During plant-pathogen interactions, pathogens can leverage a variety of virulence mechanisms to infect their host. However, energetic investment in these mechanisms may come at the expense of growth and proliferation. Furthermore, the impact of host immunity on a pathogen is influenced by the ability of the pathogen to detoxify defenses which scale with size. Two strategies of growth and virulence investment , may be inherently linked traits. Thus we leveraged an association mapping population of Botrytis Cinerea, a host-generalist necrotrophic pathogen that leverages a wide range of virulence mechanisms, to identify genomic regions associated with growth rate under high resources conditions using genome-wide association. This work establishes links between virulence mechanisms aimed at attacking the host with basic investment growth to potentially dilute the impacts of host immunity.