Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-25620611-20141014044703/@comment-5792287-20141018101433

Electromario2001 wrote: Milesprower2 wrote: Electromario2001 wrote: Milesprower2 wrote: Homing Thistle is a weaker Cattail. It's practically useless. Homing Thistle is not weaker than a cattail. It´s spikes do 2 NDS and fires at the rate of a peashooter. Cattail´s soikes dealt one damage at twice the speed of the fire rate of peashooter. HT costs the same as cattail, 225+25. It can also be planted in ground unlike cattail, making it beter than cattail. Also, you do not have to purchase an upgrade, and its going to be gem prem. It´s beter than cattail, do the math.

Edit: It´s not a word only plant, has a fast recharge unlike cattail and does not fire additional spikes after the zombie died. All this for the same cost of cattail and no need to bring a lily pad. I've seen it, it shoots as fast as a Cabbage-pult. Hence, 2 damage per 2 seconds means it's the damage of a Peashooter, while a Cattail did the damage of a Repeater.

Add to that the fact that in PvZ2, almost all non-AoE plants are USELESS because of the massive crowds of zombies, and Homing Thistle is not worth a single gem unless it gets massively buffed. Its not about using it in endless zone, its about using it in levels with strong and/or fast zombies that dont crowd the lawn to soon. Plus, it doesnt fire at rate of cabbage pult, it fires at rate of peashooter, but the spikes homing into the zombies takes a few seconds. Okay, so as I found out, it does actually shoot as fast as a Peashooter, I was mistaken there. That said, it's still useless in PvZ2 because in most levels, especially in Dark Ages and Big Wave Beach, tough zombies are spammed by the first flag, so Homing Thistle, or anything else that lacks crowd control, will not cut it.