User:Ballistic Planet/Writing Playground

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Ballistic's 20's 2019 update

So it's been a while, hasn't it? You're favorite opinionated Admin is back with a whole new slew of opinions on the most backwards game in the franchise! The last time I did a blog like this was almost three years and ~20 versions ago, and A LOT has changed. There's the leveling system (which I obviously won't take into account here), Battlez (which I hardly play so take my opinions with a massive grain of salt here), and most importantly like 30 new plants or something like that, which gives me a lot to consider for these lists. These lists are going to look almost entirely different from last time, which should be exciting.

Rules and Format

• The format is being switched around a bit, now going in order from Worst > Best > Least Favorite > Favorite. I did this because ending the list with my personal favorites has a greater impact imo.
• Anything in the G-tier on my viability rankings will not be considered for the best/worst lists.
• Plant Food is now fully taken into account.
• Conjoined entries are allowed.

You all know how top 20 lists tend to work. One format change I am making is that there's not gonna be any table in reference to previous lists, since so much is different that it's not worth bringing anything like that up.

Worst

Dishonorable Mentions

DHMs Enchant-mint, Nightshade, Sun Bean, Kernel-pult, Dazey Chain, Bowling Bulb, Garlic.

Plant	Reason
Enchant-mint	Enchant-mint gets this spot for being the absolute weakest of all the mints in the game, and for just legitimately being a bad plant. While the boosts it gives to a particular couple of plants are quite powerful, the other plants it boosts are either legitimately weak regardless of the boost, or are just bad plants without the boost. On top of having an already weak family and a very mediocre effect, Enchant-mint cements itself as a bad instant is that it only hypnotizes two zombies upon planting. Absolutely abysmal. Every other mint is more useful in some way compared to this pile of garbage.
Nightshade	Nightshade is just so unbelievably weak it hurts. Not only is it almost entirely useless without Moonflower thanks to the fact that it can't regen leaves, and it literally can only kill a Conehead before becoming entirely useless, but even when boosted by Moonflower it's only really useful in the super early game when you can't afford literally anything. Sure, it's technically usable, which is why it's off the list proper, but it's super close to being completely worthless.
Sun Bean	Although there are some incredibly niche situations where Sun Bean is useful, more often than not I'd rather just bring Gold Bloom, Enlighten-mint, or even Solar Tomato. Sun Bean's niche has far outrun it's course at this point that the only time you'd really want to use it is when you're expecting a tough early zombie to help boost sun production. However, it's just general a plant not worth using in modern PVZ2.
Kernel-pult	Kernel-pult is the finickiest plant in the entire game. When it wants to work, Kernel-pult is good at stalling zombies and allowing you to build an early defense. But Kernel-pult actually works in your favor maybe 25% of the time. That's abysmal, and for having such shite DPS, this plant is a one trick pony. There's so many better early game options in this game that it's a surprise that Kernel-pult is even usable at all.
Dazey Chain	Dazey Chain is only a minor upgrade over Kernel-pult. While Dazey Chain is much better as an early DPS plant (although it's only a minor upgrade of Peashooter in this regard), it's much more inconsistent at stalling zombies with its stun. However, Dazey Chain takes too long to really get going, and its stun is just too inconsistent work reliably. At least Dazey Chain has an AOE stun.
Bowling Bulb	Bowling Bulb is just depressing. The plant absolutely sucks in game, and would have made this list if not for having a decent albeit outclassed at this point plant food effect. Bowling Bulb is great at creating chaos and clearing large hordes of zombies, but both Shadow-shroom and Ail-mint have pretty much stolen that niche from Bowling Bulb, making it nigh unusable.
Garlic	Garlic is also depressingly bad in this game. Garlic was actually one of my personal favorite plants to use in PVZ1, but PVZ2 has not been a kind game to him by any stretch. Sure it has a ton more synergies now, but that's hardly worth it when this plant has had its HP basically cut by 2/3, and and its recharge also being quadrupled. What's also unfortunate is that this plant wasn't put in Reinforce-mint's family (it makes sense that it's in Ail-mint's family, but it's still unfortunate), meaning that it has even less longevity than it would like. Although Garlic is not entirely unusable, it's still quite mediocre.

20. Blooming Heart
19. Endurian
18. Rotobaga
17. Zoybean Pod
16. Pepper-pult
15. Hypno-shroom
14. Wall-nut
13. Electric Currant
12. Tall-nut
11. Dandelion
10. Spikeweed
9. Spore-shroom
8. Spikerock
7. Bloomerang
6. Lightning Reed
5. Chomper
4. Cabbage-pult
3. Pea Pod
2. Peashooter/Split Pea
1. Bonk Choy

Best

HMs Chard Guard, Iceberg Lettuce, Moonflower, Conceal-mint, Ail-mint, Solar Tomato.
20. Hurrikale
19. Sun-shroom
18. Dusk Lobber
17. Primal Potato Mine
16. Power Lily
15. Bombard-mint
14. Infi-nut
13. Spear-mint
12. Primal Wall-nut
11. Reinforce-mint
10. Holly Barrier
9. Grapeshot
8. Imitater
7. Primal Sunflower
6. Shrinking Violet
5. Shadow Peashooter
4. Explode-O-Nut
3. Winter Melon
2. Gold Bloom
1. Cold Snapdragon

Least Favorite

DHMs N/A
20. Goo Peashooter
19. Chomper
18. Bowling Bulb
17. Winter-mint
16. Puff-shroom
15. Electric Blueberry
14. Dazey Chain
13. Blooming Heart
12. Hypno-shroom
11. Pepper-pult
10. Enchant-mint
9. Tall-nut
8. Nightshade
7. Electric Currant
6. Spore-shroom
5. Pea Pod
4. Lightning Reed
3. Dandelion
2. Garlic
1. Bonk Choy

Favorite

HMs Gold Leaf, Sun-shroom, Conceal-mint, Thyme Warp, Celery Stalker, Parsnip
20. Wasabi Whip
19. Reinforce-mint
18. Shrinking Violet
17. Chard Guard
16. Guacodile
15. Sap-fling
14. Cold Snapdragon
13. Homing Thistle
12. Apple Mortar
11. Appease-mint
10. Magnet-shroom
9. Melon-pult
8. Winter Melon
7. Primal Potato Mine
6. Strawburst
5. Primal Sunflower
4. Holly Barrier
3. Gold Bloom
2. Kiwibeast
1. Hurrikale