Hey, I don't think bowling bulbs and chard guard are underrated. This two has their own strat like bowling bulb as DPS in certain arena buff/bruise and chard guard is one of the strat where ppl throw zombie off screen and killing it
I think its really funny how many of the big wave beach plants are actually really good its just theyre introduced in a world that is absolutely awful to them
@@ramirez9317 imo it's still broken in its own world, demolishes ice blocks if you use it in mass and most zombies there other than ice cubes and gargs can't out bulk their damage
i know we arent talking about arena mode here, but coconut cannon is actually kinda OP in arena mode. the plant food pushes zombies to the back, where they give the most points, and then its a huge damage explosion, not to mention that it already kills groups of zombies really fast on its own.
I have no idea why Guacodile has a ranged attack, it's so counterintuitive. With the ranged attack, you want to place it in the back to take advantage of it, but its melee only works up close, so it wants to be placed at the frontlines! This is probably why people are so confused about it.
It's probably because of the big wave beach, the beach's main purpose was to pierce through defences, and common players always place their ranged plant to defend their Sunflowers (In an era where Sunflower are always on the back), also Guacodile is a cheap frontline plant which could protect more expensive plant like Banana Launcher and Bowling Bulb because back then players like to use cheaper plants like peashooter to protect their stronger plant
Parsnip is like a guacadile that makes sense. A combo of a melee attack and a death rush both encourage frontline use, so it is very obvious how to use it.
@@welkin7321 yes I'd love to see that too, it'll be even better if Aloe gets compared to it's PVZ2 China version, which is one of the most broken plants in the game
To be honest, I use Bowling bulb on Arena more than I have expected specially during those plant food use when planting them. Really clears out a lot, I mean A LOT of Zombies on Arena. The bounce explosive really made me rise from wooden to bronze silver league
I don't think so, when talking about defensive plants, the majority always brought up Infi-nut and its PF. Also, I watched a vid that did a survey asking which are the most OP plants and Chad God isn't even Top 20
When I first started playing PvZ2 and saw chard guard in videos I was like “it just pushed back zombies a couple tiles? trash”. But when I actually got to Frostbite Caves, I saw how useful it was, and it’s been a favorite of mine since
@@ahuman32478 yeah, char guard is immensely useful against Gargantuars where your plants can’t kill it before he kills them. He usually pushes the Gargantuars right before he is smashed so it’s even more helpful…just don’t plant it right in front of the Gs or they’ll smash him before he pushes them
Honestly at first glance I hated it just because its ridiculously long cd for a very temp plant. That’s why primal has always been better for me (besides arena)
The only reason i've never really used Chard Guard is because I primarily use defensive plants in conjunction with melee plants, which makes Chard Guard counter-intuitive.
Chard Guard seems like it's supposed to be used with plants like infinut, levitater and primal pea shooter, As the knockback helps them to do what they are meant to do. Also Chard Guard is a cheap and effective counter against flying zombies, backline intruders and Jurassic Bullies, Which is a niche that makes Jurassic Marsh so much more manageable.
@@BramLastnameI am a Chard Guard user and I use it in conjunction with infi-nut in order to create very reliable stalling lasting almost the entire game. I also use banana launcher as a main attacker so having them clump up every zombie makes it insanely satisfying
@@BramLastname as the video said, you just use the bananas in half decent spots and suddenly the game is over. That's especially true if you greed as much sun as you can early on, I've finished a good amount of levels with 2 rows of Banana Launchers and by then all thought leaves in favour of babana
Banana is so underrated. It’s absurdly strong, really fun to use, and is just adorable. I’m honestly upset you unlock it so extremely late as I would love to use it a lot more than we really get to
I think another underrated one from my experience is rotobaga. If i hadn't seen your vid on Big Wave Beach, i would have NEVER thought to bring it and allow me to win (relatively) painlessly since it's a strong option to drop in the front half of the lawn that you're not gonna be using otherwise and the fact it ignores water...i love it
I have to agree mate. Other than those you mentioned, it is also helpful against backward zombies attacking the left side of your lawn. I think most Frostbite Caves obtained plants are considered underrated as well.
Rotobaga and Starfruit are both really based in game modes that aren’t endless mode. They still have the “spam to kill everything in every direction” aspect and haven’t lost it in PvZ2.
I feel like bowling bulb is only underrated because it’s homeworld is big wave beach, which has consistent buckethead spam so it can’t regain its large bulb, alongside the difficulty of using instant use plants
Same case with Banana Launcher. It's a perfect counter to all the annoying zombies in Big Wave Beach, bug it's unlocked so late into it that it doesn't have a use. The few levels of BWB you have it for don't work for it, and the majority of Modern Day doesn't either, as the portals lead zombies directly into your defenses
Gonna say it because apparently this is unknown. Chardgard is one of the best plants because of it's hidden ability. It can be repaired with the Repair Nut Perk. So you can plant another one on the original to heal it, plus plant food repairs it as well, making the plant harder to kill if used right.
Repairing is worse than shoveling the plant and then replanting it because you don't receive % of the sun back. This ability is pretty much useless unless you have protecting the plant or don't lose more than x plants as an objective. You can also make a point that repairing is easier and faster but like meh, it's half a second
@@BramLastname I've beat Ancient Egypt day 23 with chard guard and I have to say. Chard guard is not that good with gargs. Maybe because I'm using it like an instant. But Gargs usually just smash the chard guard before it pushes back
For me if a plant is really really good even if it gets outclassed then it's underrated if majority of community considers it bad. Most underrated plants are usually hard to use plants that are really good or really good plants that still manage to get outclassed. Or it's just a plant having a 2nd trait (such as guacodile being a peashooter) that is useless making others not focus on the good trait. I use coconut cannon quite a lot when replaying the game but then other plants that outclass it appear and then it's ditched. This is what sucks. Wait chard guard is underrated? I thought most people knew it was good, even Wolfy Playz figured out it is good and he is normally not that good at PvZ. Banana Launcher is an extremely good plant but it's a harder (but not too hard) to use plant but since it appears so late you don't have time learn how to use it to it's fullest potential
I recognize that Banana is a good plant, But as someone who's not great at managing manual plants, I prefer Coconut Cannon over Banana. Tho I dislike Magni, despite it's easy usage, Because if I've got the sun to use it I could just use it on improving my defence or instas. So Magni just feels like it's a hassle.
a lot of these plants are great as long as you know how to print sun like US department of treasury prints money, a skill many newer players don't immediately grasp. also, I don't think magni really forces the player to run it as the sole damage dealer. you can use it with literally anything as long as you can produce enough sun, and even as a pseudo insta, due to its cheap cost and fast recharge, similar to guac, but with more focus on single target damage. sometimes it's even preferable to use it with some aoe plant because wasting 50 sun on basics and 100 on coneheads can be draining if the level is spammy enough.
