Reinforce-mint needs a patch

There will be arena matches where blover + reinforce mint is the best combination, coupled together with a fact that you can play properly and use the plants like chard guard and stallia to your advantage. However, it is easier said than done as I have played a few tournaments and can't get it properly working. However, there are also other matches where blover is unavailable or simply when it is available, it wouldn't be the best strat. For eg, the current arena, I have yet to see any of my opponents use that combination, just simply cause its not the best strategy.

@CoffeeTonic 

Blover/ reinforcemint is generally the most powerfull plant combo there is but it's very boring spamming blover match after match.

I don't agree with nerfing spring bean so it no longer works with blover because spring bean isn't used often and as it makes zombies airborne they should be affected by blover.

Reinforcemint shouldn't be nerfed imho because it give FTP a chance.

At the moment the penny's pursuit zombies have become super tough and i use power lily 10 x2, peanut 10, enchantmint 10, reinforcemint 10 and blover 10 to beat zomboss for pokra seeds, the peanuts spew enough peas to keep killing zomboss and reinforcemint knocks back the zombies for blover to blow away and this works well.

It sounds too OP when you said it like that. But really, Reinforcemint + Blover combo doesn't always work for the best in the Arena.

This combo has more limitation that we might think. It only works for the best with constant plant food, otherwise, you can't spam it.

Players who can spam it are mostly those who have imitator and/or power lily, both paid plants. I don't mind p2w like spamming Reinforcemint + Blover with the help of imitator/power lily since they've paid for the plants, after all. So the way I see it is it's kinda more about the premium plants than Reinforcemint + Blover itself if you emphasize on the spamming.

Now of course there are Arena levels where plant foods are plenty, like the current tournament. But this doesn't always happen, and when it happens like now, there's more to getting plant foods from the tombs than it seems. Well, at least in jade, you'd still want to consider some strategy to destroy the tombs quickly before it respawned anew.

And when plant foods are plenty, using these plant foods for Reinforcemint + Blover combo doesn't always mean that it's the best use of the plant foods. Maybe they can be used better for a tile turnip strategy, or to refresh mints of the currently buffed family. Reinforcemint + Blover combo doesn't always give the highest score.

I do wonder how many scores did your opponent get by using Reinforcemint + Blover combo. Cause in the current tournament, even this 'mighty' combo might not give the best score compared to those strats that don't use this combo. There's more to Arena scoring than just killing zombies quickly at once. There are times when such quick kills cause the waves to arrive more slowly, thus fewer scores, or how it would be preferable to use a strat that kills the zombie general (like the current Cardio Zombie) to get higher scores, etc. The best scorer strats I observed in this forum for the last few tournaments didn't even use this combo.

I'd say it's OP when the level allows it to be (and maybe it's more about Blover than Reinforce-mint). But such level hasn't been much lately. And there's still strategy involved using this combo (like how to get constant plant foods, the timing of when to use the combo best, whether there's better use of the plant foods, etc.), so I think there's no need to patch it if it'll only lose the fun in figuring out those strats.

I had it also (lost it when switching back to an older account) and maybe thats why I feel a bit two-sided here... Most of the people here saying they shouldn't nerf the plant are probably right - its a preimum power mint, deserves to be powerful, and its extremely useful on those hard penny's pursuit levels. They aren't that big of an issue in arenas because not as much players are aware of this strategy as it was for spring bean+blower... but those who know it will mostly abuse it to the extreme. Just had a match in the new tournament and first, it seemed like one of those exciting close plays with the opponent - both of us had about the same score until ablout 1 million. While my defence started to give in to the overwhelming army of zombies, his score kept rising and beat me wit almost a million. I was very curious about his strategy, I used my best plants and a pretty solid defense ( shrinking violet here works as a charm) - and all I saw in his setup were level 1 beginner plants + blower and reinforce-mint. No way he didnt knew about the trick, and even though I know its a valid strategy, I don't think arenas are meant to play as spamming contests with the mint. So yeah, probably no nerf needed, just limit its use to non-competitive stuff.

Ever since Battlez was renamed Arena,I hardly see the Rmint+Blover combo as the top core strategy anymore. There are so many better scoring strats that can net higher points that doesn’t seem to be a torturing to many players.

For me,I am getting used to the Blover+R-mint combo,but whenever there are less mundane strategies,I would certainly not going allout with the Rmint combo.

that said,before Battlez was renamed,I often saw Reinforce-Mint being used so often that I did not bother to play those tournaments since I kept on losing to them.

Overall,the Blover+Reinforcemint combo has it own usages.However,Blover seems very useful for f2p players if there are a lot of tough zombies like gigas,machined zombies etc.

and one good thing about reinforce mint is that a lv1 is as good as a lv10 one. 

Thanks for the suggestion!

Right now I'm actually happy with my setup for this tournament, usually going over a million. And even though there are better plants than the shrinking violet, I found it quite fitting for me right now. After some tests I decided to go for a stalling setup (the obvious Pokra (lvl1, I dont have it yet), Winter melon on lvl 3, Primal sunflower lvl 1 (thats bad, I have to work on it xd), Gold bloom on lvl 4 imitated, cherry bomb and the violet - really the combined freeze+slowing effect from the melon+pokra makes zombies move extremely slow and the violet makes them so weak even gargantuars wont last long. Still I'm going to check some other solutions, probably there are more advanced techniwues out there that are a little more consistent (this defence right now lacks heavy damage and cardio zombie is uneffected by the violet, so I can only take down the first, never the second or third one).

@CoffeeTonic  

Based on personal observation, the matches are NOT designed to be fair, because if they were, then the easiest way is to allow all players to have access to the same plants with the same strength and ability (to use in playing the same matches), in fact, they were designed to make $$$ for EA by encouraging players to upgrade their plant collection and to higher levels to gain unfair advantages. 

Maybe EA should add better AI on pairing up players, thus if you have not got all the premium plants nor mints to boost the the performance of your plants, then you should only be paired up with players with similar plants and ability.

There is no need to ruin other's players' joy just because you do not have the required plant or plant levels to get a high score due to your own choice of being absent for a period from playing the game.