Plants Vs. Zombies 2

So kind of late, but for Chomper Quest, Chomper is great at removing graves. It can destroy a grave in 3 or so bites.

Does anyone know of a level with lots of chicken wranglers, but easy to set up on?

Because they may have gotten the quest around the wrong way. I have to kill 600 of them (not the chickens, the wranglers) for today's mission, and it sucks.

Chicken Wranglers:

Day 18 of WW. The Last Stand one with LOADS of wranglers.

Put two columns of spikeweeds at the far end, then use repeaters on the minecarts to kill the coneheads.

edited 6th Dec '15 10:32:38 PM by ironcommando

Speaking of Wranglers, today's Pinata Party was a lot of fun.

Grapeshot + Spikeweed vs. Chicken Wranglers and a handful of regular zombies (plus Rock Gargantuar).

Just plain slaughter. Kinda wish I could replay it, honestly.

So Neon Mixtape Tour 13 was weird (Last Stand, 2000 sun). I mean, it was really hard but I honestly feel like it was really arbitrary that the Watermelon was banned. I wound up using a column of Primitive Peashooters and two Wintermelons, but I would've liked to have tried three Watermelons with Wintermelons between them.

edited 7th Dec '15 6:37:22 AM by Larkmarn

Okay holy shit I did it.

For the first time ever, I beat the Wild West Day 8 without any boost or power ups!

... I honestly don't understand how that's possible.

Honestly? I don't think I can do it again. XD

One piece of advice, one that most of you probably know, use Chili Beans to take care of Bucket, Iron Poncho, and Prospectors Zombies.

Also, use the minecart at the far right to slow down zombies.

I suppose, statistically, you'd have to be allowed to win at least once, otherwise they couldn't have released it.

Cold Snapdragon is officially out.

Same Sun cost, inflicts a slowing effect, slightly weaker plant food effect that makes no difference since it freezes them solid, doesn't relight things you extinguish...

Literally the only place you'd consider a snapdragon over the snow dragon is the frostbite caves, because it can't freeze the zombies in that era with it's plant food effect.

Okay, after beating WW Day 8 three times in a row, I got the hang of it.

Just remember: Kill the pianist zombie first.

Now on WW Day 19....holy fuck, this mission is hard without boost or power ups.

I can only use 2000...and can't lose more than two plants.

Goddamn.

Snow dragon is better in fbc. Mainly because it can't be frozen at all due to its fur coat. And it can still chill the zombies.

There might be AN occasion where the bonus plant food damage is important.

But it's going to be a very rare occasion.

And... has anybody ever had the intensive carrot bring back a different plant? For some reason, I just used one to bring back a twin sunflower in the top right corner of the map.

I am almost certain I never planted a twin sunflower there.

So far I beat Ancient Egypt to all the way to Dark Ages level without using a single boost, power-up, or even any premium plant. In fact, I have 8 seed slots but chose to use 7 of them.

Pro-tip for anyone going through the kind of challenge I'm going through:

Get the Primitive Wallnut. It's absolutely helpful in any kind of level that involves protecting a plant, not losing more than few plants, and allowing no zombie to pass by.

So I got Cold Snapdragon.

Holy shit, another plant to add to PVZ's Game Breaker page.

Hurts as much as Snapdragon, costs and recharges as much as Snapdragon, and it overcomes Snap's weakness of thawing out zombies WHILE chilling them instead. PF is weaker, however, it completely freezes all zombies hit.

Also, it's immune to freezing winds and Hunter Zombie snowballs in FBC (especially IBBG).

Now THAT's a plant worth its money.

Some more things I've observed.

It can hit Swashbucklers as long as it's placed on rows 4+ or so. The strange part is that a c.snap on column 5 can still hit a Swashbuckler at any point if the swing, even if it is swinging off the right side of the screen.

C.snap does not hit the tile directly above and directly below it, unlike Snapdragon.

That last bit, does that apply to the same column it's in or the column to the right?

Same column it's in.

EDIT: It does hit the spaces above and below it... only for graves.

edited 10th Dec '15 4:49:02 PM by ironcommando

Well. I didn't believe it was possible.

But I did it. I beat Dr Zomboss' Music Mix Master without spending any coins on powerups or bonus plant food.

A lot of it came in the final round from stalling the Gargantaurs long enough for Zomboss' sonic attack to take them out, or at least long enough that when they trigger the lawnmower, it'll take out ones that spawned at the last second.

Got pretty hectic, though.

Ok, apparently the upcoming world and a lot of the new plants and zombies were leaked.

SPOILERS: WATCH AND READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

New Plants.

One of them in action.

Most of the new stuff.

edited 11th Dec '15 11:43:38 PM by ironcommando

....Okay, the Jurassic Marsh Day where you can't lose more than 6 plants.

Has anyone beat this level without using power up, boost, or premium plants?

There is a way.

Here.

Note that you need to use Potato Mine twice at the start, the other four losses will be from Perfume-Shroom on the dinosaurs. Make sure you kill the first conehead quickly or else the Pteranodon will grab him!

Another surprisingly effective strategy- Magnifying Grass + Sun Shrooms. Remember to use Perfume-Shroom on all the dinosaurs!

edited 12th Dec '15 11:11:28 PM by ironcommando

So, what about todays pinata party?

Lots of Imp Cannons, starts with gravestones on the map, and grave creating zombies a plenty. I honestly don't know how you're supposed to do this without powerups, seeing as I'm struggling to get through it WITH powerups.

Dear lord that one is hell in a hand basket. The main point is that you're supposed to "get overrun"... then when all hope seems lost, Melon-Pults appear on the conveyor to help you turn the tide. Since a bunch of the zombies are regulars and imps, you might want to PF a cabbage- or melon-pult to hit the lot once they get too much.

edited 13th Dec '15 8:36:07 PM by ironcommando