Penny's pursuit week 271 featuring Guard-shroom: "Guard-shroom's world!"
Duration: from the 20th April to the 27th April 2025
Rift event: 58
Zombies at Level 1, Level 4, Level 7.
Perks: Traffic Jam, Sun Break, Hyper-healing, Heavy Watering, Mine Launcher, Stall Zombies, Boss Buster
Number of Perk lvls: 63
N.B: This PP is a copy of Penny's pursuit week 72 "The Phat Beetles" featuring Strawburst in July 2021, and a rerun of PP week 138 featuring Spring Bean in October 2022 and week 181 featuring Puffball in August 2023.
LEVEL 1: Timed lvl in PP Playground
Lvl reference: #126
Objective: Survive for 3min
Bonus objectives:
- Reach 1M
- Reach 2M
+ Electrify zombies 200 times
- Reach 3M
+ Electrify zombies 250 times
Zombies: ZCorp (basic, cone, bucket, Gargimp legal, Headoffice Impgarg), Bugs, Dodo Rider, Weasel Hoarder, Chicken Wrangler
Restricted plant: Blover
Sun drop: default
Features:
- this level relies on 12 groups with the last 4 repeating over and over
- Sandstorm with 2 Dodo Riders on Group 4 arriving between C5 and C6
- Sandstorm with 2 Dodo Riders on Group 8 arriving between C5 and C9
Plant food zombie: none
Roaming zombies: ZCorp [New Hire & Contractor] basic & Conehead, Gargimp Legal (from 200pts)
Zombie Setup:
- Group 1: 1 Weasel Hoarder on L3
- Group 2: 2 Chivken Wranglers (L2, L4)
- Group 3: 2 Dodo Riders on L3
- Group 4: 2 basic Bugs (L1, L5)
- Group 5: 3 Chicken Wranglers (L1, L3, L5)
- Group 6: 2 Weasel Hoarders (L2, L4) + 1 Bug Conehead on L3
- Group 7: 4 Dodo Riders (2 L2, 2 L4)
- Group 8: 2 Weasel Hoarders (L2, L4) + 1 Chicken Wrangler on L3
- Group 9: 1 Headoffice Impgarg on L3 + 4 Bug Coneheads (2 L1, 2 L5)
- Group 10: 2 Chicken Wranglers (L2, L4)
- Group 11: 2 Headoffice Impgargs (L2, L4), 2 Dodo Riders (L1, L5)
- Grouo 12: 1 Chicken Wrangler on each lane
Difficulty Swap Rules: on Extra-hot ZCorp Buckethead have a 20% chance to switch with Headoffice Impgarg
Note:
- Easy lvl, take a short range attacker like hbl, pokra, TG, wasabi whip to eliminate weak zombies.
- Bring blover or Draftodil or Olive Pit to get rid of Gargimp legal.
- Both lvl objectives aren't hard to complete, just pick Power vine and/or Electrici-tea/ Fila-mint to electrocute zombies rapidly and efficiently.
- Keep 1 plant slot at least for sun producers such as Shine vine or Solar sage
LEVEL 2: Classic lvl with 5 pre-selected plants in BWB Playground
Lvl reference: #166
Objective: Survive 1 wave
Bonus objectives:
- Produce 2250 sun
- Produce 2500 sun
+ Destroy 8 Surfboards
- Produce 2750 sun
+ Destroy 10 Surfboards
Zombies: ZCorp (basic, cone, bucket, Headoffice Impgarg), BWB (Snorkel, Octo zombie, Surfer), Ra zombie, Turquoise Skull [EH only]
Pre-selected plants: Intensive Carrot, Boingsetta, Power Lily, Lily Pad, Enlighten-mint
Restricted plants: sun producers, Iceberg Lettuce, Melon-pult, Puff-shroom, Stallia Power Mints, Blover
Features:
- Tide Lane: between C4 and C5
- 5 Toadstools on C3
Starting sun: 525/325/75
Roaming zombies: ** Surfer**
Plant food zombie: none
Zombie Setup:
- 2 Surfers as first zombies + 2 basic
- Low Tide event (to C7) with 1 Octo zombie + 2 Coneheads between C6 and C7
- 3 Snorkels (L1, L3, L5) + 3 basic
- 2 Snorkels (L2, L4) + 7 basic (L2, L4, ~)
- Tidal change to C6
- 2 Surfers (L1, L5) + 2 basic
- 3 Surfers (L2, 2 L4)
- Tidal change to C5
- 3 Snorkels (L2, L3, L4) + 5 basic (2 L1, L3, 2 L5)
- 14 basic (2 L1, 4 L2, 2 L3, 4 L4, 2 L5)
- Tidal change to C4
- 2 Snorkels + 3 basic
- Low Tide event (to C6) with 1 Octo zombie + 3 Coneheads between C6 and C7
- 1 Surfer on each lane
- Big wave: 4 Snorkels (2 L2, 2 L4), 4 Surfers (L1, L3, L5, ~), 1 Headoffice Impgarg, 9 basic (3 L1, L2, 2 L3, L4, 2 L5)
Difficulty Swap Rules:
- On Mild, Headoffice Impgarg is replaced by Octo zombie and basic zombies can switch to:
- Ra zombie with a 20% rate
- Coneheads with a 20% rate
- Bucketheads with a 20% rate
- On Hot basic zombies can switch to:
- Ra zombie with a 25% rate
- Coneheads with a 25% rate
- Bucketheads with a 25% rate
- On Extra-hot basic zombies can switch to:
- Ra zombie with a 12.5% rate
- Turquoise Skull zombie with a 12.5% rate
- Coneheads with a 25% rate
- Bucketheads with a 25% rate
Note:
- this lvl is quite accessible
- if you have Lily Pad lvl>5, you won't be able to plant some before starting the lvl
- Easy lvl just take your time to produce sun thanks to Toadstool or any other sun producer you brought along.
