Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-24843074-20161030184616/@comment-25546049-20161112220241

Balam Ajaw wrote: Ballistic Planet wrote:

Rororoxor wrote:

Ballistic Planet wrote:

Balam Ajaw wrote:

Ballistic Planet wrote: I don't think I realized how awful Homing Thistle was after 3.4 until I started using him again recently. Like dang, I thought every gem premium was at least somewhat good (maybe Sweet Potato and Dandelion being outliers, but they both got buffed), but Homing Thistle is really takes the cake as worse gem premium, almost by a metric kilometer.

I didn't really care for Cattail in PVZ1, and as much as I (used to) like Homing Thistle, he's not a suitable replacement.

EDIT: I got a Lucky Blover for ranting about Homing Thistle. Thanks for sucking! Meh, Homing Thistle always was a useless plant, at least for me. I regret of buying it along with Sweet Potato, but hey, a̶t̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶e̶n̶t̶r̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶P̶o̶k̶é̶d̶e̶x̶ ̶(̶?̶)̶ Homing Thistle wasn't even THAT bad in version 3.3 and prior. At the very least, his AI was competent. He was a great plant to use at the start of a level.

Though now days, we have plants like Parsnip, Wasabi Whip, and Kiwibeast, all great at starting levels. Not to mention things like Explode-o-nut, Cold Snapdragon, or heck, even Dusk Lobber, so Homing Thistle wouldn't really be needed. Exactly. Homing thistle wasn't even that bad. In fact, it's better than cattail because the ammo travels quicker and they actually hit the target. But the thistle got dumped into the compost bin along with stuff such as snapdragon. Snapdragon still is a decent plant, just not the powerhouse he once was (I forgot that Snapdragon got nerfed ;. He's still good if you need to spread damage out on a lot of lanes in the early game, and he works exceptionally well with the new Sap-fling. It's just why do any of that when Cold Snapdragon exists?

Wait, Snapdradon was nerfed?

Well, if someone don't have money to buy Cold Snapdragon then he will need the regular Snapdragon, although Sap-fling costs real money too. It's range got nerfed, and pretty badly. It doesn't always hit zombies on the tiles above it or beneath it any more, making it a lot less consistent.