User blog:Milesprower2/Top 15 Best and Worst Plants

So, I made a list of my favourite and least favourite zombies nearly a week ago, and as promised, I'm making up the same lists for plants. Once again, no GW plants, and also this has the rule of no Chinese-exclusive Plants, unlike the last list which had a Chinese-exclusive Zombie.

This list will be based on three main things: usefulness, design and creativity, but certain plants may be left out (such as Flower Pot or Lily Pad) because they are useful in only specific situations or stages.

Top Fifteen Best Plants
So, which are my favourite plants of all the PvZ Games? (Except GW)

This was a tough list to make, as when I was going through plants I liked, I found there were already 12 plants in the ORIGINAL that I deemed worthy of this list. Obviously a few of those didn't make it as I wanted to fit in other plants from different games. In total, when I looked through all the games, I found around 21 plants I wanted on the list, so here are the six honorable mentions:
 * Power Lily, with the introduction of Plant Food, there had to be a plant to produce it, and this was that plant. But it loses points for being premium, as it's the sort of plant that should be available to everyone, due to how vital it can be in endless modes.
 * Coconut Cannon, a powerful plant that was player-activated. Not as good as Cob Cannon mathematically speaking, but still, I preferred it. That said, it's just not good enough to make the list.
 * Sunflower, okay okay, I know Sunflower is near-vital in daytime levels in the original. But it's nearly useless in the sequel due to superior plants and most day levels in the original could, with difficulty, be beaten without Sunflowers.
 * Potato Mine, a good, cheap early attacking plant. But other plants can do its job better for very little extra cost.
 * Snow Pea, really useful in PvZ1 until you get the Winter Melon...but a premium that's pointless to get in the sequel.
 * Spikerock, a REALLY OP COUNTER TO THE SPACE OGRES OF DEATH in the original, but like Snow Pea and Sunflower, the sequel kinda ruined it.

15th: The Baby Tree
AKA a Sapling. Sap-fling is a premium, but it's rather creative and I like the design. It's the first slowing plant to perfectly work with fire-based plants AND OTHER SLOWING PLANTS. Unfortunately, it's usefulness is minimal due to the design of PvZ2. The zombies come so thick and fast that it's difficult to get 750 sun to spend on a column of these when you also need strong attackers. In PvZ1, it probably would've worked perfectly, but not in the sequel, which is a shame.

14th: The Colonel-pult
I swear that pun has been done to death, but whatever, it's all I could come up with. Kernel-pult was my favourite of the pults you obtain in Adventure Mode due to the stunning capability, and it only got buffed in the sequel. Kernel-pult spam with Snow Peas near the front can easily take out the Gargs in level 5-8, sometimes without them even throwing their Imps due to the extreme stalling, and that's why I love the Kernel-pult.

I also hate it because I, Zombie.

13th: The Ultimate Bombers
In PvZA, there were two plants that were unrivalled when it came to damage-per-second and AoE. The ultimate weapons of destruction, the Bamboo Shoot and its premium version, the Bamboom.

These things were BEASTS, and given enough time to attack zombies, they could take out Gargs with ease! That said, with no true special abilities, they aren't particularly creative, just heavy-hitting AoE, and aside from the great puns in their names, their design wasn't anything special either.

12th: The Cyclops
As in the member of the X-men, not the one-eyed monster. Laser Bean is the ultimate crowd controller in PvZ2, and had a clever name too. The design isn't too special, but its ability to take out weaker zombies in such massive numbers is EXTREMELY useful. It also has a perfect symbiotic relationship with the other main attacker of Far Future, the Citron, as it takes out the weaker zombies so Citron doesn't waste its valuable shots.

11th: The Crusher
In my top fifteen favourite zombies, what was the Crusher? That's right, Squash Zombie. This is the Squash, the best early attacking plant in PvZ1 and also a great cheap way to damage Gargs. It's like a Potato Mine, but can hit more zombies, doesn't need to arm, and can attack from behind a plant (such as Wall-nut), all for only 25 sun more than the Potato. What's wrong with it? Well, it's a premium in PvZ2, and based on the Pinata Parties I've played with this in, it SUCKS as it often targets a lone weak zombie two spaces to the left over a group of strong zombies right next to it. SERIOUSLY SQUASH, GET YOUR PRIORITIES RIGHT!

10th: The Spirit
Ghost Pepper is creative, useful and had a cool design. She's a powerful, relatively cheap plant, which attacks for a while and then self-destructs in a small area. She's probably the best early attacker, and is also immune to Wizards and Octos! I kid you not. Overall, a very, very useful plant, and it's a real shame if you were unable to get her while she was available.

