Sharing your Battlez experiences

I am using cauli power and imitater this week and scoring 2mil to 2.7 mil, I managed to unlock the shadow peashooter and upgraded it to level 2 can't really see a difference from level 1 though maybe when I get to level 3 or 4 it will do more damage

Please do not mention good F2P strategies here.

All EA has done is continuously nerf these plants when ever someone finds a way to make them work.

What they will NEVER do is nerf broken pay-to-win plants though...    🙂

They did it for Cauli 😛

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@BBnot8 wrote:

They did it for Cauli.

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Alas poor cauli, i knew him well........

This my strategy for the week. I didn't check out a strategy for F2P plants yet. Start off with only moonflowers and then end up like this 

Using similar, higher level and got this:

My jade league this week has very low scores I am sitting in the lead with 509 crowns most of what I scored in the first 2 days , the no 2 is sitting at 262 and the no 3 at 261. It is going to be interesting to see what happens in the last hour or 2 . I like to score a lot in the first 2 days if I have time it scares the others away . I found if you lead by 40 or 50 the guy in second place will keep passing you the whole week and then you will need like 800+ crowns to win .which just isn't worth it unless you have a good streak going the week. Next week's tournament is a little stupid no powerful zombies and you have to use the stupid grave buster as a plant which wastes 1 slot 

I was doing a pis.sing contest with the 1st/2nd but at some point I stopped it, was not worth it 😎

Has anyone already got a Shadow Peashoteer Pinata Battlez reward ?
Like last week I got 60 seeds in a Modern Day Pinata (so containing also other seedss) with a streak below 100.
If I got less seeds than that with a bigger streak and a Pinata with just SP seeds, it would be really disappointing.
And tbh, I'm kinda expecting that it's going to happen 😞

Else, is it me, or if you don't have Bombardmint this week, and especially at high level, you are kinda screw ?
At first the concept is original but then you are like "OK so I don't have the plant of the week and won't use it a lot. I need grave buster, cool, another useless plant. And if bombardmint don't destroy the grave in the back, I'm kinda screwed"
Looks like it will not be easy for F2P players I (just when there are shadow peashooters seeds, that's convenient !)

With a higher streak (reward x2) and a Pinata just for SP, I got 40 shadow peashooters seeds, so less than last week in a Modern Day Pinata with a lower streak ( reward x1)

YEEEEAH EA LOGIC !!!! 🥳

Just so you know, Bombard-mint does not hit zombies that are on spikerocks so Spear-mint + Bombardmint may not be a good combo in fact.

A decent F2P strategy with mid+ lvl plant that I adapted from Jacob2of3 on Reddit (his strategy below if you want to try it 🙂)

My setup :
(Parsnip lvl 1

Grave Buster lv l5)

Laser Bean lvl 7

Bloomerang lvl 7

Lighning Reed lvl 6

Spear-Mint lvl 4

First I used the grave buster (oh original !) on the last lane
Then I planted a bloomerang and used 2 plant foods to clear the last lane (maybe a higher bloomerang would recquired only one plant food)

Then I planted Laser Bean - Bloomerang to clear the columns. Try not to have a column with just bloomerang and one with Laser Bean, but instead try to keep the same ratio between the different columns.
I used also lightning reed. To be honest I don't know if it is a good move or not. But I'm not sure that I could use all the sun in the 3 min and if LB was quick enough to recharge.
When all the graves are destroyed, I used spear-mint then plant food on it an planted it again.
I was able to plant another spear-mint at the end of the game.

I got 950k at my first try, so I guess it's a decent F2P strategy for mid+ lvl plants but there might be some room for improvment.

Jacob2of3 original strategy:
"I found a good strategy for this week. My setup is gravebuster cherry bomb laser bean laser bean imitated (could be replaced with bloomerang if you did not get the gem imitator) and spear-mint. Set up. Wait for the first gravebuster then use plant food to recharge. Then use the last two plant foods for two cherry bombs. The last three lanes should be cleared. Then launch a lawn mower at a zombies to get a head start on the next wave. Then plant laser beans to get rid of the graves. Once all gone plant a spear-mint. plant 5 rows of laser beans (if higher level plant more). around 40 seconds (depending on level of your plants) you should have your second spear-mint, plant it. My scores usually ranges from 1 million to 1.6 million with my current level."

