Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-25546049-20151018175328/@comment-24275721-20151019163728

Мит бой wrote: But that would nullify quite imporant garg's ability. Personally. I always against "proper" counters, cause if zombie has proper conuter - there's no zombie! If you just would cover your plants with imbrella leaf, then instead of "counter" for a zombie, we get: minus one unique zombie, minus 2 tiles, and minus one plant slot. This is only a loss in gameplay-wise I'll start by saying that the word counter itself means to do something against something properly. This means you can never have an "improper counter" as that's an oxymoron in itself and can't exist in a game (especially in a game). Either you get something that is ill-suited for the job or something that does the job perfectly. You cannot have something that somewhat does the job and call it a counter. We here at the wikia only call a plant a counter when the plant works wonders against a zombie (ex Pepper-pult, Fire Peashooter against Hunter). Thus the idea of an improper counter cannot exist.

Umbrella might be very powerful if introduced in this game but that is exactly why it will be known as a counter. That's what counters do; give the players an edge instead of the zombies (even if it means all those minuses you talked about). Also in spammed quantities, any zombie loses its uniqueness. That's what has happened with zombies nowadays; they have lost that charm since they are now spammed so much.