Talk:Lightning Reed/@comment-33207558-20170929020022

Currently I have it up to level 9 (current maximum level for lightning reed) and it's still way too weak even compared to basic plants that I have at level 1, some of which are cheaper at sun cost. Having two columns of lightning reed (10 in total) is still weaker than have two water melons, especially ice one. They provide such weak DPS so having them at about 3 column in a row even with assist of high damage plants, they are just waste of tiles. They are so weak that one column of lightning reed is unable to deal even with weasel zombies.

If you want a proper AoE plant, use water melons or laser bean that excels in damage, takes less tiles and far more useful. If you need good chicken\weasel counter, use either same water melons\laser beans, or spike weeds, or snapdraggons, or pretty much anything else.

Lightning reed, especially after update is just overall useless no matter how you look at it.