Giant sensitive plant

Overview

Mimosa diplotricha is a card in the Shrub category in Supplant. It is native to eastern and western North America and South America, where the arena treats it as a buffer with a small HP cushion, and invasive in Africa, East Asia, Oceania, and South Asia, where it plays as an attacker. Which role you get is set by the arena region, not by the card.

Moves

Its kit fills in as it levels — most cards you catch are well below the snapshot level (Lv 40) where every slot is unlocked, so introduce them in order. The starter attack, Snarl (unlocks at Lv 1, 2 Sun), lands for 30 as a native and 33 as an invasive. The free once-per-battle ability is Bramble Barrier, unlocked at Lv 25 and free to use. A wall of thorns — the foe withers against it. The advanced attack, Hedge Fund (unlocks at Lv 40, 6 Sun), hits for 30 native and 33 invasive. None of its moves carry the initiative rider, so it never seizes hard priority in a wild fight or an extra action in the arena. See Moves and Abilities.

Abilities

Giant sensitive plant holds two working traits. Sclerophylly (level 10) takes a flat 3 off each direct hit. Drupe Mast (level 68) drops this aggressive invader's pod crop on knockout, healing all surviving allies 8% of their own max HP. See Abilities.

Features

It carries no special status keywords — no toxin, thorns, or lifesteal — so nothing it does punishes an attacker or drains the foe on contact. It is not a climber (its growth habit is terrestrial), so a Moss Pole does not attach to it. Its DEF band is soft, so a Calcium/Magnesium amendment gives it more proportional benefit than it looks — useful for a native buffer meant to soak hits. An invasive copy would rather run an attack-boosting amendment. See field gear.

Stats

Read at the snapshot level (Lv 40, where every move is unlocked): as a native it carries 103 HP (the +15% cushion is baked in) and 25 ATK; as an invasive, 89 HP and 34 ATK — the invasive edge is trait-sourced from how widely it spreads, so compare those ATK numbers to see the real gap. Its DEF is 12. Its opening tempo (42) and sustained tempo (40) sit close together, so turn order stays roughly even across the fight rather than swinging with the rounds. Its Sun bar caps at 120 and refills at +1 every 15 minutes; retreating costs 13 Sun. Benched behind an ally, a native copy projects a green HP-overshield bar onto your active, sized by its rarity, that soaks direct attack damage before base HP — though damage-over-time, recoil, and splash bypass it. See Stats and Native strength.

At Level 100

Fully grown, native HP swells to 190 (165 invasive) and ATK reaches 44, but DEF barely leaves its soft band — only 24 at Lv 100 — so it grows into a big-HP body with little armor, and a hard hitter still punches through it. Retreat rises to 26 Sun as it roots deeper, and its tempo has fallen to roughly 1% of cap, giving up the turn-order edge it had young. Maturing buys it survivability through sheer biomass, not toughness.

Weaknesses & Resistances

In the succession type chart it belongs to the Competitor group. It hits Ruderal categories (annual forbs, grasses, aquatics, and bulbs) hard (×1.5) and is resisted by Specialist categories (succulents, conifers, ferns, and epiphytes) (×0.667); against its own group and the off-wheel Weird categories, damage is even both ways. See weaknesses & resistances and categories.

Gameplay uses

Play a native copy as a benched buffer or a durable body that soaks hits and props up your active's overshield; play an invasive copy as the aggressor, leaning on its higher ATK — but remember an invasive pays "Faustian" self-damage to its own bench on every damaging attack and concedes 2 prizes when it is knocked out. On raw stats this is a middling card: a soft-DEF body that earns its keep more on the bench and in the collection than as a front-line battler, and it wants backup. It is inedible, so any fertilizer you feed it banks ×1.25 XP — useful for leveling. As a legume it fixes its own nitrogen: roughly one in four caught in the wild arrives with the Nitrogen amendment already equipped — a free head start worth about 300 coins — though that amendment sits in a soil slot and decomposes after about a month. Its power and tempo curves cross around Lv 26 as a native (Lv 28 invasive): below that it leans on turn order as a fast skirmisher, and above it its bulk and attack take over. Leveling always makes it stronger — the crossover is about which edge dominates, not when it peaks.