XP

For the XP in Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, see XP (PvZA).

The XP system is a ranking system in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 and Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. Instead of the old ranking system, this ranking system is more based on the players’ skills. There is an XP bar for each character. XP is rewarded like the old ways of getting Coins in-game in the first Garden Warfare, such as getting vanquishes or healing a teammate, that will reward the player XP. When a character is leveled up, they may get an upgrade for that character depending on what level their character is at. When a character levels up, they glow for a couple of seconds. When a player reaches rank 100, there will be a new rank plate that reads “1”, and there will be a new rank plate every 100 ranks. Everybody, regardless if they are max rank in the first game, will start from rank 1.

There is an XP Multiplier as which its name suggests multiplies the amount of XP earned. The XP Multiplier can be seen in the Quest Board. Just note that if the player does not play the game for some time, the XP Multiplier will go down.

Level 10 is the max level for a character, so the player will not earn any more XP that will add to their bar. However, the player can still level up their character by promoting them. To promote them, just go to bobble heads in Backyard Battleground and there will be an arrow above the character that reached Level 10. Go to the character stats at the bobble heads to promote them, and once it is done, the player will earn 20,000 coins. Characters can be promoted from Specialist to Master, where one can no longer level up or promote their character. Other players can know the player promoted their character when the player vanquishes them and there will be a color and a promotion name around their gamertag.

In Battle for Neighborville, you can still promote characters, at the section labeled "Promotions" in Giddy Park. You still get upgrades for promoting, just ones that are specific to the character. There are also levels beyond the Master rank, being the Grand Master levels 1 to 5. You do not earn upgrades for doing these, as they are purely cosmetic.

Actions

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Doing certain actions yields XP. (Multiply by 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, or 2.00 for their respective XP Multipliers)

Action	Meaning	XP earned
Vanquished Plant/Zombie/Gnome	Vanquished a summoned weed, zombie or Basic/Shieldy/Shooty/Explody Gnome	5
Vanquished Potted Plant/Zombie Bot	Vanquished a Grow-a-Pot or Build-a-Bot turret	10
Vanquished Plant/Zombie/Gnome Hero	Vanquished the Plant/Zombie AI minion that belongs to the class available to play for the normal players or a Giga Gnome	25
Vanquished Plant/Zombie/Gnome Champion	Vanquished a tougher Plant/Zombie/Gnome Hero with a gold medal	50
Vanquished Plant/Zombie/Gnome Boss	Vanquished a tough plant/zombie/gnome (boss) minion	100
Player Vanquish	Vanquished the first online player after your respawn	100
Vanquish Streak	Vanquished several players in a row without getting KO’d (does not stack with “Player Vanquish”)	100
Assist	Helped your ally vanquishing the enemy by doing enough damage to them	25
Shared Vanquish	Assisted your ally by doing more damage to the enemy than them. Acquired with the Hero/Champion/Boss/Player Vanquish/Vanquish Streak bonuses	5
Revenge from the Grave!	Vanquished an enemy after getting KO’d	100
1st Strike	Caused the first vanquish of the match (received when the vanquish takes place, not at the end of the match)	250
Summoned A Weed/Zombie	Summoned a weed/zombie from Soil/Gravedirt of Summoning	5
Defender Bonus/Capture Vanquish	Vanquished a player capturing/defending the objective in Turf Takeover	50
Zone Defense/Attack Vanquish	Vanquished a player capturing/defending a zone in Suburbination	25
Critical Vanquish	Vanquished a player/hero with critical damage	5
Multi-vanquish	Vanquished multiple plants/zombies/gnomes at once	10
Wave Complete	Survived and defended the garden/graveyard from the wave of zombies/plants in Garden/Graveyard Ops	50
Capturing Objective	Stayed in the Garden/Graveyard as the offense team while there are more offense than defense players in the area in Turf Takeover (up to 10 times per objective)	10
Grow a Plant/Build a Bot	Placed a Grow-a-Pot or Build-a-Bot turret at the certain spots	10
Healing	Restored enough HP to your ally	10
Zone Neutralized	Neutralized your enemy’s base in Suburbination	50
Zone Captured	Claimed the base as your team’s in Suburbination	100
Pot/Bot Vanquish	Had your Grow-a-Pot or Build-a-Bot turret vanquished an enemy unit	10
Summoned Plant/Zombie Vanquish	Had your summoned weed/zombie vanquished an enemy unit	20
Crazy Orb Acquired/Denied	Gathered an enemy/ally Crazy Orb in Vanquish Confirmed	25
Gnome Armed	Reached a garden/tombstone while holding the gnome in Gnome Bomb (does not stack with “Gnome Armed by Teammate”)	50
Gnome Armed by Teammate	Had your ally reached a garden/tombstone while holding the gnome in Gnome Bomb (does not stack with “Gnome Armed”)	10
Bomber Vanquished	Vanquished the player holding the bomb in Gnome Bomb	25
Gnome Defused	Defused a Gnome Bomb on your garden/tombstone	25
Plant Regrown/Zombie Resurrection	Revived your vanquished ally	50
Burrow Stun	Stunned a Chomper while he was using Burrow or Sprint Burrow with Engineer’s Sonic Grenade or Proximity Sonic Mine	10
Damage Blocked	Blocked damage with Citron’s Peel Shield	10
Goatify	Transformed a zombie/gnome into a goat by Rose’s Goatify or Psychedelic Goat	10
Goat Vanquish	Vanquished an enemy Goatified by Rose or a regular goat	25 (goatified enemy) 5 (regular goat)
Mech Vanquish	Vanquished an Imp in his Z-Mech form	50
Vanquished Pirate in Barrel	Vanquished a Captain Deadbeard while he was inside the Barrel Blast	50
Vanquished Leaping Corn	Vanquished a Kernel Corn while he was using Husk Hop	25
Smoldering Madness Vanquish	Vanquished an enemy using Torchwood’s Smoldering Madness	10
Smoke Screen	Had an enemy player’s whole screen covered with Foot Soldier’s Zombie Stink Cloud or Super Stink Cloud	10
Goop Assist	Helped vanquishing an enemy by slowing them down with Chomper’s Goop or Super Sticky Goop	10
Heal Assist	Had your ally vanquished an enemy while healing them (i.e. with Sunflower’s Heal Beam or Scientist’s Heal Beam of Science)	10
Jinx Assist	Helped vanquishing an enemy by jinxing them with Nec'Rose’s Staff of Jinxing	10
Damage Buff Assist	Had your ally vanquished an enemy while powering them up with Hover Goat-3000’s Damage Buff Booster Beam	10
Speed Buff Assist	Had your ally vanquished an enemy while speeding them up with Hover Goat-3000’s Tubular Turbo	10
Freeze Assist	Helped vanquish an enemy by freezing them with the primary weapon of any Ice Plant/Zombie variant	10
Suppression Assist	Helped vanquish an enemy by supressing them with the primary weapon of any Torchwood/All-Star variant	10
Cover Assist	Helped vanquish an enemy by having an ally use your Tallnut Battlement/Dummy Shield as protection	10
Spikeweed Assist	Helped vanquish an enemy by getting them stuck in your Spikeweed	10
Gravity Grenade Assist	Helped vanquish an enemy by trapping them in a Gravity Grenade	10
Item Returned	Returned a purple chicken/PopSmart in Ops	15
Checkpoint Reached	Crossed a checkpoint in Ops (Does not apply to Chomper Pizza or Zomburger deliveries)	15
Boot Escort	Pushed the Bootering Ram in Seeds of Time as Zombies	10
Energy Ball Defender	Vanquished an enemy near a Space Ball your team controls on Moon Base Z	25
Team Scored	Had your team rolled a Space Ball into your team’s hole on Moon Base Z	10
Fish XP	Gave 5 stars to the fish in the sewers in the Backyard Battleground	750 (regardless of XP multiplier)