My plants for the week F2P 

My plants for the week F2P 

Nice

But is it a game from yesterday or today ?
Cause yesterday Bowling Bulb was buffed but EA nerfed it after... (and nerfed the plant of the week too duh...)

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@BBnot8 wrote:

Nice

But is it a game from yesterday or today ?
Cause yesterday Bowling Bulb was buffed but EA nerfed it after... (and nerfed the plant of the week too duh...)

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Yesterday I didn't play today yet will check it out later, getting tired of EA changing the plants halfway through the tournaments.

My optional setup till now, unlucky that Grave buster only at lv4.

@badbee34 Ya so unfortunatly it won't work anymore... 

EA logic

I called it!!!

Any company who does the unscrupulous tactics of BAIT & SWITCH... ALWAYS ends up also doing the NINJA EDIT tacatics as well. 

I don't mean to tell you all I told you so... but...

Well, I told you so! 🙂

Lmao

I changed a bit my strategy, instead of Lighning Reed, I'm using that good old primal peashooter, 2 on each column, with bloomerang and laser bean.
I think its effect may be a good combo with Spear-mint.
So far I'm doing around 1M, it's not that great but it's working OK.

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@BBnot8 wrote:

@badbee34 Ya so unfortunatly it won't work anymore... 

EA logic

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Yeah I see that , kinda sucks not gonna go for a win this week , this scores that I am getting isn't worth it , going to save up and go big next week. This week I will just play on my android account without premium plants , currently leading the wood league on a streak of 40 . So easy compared to the Jade league the opponents only score 15k to 300k lol.

Has anyone else started to get consistently lower scores now than those being scored earlier on in the tournament?

I keep finding this week after week. For the first couple of days I will score well. Then my scores steadily decline.

My high score for this week is 4,889,890. I got it on Thursday evening and it was one of several 4 million plus scores.

Today (Friday) my best score has been 3,613,395. This is despite my main plant (Laser Bean) being elevated from level 12 at the start of the tournament to level 13 today.

In past weeks I've been able to mitigate the steadily declining scores by using differing load outs. I would play a few matches with one lineup, then change to another once my scores began to drop off. When I played with the altered lineup, my scores would climb again, only to decline after a few matches. I would then change back and my scores would return to normal until the cycle began again.

With this week's tournament there seems to be only one truly effective load out - Parsnip (Waste of a slot anyway, but even more so due to its family being nerfed) - Grave Buster (Which is only used to create a space for Bombard-Mint) - Bombard-Mint (To clear the gravestones) - Spear-Mint - and then imitated Laser Bean.

With no effective alternative, I've had to stick with the same lineup and watch as my scores get worse and worse.

I've come ever closer to losing matches, so I've made the decision to stop playing for the remainder of the tournament. (I now have both Parsnip and Shadow Peashooter maxed out, so taking a rest won't cause any problems on that front.)

These close run matches haven't been due to my opponents getting gradually better scores, but because MY scores keep falling. This is despite me using the same plants and the same planting routine for each match.

I'm now beginning to think that this is down to EA/Popcap altering the Zombie load-outs after a few days to make them more difficult to score on, and this is done to increase the likelihood of human players being defeated by the recorded scores from earlier in the week when it was easier to score.

I now keep getting periods of 5 to 15 seconds with hardly any zombies coming out towards the ends of matches. I've also had games with only a couple of zombies right at the start and the rest don't start to appear until after all the gravestones have gone. 

I was NOT getting that sort of thing earlier in the week.

Like I said, is anyone else finding this? 

