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Casting Shadows is an ability for Night Cap in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. It creates a shadow dome that hides ally plants, slows down enemies inside the dome as well as inverting their controls.
Description
Hide allies and restrict enemy movement in the shadow dome.
Associated upgrades
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Incubate
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● 2
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Allies revive faster while within Casting Shadows.
Reduces the time to revive an ally by half when inside Casting Shadows.
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Corrode
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● 3
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Drain ammo, increase weapon heat, and slow ability refresh time of enemy hit by Casting Shadows.
Enemies caught in Casting Shadows suffer from the following penalties: (1.) 5-7 rounds are taken out from their weapon; (2.) For the 80s Action Hero, Bow Blaster's charge time is increased by 50%; (3.) For Super Brainz, Heroic Fists' attack speed is decreased by 50%; (4.) For All-Star and Z-Mech's primary weapon, overheat rate is increased by 0.1 percentage points; (5.) Refresh times of all abilities decreased by 0 seconds;
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Strategies
With
Casting Shadows can be used to trap Zombies, restricting their movement and lowering their accuracy, making them an easier target. This allows you to easily vanquish them with Spore Strike or finish them off with Fung Fu.
Casting Shadows is also a useful tool for reviving allies. Enemies won't know what to shoot at, so you can revive a fallen comrade without having to worry about being hit. Watch out for the Engineer if trying this strategy, as his splash damage will hit you even if he can't see you.
Another good way to use Casting Shadows is to escape a large group without getting hurt. Shadow Sneak could be used for this, but enemies will know that you're trying to escape and may try to look for the cloud of smoke that you leave behind when you move. Instead, use a Casting Shadows, go inside of it, then enemies will think that you're tying to stay and fight. However, this is the time to use Shadow Sneak, retreat in another direction, and you're opponent(s) won't pay attention to the smoke you leave as they'll be focused on attacking the Casting Shadows. Again, watch out for Engineers.
Against
The Engineer, as mentioned earlier, is good at attacking any enemies hiding within a Casting Shadows. Using his Heavy Helper, he can repeatedly spam his Concrete Launcher to do massive damage to anyone inside. Using Bullhorn Swarm prevents any Plants from escaping your trap.