I actually hate using Magnifying Grass for this very reason. I stock up tons of sun to spam Turnip Tiles for enhanced spam, so it directly runs counter to my goals
I just feel that the linear adventure kinda breaks the game, since any important improvement in the worlds wasn't made, and plant unlocking became a little confusing (principally due to locked and loaded levels showing future plants), and after the adventure ends, the only possible way to test your plants is penny's pursuit, since arena is just op plant spam...
While they don't synergise directly, They both allow you to have more control over your lanes, So it's not a bad combo, Since you can Hurricale one row, And then Guacodile another row.
@@BramLastname i moreso meant using placing a guacodile and having him do his melee attack and timing a hurrikale so he hits the zombies multiple times.
Really tho he is underrated. He’s a living barrier, creating a relatively moderate-lasting trap, and killing zombies very quickly. And yet nobody talks about him. I forget he’s a plant because I don’t buy plants and nobody talks about him.
For me Guacodile is a FRONTER plant. Like it's so forward it goes in front of the Wall-nuts so that it still shoots but it does have the capability to rush down lane if things go a bit haywire. But hey you can still plant it directly on top of a zombie to deal direct damage.
I genuinely don't get how people underrate chard guard so badly. It's one of the strongest "walls" in the game, and it's one of the most versatile plants too. The only place it struggles at all is in Neon Mixtape. It has some amazing synergies like with primal potato or even infi-nut. There's honestly so few plants that don't benefit from chard in some way. I'd also like to add that banana launcher is a pretty nice bonus pick even when your team isn't built around it. You could start bringing it in late game to snipe zombies that really mess with you like octopus, wizard, etc.
You're pretty much describing my reflourished strategy. Sad to think just how much synergy there is between the big wave beach plants, and just how hostile of an environment it is for them.
fun fact: if you convert the amount of sun you get from one sun to make it 25, along with dividing every plants cost by 2 because you would still have to collect the same amount of sun (for example peashooter would be 50 as you would normally collect 2 sun to buy one with 50 sun meta), plants like winter melon and banana launcher which are really expensive, only cost 250, which is cheaper that a threepeater from pvz1
But the amount of zombies in this game is also a lot so a 50 sun meta fits just perfect also sun producers dont drop their first sun as soon as plants in the first game did
@@thunderred5263 However there's much more sun producers in pvz2 than in pvz1. I think there Are 12 in Pvz2 whilst there were only 3 in pvz1 The best sun producer is obviously sun bean I'm kidding sun bean is one of the worst plant in this entire god damn game.
As someone who mainly uses Winter Melons as my main attacking plant, with Gold Bloom and Imitated Gold Bloom acting as bursts of sun for planting early level... I'm surprised to hear it's underrated. I honestly feel like Winter Melon is my crutch sometimes, since I rarely go any level without it in levels where I pick my plants. The slowing effect and heavy damage is just too valuable.
I mainly use the noob strategy of planting sunflowers in the back row and always won with a variety of plants. That's why it was weird for me to see Boiling Bulb, the Guacodile and the Coconnut cannon in the list 😂😂😂
I disagree with the fact that Magnifying Grass can only be used as a main attacker. Yes, it can be used as a main attacker, but it also works as a support plant. If you only place 2 columns of sun producers, then Magni becomes a great support plant that can eliminate dangerous threats that your main attackers can’t handle. If you spam sun producers, then Magni becomes a main attacker.
Honestly, I love Coconut Cannon. Both him and Winter Melon are my main damage dealers for Terror from Tomorrow and, if boosted, he can outright solo it.
A Underrated Plant That Is Not That Used And Is Not Even Popular Is Bloomerang, Most People Use Lightning Reed Over Bloomerang, But I Think Bloomerang Is Better, His Boomerangs Can Hit The Excavator Zombies, AND The Shield Robotic Zombie, This Guys Is Very Underrated And I Want Him To Have More Popularity, He's Like A Lightning Reed And Laser Bean Combined! I Don't Get Why No One Talks About Bloomerang And It's Really Good!
Ok what if a modded version of the game had it so bowling bulb need you to press on it to release the bulbs and you could wait for the high damage ones to come back obviously it would still need adjustment but I think that’s a good way of getting more people to like and use it or just give it to them earlier
Eclise makes it so that the bowling bulb can only see a couple tiles in front of him. That way, he can regen his bigger bulbs a lot easier and thus, more damage!
That would turn it into one of the most powerful plants, manual plants in general tend to be fairly good, and considering bowling balls gimmick it would turn it into *the* dps plant
My ideal crew for the gargantuar-only level- kernel-pult, primal peashooter and chard guard. Together these plants form an impenetrable wall of pure solid cheese.
I think coconut cannon is better than banana launcher because it's more spammable. It's easier to use so you won't spend all of your time clicking around, and also you can't miss a shot because it'll always explode on some zombie. Also, its vertical splash makes it better when spammed. Also, it isn't outclassed by winter melon, the two actually synergize. Take the winter melon/ coconut cannon combo into endless and you can beat literally any level if you can survive the early game.
I use coconut cannon for arena, until today, though im still in wood league. As long as it is supported by other plants while on cooldown, such as ones that do AOE damage. Its op in my opinion. In 2 days i gathered over 105 crowns which in thought was alot
The thing i love with chard guard is its absurdly op combo with reinforce-mint and blover, insta kills literally EVERYTHING(except zombies who stay at the start of the lane like imp cannon and king)
I think the best way is to stockpile Guacodiles at the front as much as you reasonably can, and then not only are you getting the rush down damage, but also the chip damage that may help too. It is an Enforce-Mint Plant, which usually encourage you to plant them near the front. But you may plant them at the back if it is for an emergency, or you can stockpile em on the back to counter Prospectors or help with Pterodactyls with stuff like Bonk Choy or Celery Stalker at the side. Guac is just a good support plant all around.
Guacodile is trash in Jurassic marsh. Too expensive for what it does. In reflourished you're way better off putting a 225 sun primal pea than 2-3 guacodiles.
@@overlord3481 Dude your making it seem like jurrasic marsh is the only world. In jurrasic marsh its bad but in other worlds its good. Pretty sure many plants are bad in jurrasic Marsh
Idk but primal peashooter is kinda underrated too. It costs a bit more than the peashooter, but he deals more damage, stuns and knocks back any zombie. I used 2 primal peashooters and they stalled and even killed a gargantour. Absurd.
@@trickster6054let's be real, 75 sun doesn't mean anything. You should have more than enough than that to spend. And that would be without gold bloom or like solar sage or solar tomato
Another underrated: goo peashoter, she is usually underestimated due to the fact that she does poorly on strength tests because she is not strong for gargantuars, but great against brickhead zombies.