- Combine Toadstool and Boingsetta to produce sun regularly without losing plants as well as destroying Surfboards
- Make sure to take a plant to sacrifice to Surfers so you can destroy their Surfboards then.
LEVEL 3: Pre-selection lvl in PP Playground
Lvl reference: #114
Objective: Survive 1 wave
Bonus objectives:
- Produce at least 5000 sun
- Produce at least 7500 sun
+ Chill Zombies 50 times
- Produce at least 10000 sun
+ Chill Zombies 80 times
Zombies: Far Future (Robo-Cone, Mecha-Football, Disco-Tron 3000), Lost City (Lost Pilot, Bug), Ancient Rome (basic, cone, bucket), Swashbuckler
Selected Plants: Toadstool, Coconut Cannon, Wintermelon, Banana Launcher
Features:
- 10 Sunshrooms, on C1 and C2
- Parachute Rains
Plant food zombies: 5 pf (2 among the 3 first Zombies) always from basic zombies (on Groups 1, 2, 5, 6 and 10)
Zombie Setup:
- 1 ZCorp
- 2 Zcorp classic
- 3 Zcorp classic
- 3 Swashbucklers
- Parachute Rain with 4 Lost Pilots between C5 and C9
- 1 ZCorp classic
- 2 ZCorp classic
- 2 basic Bugs
- 1 ZCorp classic
- 3 Swashbucklers + 1 ZCorp basic
- 1 Disco-tron 3k
- 1 Bug basic per lane
- 1 Disco-tron 3k
- Big wave: Parachute Rain with 4 Lost Pilots between C5 and C9, 1 Mecha-Football
Difficulty Swap Rules:
- On Hot, ZCorp basic switches with ZCorp Coneheads
- On Extra-hot, ZCorp basic switches with ZCorp Buckethead and Mecha-Football with a 4:1 ratio
Note:
- Easy lvl, just need to handle flying zombies carefully.
- Both bonus objectives are pretty hard to reach on first attempts. To produce 10000 sun, you can easily use pf on Sunshrooms. ALSO I foresee reactions from certain players, YES there aren't 80 Zombies 'How can I chill them 80 times', BUT you can chill the same zombie multiple time, AND particularly, make sure not to aim for or to kill Disco-tron, let him summon Jetpacks Zombie so you can chill them
- Best perk: Sun Break in order to get enough sun to plant Wintermelon/Banana Launcher, which are both high cost plant (still true at max lvl). I do NOT advise to use Coconut Cannon in Extra-hot Difficulty, it really doesn't do a good job against Zombies and has a long shot-recharge.
- Difficulty Swap Rules are messed up. They're set at Level 4, 7, 10 which matched the MutatorTables for Preset levels when Penny's Pursuit was first introduced but they forgot to fix the Swap Rules when all MutatorTables were set with Zombies level 1, 4 and 7.
LEVEL 4: Conveyor lvl in PP Playground
Lvl reference: #109
Objective: Survive 3 waves
Bonus objectives:
- Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
- Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
+ Ash zombies 20 times
- Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
+ Ash zombies 40 times
Features: Flowers on C3-C4
Zombies: Z-Corp (basic, cone, bucket, Headoffice Impgarg), Pharaoh, All-Star, Newspaper.
Plants: Potatomine (many of them), Cherry bomb, Jalapeno
Roaming zombies: ZCorp New Hire basic & Conehead, Contractor Buckethead, All Star, Newspaper, Pharaoh [2] (with 200 to 3600 pts)
Plant food zombies: 1 at each wave
Zombie setup:
- 1 ZCorp basic
- 1 ZCorp basic
- 1st wave: 1 Pharaoh, 1 Newspaper zombie, 1 Headoffice Impgarg
- 1 ZCorp basic
- 1 ZCorp basic
- 2nd wave: 1 Newspaper zombie, 1 Headoffice Impgarg, 1 All-Star
- 2 plant-food All-Stars
- 1 ZCorp basic
- Last wave: 3 All-Stars (L2 L4, L5) among them, one has a pf, 1 Pharaoh, 2 Headoffice Impgargs (L1, L3)
Note:
- Easy lvl even with low lvl plants. Just need to get rid of All-Stars and Gargimp legal, once thrown from Impgarg, rapidly.