Promotions

Listed in order:

• Beginner (the starting rank)
• Specialist
• Advanced
• Elite
• Super Elite
• Master (The final promotion in GW2)
• Grand Master 1-5 (The final promotion in BFN)

In Battle For Neighborville, the Specialist and Advanced ranks are swapped.

Character upgrades (GW2 only)

Upgrade	Level Obtained	Function	Unique to
Health Regeneration Delay Upgrade	Beginner Level 5	This upgrade decreases the delay before health regeneration begins!	All
Zoom Upgrade	Beginner Level 9	This upgrade increases the zoom distance of your primary weapon!	All except Chomper
Health Regeneration Upgrade	Specialist Level 5	This upgrade increases how quickly your health regenerates!	All
Speed Upgrade	Specialist Level 9 (Beginner Level 9 for characters without the Zoom Upgrade)	This upgrade allows you to move faster!	All
Reload Upgrade	Advanced Level 5	This upgrade decreases your reload time!	Characters with finite
Ammo Upgrade	Advanced Level 9	This upgrade increases the number of times you can fire before reloading!	Characters with finite ammo
Damage Upgrade	Elite Level 5	This upgrade increases your primary weapon damage!	All
Health Upgrade	Super Elite Level 5	This upgrade increases your maximum health!	All
Overheat Upgrade	Advanced Level 9	This upgrade increases the duration of which you can fire before overheating!	Characters with infinite ammo
Fire Upgrade	Elite Level 5	This upgrade increases the amount of damage the fire effect of your weapon deals!	Fire variants
Toxic Upgrade	Elite Level 5	This upgrade increases the amount of toxic damage your weapon deals as well as your toxic aura!	Toxic variants
Ice Upgrade	Elite Level 5	This upgrade allows you to freeze enemies faster!	Ice variants
Super Meter Upgrade	Elite Level 5	This upgrade decreases the amount that you need to fill your Super Meter!	Legendary characters

Trivia

• If the player promotes a character to the Specialist rank, they will earn the Specialist achievement.
  • If the player promotes a character to the Master rank, they will earn the Time to Go Outside achievement.
  • If a player promotes all characters in BFN to the Master rank, they will get the Time to Seriously Go Outside achievement.

See also

• Specialist
• Time to Go Outside
• Time to Seriously Go Outside

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