I don’t know if this is intended but I got all the world keys when I finished the tutorial, so I didn’t have any trouble beating the first 6 worlds since I would’ve already had and used the late game plants such as bowling bulb, banana launcher and guacodile. Playing arena apparently levels up your plants faster and gives mints to buy mints such as appease-mint making it easier to get stronger plants from harder worlds.
Bowling bulb is the best way to deal with Penny's Pursuit Zombosses if you don't have Pokra A line of them, sun producers in front and tile turnips and you're set
19:22 only old player got chance since old world order was based by date of realease not difficulty so Big Wave Beach plants can be used in Frostbite Cave, Neon Mixtape Tour, Lost City, Jurassic Marsh. But not today
Yes, and Reflourished, one of the PVZ2 mods, actually arranged the worlds in chronological order. You can use the ability of Banana Launcher and other plants in Frostbite Caves, Lost City, Neon Mixtapes, and Jurassic Marsh.
Spore Shroom is underrated in my opinion, its my favorite plant in the game My least favorite plants in the game are Pokra and ButterHead Lettuce i find it very boring to play with them
I'm surprised you placed Chard Guard on this list since I thought people unanimously understood it was a contender for the best plant in the game. Either way, good video. Still don't think Bowling Bulb is that underrated given just how nieche it is though. Also, absolutely love Banana Launcher. It flips the progression of a level on its head making it pretty difficult to control early on but already solved when you get enough Launchers.
From this video, I understand that every plant has its pros and cons, it's all about how you can take advantage of those pros while dealing with those cons.
Thing is about bulb, pretty much every other crowd controller can do the same thing more consistently. I mean, if I’m gonna have to spam instants to use something, I wonder if that thing is doing any work. Stuff like Dusk Lobber has better performance than bulb even on its best day. You have to work for something that in the end is barely above average as a crowd controller, if at all. Its synergy with walls is wacky, and the fact that clumps are a weakness is annoying. Even the plant food struggles to do what you want it to. Maybe it’s not complete garbage, but there’s no reason to ever use it even if you aren’t going tryhard. Also the bastard looks like a diglet but still gets pulled by fisherman, what gives?
Bowling Bulb is currently a meta plant in Arena and many Penny’s Pursuit boss fights that don’t involve Jesters. Tile Turnip + Bulb means that its biggest weakness is null and void. Also, level 7 BB respawns the orange bulb first.
There is a saying I've come up with recently (just last September to be exact), that seems quite relevant to your discussion here: All my homies love and respect Coconut Cannon
It sucks that red stinger didn’t make it here, red stinger is only underrated because of how overrated repeater is, imo I think red stinger is slightly better then repeater… but 90% of people just ignore him and go to repeater instead, sure vanilla red stinger doesn’t gain anything from torchwood but red stinger is cheaper, does more damage and can be used as a wall if necessary. The argument everyone uses is “he’s only better then repeater in lane 1-3” which is true, however you could just put the sun producers in lane 4+ Rant over, you did make some good picks (also thank you for including chard guard)
Hard agree. Red Stinger might just be the most underrated plant in the game, before the Torchwood buff he was basically an outright upgrade over Repeater, and I've found him especially useful in Reflourished for the early game.
Maybe you mistaked "underrated" and "overrated" because i see a lot of times that someone puts red stinger higher than threepeater, torchwood, rotobaga, starfruit, dandelion and peapod. Red stinger is: just a repeater, with -50 sun cost, +25% shot cooldown and without ability to beign powered by torchwood. For me this plant is a bit better than - repeater, but i just cannot understand. Why in tier list everyone puts red stinger at the same rank as: grapeshot and parsnip
@@GNVS300 do you want tell that: repeater better than threepeater? This weird im think. Im used threepeater alot, this plant is really cool. Also: its plantfood can almost kill gargantuar
I think tall-nut is also underrated because I saw people calling it bad, but when I use it it stalls zombies for a pretty long time and almost never gets defeated. I would also consider spikerock as one of the underrated plants but honestly I don't know how well rated the plant is, many zombies ignore it and does pretty good damage if the zombies are above it and next to a defensive plant
Banana launcher made me feel like its just a coconut cannon that has full range of all rows, i also liked the sound like “Banana!” It made. It was the best plant to beat with 1 slot.
My favorite under rated PVZ2 plant is puff Shroom. Yeah, the PVZ2 version kills itself after a while but I think it's a lot more fun than the more over rated insta kill plants and it's a nice way to hold the line and focus on sun production.
Nobody says Puff Shroom is underrated, it's a busted plant, not as strong as its PvZ1 self, but still good, basically removing any early-game threat, totally worth the seed slot.
All of these plants are my favorite plants to use on levels, even though I haven't went to arena mode yet. Winter Melon, Coconut Cannon, and Banana Launcher are plants that are just completely ignored just because they are more expensive when planted when they have actual more power than most plants. Winter Melon does both chilling and heavy damage like in the original game which is completely powerful when used in endless survival mode, Coconut Cannon and Banana Launcher packs the massive damages to their targets, even in groups. For Bowling Bulb, they are very helpful to me in spending sun limit and last stand levels in adventure mode. Their Plant Food is a bonus in killing groups of zombies easily. Guacodile is also a fun to use plant. I actually find this plant amazing especially when I played Neon Mixtape Tour and Frostbite Caves levels since their rushing attack can cause bigger damage to zombies ahead of them. Chard Guard is my absolute favorite defensive plant. Their knockback attacks can also stall zombies over time and have higher health than normal plants when they have no more leaves to push back. They are best when stalling weaker health zombies like chickens, weasels, and even weaker imps.
Bowling Bulb is trash because your "strategy" of using it with a bunch of instant plants isn't a Bowling Bulb strategy. It's an instant spam strategy that happens to have Bowling Bulb in it. Instant plants are super broken, so spamming a bunch of them to beat a level is an OP strategy that's always going to work. Replace Bowling Bulb with any other plant (not Lightning Reed, that thing sucks) as your main attacker and that plant will outshine BB in your instant spam strategy. Level 1 Bowling Bulb is just so genuinely awful once it uses up all of it's bulbs and gets stuck recharging the lowest damage bulb to deal damage. For reference, a 100 sun Peashooter shoots 20 damage every 1.35 to 1.5 seconds. For 200 sun, BB fires a bulb every 2 to 2.25 seconds. The aquamarine bulb does 40 damage, the blue does 120, and the orange does a whopping 180 damage. But then, it takes 4 seconds to regenerate a new bulb. 4 seconds to regain aquamarine, 4 more seconds to regain blue, and 4 seconds again to regain orange. It does it's best work when waves are spaced 12 seconds apart, so it can recover it's best bulbs. Also, the top and bottom lanes get the worst of the DPS since only half as many bulbs can bounce into top or bottom lane. BB also does not do well against zombies bunched up in a single lane unless spammed (where have I heard THAT before?). They do their best damage in zigzag patterns, so when zombies appear in checkerboard formation. BB is literally a Repeater with better initial damage for the first 6 to 7 seconds, then after that, it's literally just a Repeater with a much, much, MUCH worse fire rate, since the bulb takes 4 seconds to recover, and 2 to 2.25 seconds to launch. That means BB fires every 6 to 6.25 seconds, to do 40 damage, while Repeater fires every 1.35 to 1.5 seconds to do 2 x 20 damage. In Adventure mode, there's just no reason to use BB over any other attacker that costs 200 sun, except Pepper-Pult because fuck that long ass recharge.
