Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-26239911-20151112100155/@comment-3474455-20151113235458

RetroBowser wrote: Insert Your Name Here wrote:

RetroBowser wrote:

SunShroom wrote: Wait, so primal sunflower is just a sun shroom that doesn't have to grow and costs 50 more sun... Meh.. sun shroom, you're still my babe ;3 Technically Primal sunflower is still more productive than sun shroom.

Sun shroom : Produces 25 sun,  and then 50 sun and then starts producing 75 sun after that.

Primal Sunflower: Produces 75 sun off the bat. 75 - 25 = 50 sun more that Primal sunflower produces at the start. 25 (Cost of sun shroom)  + 50 (The amount of sun it produces more than sun shroom at this stage ) = 75 sun (Cost of primal sunflower). Primal sunflower has now made up for its sun cost. 75 (Sun that primal sunflower produces)  - 50 (Sun that sun shroom produces at stage 2)= 25 more sun than Sun shroom produces in its second stage. At this point Primal sunflower has already produced more sun than sun shroom, enough to make up for its sun cost plus another 25 more than sun shroom. Therefore Primal sunflower is more productive You need to remember that Sun-shroom's main strength is its spammability - for 75 sun, you can get 1 Primal Sunflower or 3 Sun-shrooms. If Primal Sunflower is going to challenge anything, I'd say Twinflower more, what with its horribly outdated recharge rate. Due to the recharge, it's not like you can get 3 sun shrooms out immediately. Due to the sun production rates as well, as soon as primal sunflower produces sun, you have enough for another. Not to mention sun falling from the sky along with starting sun...

I would say that this is going to matter more at the beginning of the level, especially dork ages. With sun-shroom you are going to plant sun production non stop, while you will get some bump on other plants. Later lvls I agree that sun-shroom is weaker than other plants, but the hardest part of a level is usually the early game anyway.