Grounded

Grounded
Defeat a normal Roof level without using any catapult plants

Note: This achievement is equivalent to the Nintendo DS version achievement "Unsiege Mentality".

Strategy

The best way to get it is on Level 5-1, on Quick Play. To get it, you should pick the following (Up to 8 slots). And its a good idea to have purchased the roof cleaners.

• Sunflower
• Flower Pot
• Coffee Bean
• Peashooter or Repeater
• Fume-shroom (with Gloom-shroom)
• Umbrella Leaf
• Garlic
• Chomper

A garden rake is strongly recommended.

As the achievement states, you can't use catapult plants (Cabbage-pults, Kernel-pults, or Melon-pults, let alone Cob Cannons and Winter Melons). If you have one of them, you can't achieve this. It's not very different from any other level, so it can be easy. Start building your Sunflowers first and then you'll see a Zombie. He will step on the rake and will die. Another one will come, so use a Peashooter to shoot him down. Put 4 Umbrella Leaves to defend your Sunflowers away from the bungees and later, when you have a lot of Sun, use the Gloom-shroom and Garlic, because the Gloom-shroom is technically cheaper than a Threepeater. Then, replace the 5 Peashooters with Sunflowers. Then, when a Garlic is damaged, since it can't be repaired by the Wall-nut First Aid, use your shovel and then replace them, or let them finally get eaten, but if a Flower Pot gets eaten with 1 bite after a Garlic gets eaten, put a Flower Pot on a space where a zombie ate it, but don't be too late.

Note: This Achievement can't be earned by completing Level 5-5 (Roof) as it is a bonus level in which no achievements can be earned.

Another strategy

Replay level 5-1.

Choose The Sunflower, flower pot, umbrella leaf, coffee bean , fume-shroom, pumpkin, imitater pumpkin, potato mine, squash and whatever you want (except for lobbed-shots).

First, build up sunflowers and use mines and squash to save sun, until you can afford fume-shrooms, and use umbrella leaves to cover every 3X3 square to protect yourself against bungees.Use pumpkins to protect the frontward fume-shrooms from coneheads.

Fume Shroom strategy

Replay level 5-1 or 5-3. You can use this strategy on 5-6 without replay.

Choose Sunflower, Flower Pot, Fume-shroom, Coffee Bean, Squash, Potato Mine, Jalapeno. If you have more slots, use anything you want that not lobbed shot.

Plant a column of Sunflower. Use Squash or Potato Mine for few first Zombie. Plant 3 column of Fume-shroom and wake up it. If there is Bungees or Catapult, Use Squash or Jalapeno.

Pogo Party Strategy

Choose this plant:

• Sunflower
• Flower Pot
• Twin Sunflower
• Squash
• Tall-nut
• Split Pea
• Starfruit

Plant Sunflower on column 3 and 4. Use Squash for first Pogo Zombie. If the second Pogo Zombie appear, plant Tall-nut on back of that row and Split Pea on front Tall-nut. Do this until all row have Tall-nut, if Tall-nut recharging and there is a Pogo Zombie on row without Tall-nut, squash it. If all row have Tall-nut, plant 3 column Starfruit in front of Sunflower.

See Also

• Roof
• Achievements
• Lobbed-shot Plants