I have to disagree with Bowling Having to rely on certain plants is pretty bad imo. And there are just better plants to utilise for that job, like Coconut Cannon, Banana Launcher or heck, even Citron. Usually what will happen is that Bowling Bulb will get overwhelmed too much, and you won't be able to use the high EPS well, whereas you can easily make the most from other plants.
So in conclusion: Bowling Bulb for a supposed support plant is not goof if it relies on OTHER support plants, whereas others like Banana or Coco can do well on their own and be utilised more effectively.
@@honkhonk9089 arena is completely different though. Yes, Bowling Bulb is good there but how it works is different from regular pvz2 levels. Here I'm talking about its uses in those regular levels, and it's not that good to say the least
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ok i fixed the timestamps i was up to 4am getting the video setup ok my bad
makes sense
Don't worry about it
Happy easter!
Also good video!
Þanks for your effort
thanks and happy easter
Hey, I don't think bowling bulbs and chard guard are underrated. This two has their own strat like bowling bulb as DPS in certain arena buff/bruise and chard guard is one of the strat where ppl throw zombie off screen and killing it
I think its really funny how many of the big wave beach plants are actually really good its just theyre introduced in a world that is absolutely awful to them
you know, when making this video it didn't click that literally half of the list are BWB plants but yeah you right
Rotoboga works better in BWB than its own world lol
@@ramirez9317 imo it's still broken in its own world, demolishes ice blocks if you use it in mass and most zombies there other than ice cubes and gargs can't out bulk their damage
And the plants of neon mixtape just suck 😅
iirc reflourished has a level in the egypt expansion that requires protecting 4 bowling bulbs, and they arent bad there, further proving the point
i know we arent talking about arena mode here, but coconut cannon is actually kinda OP in arena mode. the plant food pushes zombies to the back, where they give the most points, and then its a huge damage explosion, not to mention that it already kills groups of zombies really fast on its own.
Bowling Bulb is also surprisingly good too. Tile Turnip + Bulb + Power Lily = Alternative to Pea Vine/MGP/Torchwood
Phat beet?
@@random_guy7983 tf phat beet cant barely kill anything even with plant food , its like bonk choy plant food but way worst
@@Vividlyforgotten oh that means i use the wrong plant
Shadow plants rule arena moonflower and dusk lobber primal wallnut primal potato mine ez wins best strategy for me ngl
I have no idea why Guacodile has a ranged attack, it's so counterintuitive. With the ranged attack, you want to place it in the back to take advantage of it, but its melee only works up close, so it wants to be placed at the frontlines! This is probably why people are so confused about it.
It's probably because of the big wave beach, the beach's main purpose was to pierce through defences, and common players always place their ranged plant to defend their Sunflowers (In an era where Sunflower are always on the back), also Guacodile is a cheap frontline plant which could protect more expensive plant like Banana Launcher and Bowling Bulb because back then players like to use cheaper plants like peashooter to protect their stronger plant
Really? I’ve always seen Guacodile as a melee plant first, and his seeds were just a bonus attack should the zombies not reach him yet
Parsnip is like a guacadile that makes sense. A combo of a melee attack and a death rush both encourage frontline use, so it is very obvious how to use it.
same for pea-nut, but that has high health instead of a melee attack.
I use them in both scenarios, just to have an insurance to weak zombies getting through thanks to hordes. Kinda works.
it could be interesting to see a video on “fundamentally flawed” plants with flawed designs like aloe!
or just an aloe video in general… i love aloe 🫶🥬
@@welkin7321 yes I'd love to see that too, it'll be even better if Aloe gets compared to it's PVZ2 China version, which is one of the most broken plants in the game
Aloe from eclise is straight up my favourite plant in the game
Tomb tangler: ...
@@iker9095 tomb isn't fundamentally broken. It's just that pvz2 doesn't have enough graves for it
To be honest, I use Bowling bulb on Arena more than I have expected specially during those plant food use when planting them. Really clears out a lot, I mean A LOT of Zombies on Arena. The bounce explosive really made me rise from wooden to bronze silver league
Is char gaurd really underated? I always felt it was really well known and liked
I don't think so, when talking about defensive plants, the majority always brought up Infi-nut and its PF. Also, I watched a vid that did a survey asking which are the most OP plants and Chad God isn't even Top 20
When I first started playing PvZ2 and saw chard guard in videos I was like “it just pushed back zombies a couple tiles? trash”. But when I actually got to Frostbite Caves, I saw how useful it was, and it’s been a favorite of mine since
@@ahuman32478 yeah, char guard is immensely useful against Gargantuars where your plants can’t kill it before he kills them. He usually pushes the Gargantuars right before he is smashed so it’s even more helpful…just don’t plant it right in front of the Gs or they’ll smash him before he pushes them
Honestly at first glance I hated it just because its ridiculously long cd for a very temp plant. That’s why primal has always been better for me (besides arena)
I just met someone on Creep's "Overrated Plants" video who just disses Chard Guard just because it can only push zombies 3 times
There is kinda a reason why both melon pults are not allowed in Last Stand levels.
Yeah. They utterly trivialize them.
Haha melon goes KILL.
I'm pretty sure Winter Melon is allowed, actually. It's only Melon Pult that's banned
@@melvint-p9500 functionally banned due to cost
I used winter melon in almost every last stand level and it worked out fine@@SalmonRow
And then they allow Pokra into last stand levels. 🤦
"base forms, level one, base game only"
1v1, fox only, final destination
closer to 1v1, no items, final destination but agreed
BATTLEZ.
MASTERY 200.
WINTER MELON.
The year is 20🍌🍌, everyone runs banana launcher. Matches are decided by who has a higher mastery level
Walleye warehouse, you get the rubber band controller
The only reason i've never really used Chard Guard is because I primarily use defensive plants in conjunction with melee plants, which makes Chard Guard counter-intuitive.
Chard Guard seems like it's supposed to be used with plants like infinut, levitater and primal pea shooter,
As the knockback helps them to do what they are meant to do.
Also Chard Guard is a cheap and effective counter against flying zombies, backline intruders and Jurassic Bullies,
Which is a niche that makes Jurassic Marsh so much more manageable.
@@BramLastnameI am a Chard Guard user and I use it in conjunction with infi-nut in order to create very reliable stalling lasting almost the entire game. I also use banana launcher as a main attacker so having them clump up every zombie makes it insanely satisfying
@@lolucorn1 while I don't like manual plants
(Because I'm not that good at the game)
I do like blowing up a horde of Zombies.
