Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-14603405-20130919022621/@comment-5565348-20130920212215

Milesprower2 wrote: It only takes a couple of peas to make the Chicken Wrangler release the Chickens, so any other AoE Plant should do the trick (even when there are lots of Zombies), like Bloomerang or Melon-pult. I know you haven't played the game so I'll tell you that Bloomerang and Melon-pult simply cannot reliably counter Zombie Chickens. Even less when there are lots of zombies. Bloomerang isn't a Fume-shroom, it has a longer range but can only hit up to 3 zombies(and there are way more than 3 Zombie Chickens) and fires slow enough for chickens to get their good bite in. Melon-pults fire slow, which is a breaking point when you consider that Zombie Chickens can severely damage(and not impossibly kill) the Melon-pult before it even lobs once. Same applies with Winter Melon as the slowdown effect only happens after lobbing. And Zombie Chickens are not very tightpacked. Spikeweed, Spikerock and Lightning Reed are the only reliable counters. A column of Spikeweeds is more sun-efficient than a column of Lightning Reeds(except if Pianist Zombies), but it takes more Spikeweeds than Lightning Reeds for a single Chicken Wrangler Zombie, which is a breaking point later on in Big Bad Butte due to how quickly the first Chicken Wrangler Zombie spawns(about the third or fourth zombie.)
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