Buffz & Bruisez

Buffs & Bruisez is a mechanic in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that was introduced in the 6.9.1 update. It affects certain Plant Families' effectiveness against the zombies. There are three effects; plants can be strong, weak or ineffective against zombies. Every Tuesday, the Buffz & Bruisez effects change.

List of Buffz & Bruisez effects

 * Strong Strong-Symbol.png: All plants in this family have triple effectiveness against zombies. It is identified by a green up arrow in the bottom right corner of a family's icon.
 * Weak Weak-Symbol.png: All plants in this family have one-sixth effectiveness against zombies. It is identified by an orange down arrow in the bottom right corner of a family's icon.
 * Ineffective: All plants in this family are absolutely ineffective against the zombies. It is identified by an red cross in the bottom right corner of a family's icon.

Strategies
As you enter Battlez, on top of the "let's rock" button, you can see the Buffz & Bruisez feature that'll tell you if the Plant Family will be strong, weak or ineffective against the zombies. if you want to know what plants are from that family, then all you have to do is look at the top left corner of each Seed packet.

Make sure the plants you've chosen are the ones that'll be stronger against the zombies. Using Plants that are weak are not guaranteed since you'll want to destroy the Zombies quickly. Ineffective Plants are just worthless. Using Plants that are ineffective will get you nowhere. Not even a max leveled Peashooter will defeat a single Zombie! This should test you on which plants you should use for the right occasion.

For example, Parsnip's Tournament has Dark Ages Tombstone's covering the entire lawn. So Plants such as Grave Buster (Despite not being in the Spear-mint Plant Family) and Laser Bean are required. Using Primal Potato Mine or any other Bombard-mint family plant will destroy any Tombstones in a 3x3 area. So use wisely.

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Trivia

 * Buffz & Bruisez can only be found in Battlez and not anywhere else in Plants vs. Zombies 2.
 * For Parsnip's Tournament, the Enforce-mint family plants were originally going to get the strong buff. This was later changed to weak.
 * Despite having a weak buff, Lightning Reed can still instantly kill Zombie Chicken's.
 * Buffz & Bruisez has no effect on Sun Producing pants due to them being non-attacking.