Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Wiki discussion/@comment-26239911-20160514132132/@comment-5760976-20160514220351

Camwood777 wrote: Starfruity wrote: Why does everyone think Zombot Sharktronic Sub is so hard? He's never been a threat to me, ever. The Modern Day version is tougher, but still not a very big deal. Agreed. While his BWB incarnation poses a slight threat, good plays can make the battle easier.

However, his MD version is more a battle of tedium; you're given weak plants (to put this into perspective, the best non-instant plant you get is Rotobaga, and while it is a good plant, it's one of two non-instants you'll get), and for whatever reason, Dr. Zomboss seems a lot more eager to use his vacuum attack to destroy 2 lanes of plants... When you lack a way to prevent it, as far as I know. And the regular zombies are particularly pushovers due to Shrinking Violet's inclusion.

So basically at least 25-90% of the battle is having a paltry 4-5 plants on the field, only one hitting Zomboss, typically a stray Rotobaga, meanwhile, the regular zombies pretty much kill themselves due to the Shrinking Violet making them incredibly fragile, and the remaining plants taking care of them, on top of Stunion and Chard Guard keeping them from ever easily reaching your house/hut. And once you have good plants going again, Dr. Zomboss decides it's a good time to spam his blade/blender attack, which this time, is unpreventable, and bring you down to like 2-3 plants, which quickly gets back to 4-5, before hitting a slag.

I can do the Sharktronic Sub without losing a single lawnmower in the MD version with relative ease. That's easy to do IMO. But the real difficulty and challenge comes in doing it quickly, instead of taking like ≥5 minutes to do so with the turbo button's speedup, and ≥10'' for no speedup. And I prefer play without the Turbo button!' The giant peppers from Pepper-pult's plant food can stop Zomboss from using the vaccum ability. It bugs me though that they gave Shrinking Violet for the MD version, I know Hot Potato couldn't be used, but why not Hurrikale? A premium actually linked to Frostbite Caves? (I would mention Fire Peashooter, but it was used in the MD Tuskmaster fight.)