Arena/Strategies

The following below is a list of strategies for Battlez in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Any strategy for Battlez that you have in mind is welcome here. Feel free to add your own strategy that is not written here.

Note that any strategy that you can use in both international and Chinese version should be placed here. Others that involve plants and/or zombies from the Chinese Version should be placed here instead.

Zombie Chicken Strategy
You can easily deal these guys, as long as you have a Lightning Reed on the board. Lightning Reeds will not do any damage if the Buffz & Bruisez feature says the Fila-mint family is ineffective. So use Spikeweed and/or Spikerocks instead.

Jester Zombie strategy
If there are Jester Zombies on the lawn, then don't bring in some shooting plants or lobbed-shot plants just so it can deflect them back to your defenses. In order to keep the Jesters from making you keep up with your opponent, you'll need to bring in some plants that will not throw any projectiles at all. The following plants are weaknesses of Jester Zombie: For more, see Jester Zombie Note: Avoid using Bloomerang due to the fact that he can't defeat Jester Zombies and can't be destroyed by them.
 * (keeps it from deflecting back projectiles)
 * (splash damage only)
 * (powered)
 * (keeps it from deflecting back projectiles)
 * (splash damage only)
 * (powered)
 * (splash damage only)
 * (powered)
 * (powered)
 * (powered)
 * You can use any of the following plants to defeat this zombie.

is also an ideal way to take out these troublesome zombies, as they allow you to have powerful shooting plants while not having your defenses wiped out by a single Jester. However, if there is a large number of these zombies on multiple lanes, use the aforementioned strategy, as using stunions would require Plant Food.

Primal Potato Mine Strategy
Using Primal Potato Mine in Battlez is a pretty good call, due to his fast arming time and damage. You can learn how to make a Primal Potato Mine Strategy here.

Required plants:

Instructions: Plant a Primal Potato Mine on the lawn, then place a Tile Turnip underneath. Keep doing so until you have at least three or more Primal Potato Mines on Power Tiles. Use Power Lily to feed Plant Food to the potatoes, making them multiply, dealing damage to lots of zombies. This strategy works better, if you have an upgraded Primal Potato Mine and/or an upgraded Bombard-mint, as it'll cause a bigger explosion dealing more damage per shot. Warning: Avoid using this strategy if the Buffz & Bruisez feature says it'll get an ineffective buff.

Blover Strategy
Now, you may know that Blover is restricted from most tournaments, but there are some tournaments where Blover can be used. For an example, the first Gold Bloom Garden Party Tournament. Using Blover in Battlez is really good, since he'll blow away all airborne zombies on the board. Blover can also blow away zombies when they're in mid-air. This, however requires critical timing. The following plants can make ground zombies be affected by Blover:


 * (The Blover + Spring Bean Plant Food trick has been removed though)
 * (Berries)
 * (level 5 or higher only)
 * (Knocks back zombies when growing)
 * (Depends on one of the imitated plants above)
 * (level 5 or higher only)
 * (Knocks back zombies when growing)
 * (Depends on one of the imitated plants above)

The best plant out of these is the Reinforce-mint. Planting him at the exact time Blover is on the board will wipe out all zombies on the lawn, giving the player heaps of points. Only you can use this strategy if Blover is not restricted in the following tournament. Dinosaurs can also affect zombies. For example, if a Raptor/Stegosaurus kicks/flings a zombie into mid-air while Blover is on the board, he'll blow the zombie(s) away. Works better with an upgraded Blover. Keep in mind that when the Contain-mint family is bruised, Blover will not blow away all zombies.

Battlez Tournaments
The following below is a list of strategies you can use in any of the Battlez tournaments. Feel free to add a strategy to any of these tournaments below.

Gold Blooms Garden Party Tournament
TBA

Caulipower's Escalating Tournament
TBA

Dandelion's Brainstorm Tournament
TBA

Power Lily's Garden Party tournament
TBA

Wasabi Whip's Blitz Tournament
TBA

Explode-O-nut's All-Out Tournament


Strategy:

You'll need to require these plants in order for the strategy to work:, , and  (Optional). Set it up like this:

MF SP MF SP MF SP EON EON

MF SP MF SP MF SP EON EON

MF SP MF SP MF SP EON EON

MF SP MF SP MF SP EON EON

MF SP MF SP MS SP EON EON

MF = Moonflower. SP = Shadow Peashooter. EON = Explode-o-nut.

If you haven't obtained Bombard-mint, it is worth to upgrade your, due to his slow recharge in which is shown at level 1. If you're despite, you can add another row of Explode-o-nuts, for more protection.

