Board Thread:Battles/@comment-9944069-20170616031101/@comment-30931091-20170616165133

Shadow Shroom is much better. It's effect is really good especially when powered up (through Moon Flower) to take quickly take out a group of zombies. Using Plant food is basically a full board removal.

Sun Bean on the other hand isn't helpful in defending your lawn except for more sun which can easily be covered by groups of Primal Sunflower. It's effect is further weakened due to the nerf where armored zombies don't drop sun until the armor is gone making it extremally weak and useless. It's plant food might be ok due to the fact it instantly kills a zombie and produces sun but is outclassed by Shadow Shroom's full board coverage AND the fact that zombies who doesn't eat makes the effect useless and the plant food wasted (Gargs, All-Star zombies who just spawned, any vehicles such as Piano Zombie, etc). The same applies to weakened zombies since they provide less sun which makes it more useless (Chickens, Weasels, nearly dead zombies, etc).

Finally, Shadow Shroom just looks better than Sun Bean.