@@BramLastname as the video said, you just use the bananas in half decent spots and suddenly the game is over. That's especially true if you greed as much sun as you can early on, I've finished a good amount of levels with 2 rows of Banana Launchers and by then all thought leaves in favour of babana
It was more fun to use in Pirate Seas
Banana is so underrated. It’s absurdly strong, really fun to use, and is just adorable. I’m honestly upset you unlock it so extremely late as I would love to use it a lot more than we really get to
Who is underrating banana launcher?? Everybody knows it's good.
@@nicholas7743 Many of my friends think it's bad. They still think this no matter how many times I show them how good it is.
@@nicholas7743 No they're right, most people really don't pay a lot of attention to banana launcher because of its cost
@@MRMOON-jk1cs And because it takes all the way until the last of BWB
It's also just really fun. BORRRRNANA
I think another underrated one from my experience is rotobaga. If i hadn't seen your vid on Big Wave Beach, i would have NEVER thought to bring it and allow me to win (relatively) painlessly since it's a strong option to drop in the front half of the lawn that you're not gonna be using otherwise and the fact it ignores water...i love it
I have to agree mate. Other than those you mentioned, it is also helpful against backward zombies attacking the left side of your lawn. I think most Frostbite Caves obtained plants are considered underrated as well.
like bro , rotobaga + infinut is unstoppable
Rotobaga and Starfruit are both really based in game modes that aren’t endless mode. They still have the “spam to kill everything in every direction” aspect and haven’t lost it in PvZ2.
I feel like bowling bulb is only underrated because it’s homeworld is big wave beach, which has consistent buckethead spam so it can’t regain its large bulb, alongside the difficulty of using instant use plants
Well everything that’s not instant use is covered in octopi
Same case with Banana Launcher. It's a perfect counter to all the annoying zombies in Big Wave Beach, bug it's unlocked so late into it that it doesn't have a use. The few levels of BWB you have it for don't work for it, and the majority of Modern Day doesn't either, as the portals lead zombies directly into your defenses
Gonna say it because apparently this is unknown. Chardgard is one of the best plants because of it's hidden ability. It can be repaired with the Repair Nut Perk. So you can plant another one on the original to heal it, plus plant food repairs it as well, making the plant harder to kill if used right.
Repairing is worse than shoveling the plant and then replanting it because you don't receive % of the sun back. This ability is pretty much useless unless you have protecting the plant or don't lose more than x plants as an objective. You can also make a point that repairing is easier and faster but like meh, it's half a second
@@helm36 Shoveling isn't necessary in most cases either way.
@@helm36eh, Chard Guard is so cheap it barely makes a difference.
Chard Guard also matches up well against a lot of annoying Zombies,
Most notably Jurassic Bully, Chicken Wrangler, Prospector and most Gargantuars.
@@BramLastname I've beat Ancient Egypt day 23 with chard guard and I have to say. Chard guard is not that good with gargs. Maybe because I'm using it like an instant. But Gargs usually just smash the chard guard before it pushes back
my favorite part of chard guard is the fact that it completely counters chickens and weasels
FINALLY, someone spoke up about guacodile. I love that guy
He is so bad tho.
@@overlord3481 just like your mom.
@@overlord3481fartballs
@@overlord3481 Bro did you even watch the video
@@KhajaSodhu ye it still sucks tho. I disagree with his reasons.
Guacodile is like the Bladesinger in DnD: it can do ranged damage to those who haven't reached it yet, but when they are...oh, they'll regret it.
For me if a plant is really really good even if it gets outclassed then it's underrated if majority of community considers it bad.
Most underrated plants are usually hard to use plants that are really good or really good plants that still manage to get outclassed.
Or it's just a plant having a 2nd trait (such as guacodile being a peashooter) that is useless making others not focus on the good trait.
I use coconut cannon quite a lot when replaying the game but then other plants that outclass it appear and then it's ditched. This is what sucks.
Wait chard guard is underrated? I thought most people knew it was good, even Wolfy Playz figured out it is good and he is normally not that good at PvZ.
Banana Launcher is an extremely good plant but it's a harder (but not too hard) to use plant but since it appears so late you don't have time learn how to use it to it's fullest potential
to long
I recognize that Banana is a good plant,
But as someone who's not great at managing manual plants,
I prefer Coconut Cannon over Banana.
Tho I dislike Magni, despite it's easy usage,
Because if I've got the sun to use it
I could just use it on improving my defence or instas.
So Magni just feels like it's a hassle.
Your video dedicated to bowling bulb taught me the secret power of this plant and it's one of my favourites in the whole game now lol
a lot of these plants are great as long as you know how to print sun like US department of treasury prints money, a skill many newer players don't immediately grasp.
also, I don't think magni really forces the player to run it as the sole damage dealer. you can use it with literally anything as long as you can produce enough sun, and even as a pseudo insta, due to its cheap cost and fast recharge, similar to guac, but with more focus on single target damage. sometimes it's even preferable to use it with some aoe plant because wasting 50 sun on basics and 100 on coneheads can be draining if the level is spammy enough.
True
I actually hate using Magnifying Grass for this very reason. I stock up tons of sun to spam Turnip Tiles for enhanced spam, so it directly runs counter to my goals
I like mag in early game and then using it on the stronger enemies later on as I set up stuff like winter melon as I ramp sun by spamming sun shrooms
Magni, similar to Banana, pairs up really well with Laser Bean, even a single line of Beans is enough to clean up all the basics.
@@Dexuzand also deal enough chip damage to take a conehead down in 1 magni shot
i thought everyone used chard guard not gonna lie. I def think its amazing but i just prefer the other walls.
Which wall do you think is the best. And I'm talking every defense plant
@KhajaSodhu if we arent including seed packets or premiums then either infinut or primal wall nut.
@@LozerLudo primal nut is so good lol
I just feel that the linear adventure kinda breaks the game, since any important improvement in the worlds wasn't made, and plant unlocking became a little confusing (principally due to locked and loaded levels showing future plants), and after the adventure ends, the only possible way to test your plants is penny's pursuit, since arena is just op plant spam...
not sure if its too effective but i find using gaucodile + hurrikale together to be really fun
While they don't synergise directly,
They both allow you to have more control over your lanes,
So it's not a bad combo,
Since you can Hurricale one row,
And then Guacodile another row.
@@BramLastname i moreso meant using placing a guacodile and having him do his melee attack and timing a hurrikale so he hits the zombies multiple times.
@@LozerLudo I mean,
That seems fine to me,
It's just very gimmicky
@@LozerLudo big brain
"Now lets get on to the first actually underrated plant.."
(Lava Guava centered on the screen, staring dead at us.)
"..Bowling Bulb."