'''NOTE THAT A GARGANTUAR OR A JURASSIC ROCKPUNCHER CAN EASILY ACTIVATE THE EXPLODE-O-NUTS AUTOMATICALLY. KEEP THAT IN MIND. '''

Bombergranate's Garden Party Tournament
TBA

Electric Peashooter's Warped Tournament
TBA

Lightning Reed's Brainstorm Tournament
TBA

Electric Currant's Garden Party Tournament
TBA

Electric Blueberry's Brainstorm Tournament
TBA

Cold Snapdragons Escalating Tournament
TBA

Solar Tomato's Warped Tournament
This tournament can be pretty hard if you don't have a leveled up Solar Tomato and/or a leveled up Gold Bloom.

Since most of the sun producing plants are restricted in this tournament, leveling up these plants are required: and.

Using plant food to recharge these plants are useful. However, if one does not use the Power Lily, there will only be three plant food given per match.

Aloe's Escalating Tournament
This Battlez match is somewhat easy. You can easily get more sun during the Last Stand setup from the pre-placed Tall-nuts. Place your plants behind the tombstones as the Necromancy Surprise attacks will spawn zombies from the tombstones. Use Grave Buster to destroy the graves quickly. Use Contain-mint to boost Grave Buster. If none of these plans work out, then let the spawned zombies get run over by the lawnmowers.

Holly Barrier's Escalating Tournament
This tournament can be extremely difficult since the Raptor's will kick zombies past your defenses. However, in this tournament, the Blover strategy shines here. You can use Holly Barrier's berries to make the zombies affected by Blover, plus, you'll want to upgrade/Imitate Blover for more wind power. The following plants must be used: Note that Perfume-shroom is excluded from Battlez, although there are dinosaurs in this tournament.
 * (Optional)
 * (Optional)
 * (Optional)

Strawburst's All-Out Tournament
TBA

Grapeshot's All-Out Tournament
This is one very stupid tournament. The player could immediately loose to their opponent at the start of the battle because of the "Parachute Rain!" Luckily, there are some frozen Grapeshot's on the lawn which you can use to wipe out most of the Lost Pilot Zombies. Destroy the Ice blocks to wipe out the zombies.

Remember, Hot Potato is excluded so use a Cherry Bomb instead. It is the fastest way to destroy them. Blover, however, won't come in handy since he'll just make all the zombies drop onto the lawn. Try to destroy them as quickly as possible before they eat any plants you've placed during Last Stand setup. Once that's taken care of, the battle truly begins!

Use:

It'll be better if you have an upgraded Cherry Bomb with a fast recharge.

Strategy:

,  and.

MF SP MF SP MF SP IF

MF SP MF SP MF SP

MF SP MF SP MF SP IN

MF SP MF SP MF SP

MF SP MF SP MF SP IN

MF = Moonflower. SP = Shadow Peashooter. IN = Infi-nut. Only use this once the lawn is clear. DO NOT plant this strategy when the Lost Pilot Zombies are near.

Apple Mortar's Escalating Tournament
TBA

Arma-mint's Garden Party Tournament
For this tournament, the player can see that the top and bottom lanes are covered in mold colonies. In order to destroy zombies on those lanes, you'll need to use the following plants: Using these plants will do damage to the zombies in the lanes above or beneath them. Dusk Lobber, however, will need to be powered by a Moonflower in order to attack in three lanes. Place explosive plants up close to the zombies entering the lawn to destroy them quickly. Works better if they're leveled up and/or powered by a Bombard-mint. You can use to boost Apple Mortar's attacks.
 * (Attracts zombie into it's lane)
 * (3x3 area)
 * (Members of this family)
 * (If there are any airborne zombies in those lanes)
 * (Imitates plants from above)
 * (3x3 area)
 * (Members of this family)
 * (If there are any airborne zombies in those lanes)
 * (Imitates plants from above)
 * (If there are any airborne zombies in those lanes)
 * (Imitates plants from above)
 * (Imitates plants from above)

Escape Root's Blitz Tournament
Since the time in this tournament goes a lot faster, it is important to defeat as much zombies as you can before time runs out. There are 8 pre-placed Sun-shroom's on the lawn and 7 are frozen, so use an explosive plant to thaw it. Sun-producing plants are restricted, making the pre-placed Sun-Shrooms the only plants to give you sun throughout the battle. So it is worth leveling up your Sun-Shroom. If you DON'T have Sun-shroom, then you can use the following plants to gain more sun, when fed with Plant Food: Remember: You can use Escape Root to swap places with other plants if your Sun-shrooms are in danger.
 * (Depends on imitated plant)
 * (Depends on imitated plant)
 * (Depends on imitated plant)
 * (Depends on imitated plant)

The Primal Potato Mine Strategy shines here, as well help from Squash and Cherry Bomb.