I honestly don't know, I did not play a lot of games this week ...
I may play a bit more this we to upgrade my SP (EA is so generous with us, 20 seeds max as rewards...yeah). But when I got lower score this week it was because I was not lucky at the beginning of the game.
And in the previous week, there was always a game from time to time were I scored less but not sure my scores decreased during the week.
Well it could be some "scale bias", since you are scoring big scores, it may be easier for you to notice that kind of pattern than for us with lower score.
I'll try to have a look next week (woohoo even if the plant of next week will probably be useless (almost as usual), I do have that one !) but I guess you may have more answer to your question on Reddit where there are other players doing big scores 🙂

@Humplemann

I definitely get progressively worse scores as I play. I don't have a very high level laser bean  (9) so don't get the scores you're getting but even so I normally score 1.5M+ until I get to around the tenth game then it starts to drop and I usually lose scoring less than 1M. 

@rackman70

I guess what you experience is the dreaded 10th game curse, when you're confronted by a terminator bot. (You know, the ones that don't exist.) That's something I've not been troubled by all that much since my plants reached high enough levels to allow me to win through.

My situation is something that usually seems to set in during the third or fourth day of a tournament, when I start to see a general falling off in all of my match scores.

That's why I'm now wondering if the replays used are from early on in the various weeks, before the nature of the zombie load-outs seem to change.

One thing I noticed was this weeks scores for killing individual zombies. It was easier to spot because there are fewer different types of zombies. I've seen scores of 6,000: 7,800: 10,500: 11,750 and, less commonly, 14 thousand and something. (14,500?)

Early in the week I seemed to be getting an even spread between those values. Now, there seems to be way more of the 6,000 scores and far fewer of the 11,750 and 14,500 scores. (Except on rare occasions.)

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@Humplemann wrote:

Has anyone else started to get consistently lower scores now than those being scored earlier on in the tournament?

I have found this on a lot of tournaments, I can't speak for this tournament because I stopped playing it because my score is too low and not stable . For example day 1 -2 I would score let's say 3 mil day 3-5 2.5 mil then day 6-7 2.2 mil . Another thing I noticed is that every 7-12 games I would get 1 game where mostly low scoring zombies would enter the board . i Have also experienced the no zombies for 15-30 seconds, this mostly happens to me during the middle of the game. I took screenshots of that a while back I will have a look if I still have it then post it here. The scores I mentioned obviously vary with tournament but the drop is always constant so I always mainly play on day 1 and 2 the other advantage of playing on day 1 and 2 is deterring the other players from chasing your score to win the league, if they pass my usual 500 crowns for the first 2 days I don't bother chasing them because the rewards for 1st place simply is not worth it.

I don't believe in any 10-game streak-breaker....

The thing is, the game NATURALLY pairs you up against increasingly higher valued game results the stronger you do.

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@badbee34 wrote:

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@Humplemann wrote:

Has anyone else started to get consistently lower scores now than those being scored earlier on in the tournament?

I have found this on a lot of tournaments, I can't speak for this tournament because I stopped playing it because my score is too low and not stable . For example day 1 -2 I would score let's say 3 mil day 3-5 2.5 mil then day 6-7 2.2 mil . Another thing I noticed is that every 7-12 games I would get 1 game where mostly low scoring zombies would enter the board . i Have also experienced the no zombies for 15-30 seconds, this mostly happens to me during the middle of the game. I took screenshots of that a while back I will have a look if I still have it then post it here. The scores I mentioned obviously vary with tournament but the drop is always constant so I always mainly play on day 1 and 2 the other advantage of playing on day 1 and 2 is deterring the other players from chasing your score to win the league, if they pass my usual 500 crowns for the first 2 days I don't bother chasing them because the rewards for 1st place simply is not worth it.

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I have also started going in hard and fast in the tournaments. By late on Thursday night (While I was still scoring really well) I had amassed 940 crowns in my Jade league. Despite the sudden and glaringly obvious drop off in my scores on Friday, I took that up to a round 1,000. I now intend to monitor how things go to see if anyone below me tries to bridge the gap. The last time I checked the league table on Friday night, second place was just over 450 behind and third was about 200 behind them.