Yeah
Really tho he is underrated. He’s a living barrier, creating a relatively moderate-lasting trap, and killing zombies very quickly. And yet nobody talks about him. I forget he’s a plant because I don’t buy plants and nobody talks about him.
For me Guacodile is a FRONTER plant. Like it's so forward it goes in front of the Wall-nuts so that it still shoots but it does have the capability to rush down lane if things go a bit haywire. But hey you can still plant it directly on top of a zombie to deal direct damage.
I genuinely don't get how people underrate chard guard so badly. It's one of the strongest "walls" in the game, and it's one of the most versatile plants too. The only place it struggles at all is in Neon Mixtape. It has some amazing synergies like with primal potato or even infi-nut. There's honestly so few plants that don't benefit from chard in some way.
I'd also like to add that banana launcher is a pretty nice bonus pick even when your team isn't built around it. You could start bringing it in late game to snipe zombies that really mess with you like octopus, wizard, etc.
I like how more knowledgeable PVZ1 and PVZ2 players use Guacodiles and Chompers as suicide bombers
" if you know how to use chomper , You know how to use guacodile
-Stalks911
You're pretty much describing my reflourished strategy. Sad to think just how much synergy there is between the big wave beach plants, and just how hostile of an environment it is for them.
What an amazing review of the Bigwave Beach plants!
fun fact: if you convert the amount of sun you get from one sun to make it 25, along with dividing every plants cost by 2 because you would still have to collect the same amount of sun (for example peashooter would be 50 as you would normally collect 2 sun to buy one with 50 sun meta), plants like winter melon and banana launcher which are really expensive, only cost 250, which is cheaper that a threepeater from pvz1
But the amount of zombies in this game is also a lot so a 50 sun meta fits just perfect also sun producers dont drop their first sun as soon as plants in the first game did
@@thunderred5263 However there's much more sun producers in pvz2 than in pvz1. I think there Are 12 in Pvz2 whilst there were only 3 in pvz1
The best sun producer is obviously sun bean
I'm kidding sun bean is one of the worst plant in this entire god damn game.
I mean, Chard is absolutely great as a knockback plant.
As someone who mainly uses Winter Melons as my main attacking plant, with Gold Bloom and Imitated Gold Bloom acting as bursts of sun for planting early level... I'm surprised to hear it's underrated. I honestly feel like Winter Melon is my crutch sometimes, since I rarely go any level without it in levels where I pick my plants. The slowing effect and heavy damage is just too valuable.
I mainly use the noob strategy of planting sunflowers in the back row and always won with a variety of plants. That's why it was weird for me to see Boiling Bulb, the Guacodile and the Coconnut cannon in the list 😂😂😂
I find Bonk Choy actually really underrated. With some good support, it can get really good DPS
You got me with the timestamps, very nice touch
Why are the time stamps for the overrated plants video
Only one so go double check
They got fixed
You can’t convince me that Creeps didn’t make this video just to talk about Bowling Bulb again
I disagree with the fact that Magnifying Grass can only be used as a main attacker. Yes, it can be used as a main attacker, but it also works as a support plant. If you only place 2 columns of sun producers, then Magni becomes a great support plant that can eliminate dangerous threats that your main attackers can’t handle. If you spam sun producers, then Magni becomes a main attacker.
Bananna launcher does the same thing though he's way more expensive.
@@petelee2477Banana is instantly expensive, Magni just spends it over time
Honestly, I love Coconut Cannon. Both him and Winter Melon are my main damage dealers for Terror from Tomorrow and, if boosted, he can outright solo it.
Guacodile is a frontliner
He is basically a grimrose but with the adition of a weak attack
ty for talking positively about Bowling Bulb, it doesn't deserve the hate it gets
A Underrated Plant That Is Not That Used And Is Not Even Popular Is Bloomerang, Most People Use Lightning Reed Over Bloomerang, But I Think Bloomerang Is Better, His Boomerangs Can Hit The Excavator Zombies, AND The Shield Robotic Zombie, This Guys Is Very Underrated And I Want Him To Have More Popularity, He's Like A Lightning Reed And Laser Bean Combined!
I Don't Get Why No One Talks About Bloomerang And It's Really Good!
I like how all three playable Big Wave Beach plants are all here 😂
You made guacodile one of my new favorite plants. Good job 👍
Ok what if a modded version of the game had it so bowling bulb need you to press on it to release the bulbs and you could wait for the high damage ones to come back obviously it would still need adjustment but I think that’s a good way of getting more people to like and use it or just give it to them earlier
Eclise makes it so that the bowling bulb can only see a couple tiles in front of him. That way, he can regen his bigger bulbs a lot easier and thus, more damage!
Making bulb a manual plant kinda removes his whole downside... it'd become too strong and less complex.
That would turn it into one of the most powerful plants, manual plants in general tend to be fairly good, and considering bowling balls gimmick it would turn it into *the* dps plant
My ideal crew for the gargantuar-only level- kernel-pult, primal peashooter and chard guard. Together these plants form an impenetrable wall of pure solid cheese.
Chard Guard is underrated? I always thought it was widely regarded as one of the better Wall Plants.
Puting Loonboon on the Bowling Bulb section is a genius choice.
I think coconut cannon is better than banana launcher because it's more spammable. It's easier to use so you won't spend all of your time clicking around, and also you can't miss a shot because it'll always explode on some zombie. Also, its vertical splash makes it better when spammed. Also, it isn't outclassed by winter melon, the two actually synergize. Take the winter melon/ coconut cannon combo into endless and you can beat literally any level if you can survive the early game.
jester
@@realpvzdamemes Bro why you using banana's on a jester
Chardguard is ANYTHING BUT underrated
Bowling bulb is actual op in arena when you use its plant food especially in boosterama
I hub coco cannon out of complete preference, I love his design and he is freaking powerful anyways! That's a plus.
I use coconut cannon for arena, until today, though im still in wood league. As long as it is supported by other plants while on cooldown, such as ones that do AOE damage. Its op in my opinion. In 2 days i gathered over 105 crowns which in thought was alot
Hearing the Hollow knight music in the background made me happy you got your self a new subscriber
The fact that people underrate all the bwb plants is interesting cos it shows how terrible that world was at this introducing the plants to the player
@_Just_a_random_dood_ Thyme is good but you can’t use it elsewhere for some reason.
Well now u can and that shi saves a lot of butts @@louiscarl7629
I like how he literally mentioned every non aquatic big wave beach plant
The game is linear now????
Man there's so many changes that I just don't know about this weird game
The thing i love with chard guard is its absurdly op combo with reinforce-mint and blover, insta kills literally EVERYTHING(except zombies who stay at the start of the lane like imp cannon and king)
I think the best way is to stockpile Guacodiles at the front as much as you reasonably can, and then not only are you getting the rush down damage, but also the chip damage that may help too.