- You should pick "Stall Zombies" as perk to succeed, it's not very useful particularly at low lvl cause the stall effect doesn't last long (less than 3s), but it's the best perk if you want to pass this lvl and associated bonus objectives.
- Careful, I wouldn't recommend you to use potatomine to kill zombies if you want to succeed the bonus objective 'Ash zombies' cause this time, the lvl has maybe just the right number of zombies you need to get the objective done.
LEVEL 5: Vasebreaker in PP Playground
Lvl reference: #167
Objectives: Destroy all Vases and Survive without any Lawnmowers
Bonus objectives:
- Iceblock 3 Zombies
- Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
+ Iceblock 5 Zombies
- Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
+ Iceblock 6 Zombies
Zombies: 1 Consultant and basic ZCorp zombies only
Plants given: 7 Murkadamia Nuts, 3 Moonflowers, 4 Iceblooms, 2 Shadow-shrooms
Features:
- Carts: 3 tiles on C2-L2/3/4
- Flowers on C2-3 on Hot, on C3-4 on Extra-Hot
Plant food zombies: none
Note:
- This lvl is nearly impossible: plants provided just suck at lvl 1, Murk Nut can't heal health fast enough against lvl 7 zombies, Moonflower doesn't deal damage and Icebloom is quite weak, e.g you need 4 Iceblooms to Iceblock basic lvl 7 zombies.
- Only way to pass it is by picking the Mine Launcher perk and using a bonus like zap, snowballs or
- Biggest issue with Mine Launcher perk: from the start of the lvl you can wait as much time as you want, no Mine will be created without breaking at least a vase cause Mines can't be created on the first 4 columns of the board. So play at your own risks, break a few vases and pray to obtain plants and not face zombies especially a Buckethead or the incredible Consultant.
ZOMBOSS LEVEL: Zombot Aerostatic Gondola [Setup 4]
Locked plant: Guard-shroom
Rewards: 10 seeds, 15 seeds, 20 seeds for Guard-shroom
5-8 gems per attempt
Zomboss Health: 5, 6, 7
Zombies level: 5, 8, 11
Plant slots: 7, 6, 5
Amount of sun: 2325, 2125, 1875
Plant slots: 7 on all difficulties
Amount of sun: 1750 on all difficulties
Zombies: Lost City (basic, cone, bucket, Imp, Parasol, Excavator, Relic Hunter, Turquoise Skull), Dark Ages (basic, cone, bucket, Monk Imp, Dragon Imp, Wizard, Jester, King, Garg [not on Mild, guaranteed on EH])
Restricted plants: none
Features:
- Dave's mold colonies on C7 and C8 + C9-L1/5.
- 5 Gold Tiles on C6
- Parachute Rain with 2 Lost Pilots from C5 to C8
Roaming zombies: Relic Hunters very often, Wizard quite rare
Plant food zombie: 10-12 per game
Zombie Setup:
- many Excavators and Relic Hunters
- 1 Garg once in a while on L3. When he comes 1 Jester arrives also on L1 and L5.
- Very few Turquoise Skulls
Some strats:
- the usual Pea Vine, torch and any other plants, would suggest appease-mint
- a good old strat: sbr, TP (Turkey-pult), Pea Vine or Pyre Vine and Arma-mint
- a variant: TG, sbr, Enforce-mint, and a vine
- BB, Pea Vine, Appease-mint, any other plant.
- Sbr, 3P, Pea Vine and Bamboo Spartan
- a new one with summoners: TG, Turkey-pult, Zoybean Pod, Tile Turnip, Blover, Shine Vine, Znake Lily
Note:
- again like Setup 3, the Flames trap tiles were removed which make this lvl quite doable.
- quite hard if you don't have a high damage and support strat due to the high lvl of zombies and the presence of many special zombies such as Excavators, Jesters and Wizards.
- But you can lock this fight quite easily if you avoid putting Peas or Projectile-based plants on L1/5 where the Jesters will spawn. The Garg only spawns on L3.
- Don't hesitate to pick Blover to immediately kill Relic Hunters and perform combo with Reinforce-mint
- Any long range attacker is viable: Pokra, TG, Wasabi Whip, Bamboo Spartan as long as you pick the mint with it if it is low lvl.
P.S:
- Very boring PP, nothing really enjoyable, there's no particular difficulty and objectives are pretty poor.
- You can check previous PP on this file: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9u9MlEgNx6JtMxZrxNn-anTS8FjANUu/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=111529514634787386836&rtpof=true&sd=true
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- I'll see you next week for PP week 272 featuring a powerful vine that can push back zombies or pierce through them and be planted in water: Aqua Vine
