Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-25154254-20150403114523/@comment-24507085-20150407200311

Zombotanist wrote: Balam Ajaw wrote: Because filled the category of defensive-offensive plant. I don't see how you can't see the connection, is too obvious.

But Pumpkin is straight up defensive, it just allows you to have defense on a tile occupied by other plants (offensive or not).

Besides even if PopCap did see Pumpkin as a defensive-offensive plant like you say they could still bring it back, there's not just one defensive plant in the whole game, for example. We have multiple options for offense, defense and support. That's the whole point of having a lot of plants in the game. Now I remember why is the replacement of Pumpkin, because the Peanut "saves space" (although you waste a seed slot in the process). So the Peanut fill the category of plants that saves space.