Board Thread:Weekly Discussions/@comment-11660317-20160817162330/@comment-27769607-20160818173539

Octo because he's long range. Surfers can swim through  your plants but are easy to destroy before they reach your house but octos can not move capture all your plants. If you're defense is strong enough you can destroy those fast surfers but octos hang out in the back so plants won't hit them. Octos actually force you to use AoE plants, not lobbed shot because when too many octos come in Tiki torcher you have to destroy them as quickly as possible.