It is an Enforce-Mint Plant, which usually encourage you to plant them near the front.
But you may plant them at the back if it is for an emergency, or you can stockpile em on the back to counter Prospectors or help with Pterodactyls with stuff like Bonk Choy or Celery Stalker at the side.
Guac is just a good support plant all around.
Guacodile is trash in Jurassic marsh. Too expensive for what it does. In reflourished you're way better off putting a 225 sun primal pea than 2-3 guacodiles.
@@overlord3481 I mean jurrasic marsh is pretty easy (In my case) And Jurrasic Marsh is before BWB anyway so
@@KhajaSodhu ok so how does that make guacodile viable?
@@overlord3481 Dude your making it seem like jurrasic marsh is the only world. In jurrasic marsh its bad but in other worlds its good. Pretty sure many plants are bad in jurrasic Marsh
@@KhajaSodhu guacodile is bad in other worlds as well, unsurprisingly.
Idk but primal peashooter is kinda underrated too. It costs a bit more than the peashooter, but he deals more damage, stuns and knocks back any zombie. I used 2 primal peashooters and they stalled and even killed a gargantour. Absurd.
It costs nearly double
@@trickster6054let's be real, 75 sun doesn't mean anything. You should have more than enough than that to spend. And that would be without gold bloom or like solar sage or solar tomato
"Every plant has a niche. Something it can do."
*peanut sweating in worst of both worlds
Another underrated: goo peashoter, she is usually underestimated due to the fact that she does poorly on strength tests because she is not strong for gargantuars, but great against brickhead zombies.
goo pea is one of the best plants in the game i agree
@@elliottcook1045 UA-cam didn't send notification of your comment, she's better than turkeypult .
@@joaquimgamer2333 yea ik
I don’t know if this is intended but I got all the world keys when I finished the tutorial, so I didn’t have any trouble beating the first 6 worlds since I would’ve already had and used the late game plants such as bowling bulb, banana launcher and guacodile. Playing arena apparently levels up your plants faster and gives mints to buy mints such as appease-mint making it easier to get stronger plants from harder worlds.
HOW?
HOW DID YOU GET THAT FAR INTOBIG WAVE BEACH AS ONE OF YOU'RE FIRST WORLDS
Bowling bulb is the best way to deal with Penny's Pursuit Zombosses if you don't have Pokra
A line of them, sun producers in front and tile turnips and you're set
I love your unique video ideas creep, keep it up!
19:22 only old player got chance since old world order was based by date of realease not difficulty so Big Wave Beach plants can be used in Frostbite Cave, Neon Mixtape Tour, Lost City, Jurassic Marsh. But not today
Yes, and Reflourished, one of the PVZ2 mods, actually arranged the worlds in chronological order. You can use the ability of Banana Launcher and other plants in Frostbite Caves, Lost City, Neon Mixtapes, and Jurassic Marsh.
Spore Shroom is underrated in my opinion, its my favorite plant in the game
My least favorite plants in the game are Pokra and ButterHead Lettuce i find it very boring to play with them
One of my favorite underrated plants is actually Spikerock. It breaks half of the worlds. Sadge it didn’t make the list
hollow knight soundtrack
I'm surprised you placed Chard Guard on this list since I thought people unanimously understood it was a contender for the best plant in the game. Either way, good video. Still don't think Bowling Bulb is that underrated given just how nieche it is though.
Also, absolutely love Banana Launcher. It flips the progression of a level on its head making it pretty difficult to control early on but already solved when you get enough Launchers.
If you rewatch Zackscotts series about pvz2 you’ll see him use winter melon any moment he can.
Endless zones!!!
Yep. Incredibly busted plant.
From this video, I understand that every plant has its pros and cons, it's all about how you can take advantage of those pros while dealing with those cons.
I wanna drop a hot take real quick. A very VERY hot take I am sure you will probably not agree with but it's my opinion
Never gonna give you up
@@KhajaSodhu NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN
@@braveheroanimator4166 NEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND
@@KhajaSodhu AND HURT YOU....
(Wait was that the right lyrics?)
@@braveheroanimator4166 it's
AND DESSERT YOU
Thing is about bulb, pretty much every other crowd controller can do the same thing more consistently. I mean, if I’m gonna have to spam instants to use something, I wonder if that thing is doing any work. Stuff like Dusk Lobber has better performance than bulb even on its best day. You have to work for something that in the end is barely above average as a crowd controller, if at all. Its synergy with walls is wacky, and the fact that clumps are a weakness is annoying. Even the plant food struggles to do what you want it to. Maybe it’s not complete garbage, but there’s no reason to ever use it even if you aren’t going tryhard. Also the bastard looks like a diglet but still gets pulled by fisherman, what gives?
An orange bulb can literally one shot a basic and two hit a conehead, I’d say that’s pretty far above average
Bowling Bulb is currently a meta plant in Arena and many Penny’s Pursuit boss fights that don’t involve Jesters. Tile Turnip + Bulb means that its biggest weakness is null and void. Also, level 7 BB respawns the orange bulb first.
11:52 Chard guard? More like chad guard
Sadly this doesn't include some premiums, really wanted to see ECurrant in the list
Unfortunately he included it as an OVERRATED plant in his other video...
Wait nvm that was EBlueberry
e.currant is so forgettable i genuinelly forgot about it until you brought it up
E Currant was underrated before the big nerf, now... he sucks. Easily the worst gemium plant
@@GNVS300 what nerf? Just asking
@@GNVS300 nerf??????
Ngl idk how many times chard guard has saved me from zombie about to tramp over my flowers, and knowing theres more into that plant...
I use Chard Gard and Banana launcher a LOT!
When the green text in the astropop font appears on screen, you know it's fucking over
I tried clicking the sun in the video 💀
There is a saying I've come up with recently (just last September to be exact), that seems quite relevant to your discussion here:
All my homies love and respect Coconut Cannon
I think stunion is underrated
Chard Gourd is a default in my setup whenever there are hard zombies nor flying zombies which most wallnut types suck at protecting or stall.
It sucks that red stinger didn’t make it here, red stinger is only underrated because of how overrated repeater is, imo I think red stinger is slightly better then repeater… but 90% of people just ignore him and go to repeater instead, sure vanilla red stinger doesn’t gain anything from torchwood but red stinger is cheaper, does more damage and can be used as a wall if necessary. The argument everyone uses is “he’s only better then repeater in lane 1-3” which is true, however you could just put the sun producers in lane 4+
Rant over, you did make some good picks (also thank you for including chard guard)
Hard agree. Red Stinger might just be the most underrated plant in the game, before the Torchwood buff he was basically an outright upgrade over Repeater, and I've found him especially useful in Reflourished for the early game.
