaging tricks and Deadly zombies. Since the only instant kill tricks in this deck are two Whack-a-Zombie cards, you would want to use gravestones or play zombies near heights and spread them out due to Solar Flare also having Cherry Bomb.

Battle Strategies: Corn-pocalypse Now

This deck revolves around early game removal in order for Solar Flare to achieve late game dominance. Gravestones can ignore most of these, but you should defeat Solar Flare quickly since she has Kernel Corn and Cornucopia. Bonus attacks also work since they can heavily damage Solar Flare. Sour Grapes are also in the deck, so the best hero is Super Brainz due to being able to allow bonus attacks to Gravestone zombies. Deadly zombies also work since they can destroy any plant regardless of health.

Battle Strategies: Corn-pocalypse Now

This deck utilizes environments as well as control cards. Solar Winds can ramp up the game to an early Pair Pearadise, followed by an early Dandy Lion King or Astro Vera. Because of this, it is best to come prepared with environments of your own, as well as instant-kill cards to deal with any Dandy Lion Kings and Astro Veras. Be wary of Cosmoss in this case, however, as he will grow stronger when you play environments too. The best hero to go against this deck with would be Rustbolt due to his access to control cards and instant-kills, as well as cheap environments such as Black Hole available to him. Rustbolt can remove Cosmoss with Rolling Stone or Weed Spray if weak enough, or destroy it with Rocket Science if it grows too much.

Pearadise Won

This deck utilizes environments as well as control cards. Solar Winds can ramp up the game to an early Pair Pearadise, followed by an early Dandy Lion King or Astro Vera. Because of this, it is best to come prepared with environments of your own, as well as instant-kill cards to deal with any Dandy Lion Kings and Astro Veras. Be wary of Cosmoss in this case, however, as he will grow stronger when you play environments too. The best hero to go against this deck with would be Rustbolt due to his access to control cards and instant-kills, as well as cheap environments such as Black Hole available to him. Rustbolt can remove Cosmoss with Rolling Stone or Weed Spray if weak enough, or destroy it with Rocket Science if it grows too much.

Evolutionary Dawn

This is Solar Flare's combo deck of Evolution and Fusion, with some aspects of extra sun production and berry synergy. Solar Flare will start off with Sunflowers (made by Solar Winds and Sunflower Seeds) and Primal Sunflowers, allowing her to step up early to her expensive threats (especially Elderberry (Evolved) and Astrocado who have the Strikethrough trait) then boost her plants even further with Cro-Magnolia and overwhelm you with Kernel Corn and Cornucopia. Another hazardous thing about this deck is the plants Solar Flare can use for Evolution, aside from Sunflower. Shelf Mushroom is a versatile damaging card that allows her to snipe a threat in any lane (and boost High-Voltage Currant), Eyespore acts as a cheap instant-kill (although fairly limited), while Puff-Shroom is free. An effective strategy is to destroy as many Sunflowers as you can; while there will still be many options for Solar Flare to use for her Evolution plants, you will be able to stop her from making extra sun and taking control of the game easily. Two of the best heroes that can counter this deck are Z-Mech, who has access to field-clearing cards like The Chickening to clear Solar Flare's setup plants, and Rustbolt, who has Rocket Science and Cut Down to Size to destroy high-strength plants if Solar Flare manages to get some powerhouses out on the field, not to mention that both have access to Rolling Stone and Weed Spray, which are also effective instant-kills.