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This is a strategy page about Survival: Night (Hard). Feel free to add your strategies, but see the rules page first.

Melons, Gloom-shrooms, and Magnet-shrooms[]

1st round[]

Start with two columns of Sunflowers in the back and Puff-shrooms in fourth, fifth, and sixth columns. When you have enough sun, plant Snow Peas in the third column, replace Puff-shrooms with Fume-shrooms in the fourth and fifth columns, and upgrade the Sunflowers at the back to Twin Sunflowers. When there are Buckethead Zombies, plant Magnet-shrooms (which also helps for other zombies with metals later) in Pumpkins in the sixth columns. Remember to use Grave Busters to remove the graves.

Ts S Sn Fs Fs (Ms)
Ts S Sn Fs Fs (Ms)
Ts S Sn Fs Fs (Ms)
Ts S Sn Fs Fs (Ms)
Ts S Sn Fs Fs (Ms)

S - Sunflower

Ts - Twin Sunflower

Ps - Puff-shroom

Sn - Snow Pea

Gs - Gloom-shroom

Mp - Melon-pult

Wm - Winter Melon

Ms - Magnet-shroom

() - Pumpkin

2nd round[]

Plant Melon-pults in the third and fourth columns and upgrade those at the third column to Winter Melons. Upgrade all the Sunflowers. Plant Gloom-shrooms in Pumpkins in the seventh column.

Ts Ts Wm Mp Fs (Ms) (Gs)
Ts Ts Wm Mp Fs (Ms) (Gs)
Ts Ts Wm Mp Fs (Ms) (Gs)
Ts Ts Wm Mp Fs (Ms) (Gs)
Ts Ts Wm Mp Fs (Ms) (Gs)

3rd round[]

Replace the Fume-shrooms in the fifth column with Melon-pults. If there are Diggers, replace sunflowers in the second column, lanes two and four with Gloom-shrooms and plant Pumpkins the back, in case Diggers get past the Magnets.

(Ts) Ts Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs)
(Ts) Gs Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs)
(Ts) Ts Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs)
(Ts) Gs Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs)
(Ts) Ts Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs)

4th round[]

Plant Spikerocks in front of Gloom-shrooms for the vehicle zombies. Leave the rightmost column blank.

(Ts) Ts Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs) Sr
(Ts) Gs Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs) Sr
(Ts) Ts Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs) Sr
(Ts) Gs Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs) Sr
(Ts) Ts Wm Mp Mp (Ms) (Gs) Sr

5th round[]

Survivalnighthard

Strategy in use by ZheBaL

If there are Gargantuars, replace the Magnet-shrooms with Melon-pults and plant Pumpkins in the third column for Imps.

(Ts) Ts (Wm) Mp Mp (Mp) (Gs) Sr
(Ts) Gs (Wm) Mp Mp (Mp) (Gs) Sr
(Ts) Ts (Wm) Mp Mp (Mp) (Gs) Sr
(Ts) Gs (Wm) Mp Mp (Mp) (Gs) Sr
(Ts) Ts (Wm) Mp Mp (Mp) (Gs) Sr

Strategy 2: Cob Cannons, Spikerocks and Winter Melons[]

Flags 0-2[]

Plants to choose:

Goals:

  • 3 rows of Sunflowers, and the back one with Twin Sunflowers
  • 2 Garlics in the top, middle, and bottom rows
  • 2 Gloom-shrooms behind the middle garlics
  • 2 columns of Kernel-pults in front of the Sunflowers
  • A row of pumpkins in front of the Kernel-pults

Setup:

t S S K K [] g g
t S S K K []
t S S K K [G] [G] g g
t S S K K []
t S S K K [] g g

t = Twin Sunflower

S = Sunflower

G = Gloom-Shroom

[ ] = Pumpkin

g = Garlic

K = Kernel-pult

Flags 3-4[]

Plants to choose:

Choose your last plant (if you have 10 slots) based on the zombies. Choose Blover for Balloons. Otherwise, use Ice-shroom, Cherry Bomb, or Squash.

Goals:

  • Get a 2nd row of twin sunflowers
  • Start on a row of Winter Melons
  • Get up 2+ Cob Cannons
  • Get a row of Tall-nuts in front of the Cob Cannons
  • Start on a row of Spikerocks in front of Tall-nuts
  • Start on a row of pumpkins

Setup:

[t] t W CC CC [T] ~
[t] t W CC CC [T] ~
[t] t W CC CC [T] ~
[t] t W CC CC [T] ~
[t] t W CC CC [T] ~

t = Twin Sunflower

W = Winter Melon (get 5 Melon-pults, then Winters on top, bottom, and middle rows, then the rest of the rows)

CC = Cob Cannon (it's okay if a few of these are still Kernel-Pults)

T = Tall-nut

~ = Spikeweed (some of these should be spikerocks)

[ ] = Pumpkin

Flags 5-10:[]

Plants to choose:

Goals:

  • Pumpkins on all plants in first 3 rows
  • Gloom-shrooms on second column, top, middle, and bottom rows to defend Diggers/Imps
  • Umbrella Leaves (if needed) on second column to defend Bungees
  • Winter Melons, Cobs, and Spikerocks finished

Setup:

[t] [G] [W] CC CC [T]

@

[t] [u] [W] CC CC

[T]

@

[t] [G] [W] CC CC

[T]

@

[t] [u] [W] CC CC

[T]

@

[t] [G] [W] CC CC

[T]

@

t = Twin Sunflower

G = Gloom-shroom

u = Umbrella Leaf

W = Winter Melon

CC = Cob Cannon

T = Tall-nut

@ = Spikerock

Zombies:

Balloon: Pick Blover

Bungee or Catapult: Place Umbrella Leaves. Use cobs on Bungees

Gargantuar: Pick Puff and Imitater Puff, and when a Gargantuar comes, use 2 cobs on it. If you don't have 2 cobs up yet, stall it in place by using the Puff-shrooms.

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