Not to be confused with Plants vs. Zombies 2: Guardian
Plants vs. Zombies 2: Guard (also known as Plants vs. Zombies 2 M in the Tieba Baidu version, 植物大战僵尸2守护: zhíwù dàzhàn jiāngshī 2 shǒuhù) is a QQ and WeChat mini-program released by Tencent. It is a spin-off game of Plants vs. Zombies 2. In order to play the game, one must have either the Tencent QQ, WeChat, Douyin, or Baidu Tieba mobile application and a registered account for the respective platform depending on the app. It was also released as an HTML5 game on the 4399 game store.
Gameplay[]
In this game, zombies constantly appear from the top of the screen, moving down. Plants on the row of five flower pots fire straight forward in their lane, damaging the closet zombie to the bottom in said lane, however you can also change the direction all plants aim in by pointing at the desired spot. When any zombie reaches the bottom, all of them are instantly defeated, but with their dropped sun being put in the piggy bank, where you can spend gems or watch an ad to open it and receive the sun.
When a zombie is defeated, it releases sun. Sun is used to buy new plants. Periodically, a chest appears in the player's inventory, which contains a plant. The player can have 5 plants at max at the same time on the field, and 10 plants/chests in their inventory.
Plants of the same type can be fused together to transform them into a plant with increased strength (2 plants of level x transform into 1 plant of level (x+1)). The higher the level of the plant, the higher is its damage dealt to zombies. All plants in this game have ranged attacks, and only differ in damage output.
The player can promote the league they are in. Promoting the league can allow the chest to give plants that are a level higher and also receive a league chest whenever getting promoted. The player will also receive a discount in plants' price and some gems. However, the zombies will also get tougher. A player can demote their league by watching an ad.
The player can watch an ad to enter a boss level. Boss levels contain several boss zombies, which must be defeated before they reach bottom of the screen for them to be completed. Rewards for beating boss levels are gems, the paid currency in this game. There are 50 boss levels in this game.
Plants[]
- Sunflower, lv 1
- Repeater, lv 2
- Split Pea, lv 3
- Threepeater, lv 4
- Pea Pod, lv 5
- Gatling Pea, lv 6
- Snow Pea, lv 7
- Primal Peashooter, lv 8
- Dandelion (from PvZ2C), lv 9
- Fume-shroom, lv 10
- Sun-shroom, lv 11
- Electric Peashooter, lv 12
- Squash, lv 13
- Fire Gourd, lv 14
- Laser Bean, lv 15
- E.M.Peach, lv 16
- Perfume-shroom, lv 17
- Fire Peashooter, lv 18
- Magnet-shroom, lv 19
- Hypno-shroom, lv 20
- Gloom-shroom, lv 21
- Pineapple-pult, lv 22
- Coconut Cannon, lv 23
- Hurrikale, lv 24
- Machine Gun Pomegranate, lv 25
- Magnifying Grass, lv 26
- Carrot Rocket, lv 27
- Starfruit, lv 28
- Bloomerang, lv 29
- Magic Vine, lv 30
- Iceberg Lettuce, lv 31
- Rafflesia, lv 32
- Bubble Flower, lv 33
- Cob Cannon, lv 34
- Sweet Potato, lv 35
- Mine Fruit, lv 36
- A.K.E.E., lv 37
- Electric Blueberry, lv 38
- Lightning Reed, lv 39
- Electric Currant, lv 40
- Icy Currant, lv 41
- Homing Thistle, lv 42
- Tile Turnip, lv 43
- Asparagus, lv 44
- Saucer, lv 45
- Apple Mortar, lv 46
- Sea Anemone, lv 47
- Blooming Heart, lv 48
- Red Stinger, lv 49
- Anthurium, lv 50 (max)
Cameos[]
- Rafflesia (concept from PvZ: AS), seen in loading screen
- Ball Cactus, seen in pause menu
- Lychee Bomb, (concept from PvZ: AS)
- Jalapeno, seen in fortune wheel
- Peashooter, seen in some rewards screens
- Cherry Bomb, seen in shop and has unused explosion sound effect
- Wall-nut, seen in shop
- Starfruit, seen in shop
- Potato Mine, seen in shop
- Bonk Choy, seen in rocket screen
- Chili Bean, seen in rocket screen
- Cabbage-pult, seen in rocket screen
- Iceberg Lettuce, seen in rocket screen
- Chomper (concept from PvZ: AS), seen in UI
Zombies[]
- Basic Zombie
- Imp
- Target Zombie with gems on its target
- Conehead Zombie
- Buckethead Zombie
- Newspaper Zombie
- Flag Zombie
- Screen Door Zombie
- Digger Zombie starting from Golden League II
- Balloon Zombie starting from Platinum League IV
- All-Star Zombie
- Riot Police Zombie
- Mummy Zombie
- Jetpack Zombie with a Lion Dancer Zombie head
- Gargantuar, boss
- Double-Cabin Aircraft Zombie, boss
- Zombot Tomorrow-tron, boss
Cameos[]
- Rabbit Zombie, seen on advertisement chest screen
- Zombie Chicken, seen in fortune wheel
- Seagull Zombie, seen in shop
- Imp Cannon, seen in rocket screen
- Swashbuckler Zombie, seen in rocket screen
- Cowboy Zombie, seen in rocket screen
- Unused Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars zombie from a scrapped Roman World, seen in the fortune wheel
Strategy[]
Due to the lack of diversity in gameplay style, not many specific strategies have been developed. The generic strategies mainly centers around the Plant and Zombie Power.