9th: The Stinker
Okay, so it might seem strange to put Fume-shroom higher in the list than Laser Bean, but listen up. Laser Bean is too powerful in one way, as it makes Bloomerang, a plant I used to love, useless. For that, Laser Bean loses points. Also, Fume-shroom is cheaper and when placed far enough forwards, is just as effective as Laser Bean, so it can be more cost effective. Plus, in the original, there was no Laser Bean and so nothing did the Fume's job better.

8th: The Diverter
Ah, Garlic, maybe a plant that's stinkier than Fume-shroom. But anyway, Garlic has many uses. Starfruits can be made moderately useful with it, Gloom-shrooms work wonders with Garlic in front, and it can simply be used to lessen the cost of strategies by giving you less rows to defend, such as in Last Stand. This variety of uses and the creativity behind it is what makes it so much better than that stupid overpriced, useless Sweet Potato. Oh, and I'll be talking about her later on, don't you worry.

7th: The Thief
Magnet-shroom SUCKS IN PVZ2. It's a plant that got ruined in the sequel. However, it was SOOO useful in PvZ1 that I'm still putting it really high in the list. It renders many of the strongest zombies useless and only costs 175 sun during the day, and only 100 at night! It'd still be worth using for 250 sun!

The Magnet-shroom is a very versatile plant, capable of dealing with Bucketheads, Footballers, Screen Doors and Trash Cans (not that they're a threat, cause, you know, shields), Jack-in-the-Boxes (if only it was useful in Survival: Endless...), Diggers, Pogos, and Ladders.

So many metal objects for it to remove, so many uses, it just had to be in this list.

6th: The Protector
Wow, when Pumpkin comes sixth, you know the other five must be pretty good plants. I don't know a single person who dislikes Pumpkin, and why would you? It's a Wall-nut that takes up no space. It protects plants, massively increasing their health, it helps you deal with Diggers, with Imps, or just saves space as a frontal defender. It has many uses, and is a creative plant, and is almost NEEDED in PvZ2. It could make some levels so much easier.

5th: The Hologram
Yes, I like Infi-nut more than Pumpkin. Shoot me if you want, but Infi-nut is better in most cases. It's rather creative, even if it is a "-nut" defender, as it's not only capable of healing itself, but it does so in a rather unique way. Rather than simply regaining health over time, it heals if it goes a certain length of time without being damaged.

The real genius is the fact that it can come back to life if eaten completely, and so very few things are capable of killing it. Unfortunately, in Big Wave Beach, it can be killed when on water if the Lily Pad gets eaten, but in that stage, it's the only counter to Fishermen! It has an ultra-useful Plant Food effect, capable of withstanding half a dozen Garg smashes, and all this comes at a low price of 75 sun!

4th: The Free-zer
Geddit? Free, and freezer! This plant is simple, but so useful. Iceberg Lettuce is a free, moderately fast charging plant which stalls a zombie for ten whole seconds, and when PF'd, does that to the WHOLE SCREEN. This makes it useful not only for buying more time in a normal level without spending anything, but also for stalling massive crowds in Endless modes. There are few situations where Iceberg is a bad choice.

3rd: The Copier
Imitater is an all-round useful plant as it lets you use any other useful plant twice as often! Unless they are upgrades in PvZ1...

It's creative, it's useful, and it's a really effective plant, worthy of being a premium in the sequel. There isn't really anything bad about Imitater, aside from taking a while to transform...and in the sequel, it usually can't die until it's transformed and it does so quicker. This is so useful for all slowly-charging plants.

2nd: The Super Stinker
I can hear you all saying "WHAAAAAT??? Miles isn't putting Gloom-shroom in first place? Who's taken over his account?" Well...as much as I love the Gloom-shroom, I realized something. It's only useful with Garlic or Pumpkin, and there's one other powerful plant I used a helluva lot more. Gloom-shroom is capable of killing near-infinite regulars in its own row and infinite Coneheads in adjacent rows, and with Garlic or Pumpkin, or some other attackers like additional Glooms, it becomes a deadly weapon, capable of DESTROYING the zombies. It is an epicly good plant, but rather tricky to use in a regular strategy.

1st: God of Pults
Bow your heads low! All Hail Winter!

Bow your heads low! All Hail Winter!

Winter Melon is the ULTIMATE in zombie-fighting botany. It slows, it does lots of damage, it has crowd control, and I almost always use it in BOTH games. For 500 sun, this thing is freaking OP, especially since it and Melon-pult got buffed in the sequel. Melon-pult got a cost increase to balance out the buff, but not Winter Melon, which was also more effective for no longer being an upgrade and costing less too!

Winter Melon may be expensive, but it's well worth the cost. There is nothing truly bad about Winter Melon, and so it's the best plant in the PvZ series.

P.S. Just because it's the "best" plant, it doesn't mean I'm going to call it my "favourite" plant. There's a difference, and I still consider Gloomy my favourite.

Top Fifteen Worst Plants
Coming soon!