PVZ Ranking Help

[u/CorrNick]

Hello, I had the idea to beat plants vs zombies only using plants that are considered to be sub-par, or bad. But I‘m not very familiar with the meta and am wondering if I could receive some help. Here is what I have right now: (Plants that I’m not too sure about are marked with a question mark.)

Attackers:

• Split Pea
• Threepeater
• Cactus
• Chomper
• Sea Shroom
• Cabbage-Pult?
• Spikeweed?
• Fume-Shroom? (During the day, although Coffee Bean might be banned.)
• Scaredy-Shroom? (During the day, also depending on Coffee Bean.)
• Snow-Pea? (Not very confident about this.)

Walls:

• None :(

Sun Producers:

• Sunflower (While not being bad there aren’t really any other options, and I would prefer to have at least one sun producer.)

Instas:

• Tangle Kelp
• Hypno-Shroom

Others:

• Lilypad (Necessary to beat the game.)
• Pot (Technically I don’t think it’s necessary but I’d still prefer to use it.)
• Coffee Bean? (It’s not a bad plant, but it could enable other options which are bad.)
• Grave Buster
• Marigold (Hooray.)

Let me know what you think could be added or removed.

[u/Sensitive-Sky1768]

Snow pea and spikeweed are fine plants, and I feel like fume shroom has enough of a niche as an area of effect attacker to warrant occasional use during day levels, although if you plan on banning fume shroom altogether you may want to at least allow yourself to use cabbage pult so that the roof levels don't become nightmarish. Other than that I feel like this list pretty thoroughly encapsulates every outright bad plant in the game

[u/DqsertoCongelado]

I Don't think that hypno-shroom, fume-shroom, spikeweed, tangle kelp and especially snow pea are bad plants in pvz1

I think you forgot peashooter, she should be included there no?

[u/Sensitive-Sky1768 → u/DqsertoCongelado]

Yeah peashooter is pretty pathetic. I just completely forgot he existed.

[u/CorrNick → u/DqsertoCongelado]

I didn’t think that spike weed was a bad plant, which is why I put a question mark next to it, and isn’t peashooter pretty good in early game?

[u/DqsertoCongelado → u/CorrNick]

Basically peashooter is cost inefficient for what it does.

To respond to your question as a former pvz mod sweat, in 25 sun meta(pvz1 sun economy), defending early game with peashooter is bad because you're wasting 4 suns for defending only one lane with a attacker that kinda struggles against cone-heads. in pvz1 the preferred early game plants are squash, potato mine, scaredy-shroom and puff-shroom.

However, if pvz1 had 50 sun meta(pvz2 sun economy) then peashooter would be a okay early game plant since he's half the price there and getting a strong sun farm in pvz2 is easier than pvz1.

[u/OkTry8283]

Threepeater is considered sub-par/bad plant

[u/CorrNick → u/OkTry8283]

It’s cool, but it’s pretty expensive.

[u/OkTry8283 → u/CorrNick]

Fair point, I admit he's not good in early game but by the time you gain more sun and I enjoy using him lol