Lessons learned: posting on RPS gets you awesome strategy suggestions AND marriage proposals from ladies who can fly. Remind me to post here more often.

I’d have to say my biggest soft spot is for the humble Peashooter, who holds the line with a satisfying rhythmic splat while I gear up the economy and ready the big guns.

So, it sounds like the challenge is in the survival modes. Only played through the daytime survival, which I used to farm marigolds as I held off the zombies.

Marry me <3

I tend to double tall-nuts with pumpkins. That way, ladders, a tall-nut’s only weakness, can be dealt with by digging out the nut, and you still have some basic defence until the seed recharges.

My only fear is the gargantuns… a couple of them in the harder survival missions and you’re gonna loose your protection by tall-nuts pretty quickly…

“There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.”

Garlic totally revolutionized the game for me, transforming it from a game of “build relatively similar defenses on 5 lanes” game into a game of “build Garlic on 3 lanes, then you only have to defend two of them and do whatever you want with the extra space!” Tall-Nut is pretty great, but Garlic is cheaper, you can put him down faster, and they often last *longer* since they only get 1 bite taken out of them, plus they group multiple lanes together into a tight bunch for maximum winterpult awesomeness! Remember always, gentlemen and ladies, that

“Garlic used as it should be used is the soul, the divine essence, of [Plant-Based Zombie Defense]. The [Lawn Defender] who can employ it successfully will be found to possess the delicacy of perception, the accuracy of judgment, and the dexterity of hand which go to the formation of a great artist.”

Mrs. W. G. Waters in ‘The [Suburban Defender]’s Decameron,’ 1920

Most irrationally impressive plant i’ve found so far is the gloom shroom. Gloom shrooms in the pool kill pretty much everything in the four middle rows.

Spike Rocks are by far my favourite ‘plant’ though. More durable than tall-nut (and angrier too!), lasts 3-5 blows from a [Giga-]Gigantaur, deals damage, stops zombonies and catapults before they become an issue… What’s not to love?

Most disappointing, I would say, was the cob cannon. Sure, it’s “active” and fun to shoot and situationally useful, but you’re sacrificing two plant slots, and you can’t pumpkin it – which makes it very vulnerable to the Imps that gigantaurs throw. It’s just not worth it. Edit: I have been meaning to give only a couple of them a shot just on lilypads though, since the water way is typically less of an issue.

P.S.: I got to 28 in Endless before buying cob cannons. Upon trying them, I only made it to 22.