Toadstool's Warped Tournament
TBA

Snow Pea's All-Out Tournament
There is a strategy that can either give you a low score or get you past 10 million depending on luck with King Zombies. Magnet-shrooms were allowed, meaning that if you keep a Peasant Zombie alive with a King Zombie near, Magnet-shroom can take the knight helms and rack up more points for the more knight helms that are collected. Sometimes, a King Zombie can take too long to show up, hurting this strategy. Required plants:(Slows down zombies)

Contain-mint's Tournament
As the first tournament to have the Buffz & Bruisez feature in it, Contain-mint's Tournament could be tough. First of all, the tournament contains three of the worst zombies in the game:

May come with a metal grate underneath poncho, will flings back projectiles launched by projectile plants and will launch flying Imp near the house, causing him to drop less points when defeated.

Since there are evil potions on the lawn, Contain-mint family plants are required to slow them down. The following plants can be used against these troublesome zombies:

will get rid of metal grate, and  will prevent zombies from moving, and,  and  will block the flying imp. Infi-nut and Moonflower will only do so if one uses Plant Food.

Time will go fast, so defeat as much zombies as you can to win.

Shadow Peashooter's Tournament
There is a simple strategy for this tournament as long as you have obtained the following plants:    and

Plant the strategy like this:

NS/SP MF NS/SP/DS LR

DL MF LR NS/SP/DS MF

NS/SP MF NS/SP/DS LR

DL MF LR NS/SP/DS MF

NS/SP MF NS/SP/DS LR

*The rest of the lawn is free for you to plant wherever you want.

NS = Nightshade. LR = Lightning Reed. SP = Shadow Peashooter. DS = Dusk Lobber. MF = Moonflower:

It does not matter if the Fila-mint family is weak in this tournament as they'll keep doing the same damage to. shines in this tournament as he'll take out most of the Zombie Chickens.

Parsnip's Tournament
For Parsnip's Tournament, you can see that the whole lawn is covered in sun tombstones. There is no starting sun since the entire lawn is covered. Also, the Buffz & Bruisez feature will give the Spear-mint Plant Family a strong buff, whereas giving the Enforce-mint family a weak buff. So using plants, such as Grave Buster and Laser Bean are required.

Strategy:

Use.

Once the battle begins, plant a Grave Buster on one of the five Tombstones closes to the house. next, plant a Gold Bloom where the Tombstone was. This'll give you some starting sun to plant some laser Beans. The Laser Bean will destroy the other eight Tombstones in front of it, giving 800 sun in total. Once the lawn is clear, you can start planting.

Another way you can do this is if you destroy a Tombstone further away from the house, then plant a Bombard-mint, which'll do damage to lots of Tombstones around it. Works better if you have an upgraded Bombard-mint as it'll make more explosions.

Avoid using Parsnip, since the family he's in has a weak buff in the tournament.

'WARNING: NOT USING GRAVE BUSTER WILL HURT YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING THE MATCH AS YOU'LL BE DEFENSLESS WITHOUT HIM. KEEP THAT IN MIND.'

Homing Thistle's Tournament
As the first tournament to introduce the Hamster ball, it could make this tournament very difficult. Since the Slider tiles will make the zombies go in any direction, it's important to use plants that'll attack here and next door. Spear-mint can be a good plant to use as the Spikerocks that are spawned can break the hamster balls instantly, just breaking off a large spike. Use, and/or  to destroy the Zombie Hamsterballs. Spikeweed's, however, will have no effect on the Hamster ball at all.

Starfruit's Tournament
Members of Fila-mint's family will get an ineffective buff in the tournament. The Spear-mint family and the Appease-mint family, however, will get a strong buff. Like Homing Thistle's tournament, you should use Spikerocks and Spear-mint's in order to destroy the Zombie Hamsterball's. Dinosaurs are also present, so put any plant that'll attack from behind in the second tile closet to the house. Shadow Peashooter shines here as he will instantly drag the dinosaur carried zombies to the ground. Grimrose, however, won't come as the perfect option as it will take three zombies down to the ground to expire. Perfume-shroom is excluded so don't bother tying to bring it in.

