Board Thread:Fun & Games/@comment-26307094-20141118041418/@comment-25597558-20141129083059

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This is one aspect Banana Launcher without a doubt is better at then the Cob Cannon. Let's assume that we have an infinite amount of sun and we won't take into account tiles:

1. Amount of plants

a. Banana Launcher: He has a 7.5 sec recharge, which amounts to 8 PPM (Plants per minute)

b1. Cob Cannon w/o Kernel-pult: He has a 50 sec recharge, which equals to 1.2 PPM

b2. Cob Cannon w/Kernel-pult: CC has 50 sec recharge, and both Kernels amount to 15 sec. Total = 0.92 PPM

2. Amount of projectiles per plant

a. Banana Launcher: Each projectile recharges in 16 sec, therefore having a rate of 3.75 PrPM (Projectiles per minute)

b1. Cob Cannon w/o Kernel-pult: Each projectile recharges every 36.14 sec, leading to a rate of 1.66 PrPM

b2. Cob Cannon w/Kernel-pult: Same as above, nothing changes.

Now taking into account every value we shall calculate the total damage each plant does in 1 minute or 60 seconds using this formula:

Total damage = Sum of damage per tile x PPM x PrPM

Banana Launcher: 180 x 8 PPM x 3.75 PrPM = 5400 total damage per minute over an area of 3x1

Cob Cannon w/o Kernel-pult: 810 x 1.2 PPM x 1.66 PrPM = 1613.52 total damage per minute over an area of 3x3

Cob Cannon w/Kernel-pult: 810 x 0.92 PPM x 1.66 PrPM = 1237.03 total damage per minute over an area of 3x3

Dividing Banana Launcher's total damage by 3 (result of dividing CC's range by BL's range) gives us 1800 DPM.