Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-25416291-20141220060734/@comment-24507085-20150111233213

Zombotanist wrote: Balam Ajaw wrote: BWB is worse balanced. Not only introduces useless plants like the Bowling Bulb and the Guacodile that don't counter any zombies, also have 3 zombies without counters! The Surfer Zombie don't have a real counter, although you can defeat them with strong plants. The Fisherman Zombie also don't have a real counter, a counter that doesn't need Plant Food to counter it (the Plant Food doesn't grow up on the trees in the Endless Zones people!). And like with the Wizard Zombie the Octo Zombie don't have any counter, and is worse because has more health that the Wizard Zombie and the octopi don't disappear after the Octo Zombie is defeated.

All the other worlds have plants that counters the zombies, but the last two worlds don't, and the worst part is that introduces useless plants like the Bowling Bulb, instead of a counter for those zombies e_e, how is that balanced? Again they do have counters. Surfer Zombie can be countered with Homing Thistle; because they move so fast, they will almost always be the farthest zombies to the left, so if you have enough Homing Thistles they can easily kill them before they reach the water. Fisherman Zombie actually has 2 counters (but only one really works), Guacodile is meant to be used so that when it gets reeled in by the Fisherman they rush the whole lane and hit them, but since they don't do that much damage you'd need some other plant like Laser Bean to support it, on the other hand Banana Launcher can be used to aim at the Fisherman specificaly and kill them no problem. You can also try to stall the fishermen with "bait" plants like Puff-shroom and Sun-shroom. And finally Octo Zombies are meant to be countered with both Tangle Kelp and Banana Launcher, since they'll mostly be in the back of the lawn due to their slow speed. Also a plant that I've found does an excellent job at dealing with the octopuses is the Magnifying Grass, since one shot from it will instantly kill an octopus. Yeah, all that sounds good, but don't works in the Endless Zones, where you will never be able to take care of all the Fisherman and Octo Zombies. You will never defeat all the Octo Zombies with only Tangle Kelps, and the Octo Zombies also will disable the Banana Launcher before you can use it. How do you think win a level with all those three zombies in a higher level in the Endless Zone? Sure, you can use the Magnifying Gass to defeat the octopi, but is not useful when the low tide summons Bucketheads e_e