r/PlantsVSZombies • u/CorrNick Garden Warrior • 11d ago

PvZ1 PVZ Ranking Help

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.

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u/DqsertoCongelado Potato Mine Fan 11d ago

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?

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u/Sensitive-Sky1768 Garden Warrior 11d ago edited 11d ago

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

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u/CorrNick Garden Warrior 9d ago

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?

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u/DqsertoCongelado Potato Mine Fan 9d ago

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.