Cactus' Tournament
TBA

Ghost Pepper's Tournament
This Battlez appears so many powerful zombies, like Excavator Zombie and Wizard Zombie. Take plants that can attack or kill quickly the Excavator Zombie because if you don’t kill him, he will destroy your defenses if you are careless.

Wizard Zombie can be a problem too because can transform plants into sheep and disables them, so kill them quickly too. Arcade Zombie is already present and if you don’t destroy his machine it will create lots of zombies and destroy your plants so use plants like Cherry Bomb.

Dinosaurs also are present like Ankylosaurus so be carefully. Fortunately, they don’t appear since 500,000 more or less. Avoid using Spear-Mint because Excavator Zombie and Arcade Zombie will kill Spikerocks. Avoid using Fila-Mint plants too because they are weak against zombies. Using fire plants are a good idea because they are stronger in this Battlez.

Strategy 1.

Use these particular plants:. You should set up your strategy like this:

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF SP PM

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF SP GP

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF SP GP

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF SP GP

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF SP GP

MF = Moonflower. SP = Shadow Peashooter. GP = Ghost Pepper. PM = Pepper-mint.

Strategy 2.

Involves, , , and. You should set it up like this:

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF IN

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF RM

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF IN

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF SM

MF SP MF SP MF SP MF IN

MF = Moonflower. SP = Shadow Peashooter. IN = Infi-nut. RM = Reinforce-mint. SM = Spear-mint.

Reinforce-mint will boost the 's as well as allowing them to generate a force field to block all five lanes. In case the zombies break in, use wisely.

Jack O' Lantern's Tournament
There are five Plant Food Tombstones on the Lawn, which are so strong that it'll take 30000 dps to destroy them. With the absence of Grave Buster in this Tournament, it makes the graves difficult to destroy. The best way to destroy swarms of zombies is to spam the Jack O' Lanterns, by putting ALL your fingers on each one. They'll soon burn the zombies, as well as doing repetitive damage to the Tombstones.

Strategy:

Plants needed:. Set up the strategy like so:

FP MF SP JOL JOL JOL JOL

FP MF SP JOL JOL JOL JOL

FP MF SP JOL JOL JOL JOL

FP MF SP JOL JOL JOL JOL

FP MF SP JOL JOL JOL JOL

JOL = Jack O' Lantern. MF = Moonflower. SP = Shadow Peashooter FP = Fire Peashooter

Hot Date's Tournament
TBA

Fire Peashooter's Tournament
This is a free strategy with the exception of one plant. The plants are:, , , and. You should put the plants like this:

FP FP SP MF SP MF PPM PPM PPM

FP FP SP MF SP MF PPM PPM PPM

FP FP SP MF SP MF PPM PPM PPM

FP FP SP MF SP MF PPM PPM PPM

FP FP SP MF SP MF PPM PPM PPM

FP = Fire Peashooter. SP = Shadow Peashooter. MF = Moonflower. PPM = Primal Potato Mine.

When the Imp Dragon Zombie blocks are melted, place the Fire Peashooters when they are defeated. When a Primal Potato Mine explodes, try to put another there. Put two or three Tile Turnips and then place Shadow Peashooters on the Power Tiles.. Use Pepper-mint as soon as possible, but be careful and don’t use it when the Jester Zombies are free.

Sling Pea's Tournament
Plants:, , /, and.

You should put the plants like this:

LB/SHP DL MF SP

LB/SHP MF DL SP SNP

LB/SHP DL MF SP

LB/SHP MF DL SP SNP

LB/SHP DL MF SP

LB = Laser Bean. SHP = Shadow Peashooter. DL = Dusk Lobber. MF = Moonflower. SP = Sling Pea. SNP = Snapdragon.

First, in the Last Stand moment, place the Moonflowers. Then, put four Dusk Lobbers, and finally, put the Shadow Peashooters or the Laser Beans. In the case you use Laser Beans put them in the first four lines and when you get enough suns, put the final Laser Bean. Next, put the Dusk Lobber of the middle and start putting the Snapdragons and then the Sling Peas. When the Buckethead Zombies appear, start putting Pepper-mints and use the Plant Food to use Pepper-mint again.

Strategy 2

In the case where you don’t have the Shadow Peashooter or Pepper Mint, use this strategy. However, this strategy gets you less points, so its best to use the first strategy if you have the plants. You may need Gold Bloom. This averages at around 275k to 315k.

