If barren rock and wilted Plants are what you want, he's the landscaper for the job.
Update history[]
Update 1.12.6[]
Design change: His mustache is now black.
Update 1.14.13[]
Rarity change: Uncommon → Rare
Update 1.16.10[]
Rarity change: Rare → Super Rare
Update 1.60.79[]
▲ Health change: 2 → 3
Strategies[]
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Landscaper's ability weakens a plant to either make it pose less of a threat to you, or to stop it from attacking entirely, which can save you or your zombies from going down. It can also be used to lower the strength of a plant to 2 or less, thus allowing a plant with up to 4 strength to be destroyed by Rolling Stone or Weed Spray. This can stack with other strength penalties like Black Hole and Total Eclipse too. Landscaper's ability can also negate abilities of plants that require dealing damage, such as Captain Cucumber or Mayflower.
If you are able to lower a plant's strength to 0, it gives you a definite edge on that lane since the plant on it can't do anything, and your opponent is unable to play anything on that lane if they lack plants with Team-Up (provided if they have any space for suitable plants in the first place) or Evolution, causing the lane to be clogged. This essentially allows you to play set-up zombies such as Zombie King, Team Mascot, and Aerobics Instructor on that lane with little fear of them being destroyed, unless your opponent either plays tricks to destroy them or boosts the plant's strength back up again.
The general solution is to have multiple threats and force the opponent to consider which plant needs to have its strength reduced, or simply have plants that don't boast any strength in the first place. You can also boost back the plant's strength if you are in the Mega-Grow or Kabloom class, or Bounce back the plant using Rescue Radish if you are playing as a Smarty hero (or freeze the Gravestone with Cool Bean and destroy it with Winter Squash's special ability.) Given this zombie has the Gravestone trait, Guardian heroes can use Grave Buster or an evolvedBlockbuster to destroy the gravestone, nullifying him entirely. They also have Pecanolith to negate the strength penalty, but it does not stop Hearty heroes from playing tricks to destroy your plants.
It is not recommended to Bounce Landscaper as his ability can be reused.
Hearty class. He costs 3
to play, and has 2
/3
. He has the Gravestone trait, and his ability gives a selected plant -2
.
Mega-Grow or 
Kabloom class, or Bounce back the plant using Rescue Radish if you are playing as a 
Smarty hero (or freeze the Gravestone with Cool Bean and destroy it with Winter Squash's special ability.) Given this zombie has the Gravestone trait, Guardian heroes can use Grave Buster or an evolved Blockbuster to destroy the gravestone, nullifying him entirely. They also have Pecanolith to negate the strength penalty, but it does not stop Hearty heroes from playing tricks to destroy your plants.
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