User blog:VeXJL/Uses of Doubled Mint (PvZH)

Overview
Doubled Mint is a plant with weak stats at first, but can grow to have immense strength. This can make it vulnerable to being destroyed when it is first played until it grows. Doubled Mint has a cheap price, which means it can be played early.

Growing Doubled Mint
Doubled Mint is pretty hard to protect when it is first played, so it is absolutely necessary to provide some protection to it. Try to increase its health, use a Team-Up plant to protect it, or move dangerous zombies away using Sweet Potato or Whipvine. This will help stall to grow Doubled Mint. It is not recommended to use damaging or destroying tricks on the zombie.

Using bait to protect it
Because of Doubled Mint's troublesome ability, opponents are likely to target them. Use cards with low strength such as Mirror-Nut or Wall-Nut to bait out small removal cards, and cards with high strength such as Super-Phat Beets to bait out big removal cards. If the opponent always uses removal cards, it's best to use Black-Eyed Pea to discourage the use of tricks, or Brainana to prevent the tricks.

Big Removal cards
Peas are often a big contender for baiting out these cards. The Podfather and Torchwood are able to boost other pea plants to bait the big removal cards. The pea plants will have stats that could force a lethal situation unless taken care of.

Small Removal cards
Nuts can also be used for baiting. Nuts usually have 2 or less, so this can be used to bait out many Hearty tricks.

Potentially dangerous plants can bait out Crazy removal tricks. These plants include Bean Counter, Muscle Sprout, Banansaurus Rex, and Pea Pod. They can also ones with powerful abilities like Power Flower or Punish-Shroom.

Splash Damage
Plants with Splash Damage can destroy zombies before they hurt Doubled Mint. Snapdragon and Lightning Reed can help destroy threatening zombies. This should not be used against Hearty or Beastly heroes.

Freeze
Freezing effects can cause threatening zombies to skip their turn, letting Doubled Mint grow. Winter Melon and Jolly Holly can freeze from next door. This should not be used against Brainy heroes.

Team-Up
Plants with the Team-Up trait can serve as a shield for Doubled Mint while it grows. Fortunately, Team-Up plants are varied throughout all classes, with some being harder to obtain than others.

Stopping Tricks
Brainana and Black-Eyed Pea are great to discourage the use of tricks, which can destroy the Doubled Mint.

Brainana
Using Brainana is probably the best way to shut off tricks. The only way to bypass Brainana is to have Gentleman Zombie or Brain Vendors hiding in gravestones.

Black-Eyed Pea
While Black-Eyed Pea doesn't completely prevent the use of tricks, it can discourage them. Boosting Black-Eyed Pea will help to prevent tricks.

How to defeat the zombie hero with it
There are several ways of defeating the zombie hero with it. However, you need to make sure Doubled Mint is in an empty lane to hurt the zombie hero. Only use the following methods when Doubled Mint is boosted enough.

Bonus attacks
This is the surefire way of making sure Doubled Mint attacks the hero. When it's properly boosted, it can one-hit-kill the zombie hero. Plant Food can help boost it while Espresso Fiesta can make it go ham on obstructing zombies.

Destroying Cards
These cards are best used against obstructing zombies. Whack-a-Zombie and Grave Buster are cheap ways of destroying them while Squash and Lawnmower can take care of stronger, more resistant zombies.

Damaging Cards
Same as Destroying Cards

Splash Damage
Assuming the obstructing zombie is weak enough, you can use a Splash Damage plant next door to destroy it.

Synergies
Doubled Mint has several synergies, but due to its unique tribe, it will not be able to get boosted by other plants easily. However, it can be dangerous when paired up with cards that protect it, so there's an alternative.

Final Words
Doubled Mint can be a formidable plant when given time. It mostly shares the same advantages and disadvantages with Pea Pod, except that it grows more quickly.

Doubled Mint is best used by Green Shadow, as she has access to bait cards such as Magic Beanstalk and Bean Counter, cards that prevent tricks such as Brainana, and Team-Up plants such as Navy Bean.

Alternatively, Doubled Mint can be used with Grass Knuckles, as he has Team-Up plants with high health. However, since almost all of his Team-Up plants have low strength, the Team-Up plants will most likely die without being able to protect Doubled Mint.

Chompzilla has a variety of healing tricks to heal Team-Up plants or Doubled Mint and bait cards such as Strikethrough plants. She also has destroying cards to deal with zombies with high health.

Captain Combustible can snowball Doubled Mint's strength with Berry Angry or Blazing Bark and he has Time to Shine as a cheap way of finishing off the plant hero with a boosted Doubled Mint. He also has several bait cards. However, he has a lack of destroy cards, so he can't deal with highly boosted zombies effectively.

Comments
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