If the Zombie Power is way less than the Plant Power, no strategies are required except for putting the highest-leveled plants on the flower pots.
If the Zombie Power is approximately the same as the Plant Power, the player should not merge all of their plants into one strong plant as the one single plant is lack in group damage compared to multiple slightly weaker plants.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- In this game, certain aspects of the plants are inconsistent with the others under the same franchise.
- Sunflower can attack zombies by shooting sun.
- Despite featuring Repeater, it only shoots one pea at a time and is referred to as "Peashooter".
- Twopeater is introduced despite the game featuring Repeater. It is also being referred to as the "Repeater". It also looks like a Split Pea and no is like in Plants vs. Zombies 2: Summon.
- Pea Pod and Gatling Pea only shoots 3 peas at a time instead of the respectively 5 and 4 peas.
- Snow Pea does not slow zombies.
- Primal Peashooter does not knock back zombies.
- Sun-shroom can attack zombies by shooting Fume-shroom's fume projectile.
- Dandelion's projectiles do not explode.
- Squash shoots a projectile that looks like an Oily Olive.
- Fire Gourd shoots a single flame instead of breathing fire.
- Laser Bean shoots a short beam of laser instead of a ray of laser.
- E.M.Peach attacks by shooting a dart of energy.
- Perfume-shroom shoots a heart instead of perfume.
- Magnet-shroom is called "磁体蘑菇" (lit. "Magnetic Object Mushroom") instead of the usual 磁力菇. It also attacks by shooting a plasma ball.
- Hypno-shroom attacks by shooting a rainbow-colored fume. It is also called "催眠蘑菇" instead of the usual 魅惑菇.
- Gloom-shroom attacks by shooting 3 globs of fumes that are same as that of Fume-shroom.
- Pineapple-pult has a pixelated projectile.
- Coconut Cannon's projectile does not explode.
- Machine Gun Pomegranate shoots 3 projectiles in a line instead of forming an array of projectiles
- Magnifying Grass's and Iceberg Lettuce's names and projectiles are mixed up. Magnifying Grass shoots a pixelated ice while Iceberge Lettuce shoots a pixelated Magnifying Grass-like glass.
- Starfruit only shoots one pixelated projectile at a time forwards.
- Magic Vine shoots a slime-like object.
- This, Plants vs. Zombies 2: World and Plants vs. Zombies 3D are the only three Plants vs. Zombies mini-program games to have HTML5 versions and available on 4399.
- Loonboon, which plays during boss fights, is incorrectly named "WateryGraves" in the files.
- By touching the screen to control the plants' attack direction, if the player moves the crosshair to the rear left of the plants, the plants will start spinning.
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Main series | Plants vs. Zombies · Plants vs. Zombies 2
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Shooter games | Garden Warfare · Garden Warfare 2 · Battle for Neighborville | ||
Other games | Pinball · Risk · Heroes · Stickers · Playing Cards · Match
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Chinese spin-offs | Plants vs. Zombies 2 (China) · Mini Progams · AR Trading Cards
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Canceled games | The Board Game · Kingdom · Talking Zombatar · Project Hot Tub |