Sharing your Battlez experiences

More than twice the score of your opponent who uses much higher level plants.

This is a very good achievement.

More than twice the score of your opponent who uses much higher level plants.

This is a very good achievement.

That's probably what happens to the most of my opponents. I only have a handful of "mid level" free plants that I re-use so the results can vary! 

@CogakhoaisanCongratulation to the new league.  If you have only one profile, I would recommend upgrading all your plants.

It will make it easier with both the Adventure and the Battlez modes. 

However, if you like to play challenging games, try to keep them all at level 1.

I have managed to learn how to record my games on iphone and posted them on link below.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn_DYPGzA1Mhitn6m6-L_4g?view_as=subscriber

Enjoy.

@MAGICDAVESHROOM   Congratulations.

Below are my winnings last week -- quite a contrast

If your game is interrupted for some reason, you lose everything, including your winning streak.  No matter how much time (and potential purchases) you've invested, it is lost  EA will not restore your environment (claim they can't).   There is a bug in their software preventing you from pausing, and it doesn't even let you buy your way out with gems.

Lame

I'm being hit by the curse of lower than usual scores, YET AGAIN!!

I started the week pretty well. In the first few days I achieved a high score of just over 12 million, while averaging around 10 million.

That was for matches played on the Tuesday night, Wednesday, and Thursday. I got the 12+ million on the Thursday.

Friday saw my scores dropping. I started averaging around 8.5 to 9 million. I was still winning, but with reduced margins.

Saturday saw further reductions in my scores. Down to 8 to 8.5 million average.

Today (Sunday) I had one match where I only won because my opponent scored around 3 million to my just over SIX MILLION!!

HOW can the same plants and methodology result in 12+ million early in the week, and then get under 7 million later in the week?

Out of desperation I played a couple of matches in the Practice Room. I scored 11.2 million and 12.4 million. I then went back to online Battlez and scored 8.3 million.

I then played a match at standard speed. (I usually pay in Turbo mode). That gave me time to watch what was going on, rather than having my hand moving like a blur while making fast placement decisions. I scored 7.8 million and ALMOST lost the match, but I discovered something that playing at speed made less obvious.

Guess what I found? I was being starved of sun! At the start of the matches I put out 15 Moonflowers. (Filling columns 1, 2, and 3).

Despite having that many Moonflowers, I was waiting for close to 20 seconds before I got my first significant amount of sun. (After the first Hamster Ball came on screen and made me deploy my Spearmint).

With that many Moonflowers I would have expected to build up sun pretty quickly, but I would often find myself hovering over the Laser Bean waiting for more sun.

I felt sure that when I'd played in the Practice Room I was getting plenty of sun, and even had some left over when the matches ended. I went back to the Practice Room and found that I was getting a good rate of sun production and scored close to 12 million.

Back in Battlez, sun was definitely less abundant and that held me back in positioning my plants.

I can't help but wonder if this is another way of throttling back on the scoring potential for certain players.

What with that and having to sit back and watch while someone/some bot is collecting crowns at a rate I can't possibly keep up with.

Don't ask me how, but 'their' rate of crowns collecting worked out to around 2 and a quarter minutes to play each Three minute match.

I start with a mere 450 sun so how do you get so many MoonFlowers so fast ?

I put out three MF ASAP and use Gold Bloom as well to add more.  Spearmint goes down ASAP to not have to deal with Hamster wheels.

For my new profile that does not yet have Spearmint I am using SpikeRock and I am at a severe disadvantage.  Hope to have Spearmint at the end of the next challenge.

I have not found my scores to fluctaute this week but have had that experience in past BattleZ challenges.

I start with 375 sun in jade League and i begin with 7 moonflowers IN A BLOCK to generate maximum sun immediately but i do have spearmint for the hamster balls.

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@lawmfw wrote:

I start with a mere 450 sun so how do you get so many MoonFlowers so fast ?

I put out three MF ASAP and use Gold Bloom as well to add more.  Spearmint goes down ASAP to not have to deal with Hamster wheels.

For my new profile that does not yet have Spearmint I am using SpikeRock and I am at a severe disadvantage.  Hope to have Spearmint at the end of the next challenge.

I have not found my scores to fluctaute this week but have had that experience in past BattleZ challenges.

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My starting sun is 375. I'm in Jade league, BTW, so perhaps lower leagues commence with a bit more sun?

I am able to plant three full columns of Moonflowers before the match starts because mine is at level ten and costs only 25 Sun. (375 / 25 = 15) 

375 is correct.  I was in error. Ah, the rich do get richer !!

No way I can compete.

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@lawmfw wrote:

375 is correct.  I was in error. Ah, the rich do get richer !!

No way I can compete.

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I only WISH I was rich. If I was I'd have more plants maxed out than I do. (I admit that I do have most of the Premium and Gemium (Those purchased with gems) plants, so I have put some cash into the game.

