Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies/@comment-33701453-20190305095505/@comment-25392962-20190315234836

Ballistic Planet wrote: TheGollddMAN wrote: Quotes are fucked so w/e

Banana Launcher was definitely usable, arguably even good when it first came out. It filled a niche that no other plant could claim to fill at the time (nuking the back line, I well as eating Gargs alive, even in high level endless zones), not even Coconut Cannon. For a while, Banana Launcher had a niche. Starwburst came out and that directly hurt Banana Launcher's niche, since Strawburst specializes at nuking everything on the fucking screen, but that still left Banana Launcher with small niche at handling Gargs. If you want proof, check out my Terror from Tomorrow tutorial series, where Banana Launcher was instrumental in helping with Garg Prime levels.

Ever since Missile Toe has come out however, Banana Launcher has admittedly been quite useless. Sure, Banana Launcher works better when using Arma-mint (a very average mint), and it is free (which isn't an upside to me but I guess to some people it is, kind of a moot point I admit), but Missile Toe synergizes with one of the best mints in the game (Winter-mint), and actually effects the lanes to the side of its attack with its slow, meaning that the only time you should ever pick Banana Launcher any more is pretty much either you're going full Arma-mint (which is a shit strategy to begin with anyway), or if you're in an Endless Zone and haven't seen Strawburst or Missile Toe yet.

TL;DR: I agree that Banana Launcher kind of sucks now, but let's not get revisionist and say that BL has always sucked when it has had a niche (albeit an increasingly small one) throughout most of the game's lifespan. Hold up, does missile toe do the same dmg as banana boi? I never actually used it that often