Ficus lutea
The giant-leaved fig is an African broadleaf-tree card, a self-healing native wall and a harder-hitting invasive attacker in South America.
The giant-leaved fig is a broadleaf-tree card. It is native to Africa and invasive in South America, so it plays both roles: a native wall at home and an invasive attacker in South America. Like other canopy trees it is a bulk-and-armor heavyweight; see categories.
Its opening attack is Branch Bash, unlocked at level 1 for 2 Sun, dealing 30 native or 30 invasive and pinning the foe under a branch (a trap). Its free once-per-battle ability, Canopy Recruitment, unlocks at level 25, costs no Sun and deals no damage — it heals the card 35% and grants +3 ATK. The advanced attack Forest Fire unlocks at level 40 for 6 Sun, dealing 35 native or 35 invasive; it applies Burn to the foe but also burns its own bench, so it damages your benched plants each time you use it. Burn is a damage-over-time status that bypasses the overshield. No move carries an initiative rider. See moves.
This card keeps two always-on traits. Buttress-roots arrives on the level 10 riser and makes it immune to Bind: it cannot be trapped or held in place, and can always retreat. Heartwood-core stacks on at level 68, adding extra DEF that grows with level to as much as +8 DEF by level 100 — a late-game wall-hardener that is small when it first arrives. Both are passive, in force from the moment they unlock and lasting the whole match. For most of a card's climb it holds only buttress-roots. See abilities.
As a broadleaf-tree it is a canopy-tree card: benched behind your active, it backs that plant with a gold Sun overshield bar (see Stats). It is not a climber and takes no Moss Pole. A calcium/magnesium soil amendment suits it for a wall build; phosphorus fertilizer matches its edible fruit for coins (see Gameplay uses). See field gear.
At the snapshot level 40 it carries 103 HP as a native and DEF of 19, with a retreat cost of 16 Sun. Its tempo is back-loaded: initiative of 25 is modest, so it is a slow opener, while its SPD of 34 gives a steadier sustained tempo from turn 2 on. As a native it gains the +15% HP cushion and a benched overshield contribution. As an invasive its ATK steps up meaningfully, from 25 to 27, but it pays Faustian self-damage to its bench on each damaging hit and concedes 2 prizes on a knockout. See stats.
Matured to level 100 it becomes a wall: DEF climbs to 41 and native HP to 190, while the retreat cost rises to 33 Sun. The inverted tempo has fallen to roughly its 1% floor, so a mature fig moves last. Leveling buys durability and attack at the cost of nearly all its turn-order edge.
As a broadleaf-tree it is a Competitor. It deals ×1.5 to Ruderal cards (annual forbs, grasses, aquatics, bulbs) and takes ×1.5 from Specialists (succulents, conifers, ferns, epiphytes), whose armor also resists its hits down to ×0.667. It trades evenly with other Competitors and the neutral Weird group. See weaknesses & resistances.
Native, it is a self-healing wall: its ability heals 35% and buffs its own ATK, so it recovers while it winds up, and the trap on its starter pins a fleeing foe. Invasive, it trades HP for a real ATK step up and hits noticeably harder in South America, though the Faustian bench damage and extra prizes raise the cost of fielding it. Forest Fire is a swing move — a heavy burn that also chips your own bench, so it works against a native overshield build and should be used deliberately. Its fruit is edible: feed it phosphorus fertilizer for a ×1.25 coin bonus, or any other nutrient for ×1.25 XP. As a bulk-rich tree its power outweighs its tempo from a low level — around level 16 — so leveling only makes it a better heavyweight.
Leveling trades speed for power. A plant’s tempo (SPD + INI, the turn-order edge) fades as it grows, while its power (HP + ATK + DEF, net of the rising Sun cost to retreat) climbs. The crossover is the level where power overtakes tempo: below it the plant is a fast skirmisher, above it a heavyweight. Shown for each stance this plant can actually hold — native adds a HP cushion, invasive an attack edge, neutral neither — with the card at its crossover and fully grown at Lv 100.