Have EA lost the plot?

So the best tip for this week's Aloe party is to leave it out... 

I inclined to agree.   🤔

Unfortunatly, I agree with you @Humplemann
Last week setup was not good with the lack of producing plant and a bad premium plant, but this week is even worst.
The only point to thoses Tall Nuts is to get ride of them at the beginning so you can have more suns...
And I don't see how you can have a good score if you don't abandon your first columns...to hard to protect and for a ridiculous amount of points .. :/
What will it be next week, necromancy in column 2 without infinite lawn mower ??

@MAGICDAVESHROOM Care to share your strategy in private ? 🙂

I for one still enjoy this game no matter what challenge they bestow upon us. I learn how to implement different types of plants, attack and defensive, as well as learn new strategy combos that I otherwise might not come up with on my own. These battlez scenarios help me with tough adventure mode levels and endless rounds too. This weeks setup definitely showcases defensive plants. Its not about picking the same mundane level 10 Caulipower and Wasibi Whips to score over 5 million every single game every week. Its about learning to use all of the plants to your best advantage in order to defeat your opponents score.

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@BBnot8 wrote:

What will it be next week, necromancy in column 2 without infinite lawn mower ??

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Maybe columns 2 thru 9 filled up with Dave's spores. No starting sun and no sun producing plants. Then players restricted to only the basic Peashooter while facing up to a tsunami of Gargantuars? 

I partially agree with you on that.
That's right that you have to adapt your strategy and not doing the same think every week, use different plants, etc. That should be the main idea with Battlez.
But the problem is, if you don't have some specific premium plants, high level plants or master a specific combo, you can't really have a good strategy.

Last week there was no suns producing plant but gold bloom was allowed. I'm pretty sure premium players which are using gold bloom every week did not change their strategy at all while player without gold bloom had to. Why allowing gold bloom then ?

For this week, it seems that one of the best strategy (if not the only strategy really optimal) is to use the combo chard guard + blover. Which is not a new combo at all, it had been used before in Battlez as far as I know. So for thoses who master this combo it's not really a new strategy. But for others it is really tricky either you don't use that combo and your strategy is not optimal at all either you have to learn how to use the combo with the perfect timing.

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@MAGICDAVESHROOM wrote:

Even massed ranks of caulipowers or electric blueberries didn't have the desired effect.

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I now have ONE plant at max level. It's the Electric Blueberry. I hoped that getting it to level 10 would make it better in Battlez. It didn't! It's still pretty useless.

It's a powerful plant, because it gives a kill each time it strikes. However, it's badly let down by it's STILL long refresh, and it's long delay between firing. Another downside is when it selects a target and the target is eliminated before the electric charge hits it. If that happens, which it often does, instead of the Electric Blueberry moving on to a different target it goes back to sleep!!!

If it was like the Caulipower, which DOES move on to hit another target, I would rate it more highly. As it stands at present, regardless of my Electric Blueberry being level 10, I never include it in my load-outs. (It hardly ever makes it into the selection when playing in the various Endless modes either.)