Plants:, ( if you lack it), (Not necessary but helps as support),  (Support, also not necessary)

Your layout should look like this (Replace 1st row of PS with if you lack ):

LB LB PS PS PWN

LB LB PS PS PWN

LB LB PS PS PWN

LB LB PS PS PWN

LB LB PS PS PWN

LB = Laser Bean, PS = Puff Shroom, PWN = Primal Wall-Nut, GB = Gold Bloom, SF = Sunflower

When you’re asked to plan the defense, place 5 LBs on the first column, 3 LBs on the 2nd column (It doesn’t matter where you put the LBs here, as you’ll eventually fill the 2nd column.), and a PWN on the 5th column. After pressing “Let’s Rock!”, immediately place GB to get some sun, then try your best to copy the layout above. Use your plant food on the LBs in lanes where there’s only Zombies or Conehead Zombies. Make sure you don’t let any Bucketheads make it to your LB lines, otherwise this strategy will not work out.

If you lack GB, in the defense planning portion, do the exact thing as above, but do not place the PWN on the 5th column, and instead place a SF on the 3rd column. Now follow the strategy above this one, but instead of using GB, place as many SF as you can in the 3rd column. The PWNs aren’t really that important, so make sure you get the LBs out first and then place the PWNs.

'THIS STRATEGY IS HEAVILY RELIANT ON THE TIMING AND PLACEMENT OF THE PLANT FOOD. KEEP THAT IN MIND.'

Power Lily's Tournament (Buffz & Bruisez)
Unlike the first Tournament, Winter-mint's Family will be given a buff as well as there being Zombie Hamsterballs and different zombies than the Tournament before. Power Lily is the key to having more Plant Food.

Strategy 1:

This is a good strategy that can be used, in which it requires:, and.

Using Power Lily will help you generate more plant food in which you can use to instantly recharge your Power mints. Using Bombard-mint repeatedly will set off more explosions while using Spear-mint repeatedly will generate more 's on the board.

Strategy 2:

Plants needed:, , , and. Plant it out like this:

MF SP MF SP MF SP IF

MF SP MF SP MF SP

MF SP MF SP MF SP IF

MF SP MF SP MF SP

MF SP MF SP MF SP IF

MF = Moonflower. SP = Shadow Peashooter. IF = Infi-nut.

Immediately plant Spear-mint for Spikerocks. Two Spear-mints might be needed as the first five spawned spikerocks will temporarily get crushed by the Zombie King's. The player can do that quickly by instantly recharging Spear-mint.

Optional Plants:

You can bring in some of the following plants for more support if you want: is considered useful against the. 's and powered 's will take out swarms of zombies. Plants such as and  will extinguish 's torch. The Primal Potato Mine Strategy (Reminder: Use  ) shines here as lots of Plant Food will be obtained in the Tournament if one does uses the Power Lily.

Witch Hazel's Tournament
TBA

Goo Peashooter's Tournament
Plants:, , , and.

In the Last Stand put in the second and fourth row the Moonflower and in the third row put two Shadow Peashooters in the second and fourth square and press Let's Rock. When you got enough suns, start putting Shadow Peashooters in the third row and in the first row. In the fifth row, put a line of Dusk Lobbers. In the next row, put two Moonflowers and the put more Dusk Lobbers/Shadow Peashooters. When the Gargantuar appears, put the Enchant-mint next to him and when another appears, spend a Plant Food for Instant Recharge.

Finally it has to look like this:

SP MF SP MF DL DL/SP DL/SP ? ?

SP MF SP MF DL MF DL/SP ? ?

SP MF SP MF DL DL/SP DL/SP ? ?

SP MF SP MF DL MF DL/SP ? ?

SP MF SP MF DL DL/SP DL/SP ? ?

SP= Shadow Peashooter. MF= Moonflower. DL= Dusk Lobber. ?= Whatever you want like: Goo Peashooters, Shrinking Violet and Enchant-mint

Strategy 2:

Use: Sunflower, Repeater, Chili Bean, Iceberg Lettuce, Wall Nut, and you should have Goo Peashooters (all plants can be any level).

Put Sunflowers in the first column and Goo Peashooters in the second column and you will not have enough sun for the fifth Goo Peashooter so when the zombies come you have to fill that space then use Goo Peashooters, Repeater, Chili Bean, Iceberg Lettuce,and Wall Nut to kill more zombies but it is recommended to use Goo Peashooters up to column five.

It will look like this:

S GP (GP) (GP) (GP)

S GP (GP) (GP) (GP)

S GP (GP) (GP) (GP)

S GP (GP) (GP) (GP)

S GP (GP) (GP) (GP)

S = Sunflower, GP = Goo Peashooter, = recommended