Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-24843074-20161030184616/@comment-25392962-20161112215250

Ballistic Planet wrote:

Balam Ajaw wrote:

Ballistic Planet wrote: I don't think I realized how awful Homing Thistle was after 3.4 until I started using him again recently. Like dang, I thought every gem premium was at least somewhat good (maybe Sweet Potato and Dandelion being outliers, but they both got buffed), but Homing Thistle is really takes the cake as worse gem premium, almost by a metric kilometer.

I didn't really care for Cattail in PVZ1, and as much as I (used to) like Homing Thistle, he's not a suitable replacement.

EDIT: I got a Lucky Blover for ranting about Homing Thistle. Thanks for sucking! Meh, Homing Thistle always was a useless plant, at least for me. I regret of buying it along with Sweet Potato, but hey, a̶t̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶e̶n̶t̶r̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶P̶o̶k̶é̶d̶e̶x̶ ̶(̶?̶)̶ Homing Thistle wasn't even THAT bad in version 3.3 and prior. At the very least, his AI was competent. He was a great plant to use at the start of a level.

Though now days, we have plants like Parsnip, Wasabi Whip, and Kiwibeast, all great at starting levels. Not to mention things like Explode-o-nut, Cold Snapdragon, or heck, even Dusk Lobber, so Homing Thistle wouldn't really be needed. Exactly. Homing thistle wasn't even that bad. In fact, it's better than cattail because the ammo travels quicker and they actually hit the target. But the thistle got dumped into the compost bin along with stuff such as snapdragon.