Other than that, I got to where I am through hard slog. At first I found winning difficult and could hardly hold together a meaningful streak and I would not spend gems on retaining a streak. I then figured that the rewards that low down were pitiful. I therefore set myself a target where I would start to retain my streak as long as any retention did not cost me more than 100 gems in a single transaction. That let me retain my streak 10 times before finally surrendering it.

At first my streaks weren't very long (Less than 100) before reaching my limit. But over time they progressively grew longer as my plants grew stronger through winning increasingly better Pinata rewards.

I then hit a 'Purple Patch' where I did REALLY well in a few consecutive tournaments. That boosted many of my plants far quicker than I could have hoped for and I started reaching max levels with several of them. That, in turn, took my win potential ever higher and the Pinata rewards improved due to the multiplier system.

The multiplier is where from 1 to 98 consecutive (Or retained) wins has no multiplier. Wins 99 to 196 qualifies for a times two multiplier, so any reward value shown is multiplied by two. Wins 197 to 294 are times three. Each following consecutive 98 win run enhances the muliplier until you reach a times ten maximum. After that it remains at times ten regardless of how long your streak continues.

I got my Moonflower, and the rest of the Modern Day plants, to max level during the Shadow Peashooter week after EA withdrew SP seeds from the Pinatas. That meant many more seeds becoming available for the standard Modern Day plants.

Basically you don't need to be rich. Set yourself a max gem limit for retaining streaks. Over time you'll find the intervals between reaching your limit each time will extend as your plants become progressively stronger through the better rewards.

Also, be selective over which Battlez tournaments you take part in. If you find you're consistently losing, don't be afraid of sitting that week out. (You can farm Gems and Coins). If you find you're doing well, play as many matches as you can. In other words, DON'T play just for the sake of it. Since Battlez first started I sat out three tournaments and built up my gems stock. Other tournaments I went all out and milked the rewards as much as possible.

excellent advice that I will follow - tyvm

Cactus is not very interesting so I may just sit out a week or two to drop back to Gold and then Silver League.

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@lawmfw wrote:

Cactus is not very interesting so I may just sit out a week or two to drop back to Gold and then Silver League.

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I agree totally. I've played 5 matches in the Cactus tournament resulting in the following - Played 5 - Won 5 - Enjoyed none. Benefits received = hardly any.

Also, there are Pinatas solely for the Cactus. This cuts back heavily on the chances of acquiring seeds for other plants. I even got 50 Cactus seeds as part of a general Pinata!

As my Cactus is already maxed out, neither those seeds nor the dedicated Pinatas are of any use to me.

I've won 8 consecutive tournaments and I could do with some time out, so this week seems as good as any to do so.

Dropping back to Gold, or even to Silver, holds a certain amount of appeal for me after slogging through several weeks in Jade. Admittedly the value of the Battlez rewards in the lower leagues does drop a little when compared to Jade, but everything else is more relaxed and winning matches SHOULD be easier.

Cactus is not a plant i bought or intend to buy but I'm having a good start to the week, 305 crowns (200 higher than no.2) which is 60 wins and just 5 losses.

I'm currently scoring 4-4.5 million but i hit on a good plant combo from the start.

Even the non-existant 10 match strEAkbrEAker hasn't struck (yet).

And i came top of my jade league (again) last week.

VICTORY TO MEEEEE!!!!!!🇬🇧

Congratulations MagicDave.  I won my first Gold League last week and used the 100 mints to add ReInforcemint to my new profile.

I have found a decwent combo but it does seem that EA has created a nasty challenge this week.  Too many graves popping up and shuffling the defensive plants !!

Laser Bean is the best offensive weapon again this week - I have been scoring about 2M when I do take on a challenge.

Ghost Pepper challenge has been challenging.  MagicDave's combo suggestion of Primal Peashooter, Blover, and Stalia (must be at Level 5 or higher to be useful !) is working pretty good to achieve 1M+ scores.

Tried with Primal Peashooter and Blover, but never reach 2mil pts.

Changed to shadow family, maximum got 3.5mil at level 6-8.

@Coldwind73  Wow, that is a very good score, I am still aiming for my 2M with the classic Primal Peashooter and Blover combo, might give your setup a go tonight.

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@eieio_31310 wrote:

@Coldwind73  Wow, that is a very good score, I am still aiming for my 2M with the classic Primal Peashooter and Blover combo, might give your setup a go tonight.

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Here it is.

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@Coldwind73 wrote:

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@eieio_31310 wrote:

@Coldwind73  Wow, that is a very good score, I am still aiming for my 2M with the classic Primal Peashooter and Blover combo, might give your setup a go tonight.

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Here it is.

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Very good! 2M is my max and seems like I can't get over it.