Modern Day - Day 21

“	I blame the ref!	”
—Crazy Dave

Modern Day - Day 21

Game

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Statistics

Location

Modern Day

Type

Regular

Flags

Three

Plants	Zombies
Choice	Summoned:

Rewards

First time

A money bag

Replaying

Same as before

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Modern Day - Day 21 is the twenty-first level of Modern Day in Plants vs. Zombies 2. In this level, All-Star Zombie is introduced and it includes portals from Ancient Egypt, Big Wave Beach, and Neon Mixtape Tour. After completing this level, the player receives a money bag.

Difficulty

The All-Star Zombie is a dangerous zombie, as he charges through the player's lawn at a flighty speed. If he manages to touch any of the player's plants, he can tackle and possibly kill them with the equivalent damage of a Gargantuar's smash. He later slows down at stiff speed after tackling a plant. He also has dense health, meaning that he can be considerably hard to kill, and can act as a defensive shield to zombies behind him.

The portals in this level also pose a threat to the player's defenses. Neon Mixtape Tour portals can spawn the MC Zom-B and Breakdancer Zombie. MC Zom-B immediately kills non-defensive plants around himself, while Breakdancer Zombie kicks dangerous zombies in front of the player's plants. Ancient Egypt and Big Wave Beach portals also spawn and can have dangerous zombies such as the Pharaoh Zombie, Octo Zombie, and Surfer Zombie.

These portals, along with All-Star Zombies, Balloon Zombies, and Newspapers can take down or bypass the player's defenses if the player does not kill or stall these zombies quickly.

Waves

The small number next to the zombie icon means that zombie will always appear in that lane, with 1 being the topmost lane and 5 being the bottommost lane.

Waves	Non-dynamic zombies	Ambush zombies	Note(s)
1		None
2	¹ ³	None	Carries 1x Plant Food.
3	²	None
4	² ⁵ ⁴	None	First flag.
5	¹ ³	None	spawns at C6R3.
6	²	None	Carries 1x Plant Food.
7	¹ ² ³ ⁵ ⁴	None
8	³ ² ⁴	None	Second flag. spawns at C4R4.
9	² ³ ⁴ ¹ ⁵	None
10	¹ ⁵ ¹ ⁵	None	Carries 1x Plant Food.
11	² ⁴	None
12	² ⁴ ¹ ⁵ ³	None	Final wave. spawns at C5R1 spawns at C4R5.

Strategies

Strategy 1 (Contains gemium content)

Required plants:
- Moonflower
- Dusk Lobber
- Blover
- Hurrikale
- Lava Guava
- Cherry Bomb or Shrinking Violet
- Primal Wall-nut

Start by planting a Moonflower in the first or second row of the second column. Keep planting Moonflowers in this column, and plant some in the third column when you're ready. Ignore the first zombie that appears.

When the two Conehead Zombies appear, kill the first zombie (the one you originally ignored) with a Lava Guava. Then place a Dusk Lobber in the second row of the first column. Start placing Primal Wall-nuts on the fifth column, and continue placing Moonflowers and Dusk Lobbers.

Use the Primal Wall-nut to stall zombies, especially the All-Star and Newspaper ones.
The Blover should be used to defeat Balloon Zombies.
The Lava Guava is useful for combating the more dangerous zombies, especially the ones that are summoned from portals.
Use the Hurrikale and Cherry Bomb when needed.

Strategy 2

I propose a non-premium alternative strategy.
Plants needed:
- Stalling plants, e.g. or etc.
Start by planting Primal Sunflowers at C1 first, then C2 & 3. Use your stalling plant and Primal Wall-nut (plant it at C4) to stall the first few zombies. DO NOT KILL THEM VIA ANY MEANS FIRST!
Then plant Celery Stalkers at C6 to kill the zombies, ONLY ONCE C1-3 are filled with Primal Sunflowers.
Before the first flag, dig up the Primal Sunflowers at C1 and replace them with Magnifying Grasses.
Shoot your Magnifying Grasses on the zombies that spawn from the portals, and let Celery Stalker kill the rest.
If the portals were to displace any of your plants, replant them back at their original positions.
That's it! Use your Cherry Bomb and Blover if needed.