yoshi's new tierlist

Sunflower 😍

S+ easily.

I fuсk with sunflower heavy. Incredibly iconic to the PvZ franchise, and a core part of your strategy.

Primal sunflower

C- tier, maybe even D+. Overpowered af as a sun producer. I still like how cute it’s designed though, so that’s keeping it from F.

Twin sunflower (pvz1 modifier)

S- tier. I always use sunheavy builds and they’re extremely helpful for having a powerful sun economy, since not only do they produce twice the sun of a normal sunflower but also produces it much faster. Also incredibly space efficient. Just takes a little long to get down.

gatling pea

D tier. Usually never get any use out of it unless we’re talking survivals. Even then, they’re usually only viable in survival endless.

And even then, plants like cob cannons, winter melons, and gloom shrooms are much better plants to use. Usually it’s just a better idea to instead use threepeater + torchwood, due to gatling pea’s insanely long recharge time and huge sun cost.

dang, then what about primal wallnut

B+ tier. You can set up a wall defense within a timely manner because of it, plus I like both its regular design and plant food design, the cave painting stuff is so creative. It’s B+ and not A+ because it’s definitely overpowered, but I still like it.

im gonna keep going till i find an s tier that no one else has said, what about chili pepper (I think that's its name)

Jalapeno, actually.

Has to be around B- tier. Usually it’s just a worse version of a cherry bomb and a more expensive, longer recharging version of a squash, cause it attacks in a 1x9 area instead of a 3x3. There are a few situations where jalapeno is actually more useful, such as in some roof levels, column like you see em, bobsled bonanza, and synergizing it with garlic. I do like its goofy face though, even more than cherry bomb’s.

dang it, im gonna then guess shadow peashooter and goo peashooter

I change my mind actually. Goo peashooter is a solid A- tier. Final answer.

aight

Shadow peashooter has to be like a C- for me at the very, very best. Its powered form is way too overpowered for its sun cost, with one row of them next to two moonflowers being able to solo most levels. It’s very frustrating when it hides as zombies get close to it, and kind of reminds me of the scaredy-shroom gimmick. And all of this is without also mentioning that the sound design is fuсking louuud. I do like the shadow mint though due to its unique gimmick, and I like the idea of a variant of peashooter being a part of it. I also like using it as a free chomper (since that shit now cost money in PvZ2) to take out one especially tanky zombie.

Goo peashooter is somewhere around B+ tier, I’d say. The reason why peashooter is useless is that it doesn’t fare well against tanky threats, which get more common as the game progresses. This works as a solution, since it can take out a bucket head in the same time a normal peashooter can take out a regular zombie. Is it overpowered? Yes, absolutely. But at least it’s not Pokra level of overpowered.

im gonna keep doing this, what about mega gatling pea, electric peashooter, and snap pea

D- tier. Imo mega gatling pea in PvZ2 is the lame younger brother of gatling pea in PvZ1. Gatling pea had a better almanac flavor text, a more gritty look, and it was actually balanced. Other than Pokra, MGP in PvZ2 is basically the poster child of overpowered plants. Not to mention that its sound design doesn’t feel nice to the ears, given that it firing peas is just the constant noise of a peashooter’s plant food effect.

C- tier. Electric peashooter is just kinda… meh. Ppl say that it gives you a feeling of power, but I’ve tried it before and I can’t see that honestly. Laser bean is much cooler and feels better, even though electric pea has a higher damage output. That’s all I gotta say honestly.

S tier. Snap pea looks cute asf when you can see its little face in the mouth. It also has a mechanic that’s cool af, of being able to just eat a zombie from any lane and shoot its head back. It has a unique mechanic, and it’s not overpowered as hell. I also don’t think it outclasses chomper necessarily, since chomper is more spammable with its lower sun cost and recharge time. This makes it more suitable for its niche as a fast recharging close range instant-use plant, while chomp pea is more like an attacking plant. This is even without the chomper buff. This is also more of a minor thing, but I love its sound design too.

There, I hope you’re happy now that you’ve found a plant that I genuinely like so much that I’d put it in S tier. It’s one of the few premium plants in PvZ2 that I actually like to this extent (although there are more that I like to a lesser extent, but most is just poorly designed poorly balanced garbage imo).

