User blog comment:Rex700/The most useless plant ever?/@comment-4809451-20120210082607

Sunflower? useful Peashooter? useful, of course Cherry Bomb? helps you end the game quickly Wall-Nut? useful Potato Mine? lets you deal with first zombie quickly and continue planting Sunflowers Snow Pea? slows down zombies Chomper? the only instant kill with a fast recharge timer Repeater? better than a peashooter

Puff-shroom? makes the Potato Mine unnecessary at night Sun-Shroom? gets your economy going at night Fume-Shroom? nice piercing attack; upgradable Grave Buster? gets rid of those annoyances Hypno-shroom? not useful. It's very difficult to hypnotize the lead dancer. It only hypnotizes one zombie. Useless against vehicles and Gargantuar. Scaredy-shroom? cheapest shooter except for Puff-shroom and Sea-shroom. Long-range. Ice-shroom (aka Freeze-shroom)? immobilizes Dr. Zomboss! Doom-Shroom? The zombies' doom.

Lily Pad? For pool, as essential as Sunflower Squash? better than Potato Mine Threepeater? better than repeater Tangle Kelp? kills Dolphins Jalapeno Pepper? long-range Cherry Bomb Spikeweed? nice piercing attack. Cheaper than Fume-shroom plus Coffee Bean Torchwood? essential for fireballs Tall-Nut? Stops Dolphins, Poles, and Pogos.

Sea-shroom? aquatic Puff-shroom. Save on Lily-Pad. Plantern? Gives you sight Cactus? similar to Dart Monkey. Pops those bloons. The game only sends you red ones. Blover? More than a lucky clover. Lights up your night. When it comes to bloon zombies, it is similar to a level 5 Monkey Apprentice. Split Pea? a cheap backwards Repeater Starfruit? five shots for the price of 1.25 Pumpkin? better than a Wall-Nut. You can pumpkin every plant and still have every tile filled. Magnet-shroom? It is worth the Coffee Bean.

Cabbage-pult? better than a Peashooter any time. Flower Pot? of course Kernel-pult? stuns the zombies Coffee Bean? Some mushrooms are so cool you want them during the day Garlic? works well with piercing attacks and Cherry Bombs. The only wall plant that recharges fast. Umbrella Leaf? Negates those aerial nuisances. Marigold? Now that I think is truly useless. Slow recharge timer and only produces ten coins before it stops producing. Marginally useful in Zen Garden and Last Stand only. Melon-pult? we all know why we love them.

As for the upgrades, I can hardly think of one that isn't useful.

The Gold Magnet is very useful in Survival because there are more coins than you can click. Marigolds in Survival add nothing.

But want to know which plant I think is the most useless besides the Marigold? Well, it's not the Scaredy-shroom. Sometimes I'm tempted to use it. It's not even the Hypno-shroom.

The most useless plant is the Peashooter. Not because it isn't decent, but because there are so many better plants that it's obsolete by the time you get to the Roof levels. Some players don't use them once they get Repeaters. That is a matter of personal preference, of course. But why pray use a Peashooter when you have Cabbage-Pult? For the same cost, you can not only shoot over the roof; you can also shoot Screen-Doors and Snorkel Zombies directly. And there are no significant disadvantages, other than that Torchwood has no effect on cabbages. But if you want fireballs, you would probably forgo Peashooters for Repeaters anyway. If you play the Day levels in Adventure II, you can use the same strategies with Peashooter replaced by Cabbage-pult, and you cannot be worse off. And if you want to freeze zombies, Cabagge-pult works with Snow Pea, too.