Maybe you mistaked "underrated" and "overrated" because i see a lot of times that someone puts red stinger higher than threepeater, torchwood, rotobaga, starfruit, dandelion and peapod. Red stinger is: just a repeater, with -50 sun cost, +25% shot cooldown and without ability to beign powered by torchwood. For me this plant is a bit better than - repeater, but i just cannot understand. Why in tier list everyone puts red stinger at the same rank as: grapeshot and parsnip
@@S2PrototypeRemix what tier lists are you looking at? The amount of times I’ve seen red stinger in d tier and repeater in A-B tier is ridiculous
@@S2PrototypeRemix Threepeater? Pfft Red Stringer blows him out of the water
@@GNVS300 do you want tell that: repeater better than threepeater? This weird im think. Im used threepeater alot, this plant is really cool. Also: its plantfood can almost kill gargantuar
On this topic, jack-o'-lantern is a criminally underrated plant, his damage output is absolutely insane
But takes the same time to regenerate as an E berry
His ass is premium my man 😭
No one is gonna be able to use him unless they pay for it
I actually agree that guacodile can be insane if you're using it correctly
I think tall-nut is also underrated because I saw people calling it bad, but when I use it it stalls zombies for a pretty long time and almost never gets defeated.
I would also consider spikerock as one of the underrated plants but honestly I don't know how well rated the plant is, many zombies ignore it and does pretty good damage if the zombies are above it and next to a defensive plant
It's worth pointing out that Mag Grass and Banana are drastically stronger at level 2.
They hit damage ranges that they barely missed at level 1, letting Mag 1-shot Coneheads and Banana kill Bucketheads.
@@melvint-p9500Banana also costs 475 in lvl 2
@@ZombieMiraculer74 that’s true, but it’s not really important compared to the rest
Banana launcher made me feel like its just a coconut cannon that has full range of all rows, i also liked the sound like “Banana!” It made. It was the best plant to beat with 1 slot.
My favorite under rated PVZ2 plant is puff Shroom.
Yeah, the PVZ2 version kills itself after a while but I think it's a lot more fun than the more over rated insta kill plants and it's a nice way to hold the line and focus on sun production.
Are you sure people underrate puff? I don't think there's people out there that say puff is bad or anything
@@Frrixy Kinda feels like it.
Nobody says Puff Shroom is underrated, it's a busted plant, not as strong as its PvZ1 self, but still good, basically removing any early-game threat, totally worth the seed slot.
8:34 coconut plant hits hard but that suprise green path theme hits even harder
1 BILLION COIN???!!??!
He played for over 10000 hours.
All of these plants are my favorite plants to use on levels, even though I haven't went to arena mode yet. Winter Melon, Coconut Cannon, and Banana Launcher are plants that are just completely ignored just because they are more expensive when planted when they have actual more power than most plants. Winter Melon does both chilling and heavy damage like in the original game which is completely powerful when used in endless survival mode, Coconut Cannon and Banana Launcher packs the massive damages to their targets, even in groups.
For Bowling Bulb, they are very helpful to me in spending sun limit and last stand levels in adventure mode. Their Plant Food is a bonus in killing groups of zombies easily.
Guacodile is also a fun to use plant. I actually find this plant amazing especially when I played Neon Mixtape Tour and Frostbite Caves levels since their rushing attack can cause bigger damage to zombies ahead of them.
Chard Guard is my absolute favorite defensive plant. Their knockback attacks can also stall zombies over time and have higher health than normal plants when they have no more leaves to push back. They are best when stalling weaker health zombies like chickens, weasels, and even weaker imps.
Bowling Bulb is trash because your "strategy" of using it with a bunch of instant plants isn't a Bowling Bulb strategy. It's an instant spam strategy that happens to have Bowling Bulb in it. Instant plants are super broken, so spamming a bunch of them to beat a level is an OP strategy that's always going to work. Replace Bowling Bulb with any other plant (not Lightning Reed, that thing sucks) as your main attacker and that plant will outshine BB in your instant spam strategy.
Level 1 Bowling Bulb is just so genuinely awful once it uses up all of it's bulbs and gets stuck recharging the lowest damage bulb to deal damage. For reference, a 100 sun Peashooter shoots 20 damage every 1.35 to 1.5 seconds. For 200 sun, BB fires a bulb every 2 to 2.25 seconds. The aquamarine bulb does 40 damage, the blue does 120, and the orange does a whopping 180 damage. But then, it takes 4 seconds to regenerate a new bulb. 4 seconds to regain aquamarine, 4 more seconds to regain blue, and 4 seconds again to regain orange.
It does it's best work when waves are spaced 12 seconds apart, so it can recover it's best bulbs. Also, the top and bottom lanes get the worst of the DPS since only half as many bulbs can bounce into top or bottom lane. BB also does not do well against zombies bunched up in a single lane unless spammed (where have I heard THAT before?). They do their best damage in zigzag patterns, so when zombies appear in checkerboard formation. BB is literally a Repeater with better initial damage for the first 6 to 7 seconds, then after that, it's literally just a Repeater with a much, much, MUCH worse fire rate, since the bulb takes 4 seconds to recover, and 2 to 2.25 seconds to launch. That means BB fires every 6 to 6.25 seconds, to do 40 damage, while Repeater fires every 1.35 to 1.5 seconds to do 2 x 20 damage. In Adventure mode, there's just no reason to use BB over any other attacker that costs 200 sun, except Pepper-Pult because fuck that long ass recharge.
Man wrote an essay on Bowling bulb is trash
"All plants are good" background has peanut
I have to disagree with Bowling
Having to rely on certain plants is pretty bad imo. And there are just better plants to utilise for that job, like Coconut Cannon, Banana Launcher or heck, even Citron. Usually what will happen is that Bowling Bulb will get overwhelmed too much, and you won't be able to use the high EPS well, whereas you can easily make the most from other plants.
So in conclusion: Bowling Bulb for a supposed support plant is not goof if it relies on OTHER support plants, whereas others like Banana or Coco can do well on their own and be utilised more effectively.
In arena is where bowling bulb truly shines. In conjunction with chard guard and some other plants, it can clear the board
@@honkhonk9089 arena is completely different though. Yes, Bowling Bulb is good there but how it works is different from regular pvz2 levels. Here I'm talking about its uses in those regular levels, and it's not that good to say the least
Gotta love that greenpath music
in my opinion cabbage pult is underated its litteraly peashooter but better 😍
@A Baseball Bat Directly To The Cranium, Frankly… Thanks captain obvious
It gets way more hate than it deserves but it’s still pretty worthless.
The Cabbage Pult may look like it is better than Peashotter, but statisticaly it's worse. But hey, atleast it's better than Pepper Pult!
It’s a Peashooter, but for angles
Lobbed shots miss fast zombies and no torchwood/peavine synergy.
that's a lot of powerups in those clips...
0:55 does anyone know what he said
Stunion and Stallia are great stallers that outclass iceberg
chard guards one of my favorite plants in the game it’s so good