LETS GO i shall now take my leave

Plants Versus Zombies 2

Not a plant but I’d rank it in D tier personally, maybe even D-, even as someone who’s tried it before.

Most of the content is locked behind a paywall realistically speaking, with you either having to fork over cash or gamble on lootboxes to unlock new plants/upgrade existing plants.

There are way too many gimmicky levels, like “don’t spend more than x sun” or “produce x sun” or “don’t let zombies trample the flowers.”

It’s also unbalanced as shit. I mean for Christ’s sake, two Pokras can solo a Gargantuar. A GARGANTUAR.

Also unlike in the original game where the additional content consisted of mini games, puzzles and survivals, it instead has Penny’s Pursuit and Arena. These both suck ass.

But there are a couple of new plants I like, so there’s that keeping it from being in F tier.

Cattail?

S tier, love it so much. Honestly might be my favorite plant. Not only is its homing power insane, but its design is so creative, and I love how it incorporates its real life counterpart seamlessly while having a good pun.

Sucks that it was replaced with Homing Thistle in PvZ2, even if it can be planted on land.

fun fact: Cattail was one of many plants to have her gender to be confirmed in later games, being confirmed as female in pvz heroes.

besides that, I genuinely wish she was in more games internationally :/

Yeah, and it feels so scummy to introduce homing thistle in big wave beach in PvZ2, literally the perfect opportunity to introduce cattail.

In PvZ2, lily pads can also be planted on land, so idk why they didn’t just have her anyway. Homing thistle’s facial expression is my reaction to PopCap introducing homing thistle instead of cattail.

so real, too bad she's only in the Chinese version of the game, speaking of which, Cattail was in more Chinese exclusive games of the series than international, I genuinely think it's kinda weird lol.

Pea Shooter
Cherry Bomb
Walnut
Kernel Pult
Hypno Shroom

C tier. Unversatile, gets powercrept by everything, and feels pretty weak to use.
A tier. Very versatile, and introduces the player to opportunity cost in PvZ due to its recharge time. Can also take out a cluster of zombies pretty good.
B tier. Good for stalling out zombies during the early game and makes a killer combo with spikeweed/spikerock, and that’s about it imo.
A+ tier, maybe S- tier. I loved planting a bunch of these on roof levels and just watched as the horde of zombies got endlessly buttered, especially during the Gargantuar levels.
A+ tier. Sure, it’s usually pretty useless, but still fun to use. Plus, there are a few nice things you can pull off with it, such as killing all zombies in a lane with a football zombie, clearing out three lanes at once with a hypnotized dancer zombie, and having a hypnotized jack in the box zombie act as a cherry bomb. And it always feels great when you can get some use out of it.

Cool, Nice

Doom Shroom
Torchwood
Ice Shroom
Spikeweed
Melon Pult
Snow Pea

S tier. He was the edgy nuke mushroom, he had to at least be one of everyone’s favorites. Plus I like how it has an even more explosive firepower, but also has a larger opportunity cost due to the crater it creates.
A+ tier. I loved combining this with threepeater and making the most deadly defense possible, plus for what it’s worth, I think it’s pretty balanced.
B- tier. Ice shroom sucks ass everywhere except when defeating the final boss. I do like its design and the almanac entry, though.
D tier. The only time I’ve personally ever used spikeweed is when playing bobsled bonanza, and even then I only use it to upgrade it to spikerock. There’s no need for it to defeat zombonis too when squash does the job better.
B+ tier. Takes a long time to set up these on roof levels, but once you do, it’s so worth it. Plus it’s essential for the Dr. Zomboss battle. Also I like its upgraded counterpart, since wintermelon is extremely versatile.
A tier. Pretty useful in general, and I like how you only need one row of these for the slowing effect to take place. I also like plants that both stall and damage in general.

Kernel corn
(GW2)

I don’t play GW2

peashooter

C tier. Extremely unversatile and immediately becomes obsolete as soon as you unlock repeater, and its whole purpose of existence is that it’s meant to be powercrept.

I love its design and how iconic it is to the franchise, though.